Frank McGrath

Frank McGrath

Benjamin Franklin McGrath (February 2, 1903 – May 13, 1967) was an American television and film actor and stunt performer who played the comical, optimistic cook with the white beard, Charlie B. Wooster, on the western series Wagon Train for five seasons on NBC and then three seasons on ABC. McGrath appeared in all 272 episodes in the eight seasons of the series, which had ended its run only two years before his death. McGrath's Wooster character hence provided the meals and companionship for both fictional trail masters, Ward Bond as Seth Adams and John McIntire as Christopher "Chris" Hale. McGrath was born in Mound City in Holt County in far northwestern Missouri. McGrath married Libby Quay Buschlen (1902–1978), a native of Ontario, Canada. He died May 13, 1967 at the age of sixty-four of a heart attack in Beverly Hills, California, and was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale. CLR From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  • Title: Frank McGrath
  • Popularity: 2.617
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1903-02-02
  • Place of Birth: Mound City, Missouri, USA
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  • Also Known As: Benjamin Franklin "Frank" McGrath, Benjamin Franklin McGrath
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Frank McGrath Movies

  • 1957
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    Hell Bound

    Hell Bound

    5.9 1957 HD

    After WW2, a Los Angeles crime ring uses a complex scheme, involving a freight ship, a junkie, and a corrupt health officer, to smuggle drugs into...

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  • 1968
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    The Shakiest Gun in the West

    The Shakiest Gun in the West

    6.227 1968 HD

    Jesse W. Haywood (Don Knotts) graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west to become a frontier dentist. Penelope "Bad Penny"...

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  • 1953
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    Hondo

    Hondo

    6.5 1953 HD

    Army despatch rider Hondo Lane discovers a woman and her son living in the midst of warring Apaches, and he becomes their protector.

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  • 1967
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    The Reluctant Astronaut

    The Reluctant Astronaut

    6 1967 HD

    Roy Fleming is a small-town kiddie-ride operator who is deathly afraid of heights. After learning that his father has signed him up for the space...

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  • 1951
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    Westward the Women

    Westward the Women

    7 1951 HD

    There's a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solution is to bring a caravan of over 100 mail-order...

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  • 1950
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    The Milkman

    The Milkman

    8 1950 HD

    A dairy owner's son takes a job as milkman with a rival company.

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  • 1956
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    The First Texan

    The First Texan

    6.1 1956 HD

    After arriving in Texas to escape a scandal back east, lawyer Sam Houston just wants to hang out his shingle, keep a low profile, and stay out of any...

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  • 1967
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    Gunfight in Abilene

    Gunfight in Abilene

    6.542 1967 HD

    Fighting in the Civil War a man accidently kills his friend. Returning to Abilene after the war he finds his former sweetheart about to marry the...

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  • 1932
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    The Rainbow Trail

    The Rainbow Trail

    1 1932 HD

    The wall to Surprise Valley has broken, and Jane Withersteen is forced to choose between Lassiter's life and Fay Larkin's marriage to a Mormon.

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  • 1956
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    The Searchers

    The Searchers

    7.691 1956 HD

    As a Civil War veteran spends years searching for a young niece captured by Indians, his motivation becomes increasingly questionable.

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  • 1967
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    Tammy and the Millionaire

    Tammy and the Millionaire

    5 1967 HD

    A bayou girl (Debbie Watson) and her kin (Frank McGrath, Denver Pyle) have run-ins with some rich folks.

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  • 1960
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    The Colter Craven Story

    The Colter Craven Story

    1 1960 HD

    Dr. Craven feels he can't perform surgery any longer. When he joins the wagon train and his services are desperately needed, he realizes he may be...

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  • 1943
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    The Ox-Bow Incident

    The Ox-Bow Incident

    7.708 1943 HD

    A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing them over to the law or lynching them on the spot.

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  • 1950
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    Wagon Master

    Wagon Master

    6.7 1950 HD

    Two young horse traders guide a Mormon wagon train to the San Juan Valley and encounter rugged terrain, the cutthroat Clegg gang, hospitable Navajo,...

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  • 1967
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    The Last Challenge

    The Last Challenge

    6.4 1967 HD

    An upstart outlaw baits a legendary gunslinger, now a marshal in love with a saloon keeper.

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  • 1957
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    The Tin Star

    The Tin Star

    7 1957 HD

    An experienced bounty hunter helps a young sheriff learn the meaning of his badge.

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  • 1948
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    Fort Apache

    Fort Apache

    7 1948 HD

    Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his....

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  • 1951
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    The Red Badge of Courage

    The Red Badge of Courage

    6.4 1951 HD

    Henry Fleming is a young Union soldier in the American Civil War. During his unit's first engagement, Henry flees the battlefield in fear. When he...

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  • 1930
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    The Big Trail

    The Big Trail

    6.7 1930 HD

    Young scout Breck Coleman leads a wagon train along the dangerous trail to Oregon as he tries to get the affection of the beautiful pioneer Ruth...

