Villain of the Month: Frank Glendon
Character actor Frank Glendon specialized in old school villainy during the silent days of film. Alternately billed as J. Frank Glendon and Frank J. Glendon he played in The Salamander (1915) Hush (1921), More to Be Pitied Than Scorned (1922) and Just Like a Woman (1923). He also co-produced and starred in Tricks (1925) and Three Pals (1929).
With the coming of sound, Glendon became a staple of the poverty row B-Westerns; appearing in Law and Lawless (1932), Gun Law (1933), Texas Tornado (1934), Circle of Death (1935), Border Caballero (1936) and King of the Pecos (1936). He is best known today for playing Prof. Beetson, who frames Gene Autry for murder so he can steal the singing cowboy’s radium rich land in Mascot’s Phantom Empire (1935)
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