- Joined
- Jun 21, 2003
... but he chose to pursue acting. (all per Wiki) He was in a few beach movies !! Who knew? I wonder if it was with Elvis or Annette Funicello?
I knew there was a reason I was envious of Mr. Carroll! (Big Elvis fan here. )
Here is what Phil Hersh wrote about Frank's film career on the occasion of Frank's retirement.
Over the years with Ice Follies, which was styled like an elaborate Broadway review, Carroll had made friends with many actors in musicals like “Kismet,” “Carousel” and “Hello, Dolly.” One suggested he go to Los Angeles, where friends could help get him work in films. He went.
“I would go to auditions, and when they would ask what I did, I said, `I ice skate,’’’ Carroll said. “I was like a joke to them.”
But he was handsome, with a physique buffed in the gym, and that got Carroll parts as a “body person” in three of the eminently forgettable beach movies of the mid-1960s (think “Beach Blanket Bingo,” although Carroll declines to identify which movies he was in or what his stage name was.) He would stand among a group of other “body people” in the background and sometimes sing with the group.
http://www.globetrottingbyphiliphersh.com/home/2018/8/1/xk0uxw86ode5u8skad1gobdgpndiwd
Need a Body Person? Call Frank!