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  • 1949
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    She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

    She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

    6.8 1949 HD

    On the eve of retirement, Captain Nathan Brittles takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be...

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  • 1941
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    Riders of the Purple Sage

    Riders of the Purple Sage

    1 1941 HD

    Lassiter discovers the judge who cheated his neice of her inheritance leads a gang of bad guys posing as vigilantes. This 1941 Fox production stars a...

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  • 1942
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    Sundown Jim

    Sundown Jim

    1 1942 HD

    US marshal Sundown Jim Majors main purpose in life is to bring a deadly frontier feud to a peaceful end. This requires him to clean out the local...

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  • 1967
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    The War Wagon

    The War Wagon

    6.9 1967 HD

    An ex-con seeks revenge on the man who put him in prison by planning a robbery of the latter's stagecoach, which is transporting gold. He enlists the...

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  • 1941
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    Western Union

    Western Union

    6 1941 HD

    When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot...

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  • 1940
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    High School

    High School

    5.5 1940 HD

    A teenager who's been raised and home-schooled at her father's Texas ranch must adjust to her new surroundings and being with other students when...

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  • 1932
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    Robbers' Roost

    Robbers' Roost

    5.5 1932 HD

    Running from the law, Jim Hall joins Hays’ gang. Hays is foreman on the Herrick ranch and plans to rustle Herrick’s cattle. Attracted to...

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  • 1965
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    The Sword of Ali Baba

    The Sword of Ali Baba

    5.8 1965 HD

    Supposedly up to 70 percent of this feature was taken from the 1944 Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. Frank Puglia as Prince Cassim remains from the...

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  • 1953
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    Ride, Vaquero!

    Ride, Vaquero!

    5.8 1953 HD

    Ranchers in New Mexico have to face Indians and bandits.

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  • 1948
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    Half Past Midnight

    Half Past Midnight

    6 1948 HD

    A detective encounters a woman in a nightclub. He finds that she is being blackmailed by a dancer who is murdered that very night. Of course, the...

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  • 1951
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    Slaughter Trail

    Slaughter Trail

    3.8 1951 HD

    Three outlaws rob the stage and then flee. When their horses give out they murder some Indians to get fresh ones. But this puts the Indians on the...

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  • 1950
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    The Flame and the Arrow

    The Flame and the Arrow

    6.3 1950 HD

    Dardo, a Robin Hood-like figure, and his loyal followers use a Roman ruin in Medieval Lombardy as their headquarters as they conduct an insurgency...

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  • 1945
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    They Were Expendable

    They Were Expendable

    6.5 1945 HD

    After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. "Rusty" Ryan frustrated. After the...

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  • 1950
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    Broken Arrow

    Broken Arrow

    6.7 1950 HD

    Indian scout Tom Jeffords is sent out to stem the war between the Whites and Apaches in the late 1870s. He learns that the Indians kill only to...

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  • 1942
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    The Black Swan

    The Black Swan

    6.375 1942 HD

    When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of...

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  • 1942
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    The Black Swan

    The Black Swan

    6.375 1942 HD

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  • 1956
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    Santiago

    Santiago

    5.1 1956 HD

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  • 1950
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    Broken Arrow

    Broken Arrow

    6.7 1950 HD

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  • 1953
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    The Naked Spur

    The Naked Spur

    6.9 1953 HD

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  • 1967
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    The Last Challenge

    The Last Challenge

    6.4 1967 HD

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  • 1949
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    She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

    She Wore a Yellow Ribbon

    6.8 1949 HD

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  • 1950
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    Wagon Master

    Wagon Master

    6.7 1950 HD

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  • 1948
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    Fort Apache

    Fort Apache

    7 1948 HD

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  • 1956
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    The Searchers

    The Searchers

    7.691 1956 HD

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  • 1957
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    The Tin Star

    The Tin Star

    7 1957 HD

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  • 1948
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    3 Godfathers

    3 Godfathers

    6.7 1948 HD

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  • 1950
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    Rio Grande

    Rio Grande

    6.8 1950 HD

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  • 1950
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    The Flame and the Arrow

    The Flame and the Arrow

    6.3 1950 HD

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  • 1943
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    The Ox-Bow Incident

    The Ox-Bow Incident

    7.708 1943 HD

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  • 1941
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    Western Union

    Western Union

    6 1941 HD

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  • 1925
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    Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

    Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

    7.3 1925 HD

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  • 1967
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    The War Wagon

    The War Wagon

    6.9 1967 HD

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  • 1965
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    Tammy

    Tammy

    5 1965 HD

    Tammy is an American sitcom, starring Debbie Watson in the title role. Produced by Universal City Studios, 26 color half-hour episodes were aired on...

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  • 1962
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    The Virginian

    The Virginian

    6.4 1962 HD

    The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It...

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  • 1955
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    Cheyenne

    Cheyenne

    5.8 1955 HD

    Cheyenne is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first...

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  • 1957
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    Wagon Train

    Wagon Train

    6.4 1957 HD

    The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert...

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