Frank Wilson
Frank Wilson (11 April 1924 - 24 October 2005) was an Australian film, stage and television actor; musical comedy singer and director; and television game show and variety host.
Wilson joined the Australian Army in 1943, to escape the wartime Manpower Directorite and being placed in a "useful" job, becoming a signalman in the 7th Division, 2nd AIF. Served in Papua New Guinea and Borneo, being discharged in late 1945. He started acting in 1948, acting up to his death in 2005.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.879 |
| Birthday | 1924-04-11 |
| Place of Birth | Northcote, Victoria, Australia |
| Also Known As |
1974
Alvin Rides Again
4.9/7
Alvin Purple, a man who can't hold down a job because of his voracious sexual appetite, impersonates a dead American Gangster.
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Alvin Rides Again
1980
Breaker Morant
7.106/137
During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as sca...
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Breaker Morant
1991
Black Robe
6.567/97
Missionary Father LaForgue travels to the New World in hopes of converting Algonquin Indians to Catholicism. Accepted, though warily, by the Indians,...
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Black Robe
1978
Money Movers
6.2/16
A group of crooks plan a heist to steal twenty million dollars from a Security Firm counting house.
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Money Movers
2002
Crackerjack
6.941/17
When dwindling membership and increasing overheads makes a local bowling club a prime candidate for a takeover, it's all hands on deck to save the clu...
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Crackerjack
1980
The Club
6/17
The club buys a talented young player, Geoff, for a record sum of money. The team members do not like their new star and friction develops immediately...
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The Club
1988
Empire of Ash
2.9/9
In post-nuclear "New Idaho," a lone warrior teams up with a girl to help rescue the girl's sister from a hostile warrior clan.
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Empire of Ash
1959
Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
6.3/3
Two Australian sugarcane cutters spend their annual five-month vacations in Sydney with their mistresses.
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Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
1939
Moon Over Harlem
4.2/6
Hardworking Minnie (Cora Green) marries "Dollar" Bill (Bud Harris) a shady gambler after her money and her attractive daughter, Sue (Izanetta Wilcois)...
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Moon Over Harlem
1986
News Report on a Journey to a Bright Future
1/1
The wife of a reporter, who turned up missing while investigating reports of illegal toxic dumping, teams up with a photographer to find her husband.
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News Report on a Journey to a Bright Future
1923
The Clue of the Pigtail
3/1
Third release in 'The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu' series, where the police has to investigate the clue of the pigtail wig.
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The Clue of the Pigtail
1923
The Call of Siva
8/1
Fourth release in 'The Mystery of Dr. Fu Manchu' series. Nayland Smith saves the life of Graham Guthrie, the British Resident in Bhutan, while on a vi...
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The Call of Siva
1923
The Man with the Limp
7/2
This action-packed episode features one of the Devil Doctor's most enjoyably silly schemes to do away with his nemesis Nayland Smith. When Smith goes...
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The Man with the Limp
1923
The Fiery Hand
5/1
In this exciting adventure based on the second Fu-Manchu novel, intrepid sleuths Nayland Smith and Petrie investigate a haunted house, but get more of...
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The Fiery Hand
1923
The Knocking on the Door
0/0
The evil Dr Fu-Manchu proves to be a master of disguise as well as villainy in this thrilling episode of the popular adventure serial. Adopting the pe...
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The Knocking on the Door
1923
The Cry of the Nighthawk
5/1
n this episode of adventure serial The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu, intrepid sleuths Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie investigate the strange death of a man f...
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The Cry of the Nighthawk
1923
The Miracle
0/0
Nayland Smith restores a `dead' man to life.
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The Miracle
1923
The Fungi Cellars
5/1
Fu-Manchu’s slave girl Karamaneh leads sleuths Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie to her evil master’s lair, where they fall prey to another of the Devil Doc...
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The Fungi Cellars
1923
The Queen of Hearts
3/1
Based on Sax Rohmer’s third Fu-Manchu novel, The Si-Fan Mysteries (1917), this sensational episode sees Fu-Manchu partly paralysed by a bullet wound....
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The Queen of Hearts
1923
The Silver Buddha
0/0
Our hero Dr Petrie is caught by evil Fu-Manchu and imprisoned near the British Museum, where he risks a daring escape, high above the London streets.
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The Silver Buddha
1923
The Sacred Order
5/1
When sleuth Nayland Smith steals evil Dr Fu-Manchu's 'Sacred Order', the Devil Doctor himself faces death at the hands of the Si-Fan organisation.
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The Sacred Order
1988
The Riddle of the Stinson
6.8/5
A true story. In 1937, a routine passenger and mail flight crashes during bad weather on a flight between Brisbane and Sydney. A local bushman begins...
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The Riddle of the Stinson
1991
Ultimate Desires
2.8/2
Samantha Stewart is a successful public defender whose life gets turned upside-down one night when a prostitute named Vicki gets thrown out of a limo...
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Ultimate Desires
1997
The Well
5.444/9
Young Katherine and her older friend Hester live at the isolated farm run by Hester and her father Francis. Katherine works as a maid and wants to lea...
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The Well
1987
Going Sane
1/1
A business executive leaves his wife and family when he discovers that he only has a short time left to live.
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Going Sane
1980
Fatty Finn
6.286/7
The 10-year-old Hubert Finn, known as "Fatty", lived in poor conditions in Australia in the 1930s. He and his friends stick together as they often hav...
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