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Frank Yaconelli
Born: 2nd Oct 1898 San Biagio, Italy - Died 19th Nov 1965
Dept: Acting
Frank Yaconelli (October 2, 1898 – November 19, 1965) was an Italian-born American film actor. 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. 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.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 73
Film: 72 (99%)
Television: 1 (1%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Family, Horror, Science Fiction, History, Fantasy
Filmography
Oct 1957 (first aired)
Diego de la Vega, the son of a wealthy landowner, returns from his studies in Spain and discovers that Los Angeles is under the command of Capitan Mon ... view
Character:
Pancho (1 ep.)
1956
This is a special series of lost classic programs from the Golden Age of TV. The series has been restored by SabuCat Productions from the best archiva ... view
Character:
The Singer
1956
A wealthy woman discovers a vineyard worker with a beautiful operatic singing voice. She helps make him a star but then breaks his heart. He flees in ... view
Character:
Giuseppe (uncredited)
1953
This Pete Smith Specialty short shows, humorously, the disastrous results when people save their money in unsafe places. ... view
Character:
Joe the Junk Dealer (uncredited)
1952
In 1865, a troop of Confederate soldiers led by Major Matt Stewart attack the wagon of gold escorted by Union cavalry and the soldiers are killed. The ... view
Character:
Drifter
1951
A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition. ... view
Character:
Truck Driver (uncredited)
1950
An industrialist and a pianist meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they are reported dead in a crash though they weren't on the ... view
Character:
Mr. Peppino
1950
Buffalo Bill Cody battles a gang of outlaws secretly headed by an unscrupulous lawyer. ... view
Character:
Blacksmith (uncredited)
1949
Slammin’ Sammy Menacker is killed in the ring, and Gorgeous George is arrested for murder. Out to clear his name is his manager Lorraine and cop Ron ... view
Character:
Headwaiter
1949
A study in greed in which treasure hunters seek a shipment of gold buried in Death Valley. ... view
Character:
1948
In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi café singer and the US congresswoman investigating her. ... view
Character:
Accordion Player (uncredited)
1948
A jeweled Madonna, property of rancher Joe Salinas, attracts two crooks to his ranch, Monica Dell, a smooth operator, and ruthless Nick Julian. Joe be ... view
Character:
Peppo
1947
Dave and Chito are working for Melburn who is looking for wild horses. Olmstead has his men looking for then also. When Dave finds them first, Olmstea ... view
Character:
Clemente
1947
Chasing women and staying one step ahead of the law, the Cisco Kid meets Raquel and then Dolores. He sees that Raole is the boy friend of Raquel but e ... view
Character:
Baby
1946
In Old California, a young Frenchman transporting a chest full of silver travels by stagecoach to San Marino, to complete a complex business deal. The ... view
Character:
Baby
1946
The Cisco Kid (Gilbert Roland) hears of a land-swindling scheme devised by the police Commandante (Martin Garralaga) and the tax collector (Harry Wood ... view
Character:
Baby
1943
During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war e ... view
Character:
Tony Angelo (uncredited)
1942
Tom Kenyon and his sidekick Pierre La Farge are hired by rancher Mike O'Day who, with his daughters Toni and Sugar, provides wild horses for the gover ... view
Character:
Pierre La Farge
1942
The "Flyer" in question is William Marshall, a young man falsely accused of a crime. Escaping the clutches of the law, he becomes involved with severa ... view
Character:
Spanish Waiter
1942
Prince the wonder horse and his gallant rider gallop off to protect hapless ranchers from the ruthless Nazi bad guys who are trying to steal their lan ... view
Character:
Pierre La Fair - Tom's Sidekick
1942
Working undercover, Allen and sidekick Mendoza are out to stop the mail train robberies. Rivers and his gang are the culprits and by joining up with t ... view
Character:
Lopez Mendoza
1941
