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Frankie Darro is a Actor and Stunts American born on 22 december 1917 at Chicago (USA)

Frankie Darro

Frankie Darro
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Birth name Frank Johnson, Jr.
Nationality USA
Birth 22 december 1917 at Chicago (USA)
Death 25 december 1976 (at 59 years) at Huntington Beach (USA)

Frankie Darro (December 22, 1917 – December 25, 1976) was an American actor and later in his career a stuntman. He began his career as a child actor in silent films, progressed to lead roles and co-starring roles in adventure, western, dramatic, and comedy films, and later became a character actor and voice-over artist. He is known for his role as Lampwick, the unlucky boy turned into a donkey in Walt Disney's 2nd animated feature, Pinocchio, which was originally released in the year of 1940.

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Filmography of Frankie Darro (76 films)

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Hook, Line and Sinker, 1h27
Directed by George Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Peter Lawford, Anne Francis, Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez, Jerry Lewis, Jennifer Edwards, Eleanor Audley
Roles Delivery Man (uncredited)
Rating52% 2.6475652.6475652.6475652.6475652.647565
Peter Ingersoll is about to undergo an operation at a hospital in Chile. Before beginning, the medical staff insists that he explain how his unusual condition came about.
The Carpetbaggers, 2h30
Directed by Edward Dmytryk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors George Peppard, Alan Ladd, Carroll Baker, Vaughn Taylor, Robert Cummings, Martha Hyer
Rating64% 3.2454953.2454953.2454953.2454953.245495
Jonas Cord becomes one of America's richest men, inheriting an explosives company from his late father. Cord resents his father bitterly and is psychologically scarred by the death of a twin brother. Believing his family has insanity in its blood, he does not want children of his own.
Operation Petticoat, 2h4
Directed by Blake Edwards
Origin USA
Genres War, Comedy, Action, Romance
Themes Military humor in film, Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Dina Merrill, Joan O'Brien, Gene Evans, Gavin MacLeod
Roles Pharmacist's Mate 3rd Class Dooley
Rating71% 3.5993153.5993153.5993153.5993153.599315
In 1959, United States Navy Rear Admiral Matt Sherman (Cary Grant), ComSubPac, boards the obsolete submarine USS Sea Tiger prior to her departure for the scrapyard. The first commanding officer of the Sea Tiger, Sherman begins reading his wartime personal logbook and recalling earlier events
Forbidden Planet, 1h38
Directed by Fred M. Wilcox
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Space adventure films, Monde imaginaire, Théâtre, Dans l'espace, Sur une planète fictive, Films set in the future, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare, Space opera, Films about extraterrestrial life, Robot films, Invisibilité
Actors Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens, Jack Kelly, Richard Anderson
Roles Robby the Robot (interior) (uncredited)
Rating74% 3.748123.748123.748123.748123.74812
In the 23rd century, to discover the fate of an expedition sent 20 years earlier, starship C-57D reaches the distant planet Altair IV. Dr. Edward Morbius (Walter Pidgeon), one of the expedition's scientists, contacts the starship. He states no assistance is required, warning the Earth ship away, saying he cannot guarantee their safety. Commander John Adams (Leslie Nielsen) insists on landing.
Living It Up, 1h35
Directed by Norman Taurog
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Janet Leigh, Edward Arnold, Sheree North, Fred Clark
Roles le chef des grooms
Rating64% 3.2470453.2470453.2470453.2470453.247045
Homer Flagg is a railroad worker in the small town of Desert Hole, New Mexico. His big dream in life is to visit New York City while he is young.
The Lawless Rider, 1h2
Directed by Yakima Canutt
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Actors Johnny Carpenter, Earl W. Bascom, Frankie Darro, Douglass Dumbrille, Noel Neill, Kenne Duncan
Roles Jim Bascom
Rating72% 3.619433.619433.619433.619433.61943
The Bascom Ranch, owned by Texas Rose Bascom, is targeted by an outlaw gang with the intent to steal cattle off the ranch. Outlaw Freno Frost runs the rustlig gang. One of the gang members is Jim Bascom, Texas Rose Bascom's wayward brother. When she discovers that her brother is running with the outlaws, she seeks help from the law. Sheriff Brown is unable or unwilling to help, so Texas Rose asks her boyfriend, U.S. Marshall Johnny Carpenter, to come to her aid. Johnny Carpenter shows up in town, in disguise, and impersonates the gunslinger Rod Tatum in order to infiltrate the outlaw gang. Texas Rose Bascom performs her fancy trick roping act for the townfolk, but ruffians interupt the event. Confusion follows when the real Rod Tatum and the impersonator meet on the street.
