Carl Franklin

Carl Franklin

Birthday: 1949-04-11

Place of Birth: Richmond, California, USA

Biography: Carl Franklin  (born April 11, 1949) is an American actor, screenwriter and film and television director. Franklin is a graduate of University of California, Berkeley and continued his education at the AFI Conservatory, where he graduated with an M.F.A. degree in directing in 1986. Franklin is most noted for Devil in a Blue Dress, which was based on the book by Walter Mosley and starred Denzel Washington and Don Cheadle. Description above from the Wikipedia article Carl Franklin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Movies

A Smoky Mountain Christmas
A Smoky Mountain Christmas

A country-western singer on a trip through the Tennessee mountains runs into a reclusive backwoodsma...

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It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy
It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy

When Harry Walters runs out of gas, he gets picked up by a beautiful young woman. But when she pulls...

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Full Fathom Five
Full Fathom Five

Adapted from the bestselling novel. Navy Captain Peter Mackenzie is sent on his toughest assignment ...

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Too Good to Be True
Too Good to Be True

A self-entitled woman is determined to keep her new man to herself at all costs....

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Hitchcocked!
Hitchcocked!

A tribute to the work of Alfred Hitchcock, featuring contemporary filmmakers, writers, performers, a...

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One Cooks, the Other Doesn't
One Cooks, the Other Doesn't

A real estate agent has a problem: his ex-wife and son are moving in with him-and his jealous bride....

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Five on the Black Hand Side
Five on the Black Hand Side

Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American f...

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The Legend of the Golden Gun
The Legend of the Golden Gun

In Kansas during the middle of the Civil War, John Golden is left for dead and his family has been k...

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ALF’s Special Christmas
ALF’s Special Christmas

The Tanners decide to spend Christmas in a cabin in the woods but ALF soon gets trapped in a box of ...

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Dark and Deadly: Fifty Years of Film Noir
Dark and Deadly: Fifty Years of Film Noir

One of the first film noir documentaries, made for British Channel Four, and including interviews wi...

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Eye of the Eagle 2: Inside the Enemy
Eye of the Eagle 2: Inside the Enemy

When soldier Anthony Glenn discovers that Mai is missing, he sets out to rescue her from the corrupt...

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Joshua's World
Joshua's World

The pilot story, set in the small town of Strawee, Arkansas in the '30s, follows the experiences of ...

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In the Heat of Passion
In the Heat of Passion

A struggling actor lands the part of a rapist in a TV reenactment for a "Crimebusters" segment. He s...

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Last Stand at Lang Mei
Last Stand at Lang Mei

Vietnam, 1968. Army Headquarters has written off Captain Fahey's men as Missing In Action after they...

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Shooting the Police: Cops on Film
Shooting the Police: Cops on Film

Documentary about how police have been portrayed on screen....

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Dancing with the Devil: Carl Franklin on 'Devil in a Blue Dress'
Dancing with the Devil: Carl Franklin on 'Devil in a Blue Dress'

This conversation between director Carl Franklin and film noir historian Eddie Muller was recorded l...

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The Fantastic Journey
The Fantastic Journey

1 hour 55 minute edited "movie" version comprised of primarily episodes 1 and 2 of TV series of same...

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