Frank Converse
Frank Converse ( May 22nd, 1938 in St. Louis, Missouri ) is an American actor. His acting career includes over 85 roles in productions for film and television. He became known especially by the television series of the 1970s adventures of the road where he embodied the Trucker Will Chandler.
Life and career
Frank Converse, born in 1938 in St. Louis, Missouri, studied first at Carnegie Tech before he made his television debut in 1966 in the U.S. series The Trials of O'Brien. His breakthrough came with the role of Michael Alden in the 13- part series, The Secret of the Blue Crown
His first movie role was played by Converse in 1967 as Reverend Clem De Lavery Otto Preminger's drama in the morning is a new day, in the leading roles Michael Caine and Jane Fonda. In the same year he was in a supporting role for John Sturges featuring prominent Western James Garner, Jason Robards and Robert Ryan in The Five Outlaw Marshal Virgil Earp as a front of the camera.
In the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s he played mainly in television movies and popular TV series with and you saw Converse only sporadically in feature film production, as in Cliff Robertson's action drama The Pilot ( 1980), in Tsugunobu Kotanis Samurai Movie Sword of the Shogun (1981 ) or in Everybody Wins - A dirty play by director Karel Reisz (1990).
In Germany he was known in particular for his starring role in the NBC television series Movin 'on ( 1974-1976 ), which ran here under the title Adventures of the highway in the ARD evening program, in which he played the Trucker Will Chandler.