Frank trained at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, earned his BA in theatre at San Francisco State University, helped establish a summer theatre company in the Sierra Nevadas then went on to earn an MFA in acting at UC San Diego. Before Frank began his professional career in acting, he worked as a forest fire fighter, diaper service dispatcher and substitute teacher. Appearing in over 150 productions, Frank has worked off Broadway and in regional theaters in Boston, Denver and California. His theatrical roles have ranged from Puck in Midsummers Nights Dream to Miss Havisham in Great Expectations to Jacob Marley in Christmas Carol. Frank is a founding member of Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice, California, which has won over 25 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards.Frank began his film and television career when he moved to Los Angeles in 1984. He is perhaps best known as Horace Bing, the hapless telegraph operator on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (1993) and Wash Hogwallop in O Brother Where Art Thou?

Movies unavailable from Frank Collison

Hope Springs

Mr. Fisher

Movie 2003

Into the Homeland

Gas Station Attendant

Movie 1987

Two Yellow Lines

Roy

Movie 2021

Dollman

Sprug

Movie 1991

The Investigator

Movie 1994

Grunt! The Wrestling Movie

Charlie Stroll

Movie 1985

Wired to Kill

Sly

Movie 1986

Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman: The Movie

Horace Bing

Movie 1999

The Collector

Hal

Movie 2021

The Compleat Al

Look-A-Like Salesman

Movie 1985

L.A. Slasher

The KA Leader

Movie 2015

K-PAX

Screaming Man (uncredited)

Movie 2001

The 4th

Creepy Party Crasher

Movie 2016

Voodoo Moon

Mac

Movie 2006

Buckshot

Nickel

Movie 2017

Hidalgo

Texas Jack

Movie 2004

You're Gonna Miss Me

Linus Duckworth

Movie 2017

Lifetime Contract

Shrink

Movie 1986

A Formula for Mayhem

Raddish

Movie 1992

Tv series unavailable from Frank Collison

Carnivàle

Jasper

Tv 2003

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Gul Dolak

Tv 1987

Monk

Warrick Tennyson

Tv 2002

Big Shot

Eddie

Tv 2021

Young Sheldon

Chet

Tv 2017

Quantum Leap

Mortimer

Tv 1989

Criminal Minds

Richard Clayvin

Tv 2005

Moonlighting

Padua Resident

Tv 1985

American Horror Story

Real Ishmael Polk

Tv 2011

Night Court

Aqualung

Tv 1984

Silicon Valley

Noah

Tv 2014

Twin Peaks

Muddy

Tv 1990

Carnivàle

Jasper / Talker #3

Tv 2003

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Smokey

Tv 2005

JONAS L.A.

Larry

Tv 2009

My Name Is Earl

Kenny's Dad

Tv 2005

My Name Is Earl

Male Guest

Tv 2005

Stargate Atlantis

Keturah

Tv 2004

7th Heaven

Fred Moon

Tv 1996

9-1-1

Sam

Tv 2018

Momma Named Me Sheriff

Grandpa (voice)

Tv 2019

Good Luck Charlie

Vern

Tv 2010