Frank Collison
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Frank Collison (born February 14, 1950) is an American actor. Trained at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, he earned his BA in theatre at San Francisco State University and helped establish a summer theatre company in the Sierra Nevadas then went on to earn an MFA in acting at UC San Diego. Before Collison began his professional career in acting, he worked as a forest fire fighter, diaper service dispatcher and substitute teacher. Appearing in over 150 productions, Collison has worked off Broadway and in regional theaters in Boston, Denver and California. His theatrical roles have ranged from "Puck" in Midsummer's Nights Dream to "Miss Havisham" in Great Expectations to "Jacob Marley" in Christmas Carol. Frank is a founding member of Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice, California, which has won over 25 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards. Collison began his film and television career when he moved to Los Angeles in 1984. He is perhaps best known as "Horace Bing," the hapless telegraph operator on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993) and "Wash Hogwallop" in "O Brother Where Art Thou?
Known for
Credits
The Happening (2008)
as Nursery Owner
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
as Wash Hogwallop
The Village (2004)
as Victor
The Blob (1988)
as Phil Hobbs—Projectionist
The Last Boy Scout (1991)
as Pablo
K-PAX (2001)
as Screaming Man (uncredited)
Wild at Heart (1990)
as Timmy Thompson
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)
as Billy
Hidalgo (2004)
as Texas Jack
Suspect Zero (2004)
as Piper
The Majestic (2001)
as Subpoena Server
Hitchcock (2012)
as Henry Gein
Mobsters (1991)
as Sonny Catania
Hesher (2010)
as Funeral Director
Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)
as Grizzled Pirate (segment "Video Pirates")
The Whole Ten Yards (2004)
as Strabo
Grandma (2015)
as Mike
Camouflage (2001)
as Skinny Cop - Tommy
Pee-wee's Big Holiday (2016)
as Clay
Hope Springs (2003)
as Mr. Fisher
The Hero (2017)
as Man in Dream
Voodoo Moon (2006)
as Mac
Diggstown (1992)
as Prison Guard
12:01 (1993)
as Thin Assassin
Dollman (1991)
as Sprug
Buddy (1997)
as Zoo Keeper
Pirate's Code: The Adventures of Mickey Matson (2014)
as Admiral Ironsides
L.A. Slasher (2015)
as The KA Leader
It Runs in the Family (1994)
as Floyd Bumpus
S.F.W. (1995)
as Distressed Witness
A Crack in the Floor (2001)
as Turner
Into the Homeland (1987)
as Gas Station Attendant
The Collector (2021)
as Hal
Dead Connection (1994)
Actor
Radio Free Albemuth (2010)
as Leon
The Compleat Al (1985)
as Look-A-Like Salesman
Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman: The Movie (1999)
as Horace Bing
Backstreet Dreams (1990)
as Spider
Keep the Change (1992)
as Darryl Burke
Wired to Kill (1986)
as Sly
The 4th (2016)
as Creepy Party Crasher
Two Yellow Lines (2021)
as Roy
Grunt! The Wrestling Movie (1985)
as Charlie Stroll
Lifetime Contract (1986)
as Shrink
The Investigator (1994)
Actor
You're Gonna Miss Me (2017)
as Linus Duckworth
Buckshot (2017)
as Nickel
A Formula for Mayhem (1992)
as Raddish