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    William Clement Frawley (February 26, 1887 – March 3, 1966) was an American Vaudevillian and actor best known for playing landlord Fred Mertz in the sitcom...
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    Lucille Ball and her husband Desi Arnaz, along with Vivian Vance and William Frawley, and follows the life of Lucy Ricardo (Ball), a young, middle-class...
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    Baby" is a popular song published in 1912 and first sung publicly by William Frawley. The music was written by Ernie Burnett (1884–1959), the lyrics by...
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    Fred owned on East 68th Street. The role of Fred Mertz was played by William Frawley, who was actually 22 years her senior. Despite their exceptional chemistry...
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  • housekeeper, William Michael Francis "Bub" O'Casey. William Demarest, playing Bub's brother, "Uncle Charley", replaced Frawley in 1965 because of Frawley's declining...
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    (2016), Justice League (2017), and Palm Springs (2020). He portrayed William Frawley in Being the Ricardos (2021), for which he received another nomination...
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  • featured the same cast members: Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, William Frawley, and Little Ricky (billed as Richard Keith in his post-Lucy–Desi acting...
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  • Frederick Hobart Mertz, played by William Frawley, is a fictional character in the 1950s American sitcom I Love Lucy. Fred was born and raised on a farm...
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    week of April 3–9, 1953. In October 1956, Ball, Arnaz, Vance, and William Frawley all appeared on a Bob Hope special on NBC, including a spoof of I Love...
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  • The supporting cast includes Alexis Smith, Jack Carson, Alan Hale, William Frawley, and Ward Bond as John L. Sullivan. The movie was based upon Corbett's...
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    BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 2022, his performance as William Frawley in Being the Ricardos (2021) earned him his second nomination for the...
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    Jackie Gleason Show CBS Ben Alexander Officer Frank Smith Dragnet NBC William Frawley Fred Mertz I Love Lucy CBS Tony Randall Harvey Weskitt Mister Peepers...
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    Gosling (2016), Commissioner James Gordon in Justice League (2017), and William Frawley in Being the Ricardos (2021). He reprised his role as Jameson in various...
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    character actor William Frawley was walking down Hollywood Boulevard when he suffered a heart attack. According to Bart Andrews, after Frawley had collapsed...
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  • television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley. The black-and-white series originally ran from October 15, 1951, to...
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  • Wayne and Susan Hayward. The supporting cast includes Dennis O'Keefe, William Frawley, Leonid Kinsky, Addison Richards and Grant Withers. The Fighting Seabees...
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  • director and actor John Frawley (actor) (died 1999), Australian actor Maurice Frawley (1954–2009), Australian musician William Frawley (1887–1966), American...
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  • motion picture The Lemon Drop Kid (1951), where it was started by William Frawley, then sung in the generally known version immediately thereafter by...
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  • in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is married to Fred Mertz, played by William Frawley, with whom she had a career in vaudeville. The two female characters...
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    Sons from 1965 to 1972, playing Uncle Charley O'Casey. He replaced William Frawley, who was in failing health. Demarest had worked with Fred MacMurray...
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  • accommodating a studio audience. Dealing with friction between her costars William Frawley, who is often drunk, and Vivian Vance, who resents Ball's attempts...
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    Conversations. Tilburg University Press. p. 95. ISBN 90-361-9998-0. William Frawley, ed. (2003). International Encyclopedia of Linguistics: 4-Volume Set...
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    Miracle on 34th Street (category Films produced by William Perlberg)
    Harper Natalie Wood as Susan Walker Porter Hall as Granville Sawyer William Frawley as Charlie Halloran Jerome Cowan as District Attorney Thomas Mara Philip...
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    killer Henri Désiré Landru. The supporting cast includes Martha Raye, William Frawley, and Marilyn Nash. In the film, a bank teller is fired after three...
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    creator (Dr. William Frawley) on her wedding night. Frawley pursues his creation across Europe finally killing him by shooting him. Frawley then dies of...
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    song very successfully, "My Mammy" was performed first in 1918 by William Frawley (later to become famous on I Love Lucy) as a vaudeville act. Saul Bornstein...
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    Belfast Jesse Plemons George Burbank The Power of the Dog J. K. Simmons William Frawley Being the Ricardos Kodi Smit-McPhee Peter Gordon The Power of the Dog...
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    Jackie Gleason Show CBS Ben Alexander Officer Frank Smith Dragnet NBC William Frawley Fred Mertz I Love Lucy CBS Tony Randall Harvey Weskitt Mister Peepers...
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    the song, saving the church from its financial woes. When Max Dolan (William Frawley), the music executive brought on to hear the song does not believe...
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    Rooney in the title role. The supporting cast features Walter Connolly, William Frawley and Rex Ingram. It was remade by MGM in 1960. A musical version was...
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