Two ex-cons plan to kill the range rider marshal who sent them to prison and, when their plan fails, join forces with their former boss, a crooked sal ... view
Character:
Poker Player Tony
1941
Outlaws are running wild in a border town. A marshal is sent in to clean it up. ... view
Character:
Lopez Mendoza
1941
Cholita, after a long absence in Mexico City, is returning home to take up her duties as head of the rancho and, as everyone expects, to marry her chi ... view
Character:
Pablo
1941
Before changing his name to Richard Powers, cowboy hero Tom Keene spent the waning days of his stardom at Monogram, churning out westerns like Riding ... view
Character:
Lopez Mendoza
1941
In this western, the good-guy battles his bad-guy double and his band of outlaws to protect a purty gal's ranch. ... view
Character:
Lopez Mendoza
Character:
Hat Vender (uncredited)
1941
On faraway Mosaque, an American pilot finds that he is in a desperate struggle with a military officer intent on sabotaging a local fort. ... view
Character:
Zomar - the Grocer
1940
In 1820 Spain, the son of a California nobleman comes home to find his native land under a villainous dictatorship. On one hand, he plays the useless ... view
Character:
Don Alejandro's Servant (uncredited)
1940
The story—in which an American heiress on holiday in South America falls in love with an Argentine horse breeder against the wishes of their familie ... view
Character:
Horserace Loser at Fiesta (uncredited)
1940
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death. ... view
Character:
Jack, Coffee Shop Owner (uncredited)
1940
Randall and his sidekick Manny (Frank Yaconelli) played horse traders battling a greedy and unscrupulous rival (Tom London). When some of his stock di ... view
Character:
Sidekick Manny
1940
A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl. ... view
Character:
Lopez
1940
Four explorers are summoned to Peru by the brilliant physicist Dr Thorkel. They discover a rich source of radium and a half-mad Thorkel who shrinks th ... view
Character:
Pedro
1940
A ranch owner gives the Cheyenne Kid $1000 and sends him off to buy cattle. At the same time he fires a ranch hand and that hand rides ahead and alert ... view
Character:
Manuel
1940
After living all his childhood in the street, a young boy rapidly notices that crime doesn't pay, leading him to become a policeman. One day, one of ... view
Character:
Tony
1940
Jack Randall plays Dunham, a wandering cavalier who comes to the aid of frontier heiress Mary. The girl's legacy is half-ownership of a prosperous sal ... view
Character:
Manuel Gonzales Julian Ramariez
1940
Newlyweds Dennis and Carmelita have several obstacles to deal with in their new marriage: Carmelita's fiery Latin temper, a meddling aunt and a conniv ... view
Character:
Waiter in Mexico
1939
An American tourist in South America finds love and unexpected trouble. ... view
Character:
Manuel, Taxi Driver
1939
Two young brothers are separated when their wagon train is attacked and their parents killed. One brother Cherokee is raised by Indians and the other, ... view
Character:
Lopez
1939
Carmelita Fuentes is a fiery-Latin singer/dancer in Mexico City who has designs on Dennis Lindsay, an American publicity agent, for unclear reasons, w ... view
Character:
Hotel Proprietor
1939
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opp ... view
Character:
Saloon Gambler (uncredited)
1939
Jimmy, an idealistic and hard-working young man, has just arrived in New York City with dreams of making his fortune. Along the way he faces numerous ... view
Character:
Flower Vendor (uncredited)
1939
When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved in ... view
Character:
Norman Cameron (uncredited)
1939
A cowboy goes after a gang of stagecoach robbers who murdered his brother. ... view
Character:
Lopez
1939
Manuel and Carga are after the hidden map of a gold mine which is somewhere in the hacienda willed to Manuel's brother, Don Careta. Following the thir ... view
Character:
Lopez
1938
Seeking his brother’s murderer, cowboy Jack Gray and his sidekick Lopez sign on for work at a horse ranch where the foreman is up to no good. ... view
Character:
Lopez Valdesto
1937
Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals, George Macrae, over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon t ... view
Character:
Accordion Player (uncredited)
1937
Retired lawman Kentucky Wade and his three buddies, Mike Morales, "Dude" Hanford and "Trigger" Benton come to Brimstone and help their friends Larry M ... view
Character:
Mike Morales
1937
A politically charged story about a man who dabbles in crime, with disastrous results, to gain the capital he needs to purchase a school where immigra ... view
Character:
Greek
1936
Investigators set out to capture a gang of thieves transporting stolen cash through the U.S. mail. ... view
Character:
Spumoni - Dog Catcher (uncredited)
1936
When a group of World War 1 buddies head west to farmstead, they run into trouble. ... view
Character:
Pete
1936
Baritone singer Barry Glendon, completing a successful season in opera, departs for his ranch in the west over the objections of his manager Tony. Arr ... view
Character:
Tony
1936
Greek sponge divers in Tarpon Springs, Florida duel over diving methods and fight over the same girl, and only one will survive. ... view
Character:
Pete
1936
In the 1840's Mexico has ceded California to the United States, making life nearly impossible for the Mexican population due to the influx of land and ... view
Character:
Peón
1936
A sharpshooter in a traveling sideshow is falsely accused of murdering a local miner. ... view
Character:
Anthony 'Tony' Giribaldi
1936
A cowboy captures two rustlers and collects a $5000 reward. Using the money to take a vacation, he winds up getting accused of a murder he didn't comm ... view
Character:
Rusty, Guitar Player
1935
Edith overhears Bart's plan to rob the bank so she informs Ken. But she is also overheard and when Ken goes to investigate, Bart's Henchman Prod frame ... view
Character:
Pedro
1935
A cowboy comes to the aid of a lady rancher threatened by Mexican bandits who believe there is a treasure buried on her land. ... view
Character:
Frank Gorman
1935
A scatterbrained heiress opens her home to a succession of unemployed actors and vaudeville performers, then decides to produce her own show, much to ... view
Character:
Specialty Act (as "Moro and Yaconelli") (uncredited)
1935
"Mitch" Mitchell is an aviator who has been hired to take a child in a guardianship suit out of California into Mexico. He is accompanied by Maxine Ru ... view
Character:
Tony, a Sick Dog's Master
1935
Ken and his sister are separated while young when the Indians attack their wagon train. Ken, now grown, is sent after the outlaw known as the Golden h ... view
Character:
Hawhaw
1935
A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to w ... view
Character:
Waiter
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1934
Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster. ... view
Character:
Waiter (uncredited)
1934
After years of questioning why people fear him, Death takes on human form so he can mingle among the mortals and find an answer. However, events soon ... view
Character:
Flower Vendor (uncredited)
1934
A runaway heiress makes a deal with the rogue reporter trailing her but the mismatched pair end up stuck with each other when their bus leaves them be ... view
Character:
Tony (uncredited)
1933
Ken Maynard stars as a roving cowboy who tells the tale of taming the stallion that inspired the titular poem. ... view
Character:
Shanty
1930
A postulant falls in love with a flamboyant singer from a cafe next door to her convent. ... view
Character:
Fruit Vendor (uncredited)
1930
'Firebrand' Jordan is a ranger sent into the high Sierras to assist the local Sheriff Ed Burns in capturing a mysterious band of counterfeiters. ... view
Character:
Tony
1930
Bud Rand, a cowboy who is charged with the care of Little Billy Rand, accepts an offer to appear with Copeland's Wild West Show to ride a horse called ... view
Character:
Sicily Joe
1929
On shore leave, a young sailor meets and falls in love with a pretty young blonde. He goes home with her to meet her parents, but they don't approve o ... view
Character:
Organ Grinder
1929
A U.S. soldier goes after bandits in California, although it is still owned by Mexico. ... view
Character:
Mañana