Cal Frederick
- Actor
Born in 1917 in Muskogee, Oklahoma, Calvin Jefferson Frederick III
graduated from the University of Oklahoma. He worked in radio for
several years before and after military service during World War II. He
then briefly pursued an acting career. He left radio and acting to
return to school, obtaining a Ph.D. in Psychology from UCLA. He worked
at Patton Hospital in San Bernadino and then held high positions at the
National Institute of Mental Health in Maryland. He returned to
California in the 1980s to work at the VA hospital in Westwood. He
appeared in at least one other film besides Story of Sea Biscuit -
Chain Lightning starring Humphrey Bogart. He died in 2012 in Pasadena,
CA.