Frank Collison
Actor
Biography
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?
Filmography
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
as Wash Hogwallop 2000
The Happening
as Nursery Owner 2008
K-PAX
as Screaming Man (uncredited) 2001
The Last Boy Scout
as Pablo 1991
Wild at Heart
as Timmy Thompson 1990
Hitchcock
as Henry Gein 2012
Hidalgo
as Texas Jack 2004
The Blob
as Phil Hobbs—Projectionist 1988
The Whole Ten Yards
as Strabo 2004
The Majestic
as Subpoena Server 2001
Hesher
as Funeral Director 2010
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
as Billy 1988
Grandma
as Mike 2015
Suspect Zero
as Piper 2004
The Hero
as Man in Dream 2017
Pee-wee's Big Holiday
as Clay 2016