Frankie ThomasFilmography

Born:: April 9, 1921 in New York City, NY
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: The son of actors Frank M. Thomas and Mona Bruns, Frankie Thomas made his first stage appearance in 1932. The following year, the 12-year-old Thomas played the lead in the Broadway comedy-drama Wednesday's Child. He went on to star in the 1935 film Dog of Flanders, then played ever-faithful Ted...Read More

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Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, Vol. 2

Synopsis: Tom, a cadet at the U.S. Space Academy finds adventure while he trains to defend Earth and neighboring planets in this volume taken from the '50s television series. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

1951
Tom Corbett, Space Cadet [TV Series]

1951
Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, Vol. 1

Synopsis: The U.S. Space Academy is the training ground for young cadet Tom Corbett as he prepares to protect and defend Earth in this volume from the early '50s television series. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

1950
The Major and the Minor

Actors: Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Diana Lynn, Robert Benchley, Rita Johnson

Synopsis: A woman's attempt to disguise herself as an underage girl mushrooms into a series of humorous deceptions in this romantic comedy. Ginger Rogers stars as Susan Applegate, a young woman living in New York who, nearly broke and sick of the city, decides to head home to Iowa. Lacking the money for a Read More

1942
Always in My Heart

Actors: Kay Francis, Walter Huston, Gloria Warren, Frankie Thomas

Synopsis: A real four-hanky picture, Always in My Heart was loosely adapted from the stage play by Dorothy Bennett and Irving White. Walter Huston is a tower of strength as MacKenzie Scott, a brilliant musician falsely convicted of murder and sentenced to Life. While Scott languishes in prison, his Read More

1942
Flying Cadets

Actors: William Gargan, Edmund Lowe, Frankie Thomas

Synopsis: Flying Cadets is basically a vehicle for William Gargan and Edmund Lowe, doing a Flagg-and-Quirt act as a pair of eternally bickering ex-WWI pilots. The "official" plot is carried along by Frank Albertson as Bob Ames, a young airplane fancier who hopes to create a school for aspiring aviators. He Read More

1941
One Foot in Heaven

Actors: Fredric March, Martha Scott, Beulah Bondi, Gene Lockhart, Elisabeth Fraser

Synopsis: Author Hartzell Spence's popular biography of his preacher father was the source for One Foot in Heaven. Fredric March stars as Methodist cleric William Spence, whose calling requires him to move his family from parish to parish on a near-monthly basis. The children resent the fact that they're Read More

1941
Invisible Stripes

Actors: George Raft, Jane Bryan, William Holden, Humphrey Bogart, Flora Robson

Synopsis: Invisible Stripes is a cookie-cutter Warners prison drama which rounds up the usual suspects. George Raft and Humphrey Bogart are top-billed, and as is often the case in such a circumstance, it is Raft who is given the larger (albeit less interesting) role. Raft plays Cliff Taylor, an ex-convict Read More

1940
Nancy Drew, Trouble Shooter

Actors: Bonita Granville, Frankie Thomas, John Litel, Aldrich Bowker, Charlotte Wynters

Synopsis: The third of Warner Bros.' series based on the teenaged sleuth created by Carolyn Keene, Nancy Drew, Trouble Shooter stars Bonita Granville as the plucky Nancy. Nancy's father Judge Drew (John Litel) is tormented by the fact that an old friend has been accused of murder. The Judge insists that Read More

1939
Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase

Actors: Bonita Granville, Frankie Thomas, John Litel, Frank Orth, Renie Riano

Synopsis: This final entry in Warner Bros.' Nancy Drew series is the only one actually based on a novel by Nancy Drew creator Carolyn Keene. Bonita Granville returns as the ebullient titular teenaged sleuth, while Frankie Thomas portrays Nancy's best friend and fellow "gumshoe" Ted Nickerson. The plot Read More

1939
The Angels Wash Their Faces

Actors: Ann Sheridan, Billy Halop, Ronald Reagan, Bernard Punsly, Gabriel Dell, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall

