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    Frank McGrath

    American actor and stunt performer

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  1. For a number of years he was a stand-in and stunt double for Academy Award winning actor Warner Baxter. He so greatly resembled Baxter that they could have passed for brothers according to Los Angeles Times reporter John Scott writing in 1935.

  2. Warner Leroy Baxter (March 29, 1889 – May 7, 1951) was an American film actor from the 1910s to the 1940s. Baxter is known for his role as the Cisco Kid in the 1928 film In Old Arizona, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 2nd Academy Awards.

  3. www.imdb.com › name › nm0569795Frank McGrath - IMDb

    Frank McGrath was born on 2 February 1903 in Mound City, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for The Reluctant Astronaut (1967), Wagon Train (1957) and Tammy and the Millionaire (1967). He was married to Libby Quay Buschlen.

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    • Mound City, Missouri, USA
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    • Hollywood, California, USA
  4. Supposedly, at 16 years of age in 1919, Frank began his film career working and doubling for Stan Laurel, Buster Keaton, Warner Baxter and J. Carroll Naish, just to name a few. Frank was 5' 8" so his small frame and wiry movies also enabled him to double a lot of female stars such as Gene Tierney.

  5. www.imdb.com › name › nm0062828Warner Baxter - IMDb

    Warner Baxter. Actor: Penthouse. Warner Baxter claimed to have an early pre-disposition toward show business: "I discovered a boy a block away who would eat worms and swallow flies for a penny. For one-third of the profits, I exhibited him in a tent."

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    • Columbus, Ohio, USA
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    • Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
  6. www.moabhappenings.com › Archives › stuntmen1204Moab Happenings Archive

    Many years before these films, Frank was a well known actor, Warner Baxter’s regular stunt double. When the television series, “Wagon Train” came along in 1957 and lasted until 1965, McGrath got the role as cook, ‘Charlie Wooster’, as well as the comedy relief.

  7. Frank McGrath was born on February 2, 1903 in Mound City, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for The Reluctant Astronaut (1967), Wagon Train (1957) and Tammy and the Millionaire (1967). He was married to Libby Quay Buschlen. He died on May 13, 1967 in Hollywood, California, USA.