Dink Trout

Francis "Dink" Trout (June 18, 1898 – March 26, 1950) was an American actor and radio personality.

Trout was born in 1898 in Illinois. He attended the University of Illinois.

In 1927, Trout had his own musical program on WOR in Newark, New Jersey.

Much of his career involved playing characters in American radio shows. His most famous radio roles were as Mr. Anderson in The Dennis Day Show and as Luke Spears in Lum and Abner. He was also heard in The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, the Cass Daley Show, The Life of Riley, and The Nebbs.

On Broadway, Trout had the role of Zappo in The Wild Rose (1926).

Trout played marimba and trombone for Ben Bernie and his orchestra.

In 1936 Trout made his first (uncredited) film appearance in Under Your Spell. Later in 1941 he appeared in Scattergood Baines as Plinky Pickett. Trout reprised this role for the next two films in the Scattergood Baines chronology. He made several other film appearances throughout his life, though he was generally uncredited. In 1947 he voiced the title role in Disney's Bootle Beetle. For the next three years he continued to voice Disney characters. His recurring awards film was Disney's Alice in Wonderland where he played the role of the King of Hearts.

Trout died March 26, 1950, in Hollywood, after having had major surgery.

• Under Your Spell (1936) - Small Man (uncredited)
• Scattergood Baines (1941) - Pliny Pickett
• Scattergood Baines Pulls the Strings (1941) - Pliny Pickett
• Miss Polly (1941) - Postman Wilbur Boggs
• Cinderella Swings It (1943) - Pliny Pickett
• Gildersleeve's Bad Day (1943) - Otis (uncredited)
• It's a Great Life (1943) - Little Man (uncredited)
• Food and Magic (1943, Documentary short) - Meek Butcher Customer (uncredited)
• Up in Arms (1944) - Startled Man in Cable Car (uncredited)
• The Doughgirls (1944) - Young Husband (uncredited)
• Irish Eyes Are Smiling (1944) - Meek Husband (uncredited)
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) - Undetermined (uncredited)
• Sudan (1945) - Bedai the Potter (uncredited)
• The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945) - Trumpet Player (uncredited)
• Notorious (1946) - Court Clerk (uncredited)
• Bootle Beetle (1947, short) - Bootle Beetle (voice)
• So Dear to My Heart (1948) - Bob Peters - Station Agent (uncredited)
• Sea Salts (1949, short) - 'Mac' Bootle Beetle (voice, uncredited)
• The Greener Yard (1950, short) - Bootle Beetle (voice)
• Morris the Midget Moose (1950, short) - Old Bootle Beetle / Balsam (voice, uncredited)
• Alice in Wonderland (1951) - King of Hearts (voice) (final film role)