- Data di nascita
- Data di morte20 luglio 1958 · Santa Monica, California, Stati Uniti (dopo un intervento chirurgico)
- Nome alla nascitaJoseph Franklin Pangborn
- Altezza1,79 m
- Franklin Pangborn è nato il 23 gennaio 1889. Luogo di nascita: Usa. È conosciuto come attore. È celebre per aver partecipato a Evviva il nostro eroe (1944), Un comodo posto in banca (1940) e What's Cookin' (1942). Morì il 20 luglio 1958. Luogo di morte: Usa.
- Humorously prissy supporting characters.
- Served in the U.S. Army infantry in World War I and was gassed and wounded at the Battle of Argonne.
- When he landed his first role in a play and it came time for the production to go on the road, his parents were so disapproving that they would not give him a suitcase for his trip. A neighbor intervened and provided one.
- Died after surgery for a malignant tumor.
- One of his best friends was actress Edna May Oliver and he was a frequent guest at her house for dinner.
- He made his stage debut in 1911, in a Newark production of the romance The Power Behind the Throne by Theodore Kremer.
- My father was a member of a life insurance company and both he and mother frowned on my stage aspirations. To mention the stage to my mother was to bring a tragic look on her face and a sob in her voice.
- [Regarding his leaving his parents' home to tour with his first play, The Power Behind the Throne] It was a tragedy. My heart was broken, as our boat steamed up the Hudson and on leaving the boat I found my trunk also broken. I carried shoes, socks, ties, shirts and suits up the street in my arms, crying softly to myself for mother.
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