Frank Ernest Edwards (1871-1948) had a long career touring the world as a stage actor before becoming a jack-of-all-trades in Hollywood.
From 1917, Terry worked at the Hal Roach Studios as a gag writer, story contributor, scenarist, assistant director, director and actor. He worked regularly, and in many of these capacities, with Laurel and Hardy, appearing as Hives the butler in Me and My Pal (1933). In the same year he had a bit part in The Devil’s Brother.
Outside the Roach studio, Terry played one of the hunters who find the Monster in the blind man’s cottage in The Bride of Frankenstein (1935).
IMDb claims he played a bailiff in Old Mother Riley in Paris (1938), though it is unclear why he would have been in England.
Frank Terry’s most notorious contribution to film history is as the man who handed Harold Lloyd the stage bomb that took off several of his fingers. Terry was also injured in the incident.
Frank Terry retired from show business and became a Christian missionary.
