
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?

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as Roy

as Nickel

as Gunnar

as Man in Dream

as Linus Duckworth

as Clay

as Creepy Party Crasher

as The KA Leader

as Mike

as Admiral Ironsides

as Henry Gein

as Leon

as Funeral Director

as Nursery Owner

as Mac

as Piper

as Victor

as Strabo

as Texas Jack

as Mr. Fisher

as Subpoena Server

as Screaming Man (uncredited)

as Turner

as Skinny Cop - Tommy

as Wash Hogwallop

as Horace Bing

as Zoo Keeper

as Distressed Witness

as Floyd Bumpus

as Thin Assassin

as Prison Guard

as Raddish

as Darryl Burke

as Pablo

as Sprug

as Sonny Catania

as Spider

as Timmy Thompson

as Billy

as Phil Hobbs—Projectionist

as Gas Station Attendant

as Grizzled Pirate (segment "Video Pirates")

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as Charlie Stroll

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