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Frank Yaconelli (October 2, 1898 – November 19, 1965) was an Italian-born American film actor. Biography. When he was a child his family emigrated to the United States, settling in Boston. Yaconelli was a character actor playing supporting roles, often Southern European or Mexican immigrants.
Frank Yaconelli. Producer: There He Goes. Frank Yaconelli migrated to the States with his parents when he was one year old. The family initially settled in Boston. Frank was the oldest of 12 siblings and had to quit school after finishing the 6th grade.
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Frank Yaconelli. Producer: There He Goes. Frank Yaconelli migrated to the States with his parents when he was one year old. The family initially settled in Boston. Frank was the oldest of 12 siblings and had to quit school after finishing the 6th grade. He and a younger brother became "street musicians" to help with the families expenses.
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Oct 2, 2024 · Yaconelli was a character actor playing supporting roles, often Southern European or Mexican immigrants. He was also a noted accordion player, and performed in a number of films. He starred alongside Jack Randall in a series of seven westerns produced by Monogram Pictures .
Frank Yaconelli was another of the familiar and memorable B-western sidekicks --- later in this section, there are images and lobby cards of Frank as a saddle pal to Ken Maynard, Jack Randall, Tom Keene, others. In addition to doing low-budget westerns, Yaconelli was often seen in A grade films.
Born in Italy, Frank Yaconelli emigrated to the U.S. after WWI, where he thrived in vaudeville as a monologist, dialectician, and comic musician. Yaconelli went to Hollywood in 1929, spending the next three decades playing innumerable character bits in such films as W.C. Fields' The Barber Shop (1933) and the Marx Brothers' A Night at the Opera ...