Westward the Women, 1h58
Directed by William A. Wellman, Jerry Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure, Western
Actors Robert Taylor, Denise Darcel, John McIntire, Hope Emerson, Julie Bishop, Mary Murphy
Roles Jean's Awaiting Groom (uncredited)
Rating75% 3.7912753.7912753.7912753.7912753.791275
In 1851, Roy Whitman (John McIntire) decides to bring marriageable women west to California to join the lonely men of Whitman's Valley, hoping the couples will put down roots and settle there. Roy hires a skeptical, experienced wagon master, Buck Wyatt (Robert Taylor), to lead the wagon train along the California Trail. In Chicago, Roy recruits 138 "good women", after they have been warned of the journey's hardships and dangers by Buck, who flatly states up to a third of them might not survive the journey. The women range from Patience (Hope Emerson), an older widow from New Bedford seeking a new start after losing her sea captain husband and sons when their clipper went down while attempting to round Cape Horn, to Rose Meyers (Beverly Dennis), a pregnant, unmarried woman running from her shame. Telling the women about his valley, Roy encourages them to pick their prospective mates from daguerreotype pictures he has tacked to a display board. Two showgirls, Fifi Danon (Denise Darcel) and Laurie Smith (Julie Bishop), hastily change their flashy clothes when others like them are rejected and return to try and sign on again. Whitman is not fooled by their disguise, but convinced their wish to reform is sincere he adds them to the group, bringing the number of women on the wagon train up to 140.
Across the Wide Missouri, 1h18
Directed by William A. Wellman
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Actors Clark Gable, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalbán, James Whitmore, Adolphe Menjou, María Elena Marqués
Roles Cadet (uncredited)
Rating61% 3.097963.097963.097963.097963.09796
In the 1830s in the Rocky Mountains, fur trapper Flint Mitchell (Clark Gable) meets at the summer "Rendezvous" with other mountain men, cashing in his furs, drinking, and enjoying contests among his friends. He organizes a hunting "brigade" into the beaver-rich Blackfoot territory, buying horses and recruiting trappers, despite protests from his Scottish friend and former trading partner, Brecan (John Hodiak), who lives among the Blackfoot and warns him that the land belongs to them. Flint outbids Brecan for Kamiah (María Elena Marqués), the granddaughter of Blackfoot medicine man Bear Ghost and adopted daughter of a Nez Perce chief, Looking Glass (J. Carrol Naish). Brecan wants to return her to the Blackfoot, to promote peace between the tribes, while Flint wants to marry Kamiah and ensure the brigade's safety.
Riding High, 1h52
Directed by Frank Capra, George Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Musical films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Horse sports in film, Sport hippique
Actors Bing Crosby, Coleen Gray, Charles Bickford, William Demarest, Frances Gifford, James Gleason
Roles Jockey Williams
Rating61% 3.0975253.0975253.0975253.0975253.097525
Yale grad Dan Brooks is expected to marry wealthy boss J.L. Higgins' daughter Margaret and join the family box-making business. He is far more interested in racing a horse he owns, Broadway Bill.
Wyoming Mail, 1h27
Directed by Reginald Le Borg
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Stephen McNally, Alexis Smith, Howard Da Silva, Ed Begley, Roy Roberts, Armando Silvestre
Roles Rufe
Rating60% 3.042553.042553.042553.042553.04255
En 1869, les États-Unis tentent d'organiser un service de courrier postal acheminé par train, en alternative aux diligences. Mais les trains postaux sont régulièrement attaqués. Steve Davis, un ancien officier du renseignement de l'armée, est chargé d'enquêter. Les indices sont minces : quelques billets de banque dérobés et repérés par leur numéro ont circulé dans une petite ville du Wyoming. Steve doit contacter un premier enquêteur travaillant sur place comme opérateur morse. Ce dernier est assassiné dès l'arrivée de Steve. Steve observe à proximité une empreinte de fer à cheval particulière, caractéristique des chevaux du personnel du pénitencier voisin. Il décide d'infiltrer ce pénitencier en se faisant passer pour un voleur de banque condamné, une dangereuse mission .
Hold That Baby!, 1h4
Directed by Reginald Le Borg
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, David Gorcey, William Benedict, Benny Bartlett
Roles Bananas Stewart
