Frank Coghlan Jr.
Acting
🎂 1916-03-15
Frank Coghlan, Jr. (1916–2009) was an American actor who later became a career officer in the United States Navy and a Naval Aviator. He appeared in approximately 129 films and television programs between 1920 and 1974. During the 1920s and 1930s, he became a popular child and juvenile actor appearing in early Our Gang comedies, but he is best known for the role of Billy Batson in Adventures of Captain Marvel. Coghlan later served 23 years as an aviator and officer in the US Navy from 1942 to 1965. After retiring from the Navy, he returned to acting and appeared in television, films, and commercials.
Cast credits(88)
Helmsman
1962
Collapsing Soldier (uncredited)
1939
Reporter (uncredited)
1967
Tom as a Boy (uncredited)
1931
Boy (uncredited)
1923
Teenager Taking Photograph
1939
Elevator Boy (uncredited)
1939
Man at Bar (uncredited)
1968
Ken - a Boy Scout
1939
Billy Batson
1941
Tommie Parker (as Junior Coghlan)
1923
Studio Call Boy
1939
Mickey
1927
Jimmy (uncredited)
1940
Rating
1943
(uncredited)
1923
Reporter in Park
1967
Reporter in Park (uncredited)
1967
Elevator Boy
1943
1941
Reporter (uncredited)
1969
Bud
1939
Bellhop
1938
Office Boy
1939
Eddie O'Meara
1939
Willie Wallace
1936
Al - Boy Working Lathe (uncredited)
1939
1920
Office Boy (as Junior Coghlan)
1931
Eddie Brill, Jockey
1936
Young Man (uncredited)
1942
Bellhop
1937
Copyboy (uncredited)
1939
Page (uncredited)
1935
Mickey (prologue)
1926
Bud
1940
Boy in Montage (uncredited)
1939
Newsboy (uncredited)
1939
Ragged Urchin (uncredited)
1932
Frank 'Frankie' Burke
1936
Eddie Ward
1930
Self
1991
Newspaper Switchboard Operator
1940
Mickey
1930
Messenger (uncredited)
1940
Peterkin Schultz
1926
Sam Williams
1931
Office Boy
1939
Boy
1926
Messenger Boy (uncredited)
1939
Jackie Curtis
1933
Sammy, Bellboy
1940
Self
1993
Self
1941
John 'Let 'Er Go' Gallegher
1928
Youngster in Store
1932
Tommy
1936
Bellboy
1940
Mickey Martin
1927
Frankie O'Shaughnessy
1940
Sonny
1935
Shorty
1932
1921
Charley Stack
1927
Tad
1929
Uncas
1932
Tommy McGrath
1937
Eric Cartwright
1933
Larry Sherridan
1935
Sonny Rogers
1933
Bellhop
1939
Johnny Bradley
1935
The Ross Kid
1923
Billy Hopkins
1936
Lamont Child (as Junior Coghlan)
1922
James "Sonny" Rogers
1933
Page (uncredited)
1923
Sard Jones
1927
1926
Dick
1941
Dick Higginbottom
1933
Sonny Rogers
1934
Junior
1931
Tommy Shannon
1927
The Kid
1928
Sonny Rogers
1934
Soldier Patient
1941
(as Junior Coghlan)
1925