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BIRTHDAY
DIED
March 17, 1962

RECENT CREDITS
Cheaper by the Dozen (FILM)  Jan. 1, 2003
Houdini (FILM)  Jan. 1, 1998
Here Come the Girls (FILM)  Jan. 1, 1953
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (FILM)  Jul. 24, 1946
The Lost Weekend (FILM)  Nov. 16, 1945
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BIOGRAPHY
Moonfaced American actor Frank Orth came to films from vaudeville, where he was usually co-billed with wife Ann Codee. Orth and Codee continued appearing together in a series of two-reel comedies in the early '30s,....
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Moonfaced American actor Frank Orth came to films from vaudeville, where he was usually co-billed with wife Ann Codee. Orth and Codee continued appearing together in a series of two-reel comedies in the early '30s, before he graduated to features with 1935's The Unwelcome Stranger. From that point until his retirement in 1959, Orth usually found himself behind a counter in his film appearances, playing scores of pharmacists, grocery clerks and bartenders. He had a semi-recurring role as Mike Ryan in MGM's Dr. Kildare series, and was featured as a long-suffering small town cop in Warners' Nancy Drew films. Orth was an apparent favorite of the casting department at 20th Century-Fox, where he received many of his credited screen roles. From 1951 through 1953, Frank Orth was costarred as Lieutenant Farraday on the Boston Blackie TV series.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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