Career Highlights: Gangbusters, The System, The Cowboy and the Indians
First Major Screen Credit: The Cowboy and the Indians (1949)
Biography
A stage actor from 1938, American-born Frank Richards made his earliest recorded-film appearance in 1940. Generally cast as stubble-chinned heavies and slick gangsters, he also served as an "art director" for the 1946 Western Rustler's Roundup. More notable among his 200 or so on-camera television credits was his bad-guy role on the 1951 Superman episode "A Night of Terror." Richards' last film was John Cassavetes' A Woman Under the Influence in 1974. He died in 1992. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide