Frank Collison (born February 14, 1950) is an American actor known to television audiences as the hapless telegrapher Horace Bing in the series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman and Grandpa Goodman in Mr. Pickles.
His theatrical roles have been as varied as "Jacob Marley" in A Christmas Carol to "Miss Havisham" in Great Expectations to "Puck" in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Collison is a founding member of the Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice, California,[2] which has won over 25 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards.
Collison's films include The Blob, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, Alien Nation, Wild at Heart, Mobsters, The Last Boy Scout, Buddy, Diggstown, My Summer Story, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Majestic, The Whole Ten Yards, Hidalgo, Hope Springs, The Village, Suspect Zero, The Happening, Radio Free Albemuth, Hesher, Hitchcock and L.A. Slasher.
Collison is best known to TV audiences as Horace Bing, the bumbling telegraph operator, on CBS's long-running series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.