Monica GallagherHe has appeared more regularly than any other cast member and has been voted Best Shameless Character On Earth. With his wife Monica Gallagher, he has fathered 8 children: Fiona, Lip, Debbie, Carl, Liam, Stella and twins William (who Monica aborted) and Ben.
10 Eying Dottie's Pension His intentions with her soon became clear. Frank didn't like her. His goal was to be awarded her government pension, once she died. But she was taking too long to be with the Lord and Frank was getting impatient.
Overall, Frank might be the most intelligent Macy) is an alcoholic with no job and often leaves his kids to fend for themselves, but overall, he's survived as long as he has on sheer luck and intelligence. Frank can weasel his way in and out of any situation he's dealt with, and somehow earns money every month.
10 He Gets Sober & Becomes A Good Father (Then Undoes Everything) In just the first seven episodes of the series, Frank proves to be an unstable alcoholic and absentee father. However, in the eighth episode, there is a major turning point for Frank when he decides to quit drinking cold turkey.
In Shameless season 2, Frank attempts to woo a former bar patron named Dottie (Molly Price), also known as "Butterface" due to her less-than-perfect looks.
Frank found out that “butterface” Dottie, the Alibi's former good-time girl who worked for the city, is quickly dying and is in need of a heart transplant. The likelihood of her surviving this is so low that Frank is willing to marry her and knowingly “light a candle for you everyday.”
student and tutor. Lip is the most academic of the Gallagher family, with a 4.6 GPA, genius-level IQ, and a myriad of skills, all squandered by his self-destructive tendencies.
It turned out that Liam was fully Frank and Monica's biological kid and that he was Black because Nana Gallagher had had an affair with a Black saxophone player. All of the Gallaghers are part Black - except Carl. Carl took a blood test when he was joining the army because he thought he had African American ancestors.
He thinks his son is 10. When Carl says he's 12, Frank calls him a “late bloomer” then wastes no time explaining he needs alcohol the way an old car needs oil. After a desperate Frank sprays his mouth with cooking spray to facilitate swallowing a bottle of beer.
In season one, Frank made the choice to sleep with his girlfriend's daughter, Karen (Laura Slade Wiggins), who also happened to be dating his son Lip at the time. Frank was hopped up on pain pills, so that was his excuse — but she was the 16-year-old daughter of his girlfriend.
Despite being dead, Monica still affects the family as Frank decided to change his ways after smoking most of her meth.
When Frank is admitted into the hospital after his surgery, the doctor reveals that he did not have a liver transplant, but that one of his Kidney's was removed. Even though Frank was expected to die throughout all of season four, he miracurously survived and celebrated his survival with a bottle of whiskey.
It almost missed me. Collecting disability is just one of the scams Frank Gallagher (William H. Macy) uses to support his alcoholism and drug habits. He also buried his Aunt Ginger in the backyard after she died doing cocaine with him, so that he could continue to live in her house and cash her Social Security checks.
Macy's Frank Gallagher doesn't do very much these days. He did have a job at a poultry-processing plant at one point. He gave his heart and soul to that job, for an entire week, until he was hit in the gut by an airborne, headless chicken and has been on disability ever since.
Kevin gets the bar, because Stan hates his daughter who is a man now. He and Kevin make a deal and Kevin sends him a fixed amount of money every month to make up the insults from Stan. After cleaning up Stan's ashes, Veronica asks Kevin to say something about him.
Chicago, IllinoisThe show is set on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. With the premiere of the ninth season on September 9, 2018, Shameless became the longest-running original scripted series in Showtime's history.
Sad news from Encino, California, where an adjunct professor at USC Gould School of Law and Pepperdine Law, Dennis Franks, passed away Sunday night after an ancient tree — estimated as at least 500 years old and weighing 100,000 pounds — fell on his home. Franks previously worked in-house at Twentieth Century Fox and The Walt Disney Corporation.
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