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Frank McGrath
Benjamin Franklin McGrath (February 2, 1903 – May 13, 1967) was an American television and film actor and stunt performer who played the comical, optimistic cook with the white beard, Charlie B. Wooster, on the western series Wagon Train for five seasons on NBC and then three seasons on ABC. McGrath appeared in all 272 episodes in the eight seasons of the series, which had ended its run only two years before his death. McGrath's Wooster character hence provided the meals and companionship for both fictional trail masters, Ward Bond as Seth Adams and John McIntire as Christopher "Chris" Hale.
McGrath was born in Mound City in Holt County in far northwestern Missouri.
McGrath married Libby Quay Buschlen (1902–1978), a native of Ontario, Canada. He died May 13, 1967 at the age of sixty-four of a heart attack in Beverly Hills, California, and was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale. CLR
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As actor
The Shakiest Gun in the West
The Reluctant Astronaut
Gunfight in Abilene
Tammy and the Millionaire
The Last Challenge
The War Wagon
The Sword of Ali Baba
The Colter Craven Story
Hell Bound
The Tin Star
The First Texan
The Searchers
Hondo
Ride, Vaquero!
Westward the Women
The Red Badge of Courage
Slaughter Trail
The Milkman
Wagon Master
The Flame and the Arrow
Broken Arrow
Devil's Doorway
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Fort Apache
Half Past Midnight
They Were Expendable
The Ox-Bow Incident
Sundown Jim
The Black Swan
Riders of the Purple Sage