Highest rated movie: Rear Window (1954)
Lowest rated movie: The Man Who Understood Women (1959)
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Looking for reviews of Frank Cady movies? Cinafilm has a total of 1,786 reviews across 29 movies.
Movies starring Frank Cady have generally received positive reviews and hold an average score of 60%.
Rear Window - released in 1954 - is Frank Cady's highest rated movie, with a score of 90% based on 881 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Frank Cady is The Man Who Understood Women - released in 1959 - with a score of 41% based on 1 reviews.
Although Frank Cady's most famous role would be that of general-store owner Sam Drucker, one of the less nutty residents of Hooterville in both Green Acres (1965) and Petticoat Junction (1963), he had a history as a film, stage and television actor long before those shows. Cady also appeared on some radio programs including Gunsmoke.
In the 1950s, Cady played Doc Williams in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1952), along with numerous supporting parts in movies and also appeared in television commercials for (among other products) Shasta Grape Soda. Cady has been most prolific in television and was the only actor to play a recurring character on three TV sitcoms at the same time, The Beverly Hillbillies (1962), Green Acres (1965), and Petticoat Junction (1963). Usually cast as a gregarious small-town businessman, druggist, store clerk or other type of all-around Midwestern-type good guy, Cady was actually a California native, born in Susanville in 1915.
The acting bug bit him when he sang in an elementary school play, and after graduating from Stanford University he headed to London, England, to train in the theater.
When World War II broke out he was already in Europe, so he enlisted in the Army Air Force and spent the next several years in postings all over the continent. After his discharge he returned to the US and headed for Hollywood.
An agent saw him in a local play, signed him, and he was on his way. One of his earlier--and more atypical--roles was as a seedy underworld character pulled in for questioning in a cop's murder in the noir classic He Walked by Night (1948), and he played a succession of hotel clerks, bureaucrats, henpecked husbands and the like for the next 40+ years. He did much television work from the mid-'50s onward.
Cady resided in Wilsonville, Oregon and at the time of his death had two children, three grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
Frank Cady has acted in films with Thomas Browne Henry, Bess Flowers, Dennis Morgan and William H. O'Brien.
Frank Cady has worked with these film directors: Michael Curtiz, Jerry Hopper, Rudolph Maté and Gerald Mayer.
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