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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Known for
The Virginian
Neddie Henshaw
Wagon Train
Charlie Wooster
Cheyenne
John Pike
High School
Student in Fight
The Searchers
Texas Ranger (uncredited)
Half Past Midnight
Taxi Driver
The Rainbow Trail
Horseman
Devil's Doorway
Posse Member (uncredited)
Sundown Jim
Outlaw
The War Wagon
Bartender
They Were Expendable
'Slim' - Bearded CPO (uncredited)
Westward the Women
Outrider (uncredited)
Hondo
Lowes Partner (uncredited)
Fort Apache
Cpl. Derice (uncredited)
Tammy
Lucius Tarleton
Broken Arrow
Barfly (uncredited)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Bugler / Indian (uncredited)
The Tin Star
Jim Clark (uncredited)
The Black Swan
Pirate (uncredited)
Western Union
Posse Rider
The Ox-Bow Incident
Posse Member (uncredited)
Wagon Master
Posse Member (uncredited)
The Flame and the Arrow
Guard (uncredited)
The Big Trail
Pioneer (uncredited)
The First Texan
Mexican Horseman (uncredited)
The Last Challenge
Ballard Weeks
The Shakiest Gun in the West
Mr. Remington
The Red Badge of Courage
Captain (uncredited)
Ride, Vaquero!
Pete
Gunfight in Abilene
Ned Martin
Tammy and the Millionaire
Uncle Lucius
The Reluctant Astronaut
Plank
Slaughter Trail
Jamora (uncredited)
Riders of the Purple Sage
Pete
The Milkman
Man (uncredited)
Hell Bound
Detective (uncredited)
The Sword of Ali Baba
Pindar
Robbers' Roost
Mexican