Frank Converse

Frank Converse is an American actor born in St. Louis, Missouri, who trained at the Carnegie Institute of Technology and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in drama in 1962. On Broadway he appeared in The Philadelphia Story, Design for Living, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Lady in the Dark, and Off-Broadway he starred in The House of Blue Leaves and South Pacific. In 2007 he performed in Thornton Wilder's Our Town at Hartford Stage. He headlined five television series, including Coronet Blue, N.Y.P.D., Movin' On, The Family Tree, and Dolphin Cove, and on One Life to Live and As the World Turns he played Harry O'Neill and Ned Simon. His film roles include Hour of the Gun (1967), The Bushido Blade (1981), Solarbabies (1986), Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel (1987), and Everybody Wins (1990). He appeared opposite Bing Crosby in the 1971 television movie Dr. Cook's Garden.