Frank Melton
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Frank Melton.
Born: December 6, 1907
Place of Birth: Pine Apple, Alabama, USA
Known For
$10 Raise
A timid, overworked and underpaid bookkeeper needs a $10 raise to marry his sweetheart...
The Woman in the Window
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
Blondie Has Servant Trouble
Things get under way when Blondie Bumstead demands that her husband request a raise from his boss Mr. Dithers, so that she can afford to hire a maid. But Dithers has no time for any salary disputes: his construction firm is currently stuck with an unsaleable old mansion that is rumored to be haunted. To disprove this theory, Dithers asks the Bumstead family to spend a night in the crumbling old house, throwing a retinue of servants into the bargain.
David Harum
Rogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with whom he has traded horse flesh. Taylor is a bank teller who places a winning $4,500 bet on a 10-1 harness racing horse, making him Rogers' bank partner.
Start Cheering
After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.
The Strawberry Blonde
Biff Grimes is desperately in love with Virginia, but his best friend Hugo marries her and manipulates Biff into becoming involved in his somewhat nefarious businesses. Hugo appears to have stolen Biff's dreams, and Biff has to deal with the realisation that having what he wants and wanting what another has can be very different things.
The Cat and the Canary
Ten years after the death of millionaire Cyrus Norman, his will is to be read out to his six relatives, including Joyce Norman and Wally Campbell. Organized by Norman's lawyer, Crosby, the six meet at Norman's eerie New Orleans Gothic mansion. During the reading, the superstitious housekeeper declares that someone will be dead by midnight. Wally fears for Joyce when she is declared the sole inheritor, but all are alarmed when Crosby turns up dead.
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try to coax money out of him, or in McCarthy's case, steal some outright.
Too Many Wives
An heiress and a dog-catcher go searching for a priceless stamp.
Remember the Day
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.
Filmography
as Confederate Soldier (uncredited)
as Frank
as Glem
as Onlooker at Gallery (uncredited)
as Armed Guard
as Doctor
as Otto
as Pete
as Turner Dixon
as FBI Agent
as Photographer
as Boarder (uncredited)
as Wiliiam Merrill Jr.
as Jasper Backus
as Man (uncredited)
as Stu
as Reporter (uncredited)
as Ollie - Dithers' Employee (uncredited)
as Alabama Man #3 (uncredited)
as Newcomb, the Author (uncredited)
as Reporter
as Hotel Clerk
as First Yokel (uncredited)
as Joe Stevens
as Dave 'Tex' Hodges
as Don Weston
as Man at Racetrack (uncredited)
as Gas Station Attendant
as Lieutenant Shreve
as Frank Cordeen
as Barton Henshaw
as Matt Peasely
as Jack (George's intern pal)
as Budge
as Clabby Holden
as Les Winters
as Lieutenant Gilchrist
as Specks Callahan
as Frank Melton: Jimmy Allen aka The Texas Kid
as Ronnie Washburne
as Bellhop (uncredited)
as Willis Parker
as Cub Reporter
as Lottery Ticket Seller
as Clark
as Frank Young
as Fleming 'Flem' Talley
as Howard Norcross
as John Girard (1825)
as Fosdick
as Elwin
as Perry - Emily's Boyfriend
as Phil 'Pee Wee' Parker (uncredited)
as Harry Ware
as One of Elvira's Admirers