Synopsis: Though not a sequel to Angels with Dirty Faces, this Warner Bros. programmer does star the Dead End Kids-or, more specifically, Billy Halop, Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, and Bernard Punsley. Fresh out of reform school, Gabe Ryan (Frankie Thomas) promises his sister Joy (Ann Sheridan Read More

1939
Nancy Drew, Reporter

Actors: Bonita Granville, John Litel, Mary Lee, Sheila Bromley

Synopsis: The second entry in Warner Bros.' popular detective series, Nancy Drew, Reporter presented young sleuth Bonita Granville at her busybody best. This time, the irrepressible Miss Drew has entered a junior newspaper-reporter contest and, determined to win, insinuates herself into the ongoing Read More

1939
The Dead End Kids on Dress Parade

Actors: Billy Halop, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Gabriel Dell

Synopsis: In this entry in the long-running series, one of the Kids goes to military school and learns, with the help of his late father's friend who promised to watch over the lad, to be a real man. The kid is initially, quite rebellious. One boy tries to help him, but the kid throws him out a second story Read More

1939
Code of the Streets

Actors: Harry Carey, Frankie Thomas, James McCallion, Leon Ames, Juanita Quigley

Synopsis: Universal's Code of the Streets stars the Little Tough Guys, an offshoot of Warner Bros.' Dead End Kids. This time Frankie Thomas plays Bob Lewis, leader of a gang consisting of Sailor (Harris Berger), Murph (Hally Chester), Monk (Charles Duncan), Trouble (Billy Benedict) and Yap (David Gorcey). Read More

1939
Nancy Drew - Detective

Actors: Bonita Granville, John Litel, James Stephenson, Frankie Thomas, Frank Orth

Synopsis: Nancy Drew -- Detective was the first in a series of breezy B-pictures based on the teenaged sleuth created by Carolyn Keene. Bonita Granville is perfectly cast as Nancy, while John Litel and Frankie Thomas are equally effective as Nancy's attorney father, Carson Drew, and erstwhile boyfriend, Ted Read More

1938
Boys Town

Actors: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull, Leslie Fenton, Addison Richards, Gene Reynolds

Synopsis: Spencer Tracy won his second Oscar for his portrayal of Father Edward J. Flanagan--then promptly turned the statuette over to the real Father Flanagan out of gratitude. The priest's philosophy that no boy will grow up bad if given a chance in life culminates in his formation of Boys Town in Omaha Read More

1938
Little Tough Guys in Society

Actors: Mischa Auer, Mary Boland, Helen Parrish, Jackie Searl

Synopsis: In this socially conscious drama a sextet of juvenile delinquents flee a crime screen in their seedy ghetto and wind up getting invited to a posh mansion by a wealthy criminal. Their attempts to accustom themselves to the opulent surroundings nearly results in the destruction of the manse. Read More

1938
Tim Tyler's Luck [Serial]

Actors: Frankie Thomas, Frances Robinson, Al Shean, Norman Willis, Earl Douglas

Synopsis: The 12-episode Universal serial Tim Tyler's Luck was based on the comic strip of the same name by Lyman Young (the brother of "Blondie" creator Chic Young). Frankie Thomas stars as youthful adventurer Tim Tyler, who heads to Africa in search of his scientist father (played by veteran vaudevillian Read More

1937
A Dog of Flanders

Actors: Frankie Thomas, Helen Parrish, O.P. Heggie, Richard Quine, Christian Rub

Synopsis: Dog of Flanders, the durable novel written in 1872 by the author who signed herself Ouida, was filmed three times, first in 1924 with Jackie Coogan. The second filmization, produced in 1935, stars child actors Frankie Thomas, Helen Parrish and Richard Quine as three poor Flemish youths whose lives Read More

1935
Wednesday's Child

Actors: Edward Arnold, Karen Morley, Shirley Grey, Robert Shayne

Synopsis: Wednesday's Child, the song goes, is "full of woe." This is indeed the case for Bobby (Frankie Thomas), who is bundled off to military school when his father (Edward Arnold) and mother (Karen Morley) divorce. That Bobby was forced to testify during the divorce action was traumatic enough; now he Read More

1934