Frank Richards (September 15, 1909 – April 15, 1992) was an American character actor, typically portraying a hoodlum or thug with a menacing appearance.

Richards was born in New York City and raised in Fall River, Massachusetts.

[1] Richards began acting in stock theater in Cape Cod while he worked 16 hours a day as a driver of a fruit truck.

[2] He acted on Broadway in The Wanhope Building (1947), Embezzled Heaven (1944), The World We Make (1939), and Brown Danube (1939).

[3] After serving in the military during World War II, Richards studied dialects, diction, and speech in New York, in addition to working in radio and television.