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Frank Coghlan, Jr.
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Actor Born: March 15, 1916 in New Haven, CT Biography:Born in Connecticut and raised in Los Angeles, Frank Coghlan Jr. began appearing in films at age 3; his meager income helped to pay his father's way through chiropractic college. Though his mother was reluctant to allow her son to appear before the cameras, young Frank took to performing with ease, playing bits in 2-reel comedies. Placed under contract to Cecil B. DeMille, who considered the boy "the perfect example of a homeless waif," Frank became a popular juvenile performer. Billed as Junior Coghlan, he appeared prominently in such major silent films as "The Yankee Clipper" (1926), "Let 'Er Go Gallegher" (1927) and "Slide, Kelly, Slide" (1927). During the early talkie era, Coghlan was co-starred with fellow child actor Leon Janney in "Penrod and Sam" (1930) and played James Cagney as a boy in "Public Enemy" (1931). As a free-lancer, Coghlan appeared in several serials, including 1941's "The... Full Biography
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