Frank Coghlan Jr.
Birthday: 1916-03-15
Place of Birth: New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Biography: Frank Coghlan, Jr. (1916–2009) was an American actor who later became a career officer in the United States Navy and a Naval Aviator. He appeared in approximately 129 films and television programs between 1920 and 1974. During the 1920s and 1930s, he became a popular child and juvenile actor appearing in early Our Gang comedies, but he is best known for the role of Billy Batson in Adventures of Captain Marvel. Coghlan later served 23 years as an aviator and officer in the US Navy from 1942 to 1965. After retiring from the Navy, he returned to acting and appeared in television, films, and commercials.
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Bobbed Hair
A young woman spurns her too conventional fiancé and flees to an artists' colony....
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Charlie Chan at the Race Track
When a friend of Charlie's is found kicked to death by his own race horse on board a Honolulu-bound ...
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The Great Circus Mystery
Joe Bonomo played circus acrobat Welles "Red" Landow, Louise Lorraine was the heroine, tightrope art...
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It Pays to Advertise
To prove his thesis that any product--even one that doesn't exist--can be merchandized if it is adve...
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Adventures of Captain Marvel
On a scientific expedition to Siam young Billy Batson is given the ability to change himself into th...
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The Poverty of Riches
John and Katherine Colby decide to put off parenthood until he has become wealthy. Their friends, To...
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Little Old New York
An Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother who has die...
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The Public Enemy
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life...
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The Skyrocket
In the prologue Sharon Kimm and Mickey Reid are childhood friends in a tenement neighborhood but are...
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Whispering Smith
Railroad foreman Murray Sinclair is dismissed by George McCloud, division superintendent, for ransac...
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The Last of the Mohicans
Natty Bumppo, known as Hawk-Eye, is a frontiersman in the American wilderness. Together with his Ind...
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Pardon My Pups
Mary Lou is excited because today is her older brother Sonny's birthday. Sonny wants a motorcycle, b...
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Managed Money
Young Mary Lou tries to help her brother Sonny raise money so that he can attend a military academy....
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Hell's House
A teenager lands in a brutal reform school for refusing to squeal on his bootlegger boss....
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Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
This edition of Screen Snapshots has more of a vaudeville flavor as opposed to Ralph Staub's usual c...
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Melody in May
Ruth Etting is looking to get away from the glare of publicity for a few days so she heads to the co...
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Merrily Yours
Sonny falls for the pretty new girl next door and decides to take her to a part. First, however, he ...
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What's to Do?
Sonny Rogers has just gotten elected class president, he's a star baseball player, and has a cute gi...
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Kentucky Blue Streak
A nosy reporter (Nugent) befriends the dumb Coughlin and pushes the Governor to commute his sentence...
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The Republic Pictures Story
A history of Republic Pictures studios, featuring hundreds of clips plus on-camera interviews with s...
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The Little Red Schoolhouse
Upset by discipline at school, a 17-year-old runs away to New York City and learns there are worse p...
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Red Lights Ahead
A family loses its collective head going from rags to riches in this low-budget comedy from also-ran...
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In the Money
When the chemical company owned by eccentric Professor Higginbottom files for bankruptcy, the former...
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Happiness C.O.D.
A young man, hard-pressed to pay off his mortgage and support his family, decides that he'll get mon...
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Uncle Joe
A pretty Chicago teenager (Gale Storm), who's being courted by an older man, is sent by her worried ...
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Let 'Er Go Gallegher
Young John Gallagher wants to be a newspaper reporter. One day he witnesses a murder committed by a ...
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Boys' Reformatory
A tough street kid takes the rap for a burglary committed by the son of his foster family and is sen...
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Blazing Barriers
Two young hoods from the city are sent to a Civilian Conservation Corps camp in the mountains to try...
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Service de Luxe
Glamorous and efficient Helen Murphy runs a service that will provide any type of assistance to weal...
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River's End
Sgt. Conniston and his alcoholic guide O'Toole are on the trail of an escaped murderer named Keith. ...
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The Spanish Dancer
The Spanish Dancer is the story of Maritana, a Romani girl who dances in courtyards and even tells p...
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Rubber Tires
When the Stack family suffers some financial setbacks, daughter Mary Ellen suggests they buy a car a...
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The Girl Said No
A comedy romance in which breezy Haines, as a young lady killer, tries to capture the heart of Hyams...
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The Yankee Clipper
A race between a British clipper ship and an American ship of a new design will determine the right ...
