Career
Buxton"s first cr was host and producer of the American Broadcasting Company television documentary series, Discovery, which he hosted from 1962 to 1966. Frank Buxton did the narration as well as all of the voices for the "Silly Record" LP (19620 on Harmony Records,
In 1966 he teamed up with Hal Seeger in the animated cartoon series Batfink. Frank provided the voice for Batfink in all 100 episodes.
He also voiced its recurring villain Hugo A-Go-Go.
Frank co-wrote The Big Broadcast, a book on the golden age of radio. The book was co-written with Bill Owen, who succeeded Buxton as host of Discovery from 1966 to 1971.
He also hosted the game show Get the Message for American Broadcasting Company in 1964, later to be replaced by Robert Q. Lewis. He also had movie roles in What"s Up, Tiger Lily? and Overboard.
Foreign much of the 1970s, Buxton worked as a writer, producer and director for Paramount Television.
He served as a story editor for the comedy anthology series Love, American Style, in addition to writing and directing episodes of The Odd Couple, Happy Days and Mork & Mindy. Buxton also created, wrote, produced and directed the television series Hot Dog for National Broadcasting Company, which starred Woody Allen, Tom Smothers, Jonathan Winters, and Joanne Worley. He currently resides in Bainbridge Island, Washington, where he is active in community theatre and numerous philanthropic activities.
Frank continues to perform regularly with The Edge, an improvisational comedy group at Bainbridge Performing Arts.
He is also a regular cast member on the web cooking show Cookus Interruptus.