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Frank Albertson Biography
Birth Name:Francis Healey Albertson
Birth Place:Fergus Falls, Minnesota, United States
Profession Actor, Soundtrack
Fast Facts
- Made training films while serving in the United States Army Air Force's First Motion Picture Unit during World War II
- Began working as a photography laboratory assistant at Lasky Studios in the mid-1920s
- Developed an interest in acting after be began working as a prop boy in 1922
- His acting career spanned across film, television and theater during the 1920s through the early 1960s
- Best known for playing Tom Cassidy in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" and Sam Wainwright in "It's a Wonderful Life․"
- His Broadway credits include "Late Love," "Seventeen," "Mr․ Adam," "The Walrus and the Carpenter," "The More the Merrier" and "Brother Rat․"