William Frawley Fact Sheet

William Frawley Fact Sheet

Name: William Clement Frawley

Born: February 26, 1887
Burlington, Iowa

Died: March 3, 1966
Hollywood, California
cardiac arrest

Parents: M.A. "Mike" Frawley
Mary Ellen Brady Frawley

Siblings: John Joseph (Jay); Paul Bernard; Mary

Married: Edna Louise Broedt (divorced)

Film Appearances:
Lord Loveland Discovers America (1916, American Film Mfg. Co.)
Persistent Percival (1916, American Film Mfg. Co.)
Turkey for Two (1929, Pathe)
Fancy That (1929, Pathe)

More than 100 features between 1933 and 1952, including The Lemon Drop Kid (1934, Paramount); Alibi Ike (1935, Warner Bros); The General Died at Dawn (1936, Paramount); Professor Beware (1938, Paramount); Rose of Washington Square (1939, Twentieth Century-Fox); Gentleman Jim (1942, Warner Bros.); Going My Way (1944, Paramount); Ziegfeld Follies (1946, MGM); My Wild Irish Rose (1947, Warner Bros.); Miracle on 34th Street (1947, Twentieth Century-Fox); Monsieur Verdoux (1947, United Artists); The Babe Ruth Story (1948, Allied Artists); Kill the Umpire (1950, Columbia); Rhubarb (1952, Paramount); The Lemon Drop Kid (1951, Paramount); Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951, Universal); and Rancho Notorious (1952, RKO) Safe at Home! (1962, Columbia)

Stage Appearances, Broadway:
The Gingham Girl (opened April 30, 1923)
Merry Merry (opened September 24, 1925)
Bye Bye Bonnie (opened January 13, 1927)
Talk About Girls (opened June 14, 1927)
She's My Baby (opened January 3, 1928)
Here's Howe! (opened May 1, 1928)
Sons O' Gun (opened November 26, 1929)
She Lived Next to the Firehouse (opened February 10, 1931)
Tell Her the Truth (opened October 19, 1932)
Twentieth Century (opened December 29, 1932)
The Ghost Writer (opened June 19, 1933)

Television Appearances, Series:
"I Love Lucy" (1951-1957, CBS)
"The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour" (1957-1960, CBS)
"My Three Sons" (1960-1964, ABC)....
Television Appearances, with Vivian Vance:
"Stars in the Eye" (November 13, 1952, CBS)
"Dinner with the President" (November 23, 1953, CBS)
"The Milton Berle Show" (May 4, 1954, NBC)
"Toast of the Town" (October 3, 1954, CBS)
"Show of Stars" (episode titled "High Pitch") (May 12, 1955, CBS)
"The Bob Hope Chevy Show" (October 24, 1956, NBC)
"The Desilu Revue" (December 15, 1959, CBS)

Other Principal Television Appearances:
"Desilu Playhouse" (episode titled "comeback") (March 2, 1959, CBS)
"The Lucy Show" (episode titled "Lucy and the Countess Have a Horse Guest") (October 25, 1965 CBS)

Award Nominations:
Best Series Supporting Actor Emmy nomination, 1953
Best Supporting Actor in a Regular Series Emmy nomination, 1954
Best Actor in a Supporting Role Emmy nomination, 1955
Best Supporting Performance by an Actor Emmy nomination, 1956
Best Continuing Supporting Performance
by an Actor in a Dramatic or Comedy Series Emmy nomination, 1957

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