He was well respected on the Broadway stage and his early death at 44 brought considerable mourning from his fellow actors and costars.

He worked for producers Charles Dillingham, William A. Brady and David Belasco and starred opposite Amelia Bingham and Clara Bloodgood in The Climbers by Clyde Fitch.

A friend, Walter Hatton of the Theatre Royal in Edinburgh, obtained a post at 15 shillings a week as prompter and support actor with a repertory company in South Shields.

In London his further roles included Armand Duval in "Camille - The Lady of the Camelias" for Mrs Patrick Campbell in London and Lt Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly in New York with Blanche Bates in 1900 (preceding the more famous opera written in 1904 based on this play).

However, the comedian Nat Goodwin also loved Maxine and made her "an offer she could not refuse" to act with him in Australia, removing her as far as possible from Frank.

The service was conducted at the Little Church Around The Corner on 30 December and he was buried in a family plot with Pentland siblings in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn.

[6] A year after his death he was the subject of a biography titled In Memory of Frank Worthing, actor by Harvard theatre critic William Winter.

The large granite obelisk topped by an urn, stands in the centre of the cemetery just west of the set of steps rising to the central raised area.