
Frank Cady
Biography
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.
Acting (50 movies)

Rear Window
1954

Perfect Strangers
1950

Let's Make It Legal
1951

Ace in the Hole
1951

The Sellout
1952

It's a Great Feeling
1949

Experiment Alcatraz
1950

The Bad Seed
1956

7 Faces of Dr. Lao
1964

When Worlds Collide
1951

Hearts of the West
1975

The Indian Fighter
1955

Marry Me Again
1953

The Atomic City
1952

Zandy's Bride
1974

Young Man with a Horn
1950

Trial
1955

The Next Voice You Hear...
1950

Dear Brat
1951

D.O.A.
1949

Half a Hero
1953

The Crooked Way
1949

Three Husbands
1950

The Checkered Coat
1948

The Missouri Traveler
1958

Abandoned
1949

The Girl Most Likely
1958

Dial 1119
1950

The Asphalt Jungle
1950

Return to Green Acres
1990

Bungalow 13
1948

Special Agent
1949

Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone
1950

The Great Rupert
1950

He Walked by Night
1949

The Tin Star
1957

Sarge Goes to College
1947

The Million Dollar Duck
1971

Three Violent People
1956

Lightning Strikes Twice
1951

Pretty Baby
1950

Father of the Bride
1950

Convicted
1950

Hunt the Man Down
1950

Take One False Step
1949

The History of Hooterville
2005

Soup and Me
1978

The Man Who Understood Women
1959

Flamingo Road
1949

The Boy and the Bronc Buster
1973
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