Background
Ferrin Fraser was the son of Louis F. Fraser and Martha Fraser.
Ferrin Fraser was the son of Louis F. Fraser and Martha Fraser.
Columbia University.
Louis F. Fraser was secretary-treasurer of the Ferrin & Fraser Coal Company in Lockport, New New York Ferrin Fraser"s older brother, Carl East. Fraser, born November 25, 1896, became a coal salesman. His first successful work for radio was "A Piece of String," adapted from the Guy de Maupassant short story.
The drama premiered on New York"s WABC at 9pm on May 28, 1933.
Fraser"s books included Lovely ladies: Being the Love Affairs of Ten Women in the Life of a Young Manitoba (1927). The Screaming Portrait (1928).
If I Could Fly (1929). And The Passionate Angel (1930).
Fraser was co-author of five books with Frank Buck: Fang and Claw (1935). a novel, Tim Thompson in the Jungle (1935).
On Jungle Trails (1936), for many years a sixth grade reader in the Texas public schools. Buck’s autobiography, All In A Lifetime (1941). a lavishly illustrated children's book, Jungle Animals (1945). Fraser wrote the scripts for Frank Buck"s first radio programs, when Buck replaced Amos "n Andy"s Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll during their eight-week vacation during 1934.
During the 1930s and 1940s, Fraser was a radio scriptwriter, notably for Little Orphan Annie.
Dramatic and thriller programs with scripts by Fraser include Suspense, Lights Out and Nick Carter, Master Detective. Fraser also wrote the script for the Joan Lowell movie Adventure Girl, and wrote for television during the 1950s.
Wife Beatrice Ryan Fraser, an author, composer and church musician, was a graduate of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester and was a featured organist at the Eastman Theater and an organist with the Rochester Philharmonic. She studied in Paris with Nadia Boulanger and Marcel Dupré.
Ferrin Fraser and Beatrice Ryan Fraser are buried in Cold Springs Cemetery, Lockport, New New York
A member of the Lockport High School Glee Club and the Lockport High School basketball team (1922), Ferrin Fraser was in the Columbia University class of 1927 but did not graduate.