Frank Overton
Frank Emmons Overton ( born March 12, 1918 in Babylon, New York, † April 24, 1967 in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California ) was an American actor.
Life
Frank Overton began with acting shortly after his college graduation. His Broadway debut was on March 14, 1944 in the play JACOBOWSKY and the Colonel. Since the early 1950s, he appeared regularly on television and in film. So he was in films like Life is a lie, To Kill a Mockingbird and see target Moscow. He also starred in television series such as Perry Mason, Bonanza and The People of the Shiloh Ranch. His last great Serienauftrat was as Elias Sandoval in This Side of Paradise, the 24th episode of Season 1 of Star Trek. The episode was aired a month before his death.
On April 24, 1967 Overton died unexpectedly at the age of 49 of a heart attack. He was at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. His widow, the actress Phyllis Hill, with whom he had a son, died in 1993 and has since been buried next to him.