| LC control no. | no 90017079 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Orth, Frank, 1880-1962 |
| Variant(s) | Orth, Frank Kaiser, 1880-1962 |
| Birth date | 1880-02-21 |
| Death date | 1962-03-17 |
| Place of birth | Philadelphia (Pa.) |
| Place of death | Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) |
| Profession or occupation | Actors |
| Found in | Father is a prince [MP] 1940: credits (Frank Orth) Halliwell's Filmgoer's comp., 1988 (Orth, Frank; b. 1880 d. 1962; actor) IMDb, March 23, 2017 (Frank Orth (1880-1962); born February 21, 1880 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as Frank Kaiser Orth; died March 17, 1962 in Hollywood, California; actor; Orth started his career in vaudeville in 1897; he married Ann Codee who would be his wife for fifty years until her death in 1961; together they were billed as Codee and Orth; he entered movies by making the first foreign language film shorts in sound for Warner Bros. in 1928; that started him on a long career of small parts, often playing cops or bartenders and always Irish; his best known role was as Inspector Faraday in the "Boston Blackie" TV series; he retired in 1959 after undergoing throat surgery) |
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