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Frank Coghlan Jr. also known as Junior Coghlan, was an American actor who later became a career officer in the United States Navy and a naval aviator. He appeared in approximately 129 films and television programs between 1920 and 1974. During the 1920s and 1930s, he became a popular child and juvenile actor, appearing in films with Pola Negri, Jack Dempsey, William Haines, Shirley Temple, Mickey Rooney, William Boyd and Bette Davis. He appeared in early "Our Gang" comedies, but he is best known for the role of Billy Batson in the 1941 motion picture serial Adventures of Captain Marvel. Coghlan later served 23 years as an aviator and officer in the U.S. Navy, from 1942 to 1965. After retiring from the Navy, he returned to acting and appeared in television, films, and commercials. He published an autobiography in 1992 and died in 2009 at age 93.
Birth Name
Francis Edward Coghlan Jr.
Born
Wednesday, 15 March 1916
Died
Monday, 07 September 2009
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic | Self | 2004 |
Shirley Temple: America's Little Darling | Self / Himself | 1993 |
The Republic Pictures Story | Self | 1991 |
Shazam! | The Guard | 1974 |
The Love God? | Reporter | 1969 |
The Outcasts | Storekeeper | 1968 |
The Shakiest Gun in the West | Man at Bar | 1968 |
Valley of the Dolls | Reporter | 1968 |
The Love-Ins | Reporter in Park | 1967 |
The Sand Pebbles | Bald Bespectacled Man at Red Kettle Bar | 1966 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic | Self | 2004 |
Shirley Temple: America's Little Darling | Self / Himself | 1993 |
The Republic Pictures Story | Self | 1991 |
Shazam! | The Guard | 1974 |
The Love God? | Reporter | 1969 |
The Outcasts | Storekeeper | 1968 |
The Shakiest Gun in the West | Man at Bar | 1968 |
Valley of the Dolls | Reporter | 1968 |
The Love-Ins | Reporter in Park | 1967 |
The Sand Pebbles | Bald Bespectacled Man at Red Kettle Bar | 1966 |
When the Boys Meet the Girls | Man in Audience | 1965 |
The Beverly Hillbillies | Helmsman | 1962 |
One More Tomorrow | Telegraph Boy | 1946 |
Corvette K-225 | Rating | 1943 |
This Is the Army | Soldier at Camp | 1943 |
Presenting Lily Mars | Elevator Boy | 1943 |
The Rear Gunner | Gunnery Student / Messenger | 1943 |
Follow the Band | Bert | 1943 |
Andy Hardy's Double Life | Red - One of the Gang | 1942 |
Youth on Parade | Student | 1942 |
Girl Trouble | Elevator Boy | 1942 |
Footlight Serenade | Movie Theatre Usher | 1942 |
To the Shores of Tripoli | Bellboy | 1942 |
Wings for the Eagle | Mail Boy with Telegram | 1942 |
Lady in a Jam | Young Man | 1942 |
Rings on Her Fingers | Page Boy | 1942 |
The Courtship of Andy Hardy | 'Red', Boy at the Dance | 1942 |
Pardon My Stripes | College Boy | 1942 |
Our Girl Shirley | 'Sonny' Rogers | 1942 |
Glamour Boy | Actor | 1941 |
Uncle Joe | Dick | 1941 |
Henry Aldrich for President | Marvin Bagshaw | 1941 |
Unfinished Business | Page Boy | 1941 |
Out of the Fog | Newsboy | 1941 |
Men of Boys Town | Frank, a Commissioner | 1941 |
Adventures of Captain Marvel | Billy Batson | 1941 |
The Man Who Lost Himself | Messenger Boy | 1941 |
Honeymoon for Three | Boy Delivering Flowers | 1941 |
Love Thy Neighbor | Bellboy | 1940 |
Murder Over New York | Frank O'Shaughnessy / Gilroy | 1940 |
Remedy for Riches | Bud | 1940 |
Knute Rockne All American | Messenger | 1940 |
Yesterday's Heroes | Tiny | 1940 |
Golden Gloves | Kid Lester | 1940 |
Those Were the Days! | Chick Struthers | 1940 |
Star Dust | Telegraph Boy | 1940 |
Free, Blonde and 21 | Sammy - Bellboy / Sammy, Bellboy | 1940 |
Double Alibi | Newspaper Switchboard Operator | 1940 |
The Fighting 69th | Jimmy | 1940 |
Gone with the Wind | Collapsing Soldier | 1940 |
Day-Time Wife | Office Boy | 1939 |
Meet Dr. Christian | Bud | 1939 |
Here I Am a Stranger | Office Boy | 1939 |
Angels Wash Their Faces | Al - Boy Working Lathe | 1939 |
Dust Be My Destiny | Newsboy | 1939 |
Second Fiddle | Studio Call Boy | 1939 |
Ex-Champ | Bellhop | 1939 |
It's a Wonderful World | Elevator Boy | 1939 |
Boys' Reformatory | Eddie O'Meara | 1939 |
The Flying Irishman | Teenager Taking Photograph | 1939 |
East Side of Heaven | Messenger Boy | 1939 |
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle | Boy in Montage | 1939 |
Off the Record | Copyboy | 1939 |
Scouts to the Rescue | Ken - a Boy Scout | 1939 |
Angels with Dirty Faces | Boy in Pool Room | 1938 |
His Exciting Night | Office Boy | 1938 |
Service de Luxe | Bellhop | 1938 |
Saturday's Heroes | Sumner - Football Player | 1937 |
Blazing Barriers | Tommy McGrath | 1937 |
Let Them Live | Bellhop | 1937 |
Red Lights Ahead | Willie Wallace | 1936 |
Make Way for a Lady | Billy Hopkins | 1936 |
Charlie Chan at the Race Track | Eddie Brill / Eddie Brill, Jockey | 1936 |
Melody in May | Tommy Bradshaw | 1936 |
The Little Red Schoolhouse | Frank 'Frankie' Burke | 1936 |
Happiness C.O.D. | Larry Sherridan | 1935 |
Stranded | Page | 1935 |
Alibi Ike | Jimmy - the Newsboy | 1935 |
Kentucky Blue Streak | Johnny Bradley | 1935 |
Managed Money | Sonny Rogers | 1934 |
Pardon My Pups | Sonny Rogers / 'Sonny' Rogers | 1934 |
What's to Do? | Sonny Rogers / 'Sonny' Rogers | 1933 |
In the Money | Dick Higginbottom | 1933 |
Merrily Yours | James "Sonny" Rogers / James 'Sonny' Rogers | 1933 |
This Day and Age | Student | 1933 |
Racetrack | Jackie Curtis | 1933 |
Drum Taps | Eric Cartwright | 1933 |
The Last of the Mohicans | Uncas | 1932 |
Man Wanted | Youngster in Store | 1932 |
Hell's House | Shorty | 1932 |
Union Depot | Ragged Urchin | 1932 |
Penrod and Sam | Sam / Sam Williams | 1931 |
The Public Enemy | Tom as a Boy | 1931 |
It Pays to Advertise | Office Boy (as Junior Coghlan) / Office Boy | 1931 |
River's End | Mickey O'Toole / Mickey | 1930 |
The Girl Said No | Eddie Ward | 1930 |
Square Shoulders | John W. 'Tad' Collins Jr. | 1929 |
Marked Money | The Kid / Boy | 1928 |
Let 'Er Go Gallegher | John 'Let 'Er Go' Gallegher | 1928 |
A Harp in Hock | Tommy Shannon | 1927 |
The Country Doctor | Sard Jones | 1927 |
Slide, Kelly, Slide | Mickey Martin | 1927 |
The Yankee Clipper | Mickey | 1927 |
Rubber Tires | Charley Stack | 1927 |
Her Man o' War | Peterkin Schultz | 1926 |
The Last Frontier | Buddy | 1926 |
Whispering Smith | (as Junior Coghlan) | 1926 |
The Skyrocket | Mickey (prologue) | 1926 |
Mike | Boy | 1926 |
The Road to Yesterday | Boy Scout | 1925 |
The Darling of New York | The Ross Kid | 1923 |
Little Old New York | (as Junior Coghlan) | 1923 |
A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate | Boy | 1923 |
Giants vs. Yanks | 1923 | |
Garrison's Finish | (as Junior Coghlan) | 1923 |
Bobbed Hair | Lamont Child (as Junior Coghlan) / Lamont Child | 1922 |
The Poverty of Riches | (as Junior Coghlan) | 1921 |
To Please One Woman | (as Junior Coghlan) | 1920 |
Mid-Channel | Young Boy | 1920 |
Daredevil Jack | Young Boy | 1920 |