Frankie Darro: Juvenile, Jockey, and Junior G Man
My pathway in to the fascinating career of Frankie Darro (Frank Johnson Jr, 1917-1976) came from learning that he had provided the voice of the bad influence/juvenile delinquent/ incipient ass Lampwick in Walt Disney's Pinnocchio (1940). On the flip side, he was the body (not the voice) of Robbie the Robot in the sci-fi classic […]