Frank Yaconelli
- Birthday
- Oct 2, 1898
Bio: Born in Italy, Frank Yaconelli emigrated to the U.S. after WWI, where he thrived in vaudeville as a monologist, dialectician, and comic musician. Yaconelli went to Hollywood in 1929, spending the next three decades playing innumerable character bits in such films as W.C. Fields' The Barber Shop (1933) and the Marx Brothers' A Night at the Opera (1935). In the early… More Bio: Born in Italy, Frank Yaconelli emigrated to the U.S. after WWI, where he thrived in vaudeville as a monologist, dialectician, and comic musician. Yaconelli went to Hollywood in 1929, spending the next three decades playing innumerable character bits in such films as W.C. Fields' The Barber Shop (1933) and the Marx Brothers' A Night at the Opera (1935). In the early '40s, he began showing up as comic relief in Tex Ritter's B-Westerns. Frank Yaconelli later played Pancho opposite Gilbert Roland's Cisco in a series of Cisco Kid Westerns for Monogram. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Frank Yaconelli Videos
A Night At The Opera
A Place In The Sun
It Happened One Night
The Dude Goes West
Dr. Cyclops
Filmography
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Serenade (1956)
- Giuseppe
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Racers (1955)
- Luigi
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Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952)
- Pirate
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Hangman's Knot (1952)
- Actor
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A Place in the Sun (1951)
- Truck Driver
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