---
name: "Frank Otto"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/frank-otto"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "14 October 1878"
died: "1 June 1963"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T02:04:40.125500+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Frank Otto

Actor. Born 14 October 1878 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Died 1 June 1963.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 14 October 1878, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- **Died:** 1 June 1963
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q134696645, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0653239/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1274075

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Born Yesterday*](https://film.one/film/born-yesterday.md) (76)

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## Biography

Frank Otto was an American actor. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and died there in June 1963.

Otto appeared in films from the 1930s to the 1950s, including as Fisk (uncredited) in *Mr. Smith Goes to Washington* (1939) and as Eddie in *Born Yesterday* (1950). He had earlier worked in silent films and shorts.

He had an extensive career on Broadway, appearing in productions from 1903 onwards. He reprised his stage role as Eddie Brock in the 1950 film adaptation of *Born Yesterday*.

*Sources: imdb.com, catalog.afi.com, en.wikipedia.org, ibdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Born Yesterday* (1950), Fi1m 76, as Eddie — [page](https://film.one/film/born-yesterday.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Born Yesterday* (1950), as Eddie — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/born-yesterday.md)
- *The Miracle Kid* (1941), as "Shady" Lane
- *Million Dollar Baby* (1941), Actor
- *Mr. Smith Goes to Washington* (1939), as Fisk (uncredited) — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/mr-smith-goes-to-washington.md)
- *Crime School* (1938), as Junkie
- *The Kid Comes Back* (1938), as Joey Meade
- *Idol of the Crowds* (1937), as Joe Garber
- *Woman in the Dark* (1934), as Krauss
- *Purely an Accident* (1930), Actor
- *Who Loved Him Best?* (1918), as Harry North
- *The Raggedy Queen* (1917), Actor

## Gallery

- ![Frank Otto, American vaudeville and film actor (1917)](https://film.one/media/person/1236422/gallery-411e40a06514.jpg) Frank Otto, American vaudeville and film actor (1917) — Unknown photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Frank_Otto%2C_actor%2C_1917.jpg/1280px-Frank_Otto%2C_actor%2C_1917.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Frank Otto](https://film.one/media/person/1236422/gallery-7c9750bedc6c.jpg) Frank Otto — Apeda, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Frank_Otto%2C_vaudeville_actor.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Marion Sunshine and Frank Otto in the musical comedy "Going Up" (1918)](https://film.one/media/person/1236422/gallery-5a2a9d3c7d82.jpg) Marion Sunshine and Frank Otto in the musical comedy "Going Up" (1918) — White, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Marion_Sunshine_and_Frank_Otto_in_%22Going_Up%22.jpg/1280px-Marion_Sunshine_and_Frank_Otto_in_%22Going_Up%22.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Vaudeville actors Frank Otto and Lola Merrill (1911)](https://film.one/media/person/1236422/gallery-931766a56101.jpg) Vaudeville actors Frank Otto and Lola Merrill (1911) — Apeda, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Frank_Otto_and_Lola_Merrill.jpg/1280px-Frank_Otto_and_Lola_Merrill.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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