William Clement Frawley (February 26, 1887 – March 3, 1966) was an American Vaudevillian and actor best known for playing landlord Fred Mertz in the sitcom I Love Lucy. Frawley also played "Bub" O'Casey during the first five seasons of the sitcom My Three Sons and the political advisor to the Hon. Henry X. Harper (Gene Lockhart) in the film Miracle on 34th Street.
Frawley began his career in Vaudeville in 1914 with his wife, Edna Louise Broedt. Their comedy act, "Frawley and Louise", continued until their divorce in 1927. He performed on Broadway multiple times. In 1916, he signed with Paramount Studios and appeared in more than 100 films over the next 35 years.[1]
^Deezen, Eddie. "Being Fred Mertz: The Life of William Frawley". Mental Floss. February 27, 2012. Retrieved March 2, 2016.
William Clement Frawley (February 26, 1887 – March 3, 1966) was an American Vaudevillian and actor best known for playing landlord Fred Mertz in the sitcom...
Lucille Ball and her husband Desi Arnaz, along with Vivian Vance and WilliamFrawley, and follows the life of Lucy Ricardo (Ball), a young, middle-class...
Baby" is a popular song published in 1912 and first sung publicly by WilliamFrawley. The music was written by Ernie Burnett (1884–1959), the lyrics by...
housekeeper, William Michael Francis "Bub" O'Casey. William Demarest, playing Bub's brother, "Uncle Charley", replaced Frawley in 1965 because of Frawley's declining...
Fred owned on East 68th Street. The role of Fred Mertz was played by WilliamFrawley, who was actually 22 years her senior. Despite their exceptional chemistry...
Frawley is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Arthur J. Frawley (c.1899–1969), American politician Barbara Frawley (1935–2004), Australian...
Frederick Hobart Mertz, played by WilliamFrawley, is a fictional character in the 1950s American sitcom I Love Lucy. Fred was born and raised on a farm...
Sons from 1965 to 1972, playing Uncle Charley O'Casey. He replaced WilliamFrawley, who was in failing health. Demarest had worked with Fred MacMurray...
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week of April 3–9, 1953. In October 1956, Ball, Arnaz, Vance, and WilliamFrawley all appeared on a Bob Hope special on NBC, including a spoof of I Love...
television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and WilliamFrawley. The black-and-white series originally ran from October 15, 1951, to...
Wayne and Susan Hayward. The supporting cast includes Dennis O'Keefe, WilliamFrawley, Leonid Kinsky, Addison Richards and Grant Withers. The Fighting Seabees...
accommodating a studio audience. Dealing with friction between her costars WilliamFrawley, who is often drunk, and Vivian Vance, who resents Ball's attempts...
killer Henri Désiré Landru. The supporting cast includes Martha Raye, WilliamFrawley, and Marilyn Nash. In the film, a bank teller is fired after three...
in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is married to Fred Mertz, played by WilliamFrawley, with whom she had a career in vaudeville. The two female characters...
song very successfully, "My Mammy" was performed first in 1918 by WilliamFrawley (later to become famous on I Love Lucy) as a vaudeville act. Saul Bornstein...
Harper Natalie Wood as Susan Walker Porter Hall as Granville Sawyer WilliamFrawley as Charlie Halloran Jerome Cowan as District Attorney Thomas Mara Philip...
Sally Anne Morrison Douglas on the ABC (later CBS) Fred MacMurray/WilliamFrawley sitcom, My Three Sons. She played Mike's love interest for three seasons...
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incorporated it into their acts and helped popularize it. Among these was WilliamFrawley[citation needed], who later sang it in Paramount Pictures' original...
Stevenson's Unlearned Language: New Studies in Xenoglossy (1984), WilliamFrawley wrote that Stevenson was too uncritically accepting of a paranormal...
motion picture The Lemon Drop Kid (1951), where it was started by WilliamFrawley, then sung in the generally known version immediately thereafter by...
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