Biographies: Frankie Darro - Actor

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Frankie Darro was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA, on December 22, 1917, as Frank Johnson, and died in Huntington Beach, California, USA, on December 25, 1976, of a heart attack. Frankie Darrow married three women and had two children. The most important works of Frankie Darrow: Tough Kid 1938, On the Spot 1940, The Phantom Empire 1935 and Men of Action 1935. Frankie Darrow was born in Chicago, to parents who were circus heroes, in aerial games (acrobats), and learned as a child to walk the rope, and other games Aerobic, until he mastered it, and presented in the cinema acrobatics and dangers if necessary. Frankie first appeared in cinema at the age of 6 when he appeared in the movie Judgment of the Storm 1924 and made more than 50 silent films, until 1929. He did a small job, in American Western films, often with the cowboy movie star "Tom Teller", in addition to presenting some dramatic and comedic films Women and Gold 1925, Out of the West 1926 and Tom's Gang 1927, and he starred in the comedy Little Mickey Grogan 1927. And starring in the drama The Circus Kid 1928, and his first talking movie, the musical comedy The Rainbow Man 1929, but its small size and short length determined him the roles he would play when he entered the youth stage, and in 1933 he presented important films in the economic depression and the pre-code period (The period leading up to the enforcement of the Hays Code Act of Film Censorship) with Warner Bros. Wild Boys of the Road 1933 and then plays a psychotic young man in James Cagney's classic The Mayor of Hell 1933 and then had a role in the series of adventure films The Phantom Empire 1935 times with the new adventure movie star Gene Autry, and with age he found it difficult to secure job opportunities, due to his small size, so he presented acrobatic acts in parts of films, especially after his participation in the US Navy during World War II, and his return with malaria , where he made some films with Leo Gorcy about street children, and the symptoms of recurrent malaria began forcing him to take alcohol, to relieve the pain until he became addicted, which affected his career, and film and television roles became less, and the producers played him, so he appeared in a number of films with small roles He appeared in 10 television episodes of The Red Skelton Show 1955-1965 and continued to work slowly until he died of a heart attack at the age of 59.

4 September 2021
Christina Aziz