Don Francks
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Donald Harvey Francks or Iron Buffalo (born February 28, 1932) is a Canadian
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 actor, vocalist and jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

 musician.

Life and work

Francks was born in Vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...

, British Columbia
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

. He is a drummer, poet, native nations champion, motorcyclist, author and peace activist. He is interested in Tibet and supports Greenpeace
Greenpeace
Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over forty countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, The Netherlands...

.

He performed in vaudeville
Vaudeville
Vaudeville was a theatrical genre of variety entertainment in the United States and Canada from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. Each performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts grouped together on a common bill...

, worked as a foundryman and was involved in summer stock before moving to Toronto. During his time in Hollywood he lived in Encino, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

. After a time, he moved with his family to the Red Pheasant Indian Reserve
Indian reserve
In Canada, an Indian reserve is specified by the Indian Act as a "tract of land, the legal title to which is vested in Her Majesty, that has been set apart by Her Majesty for the use and benefit of a band." The Act also specifies that land reserved for the use and benefit of a band which is not...

, near North Battleford, Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of . Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota....

. He is an honorary Cree
Cree
The Cree are one of the largest groups of First Nations / Native Americans in North America, with 200,000 members living in Canada. In Canada, the major proportion of Cree live north and west of Lake Superior, in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and the Northwest Territories, although...

, who is known as Iron Buffalo.
Since 1974, he has been living in Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

 with his wife Lili (Red Eagle)
Lili Francks
Lili Red Eagle Francks is a Canadian actress and dancer who is of Cree and Afro-Canadian ancestry; she is also a member of the Plains Cree First Nation. Her most recent role was the character of Theresa in the 2006 film Away From Her, based on the short story "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" by...

, a member of the Plains Cree
Cree
The Cree are one of the largest groups of First Nations / Native Americans in North America, with 200,000 members living in Canada. In Canada, the major proportion of Cree live north and west of Lake Superior, in Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and the Northwest Territories, although...

 First Nation who was a dancer. Their children are Cree Summer
Cree Summer
Cree Summer Francks , best known as Cree Summer, is a Canadian actress, musician and voice actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as college student Winifred "Freddie" Brooks on the NBC sitcom A Different World...

 and Rainbow Sun
Rainbow Sun Francks
Rainbow Sun Francks is an actor and songwriter. He is the son of actor/musician Don Francks and dancer Lili Francks, a member of the Plains Cree First Nation. He is also the brother of Cree Summer. For a brief time, he was an on-air personality at MuchMusic, a Canadian music video and variety...

.

He appeared many times at George's Spaghetti House
George's Spaghetti House
George's Spaghetti House was a famous jazz club in Toronto on Sherbourne street operated by Doug Cole in which Moe Koffman led the house band. It hosted many famous musicians from Don Francks to Sonny Rollins, operating from 1956 through 1984....

, a Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...

 jazz club that was the equivalent of New York's Birdland
Birdland (jazz club)
Birdland is a jazz club started in New York City on December 15, 1949. The original Birdland, which was located at 1678 Broadway, just north of West 52nd Street in Manhattan, was closed in 1965 due to increased rents, but it re-opened for one night in 1979...

. He was also known to sit in on drums at the Colonial Tavern
Colonial Tavern
The Colonial Tavern was one of the most famous jazz venues in Canada from the 1950s till its closure in the late 1970s. It was located at 201 -203 Yonge Street in Toronto where a historic plaque remembered this key jazz venue. The Colonial Tavern was owned and managed by brothers-in-law Mike G...

 and other Toronto afterhours clubs and jazz venues.

Career

Francks co-starred with Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. His stage and subsequent film career spanned a total of 76 years, during which he made 31 musical films. He was named the fifth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute...

 in the 1968 musical film Finian's Rainbow
Finian's Rainbow
Finian's Rainbow is a musical with a book by E.Y. Harburg and Fred Saidy, lyrics by Harburg, and music by Burton Lane. The 1947 Broadway production ran for 725 performances. Several revivals and a 1968 film version followed. A Broadway revival ran from October 8, 2009 until January 17, 2010...

, directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors...

.

He appeared as Walter in the La Femme Nikita television series from 1997-2001.
His early television credits include: Mission: Impossible
Mission: Impossible
Mission: Impossible is an American television series which was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicled the missions of a team of secret American government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force . The leader of the team was Jim Phelps, played by Peter Graves, except in...

, Wild Wild West
Wild Wild West
Wild Wild West is a 1999 American steampunk action-comedy film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, and starring Will Smith, Kevin Kline , Kenneth Branagh and Salma Hayek.Similar to the original TV series it was based on, The Wild Wild West, the film features a large amount of gadgetry...

, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is an American television series that was broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1964, to January 15, 1968. It follows the exploits of two secret agents, played by Robert Vaughn and David McCallum, who work for a fictitious secret international espionage and law-enforcement...

, Little Men, Traders and several episodic television appearances. His film work includes The Big Town with Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee Jones is an American actor and film director. He has received three Academy Award nominations, winning one as Best Supporting Actor for the 1993 thriller film The Fugitive....

, the cult slasher film My Bloody Valentine
My Bloody Valentine (film)
My Bloody Valentine is a 1981 Canadian slasher film released in the wake of the popularity of the slasher genre that had overtaken the 1970s...

and Johnny Mnemonic
Johnny Mnemonic (film)
Johnny Mnemonic is a 1995 cyberpunk film, loosely based on the short story "Johnny Mnemonic" by William Gibson. The title character, a man with a cybernetic brain implant designed to store information, is played by Keanu Reeves. The film portrays Gibson's dystopian view of the future with the world...

.

Francks appeared on Broadway
Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...

 in the title role of the musical Kelly
Kelly (musical)
Kelly is a musical with a book and lyrics by Eddie Lawrence and music by Mark Charlap. It was inspired by Steve Brodie, who in 1886 claimed to have jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge and survived...

, as a daredevil planning to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge. The show was the first on Broadway in a generation to close on its opening night.

He provides the voice of "Skunk" in Gene Simmons
Gene Simmons
Gene Simmons is an Israeli-American entrepreneur, singer-songwriter, actor, and rock bassist. Known as "The Demon", he is the bassist/vocalist of Kiss, a hard rock band he co-founded in the early 1970s.-Early life:...

' animated television show My Dad the Rock Star
My Dad the Rock Star
My Dad the Rock Star is an animated television series created by Gene Simmons of KISS fame, and produced by Canadian company Nelvana for the Canadian based channel Teletoon...

.

As a voice-actor, Francks is the first person to portray Boba Fett
Boba Fett
Boba Fett is a character in Star Wars. A bounty hunter hired by Darth Vader to find the Millennium Falcon, he is a minor villain in both Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi....

, a Mandalorian
Mandalorian
Mandalorians are a fictional group of warriors from several races in the Star Wars universe. They commonly act as mercenaries or bounty hunters. According to Star Wars Expanded Universe material, they are the cultural descendants of an extinct race called the Taung...

 bounty hunter. He played Fett in The Star Wars Holiday Special
The Star Wars Holiday Special
The Star Wars Holiday Special is a 1978 American television special set in the Star Wars galaxy. It was one of the first official Star Wars spin-offs, and was directed by Steve Binder. The show was broadcast in its entirety only once, in the United States and Canada, November 17, 1978, on the U.S...

and reprised the role in an episodes of Star Wars: Droids
Star Wars: Droids
Star Wars: Droids, also known as Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO, was an animated television series that featured the exploits of R2-D2 and C-3PO, the droids who have appeared in all six Star Wars films...

. Francks voiced several characters in Inspector Gadget
Inspector Gadget
Inspector Gadget is an animated television series that revolves around the adventures of a clumsy, simple-witted cyborg detective named Inspector Gadget – a human being with various bionic gadgets built into his body. Gadget's arch-nemesis is Dr...

along with his daughter, Cree Summer
Cree Summer
Cree Summer Francks , best known as Cree Summer, is a Canadian actress, musician and voice actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as college student Winifred "Freddie" Brooks on the NBC sitcom A Different World...

