Frank Cady

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Frank Cady
Born	September 8, 1915 (1915-09-08) (age 93) Susanville, California, United States
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1947-1990
Spouse(s)	Shirley Jones (1940 - 2008)

Frank Cady (born September 8, 1915) is an American actor best known for his recurring and popular role as storekeeper Sam Drucker in three US television series during the 1960s: Petticoat Junction, Green Acres and The Beverly Hillbillies.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Career 1.2 Personal life 2 Selected filmography 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Biography

[edit] Career

Born in Susanville, California, Cady attended Stanford University, where he was involved with the campus humor magazine, the Stanford Chaparral. He served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II.

Cady began acting in 1947. In 1950 he had an uncredited speaking role in the classic film noir drama D.O.A. (as Sam the bartender in Banning, California) and another uncredited role in George Pál's 1951 film When Worlds Collide (as the assistant who pushes the wheelchair belonging to John Hoyt's character). Cady had a prominent role in Billy Wilder's film Ace in the Hole (also known as The Big Carnival). He had a small non-speaking role, seen mostly in long shot, in one of Alfred Hitchcock's most prestigious films, Rear Window. He can also be seen in the 1950 film Father of the Bride requesting a martini from Spencer Tracy during the engagement party.

In the 1950s Cady played Doc Williams in Ozzie and Harriet along with numerous supporting parts in movies and also appeared in television commercials for (among other products) Shasta Grape Soda. Cady has been most prolific in television and was the only actor to play a recurring character on three TV sitcoms at the same time, The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres and Petticoat Junction, from 1968 to 1969. He also was one of only three co-stars of Petticoat Junction who stayed with the series for its entire seven-year run along with Edgar Buchanan and Linda Henning, appearing in 170 of the show's 222 episodes.

[edit] Personal life

Cady married his wife Shirley in 1940. Shirley, born Shirley Katherine Jones, died August 22, 2008, at the age of 91. ^[1]

They have two children, three grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.

[edit] Selected filmography

Year	Title	Role	Other notes
1948	He Walked by Night	Pete Hammond, Suspect	Uncredited
1949	Flamingo Road	Tom Hill	Uncredited
1950	The Asphalt Jungle	Night clerk	Uncredited
1951	Let's Make It Legal	Ferguson
1952	The Atomic City	F.B.I. Agent George Weinberg
1953	Half a Hero	Mr. Watts
1954-1965	The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet	Doc Williams	TV, 19 episodes
1955	Trial	Canford	Uncredited
1956	December Bride		TV, 1 episode
	Private Secretary	Barney	TV, 1 episode
1957	Broken Arrow	Thaddeus Parker	TV, 1 episode
	The Girl Most Likely	Pop
1958	Maverick	Hamelin	TV, 1 episode
	Trackdown	Bob Tail	TV, 1 episode
1959	The Gale Storm Show		TV, 1 episode
	The Man Who Understood Women	John Milstead
1960	Make Room for Daddy	Town Drunk	TV, 1 episode
	Klondike	Lester	TV, 1 episode
1961	Hawaiian Eye	Harvey Gamson	TV, 1 episode
	Pete and Gladys	Teller	TV, 1 episode
1962	Dennis the Menace	Dr. Ferguson	TV, 1 episode
1963	The Virginian	Mr. Hardy	TV, 1 episode
	Grindl	Mr. Burroughs	TV, 1 episode
	Glynis	Episode entitled "The Pros and Cons"	TV, 1 episode
1964	Hazel	Mr. Pincus	TV, 1 episode
	Gunsmoke	Webb Norton	TV, 1 episode
1965-1966	The Andy Griffith Show	Luke, a drunk	TV, 2 episodes
1967	The Gnome-Mobile	Charlie Pettibone	Uncredited
1970	The Million Dollar Duck	Assayer
1974	Hawaii Five-O	Judge Edgar Bergstrom	TV, 1 episode
1974-1975	These Are the Days	Homer (Voice)	TV, 16 episodes
1975	Hearts of the West	Pa Tater
1977	Eight Is Enough		TV, 1 episode
1977-1978	ABC Weekend Special	Mr. Sutter	TV, 3 episodes
1990	Return to Green Acres	Sam Drucker

Frank Cady also played the grieving husband to Eileen Heckerk's charactor in The Bad Seed. He had a small speaking role, coming to pick up his distraught but very drunk wife from the home of their daughter's school friend, the last person to see their son, Claude, alive before he drowned.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Frank Cady at the Internet Movie Database
• Frank Cady at TV.com

Persondata
NAME	Cady, Frank
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Actor
DATE OF BIRTH	September 8, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH	Susanville, California
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH