Frankie Thomas Net Worth is
$2 Million

Mini Biography

This one-time wiry, curly-haired juvenile actor of 30s Depression era films grabbed major focus toward the finish of his acting career as 50s space hero Tom Corbett on small display, then moved from the limelight finally seeing his future in the cards. He was created Frank M. Thomas, Jr. on Apr 9, 1921, the just child of performing Manhattanites Frank M. Thomas and Mona Bruns. Well-established on the brand new York stage, his parents prompted their youthful son in to the business. The youthful actor 1st conquered Broadway in the first 30s showing up with Mildred Natwick and Wayne Stewart in “Carry Country” (1932) at age group 11. He produced some more Broadway looks, including Small Ol’ Boy (1933) and “Thunder within the Remaining” (1933) before tackling movies, producing his debut creating his stage part in Wednesday’s Kid (1934) as the teenage boy of Karen Morley and Edward Arnold. Both of his parents made an appearance in minor tasks. Frankie continued to celebrity in the sentimental tearjerker A PUPPY of Flanders (1935), after that headed the solid as the titular youthful hero looking for his dad in Africa in Tim Tyler’s Good fortune (1937). Although he was one among the kids in MGM’s Kids City (1938) and one among the Little Hard Men (a branching from the “Deceased End Children”) in Small Tough Men in Culture (1938), he were able to get a co-starring part and become a short bobbysoxer crush playing Ted Nickerson, small Bonita Granville’s dry-humored, sleuthing partner, in the four-episode “Nancy Drew” secret film series, which went from 1938-1939. He performed hard in such films as Angels Clean Their Encounters (1939) and several armed forces cadet types in such movies as On Outfit Parade (1939), Traveling Cadets (1941) as well as the Major as well as the Small (1942) before armed forces duty itself known as, signifying the abrupt end of the seemingly promising begin as a grown-up film actor. He served with both Navy as well as the Coastline Safeguard during WWII. Upon his release, he transferred to NY and found continuous radio function (over 1500 applications) aswell as parts on early Television daytime like the 15-minute serial A FEMALE to keep in mind (1949), that was the initial five-times-a-week soaper to progress. He received long lasting popularity and cult id, however, the next calendar year when he was ensemble in the name function of Tom Corbett, Space Cadet (1950), being a cadet in schooling for the top notch Solar Safeguard, 400 years in the foreseeable future. An All-American hero to kids countrywide, sci-fi was an enormous rage in those days and he remained with the present for five years. It had been a 15-minute plan that shown live 3 x a week. Following this top of fame, Frankie quit performing altogether and composed for radio and TV. He also make the “Four Superstar Theater” for a while. Staying a bachelor for a lot of his adult existence, he lived a fairly enviable Omar Sharif lifestyle like a bridge get better at who trained recreational bridge while playing for the circuit with all the current other get better at players. Moreover, he continuing to hone his composing talents like a secret novelist. In the past due 1980s, he fulfilled and wedded wife Virginia who got two kids from a prior relationship. His wife passed away in 1997. Frankie passed on of respiratory failing in Sherman Oaks, California nine years later on.

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