Frank Orth Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Frank Orth Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Frank Orth (February 21, 1880 â€" March 17, 1962) was an American

actor born in Philadelphia. He is probably best remembered for his

portrayal of Inspector Faraday in the 1951-1953 television series

Boston Blackie.By 1897, Orth was performing in vaudeville with his

wife, Ann Codee, in an act called "Codee and Orth". In 1909, he

expanded into song writing, with songs such as "The Phone Bell Rang"

and "Meet Me on the Boardwalk, Dearie".His first contact with motion

pictures was in 1928, when he was part of the first foreign-language

shorts in sound produced by Warner Bros. He and his wife also appeared

together in a series of two-reel comedies in the early 1930s. Orth's

first major screen credit was in Prairie Thunder, a Dick Foran

western, in 1937. From then on, he was often cast as bartenders,

pharmacists, and grocery clerks, and always distinctly Irish.He had a

recurring role in the Dr. Kildare series of films and also in the

Nancy Drew series as the befuddled Officer Tweedy. Among his better

roles were the newspaper man Cary Grant telephones early in His Girl

Friday, one of the quartet singing "Gary Owen" in They Died with Their

Boots On (thereby giving Errol Flynn as Gen. Custer the idea of

associating the tune with the 7th Cavalry), and as the little man

carrying the sign reading "The End Is Near" throughout Colonel

Effingham's Raid. However, Orth is probably best remembered for his

portrayal of Inspector Faraday in the 1951-1953 television series

Boston Blackie. A short, plump, round-faced man, often smoking a

cigar, Orth as Faraday wore his own dark-rimmed spectacles, though

rarely in feature films.
Frank Orth Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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