Biography
Frank McRae (born June 3, 1942, died April 29, 2021) was an American actor and former professional football player. McRae was born in Memphis, Tennessee. McRae graduated from Tennessee State University with a double major in drama and history. He was a defensive tackle for the Chicago Bears in the 1967 NFL season. Among his acting roles are the history teacher, Mr. Teasdale, in Red Dawn, bank robber Reed Youngblood in Dillinger, Hazel in Cannery Row, Spanky in The Wizard, James Bond's friend S...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Love's Abiding Joy
2006
as Cookie
The continued Westward journey of settlers Missie and Willie Lahaye. Their roots now firmly planted as they set up homestead in the far West, Missie b...

Love's Long Journey
2005
as Cookie
Missie's surprise pregnancy sets her on a new course that is both thrilling and terrifying. After all the planning and dreaming, she and her husband W...

Mr. P's Dancing Sushi Bar
1999
as Bruce McFee
A film about a small sushi counter in the lobby of a hotel in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, for Japanese commercial employees sent to the United States.

Hijack
1999
as Roger Tate
A prestigious senator and the passengers on board a train are kidnapped by a militia group.

The Killing Jar
1997
as Det. Bernie Morris
Michael Sanford and his wife move to his old town so he can take over the family business. However, gruesome murders of children start to happen. Mean...

Asteroid
1997
as Lloyd Morgan
With the discovery of an incoming asteroid, the government of America formulate a plan to destroy it. When the plan fails, all the world can do is wai...

Lightning Jack
1994
as Mr. Doyle
Lightning Jack Kane is an Australian outlaw in the wild west. During a bungled bank robbery he picks up mute Ben Doyle as a hostage. The two become go...

Trouble Shooters: Trapped Beneath the Earth
1993
as Hugh
A rescue team is looking for survivors in a sinking building after a devastating earthquake.

Last Action Hero
1993
as Lieutenant Dekker
After his father's death, a young boy finds solace in action movies featuring an indestructible cop. Given a magic ticket by a theater manager, he is ...

National Lampoon's Loaded Weapon 1
1993
as Captain Doyle
An LA detective is murdered because she has microfilm with the recipe to make cocaine cookies. Two cops partner to find and stop the fiends before the...

Sketch Artist
1992
as Det. Milon
A sketch artist for the police helps a witness recall who she saw leaving the scene of a murder, and discovers that the person is his wife. Not willin...

Poochinski
1990
as Captain Ed Martin
The talking bulldog at a policeman's feet turns out to be his late partner.

The Wizard
1989
as Spanky
A boy and his brother run away from home and hitch cross-country, with help from a girl they meet, to compete in the ultimate video-game championship.

Lock Up
1989
as Eclipse
Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is paroled, however, Warden Drumgoole takes charge. Dru...

Licence to Kill
1989
as Sharkey
After capturing the notorious drug lord Franz Sanchez, Bond's close friend and former CIA agent Felix Leiter is left for dead and his wife is murdered...

Farewell to the King
1989
as Sgt. Tenga
An American soldier who escapes the execution of his comrades by Japanese soldiers in Borneo during WWII becomes the leader of a personal empire among...

*batteries not included
1987
as Harry Noble
In a soon to be demolished block of apartments, the residents resist the criminal methods used to force them to leave so a greedy tycoon can build his...

The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
1986
as Herschel Dean
After two attempts to kidnap a little girl Mike Hammer is hired to protect her.

Hostage Flight
1985
as Bart Cooper
A plane is hijacked and bound for London. Once the terrorists begin killing hostages, the passengers take matters into their own hands.

Red Dawn
1984
as Mr. Teasdale
It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town—and their country—from invading Sovie...

National Lampoon's Vacation
1983
as Grover
Clark Griswold is on a quest to take his family to the Walley World theme park for a vacation, but things don't go exactly as planned.

Shooting Stars
1983
as Tubbs
Two television actors who play detectives are fired when the show's star gets upset that they are getting the better parts to play. So, they decide to...

48 Hrs.
1982
as Haden
A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.

Cannery Row
1982
as Hazel
Doc, who has just moved to Cannery Row, realizes that the only entertainment is the brothel. There he meets the spunky Suzy and they fall in love, giv...

Used Cars
1980
as Jim the Mechanic
When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman to save the property from falling into the hands of the ...

City in Fear
1980
as Captain Maslin
A psycho-on-the-loose story, about a burned-out newspaper columnist and his circulation-hungry publisher who wants him to turn the killer into Page On...

1941
1979
as Pvt. Ogden Johnson Jones
In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.

Rocky II
1979
as Meat Foreman (uncredited)
After Rocky goes the distance with champ Apollo Creed, both try to put the fight behind them and move on. Rocky settles down with Adrian but can't put...

Norma Rae
1979
as James Brown
Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumpt...

Paradise Alley
1978
as Big Glory
Three Italian-American brothers, living in the slums of 1940's New York City, try to help each other with one's wrestling career using one brother's p...

The End
1978
as Male Nurse
Wendell Lawson has only six months to live. Not wanting to endure his last few months of life waiting for the end, he decides to take matters into his...

F.I.S.T.
1978
as Lincoln Dombrowsky
Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher ...

Dog and Cat
1977
as Morgue Attendant
A veteran detective loses his partner in a shooting while they are investigating a gangster who is controlling the local porno rackets. He is stunned ...

Tracks
1976
as Train Coachman
A soldier returns from Vietnam on special assignment, accompanying the body of his friend by train to California for burial. During the trip, he falls...

Pipe Dreams
1976
as Moose
A woman trails her estranged husband to the Alaskan pipeline in hope of averting their impending divorce.

Walking Tall Part II
1975
as Steamer Riley
The Walking Tall legacy continues with Bo Svenson as Sheriff Buford Pusser, a one-man army trying to rid his town of corruption. Out to avenge his wif...

Hard Times
1975
as Hammerman
In the depression, Chaney, a strong silent streetfighter, joins with Speed, a promoter of no-holds-barred street boxing bouts. They go to New Orleans ...
The Orphan and the Dude
1975
as Fast Freddie
Two oddballs, one a black man called "The Dude" and one white, called "The Orphan" share a Culver City, California apartment.

Judgment: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley
1975
as Mr. Langham
This docudrama follows the court-martial of the title character, the man held responsible for the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War.

The Bank Shot
1974
as Herman Lincoln (aka Herman X)
A bank temporarily housed in a mobile home while a new building is built, looks like an easy target to break into. On the other hand, why not steal th...

Dillinger
1973
as Reed Youngblood
After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men to hunt down. Waiting for him to break Feder...

Shaft in Africa
1973
as Osiat
Detective John Shaft travels incognito to Ethiopia, then France, to bust a human trafficking ring.

Snatched
1973
as Cheech
The wives of three wealthy men are kidnapped and held for a $3 million ransom, but one of the men doesn't want to pay his share.