Frank Collison
Acting
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?
Two Yellow Lines
Roy
The Collector
Hal
Buckshot
Nickel
The Hero
Man in Dream
You're Gonna Miss Me
Linus Duckworth
Pee-wee's Big Holiday
Clay
The 4th
Creepy Party Crasher
L.A. Slasher
The KA Leader
Grandma
Mike
Pirate's Code: The Adventures of Mickey Matson
Admiral Ironsides
Hitchcock
Henry Gein
Radio Free Albemuth
Leon
Hesher
Funeral Director
The Happening
Nursery Owner
Voodoo Moon
Mac
Suspect Zero
Piper
The Village
Victor
The Whole Ten Yards
Strabo
Hidalgo
Texas Jack
Hope Springs
Mr. Fisher
The Majestic
Subpoena Server
K-PAX
Screaming Man (uncredited)
A Crack in the Floor
Turner
Camouflage
Skinny Cop - Tommy
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Wash Hogwallop
Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman: The Movie
Horace Bing
Buddy
Zoo Keeper
S.F.W.
Distressed Witness
The Investigator
It Runs in the Family
Floyd Bumpus
Dead Connection
Diggstown
Prison Guard
A Formula for Mayhem
Raddish
Keep the Change
Darryl Burke
The Last Boy Scout
Pablo
Dollman
Sprug
Backstreet Dreams
Spider
Wild at Heart
Timmy Thompson
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
Billy
The Blob
Phil Hobbs—Projectionist
Into the Homeland
Gas Station Attendant
Amazon Women on the Moon
Grizzled Pirate (segment "Video Pirates")
Wired to Kill
Sly
Lifetime Contract
Shrink
Grunt! The Wrestling Movie
Charlie Stroll
The Compleat Al
Look-A-Like Salesman