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Drum Taps
Skinner and his gang are grabbing land from the ranchers. When they go after Kerry's ranch Ken stops...
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Penrod and Sam
Best pals Penrod and Sam are leaders of a super-secret neighborhood society, the In-Or-In Boys Club....
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The Country Doctor
A country doctor helps a young couple to elope, and comes near to losing his practice and his happin...
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Meet Dr. Christian
The first of six films in the "Dr. Christian" series, starring Jean Hersholt as a small town doctor ...
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Marked Money
Marked Money stars Junior Coghlan as the orphaned son of a seafaring man. His late father has left i...
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Angels Wash Their Faces
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending ...
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The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
In 1911, minor stage comic, Vernon Castle meets the stage-struck Irene Foote. A few misadventures la...
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East Side of Heaven
A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbul...
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The Flying Irishman
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred ...
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It's a Wonderful World
Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can ...
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Second Fiddle
Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Mi...
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Gone with the Wind
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical prof...
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Day-time Wife
When a young wife discovers her husband of two years is involved with his beautiful secretary, she a...
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Dust Be My Destiny
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a ...
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Valley of the Dolls
Lured by their dreams of fame and fortune, three ambitious young women enter the world of show busin...
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The Adventures of Daredevil Jack
Heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey stars in this 15 chapter action serial, of which portions o...
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Murder Over New York
When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New...
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The Fighting 69th
Although loudmouthed braggart Jerry Plunkett alienates his comrades and officers, Father Duffy, the ...
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Square Shoulders
Tad's dream is to attend a military academy so he can grow up to be a great soldier and a war hero, ...
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Slide, Kelly, Slide
A minor league pitcher lets pride get the better of him after he joins the New York Yankees....
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Knute Rockne All American
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne....
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Remedy for Riches
A small town doctor suspects the stranger in town is promoting an oil swindle. The fourth entry in t...
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Love Thy Neighbor
Capitalizing on the famous radio 'feud' between comedians Jack Benny and Fred Allen. The two stars p...
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The Darling of New York
Santussa, an orphan who becomes separated from her nurse en route to America to live with her grandf...
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A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave fo...
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Make Way for a Lady
An imaginative teenager decides to play matchmaker for her widowed father. Director David Burton's 1...
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Free, Blonde and 21
Stories of women who live in an all-women hotel. One (Bari) works hard and marries a millionaire; an...
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Scouts to the Rescue
Filmed in the Sierra Nevada mountains near Sonora, California, this Universal serial is Universal's ...
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Shirley Temple: America's Little Darling
There never was a star quite like her. Adored by adults and children alike, at four she already led ...
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The Love-Ins
A college professor falls in with the counterculture crowd in San Francisco after resigning from his...
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Double Alibi
A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect....
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The Love God?
Ornithologist Abner Peacock sells off his modest-selling birdwatching periodical to a charlatan who ...
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The Shakiest Gun in the West
Jesse W. Haywood (Don Knotts) graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west to ...
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Off the Record
After a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go ...
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Her Man o' War
During World War I, an American soldier is captured and taken prisoner by the Germans. However, inst...
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How I Play Golf, by Bobby Jones No. 5: 'The Medium Irons'
Bobby Jones practices the fundamentals with a group of children in the wings....
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Stranded
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters....
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Corvette K-225
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain....
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Presenting Lily Mars
Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role bu...
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Racetrack
Joe Tomasso is an Italian-American bookmaker and gambler who, outwardly, is hard but soft-hearted in...
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Cause for Divorce
David Butler and Fritzi Brunette star in this melodrama about an agricultural student whose wife lon...
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Union Depot
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metr...
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It Never Rains
When Junior's parents have their friends visit, they expect him to entertain their daughter. Expecti...
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A Harp in Hock
A Harp in Hock, also known as The Samaritan, is a lost 1927 American silent melodrama film directed ...
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Out of the Fog
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen ...
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The Love-Ins
A college professor falls in with the counterculture crowd in San Francisco after resigning from his...
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Military Training
Training Film No. A-3: Poor Instruction, Rifle Litter, First Aid Demonstration, Bayonet Drill, Firin...
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Lady in a Jam
A psychiatrist's patient, a nutty heiress, travels west to find gold in her grandfather's abandoned ...
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The Last Frontier
Impoverished by the Civil War and eager to replenish his fortune in the West, Colonel Halliday, his ...
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