Frank Ferguson

Frank died at St. John's Hospital, in Santa Monica on Wilshire Blvd. on Wednesday, September 12, 1978. His memorial service was held Friday the 15th at the Little Chapel of the Dawn (Gates, Kingsley, Gates) a block away at 20th and Arizona. His ashes were scattered. There is no known memorial stone or plaque.

Frank was an amateur trap shooter and belonged to the Golden Valley Gun Club in Pacoima, California in the early 1960s.

He became most familiar as "Gus" on the children's program My Friend Flicka (1955) and later as "Eli Carson" on the two TV series based on the novel Peyton Place (1964).

American character actor Frank Ferguson appeared in scores of films and television shows, often as self-important types. Prior to his film debut, he was a prominent performer and director with the acclaimed Pasadena Community Playhouse, where he coached numerous up-and-coming young actors such as Dana Andrews, George Reeves, Robert Preston and Victor Mature. He broke into films, himself, in the early 1940s, usually playing minor supporting roles, though he was seen to advantage in larger roles, notably in two of the best-known (and oddest) westerns of the '50s, Rancho Notorious (1952) and Johnny Guitar (1954). He played hundreds of ranchers, bankers and police detectives in films and television throughout the '50s and '60s.