, who voiced Penny during the first season of the show. Francks also provided the voice for Mok Swagger in the 1983 Canadian animated film Rock and Rule.

Filmography

  • The Curse of the Piano (2008) ... as Deacon
  • I'm Not There
    I'm Not There
    I'm Not There is a 2007 biographical musical film directed by Todd Haynes, inspired by iconic American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. Six actors depict different facets of Dylan's life and public persona: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, and Ben Whishaw...

    (2007) ... as Gentleman Hobo (Hobo Joe) on the train
  • Sons of Butcher
    Sons of Butcher (TV series)
    Sons of Butcher is a cartoon based on the band of the same name. The show airs every night at 3 a.m. et/pt on The Detour on Teletoon. It is animated using a variety of programs, put together using Adobe Flash.-Premise:...

    (2006) ... as Barney G.
  • The Very Good Adventures of Yam Roll in Happy Kingdom (2006) (voice) ... as Futukayoi
  • Lie with Me
    Lie with Me
    Lie with Me is a Canadian drama film with graphic sexual content that played at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival. It is based on the novel of the same name by Tamara Berger...

    (2005) ... as Joshua
  • Puppets Who Kill
    Puppets Who Kill
    Puppets Who Kill is a Canadian television comedy programme co-produced by The Comedy Network. It premiered in Canada on the Comedy Network in 2002, and in Australia on The Comedy Channel in 2004....

    ("The Twilight Place") (2004) ... as The Evil Head ... ("Bill & the Berkowitz's") (2006) ... Blind Willy
  • This Is Wonderland
    This Is Wonderland
    This Is Wonderland was a Canadian television series which aired on CBC Television. The series is a legal drama with comedic elements, or a comedy-drama. It was created by playwright George F...

    ("Episode 1.13") (2004) ... as Stan Puck
  • Zixx Level One ("Four's a Crowd") (2004) ... as Mr. Bigalky
  • Atomic Betty
    Atomic Betty
    Atomic Betty is a Canadian animated television series produced by Atomic Cartoons, Breakthrough Films & Television, and Tele Images Kids. Additional funding for production is provided by Teletoon in Canada and M6 and Télétoon in France. It currently airs on CITV. The series has once again begun...

    ("No-L9", "Like Father, Like Scum/Planet Stinxx") (2004) (voice) ... as Max Sr
  • The Last Chapter II: The War Continues (2003) ... as President Stanz
  • My Dad the Rock Star
    My Dad the Rock Star
    My Dad the Rock Star is an animated television series created by Gene Simmons of KISS fame, and produced by Canadian company Nelvana for the Canadian based channel Teletoon...

    (2003) (voice) ... as Skunk
  • Knights of the Zodiac (2003) ... Additional Voices
  • Beyblade (2002) ... Additional Voices
  • Cyberchase
    Cyberchase
    Cyberchase is an American educational television series for children age 6-12, that teaches children discrete mathematics. The show airs on Public Broadcasting Service and PBS Kids GO! in the United States. Seasons one through five were produced by Thirteen/WNET New York and Nelvana...

    (2002) ... Additional Voices
  • Street Time ("Reversal of Fortune") (2002) ... as Mr. Goldstein
  • Tracker
    Tracker (TV series)
    Tracker is a 2001 Canadian science fiction television series starring Adrian Paul and Amy Price-Francis. The series is based on a short story by Gil Grant and Jeannine Renshaw...

    ("Native Son") (2002) ... as Wahota Keene
  • A Killing Spring
    A Killing Spring
    A Killing Spring is a Canadian TV thriller screened in 2002, directed by Stephen Williams. Starring Wendy Crewson, Kim Schraner. Thriller about the murder of a College dean.-Cast:*Wendy Crewson - Joanne Kilbourn*Shawn Doyle - