Frank Collison is an American actor known to television audiences as the hapless telegrapher Horace Bing in the series Doctor Quinn, Medicine Woman.
Background
Collison was born in Evanston, Illinois, the son of Peg, a publicist, director, and English teacher, and John Collison, a speech therapist, actor, and writer His mother directed him in a number of plays as a youth in Virginia and Ohio. When he was a young boy, Frank assisted his father touring with his one-man Abraham Lincoln show.
His father was chosen to play Lincoln for the centennial celebration of Lincoln"s first inauguration in Washington, District of Columbia. Frank played the young Tad Lincoln.
Education
San Francisco State University.
Career
Collison played his first role as a six-month-old mascot at The Tent Theatre in Granville, Ohio. Stage Collison trained at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, earning a Bachelor in theatre from the San Francisco State University. He then helped to establish a summer theatre company in the Sierra Nevadas, and went on to gain an Master of Fine Arts in acting at University of California, San Diego.
Between acting jobs he has worked as a substitute teacher, diaper service dispatcher and forest firefighter.
Appearing in over 150 productions, he has worked off Broadway and in regional theatres in California, Boston, and Denver. His theatrical roles have been as varied as "Jacob Marley" in A Christmas Carol to "Mission Havisham" in Great Expectations to "Puck" in A Midsummer Night"s Dream.