Frank Collison
Frank Collison was born in Evanston, Illinois, United States on February 14th, 1950 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 74, Frank Collison biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Frank Collison (born February 14, 1950) is an American actor best known to television audiences as the hapless telegrapher Horace Bing in the series Dr..
Quinn, Medicine Woman.
Early life
Collison was born in Evanston, Illinois, son of Peg, a publicist, writer, and English teacher, as well as John Collison, a speech therapist, actor, and writer. At The Tent Theatre in Granville, Ohio, Collison appeared as a six-month-old mascot. His mother coached him in a number of plays as a youth in Virginia and Ohio. As a young boy, he helped his father with his one-man Abraham Lincoln exhibit. Frank was chosen to perform Lincoln in Washington, D.C., for Lincoln's centennial inauguration; he was born in Lincoln; he was the youthful Tad Lincoln.
Personal life
Collison and his wife, actress Laura Gardner, and their three children live in Los Angeles. When planning to pursue a film career, he remains active in theatre.
Career
Collison trained at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, earning a BA in theatre from the San Francisco State University. He then helped to establish a summer theatre company in the Sierra Nevada, and went on to gain an MFA in acting at University of California, San Diego. Between acting jobs he has worked as a substitute teacher, diaper service dispatcher and forest firefighter. Appearing in over 150 productions, he has worked off Broadway and in regional theatres in California, Boston, and Denver. His theatrical roles have been as varied as "Jacob Marley" in A Christmas Carol to "Miss Havisham" in Great Expectations to "Puck" in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Collison is a founding member of the Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice, California, which has won over 25 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards.
Collison's films include The Blob, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, Alien Nation, Wild at Heart, Mobsters, The Last Boy Scout, Buddy, Diggstown, My Summer Story, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Majestic, The Whole Ten Yards, Hidalgo, Hope Springs, The Village, Suspect Zero, The Happening, Radio Free Albemuth, Hesher, Hitchcock and L.A. Slasher.
Collison is best known to TV audiences as Horace Bing, the bumbling telegraph operator, on CBS's long-running series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. His numerous other television appearances have included guest-starring roles on Monk, HBO's Carnivàle, Star Trek: The Next Generation, My Name is Earl, Criminal Minds, Seventh Heaven, Matlock, NYPD Blue, Hill Street Blues, Stargate Atlantis and Good Luck Charlie. In 2016 he appeared in the sixth season of the anthological series American Horror Story (Roanoke). He is a recurring voice actor by voicing Grandpa Goodman and Mr. Bojenkins in the Adult Swim original Mr. Pickles.