Rating61% 3.095393.095393.095393.095393.09539
The boys are running a laundromat in the back room of Louie's Sweet Shop. A woman, Laura Andrews, comes in and leaves her baby in one of the laundry baskets and the boys find him. The discover that he is the heir to a fortune, and that his mother hid him so that her aunts couldn't steal the inheritance. After discovering the baby is missing, the aunts have Laura committed.
Fighting Fools, 1h9
Directed by Reginald Le Borg
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films
Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, David Gorcey, William Benedict, Benny Bartlett
Roles Johnny Higgins
Rating63% 3.1925553.1925553.1925553.1925553.192555
The Bowery Boys, led by the notorious Slip Mahoney (Leo Gorcey), are helping out at a boxing arena, selling programs, drinks and snacks to the audience. The most popular upcoming fight is between their own Jimmy Higgins ”The Battler from the Bowery” (Robert Walcott) and the reigning champion Joey Prince (Bill Cartledge). The fight will be Jimmy’s chance to bring home the title, but his chances are slim at best. When the match starts, Jimmy takes a serious beating in the ring. He is knocked down already in the second round, which renders him unconscious. Eventually Jimmy dies from his injuries. When two of the boys go to break the awful news to Jimmy’s mother, Mrs. Higgins (Dorothy Vaughan), she is devastated. The boys decide to help her out, by finding another one of her boys, Johnny (Frankie Darro), who disappeared some time ago. Johnny, who is Jimmy’s older brother, vanished to get away from a gang of swindlers who played him for a fool and set him up. The boys soon find Johnny in a bar together with a hussy by the name of Bunny Talbot (Evelynn Eaton). Johnny is completely oblivious about his younger brother’s death. He quickly sobers up after getting the news, and the boys start working him into fighting condition. Together with the journalist Gabe Moreno (Gabriel Dell), the boys start promoting a series of fights in benefit for the Higgins family. When Jimmy’s manager, Blinky Harris (Lyle Talbot), wants in on the action, the boys tell him to take a hike, since they consider it his fault that Jimmy died. What the boys don’t know, is that Harris had fixed the fight against Prince, but Jimmy didn’t go along with the plan. Johnny’s first fight is announced, and the training starts in a loft locality the boys get to borrow from their friend Louie (Bernard Gorcey) who owns a candy store. The thumping and crashing from the loft make Louie’s business go bad. Johnny wins his first series of fights, and is considered a challenger to the title. A fight against Prince is set up, and the winner will then fight the title-holder Dynamite Carson (Bert Conway). Johnny’s fight against Prince starts, but when Prince goes down in the first round, he claims that he did so because the match was fixed. The result is that both boxers are suspended from further fighting. Harris is the one who has fixed the fight, and he promises the Bowery Boys that Prince will confess and clear Johnny’s name. The condition is that Johnny loses the first match between him and Carson, and then gets to win the second. The boys agree to the condition, but have no intention of following the plan. Unfortunately they didn’t count on Harris taking Boomer Higgins (Teddy Infuhr), the youngest of the Higgins brothers, as collateral. Harris assures the boys that Boomer will be let out as soon as Johnny has lost the fight. The boys go on a hunt throughout the city to find Boomer, and when they do, they help him escape. Boomer arrives to the ring in time for Johnny to know he is safe, and then Johnny doesn’t have to lose. Harris cheats by giving Carson a metal stick to hold in is hand, and Johnny is badly beaten. Between rounds the boys manage to remove the metal stick and Johnny can get the upper hand in the fight once more. He wins the fight by knocking out Carson, and Harris is exposed as a cheater to the boxing commissioner.
Angels' Alley, 1h7
Directed by William Beaudine
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Crime
Actors Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, William Benedict, Gabriel Dell, David Gorcey, Frankie Darro
Roles Cousin Jimmy
Rating59% 2.9522452.9522452.9522452.9522452.952245
Slip's cousin Jimmy is released from prison for good behavior and comes to live with him and his mother. Unfortunately the only job he can get is stealing cars for a local mobster, Tony Locarno. Slip learns about this and sets out to stop Jimmy from ruining his life. He follows Jimmy to a warehouse that Jimmy is robbing and gets knocked unconscious and is caught by the police. Father O'Hanlon steps in and helps Slip from going to jail.