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Frank Collison
Known for: ActingFrank 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 30
The Happening
+2
as Nursery Owner 
The Village
+4
as Victor 
Mr. Pickles
+1
as Grandpa (voice) 
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
+3
as Wash Hogwallop 
The Last Boy Scout
+2
as Pablo 
The Blob
+3
as Phil Hobbs—Projectionist 
The Whole Ten Yards
+2
as Strabo 
Elvira: Mistress of the Dark
+4
as Billy 
Hidalgo
+3
as Texas Jack 
Camouflage
as Skinny Cop - Tommy 
The Hero
as Man in Dream 
Grandma
+9
as Mike 
Suspect Zero
+1
as Piper 
Hesher
as Funeral Director 
Hope Springs
+4
as Mr. Fisher 
Diggstown
as Prison Guard 
12:01
as Thin Assassin 
Buddy
as Zoo Keeper 
A Crack in the Floor
as Turner 
Pirate's Code: The Adventures of Mickey Matson
as Admiral Ironsides 
Backstreet Dreams
as Spider 
Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman: The Movie
as Horace Bing 
Grunt! The Wrestling Movie
as Charlie Stroll 
L.A. Slasher
as The KA Leader 
Dollman
as Sprug 
Voodoo Moon
as Mac 
Two Yellow Lines
+3
as Roy 
You're Gonna Miss Me
as Linus Duckworth 
The Compleat Al
+1
as Look-A-Like Salesman 
Buckshot
+1
as Nickel