Frank Lovejoy
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Frank Lovejoy (March 28, 1912 - October 2, 1962) was a 1940s and 1950s film actor playing mostly supporting roles. Before becoming a movie actor, Lovejoy was a successful radio voiceover talent and stage actor. Lovejoy was a voice actor on the 1930s crime story radio series called Gangbusters. He also played the title character on the syndicated radio program The Blue Beetle during the Forties, and starred in the later crime drama series Nightbeat in the early 1950s.
In movies, Lovejoy was effective playing the movie's everyman (because of his somewhat bland looks and unassuming personality) in extraordinary situations. Lovejoy also played in many World War II movies. Notably in 1952 the film Retreat Hell which portrayed the United States Marine Corps' withdrawal from the Chosin Reservoir (also referred to as the Changjin Reservoir) during the Korean War. It was directed by Joseph H. Lewis.
Lovejoy was married to actress Joan Banks, with whom he had two children (a boy and a girl).
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[edit] Notable films
- Home of the Brave (1949)
- In a Lonely Place (1950)
- Try and Get Me! (1950) (aka The Sound of Fury)
- I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951)
- Retreat Hell (1952)
- House of Wax (1953)
- The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
- The Americano (1955)
- Strategic Air Command (1955)
- Julie (1956)
- Cole Younger, Gunfighter (1958)
[edit] Radio
[edit] TV
- Meet McGraw (1957-58)
[edit] Trivia
Lovejoy starred in a short-run TV series entitled Meet McGraw. Episodes of this series have never been released commercially on DVD or VHS, and never aired on reruns. Episodes have been screened at the Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention in Aberdeen, Maryland.
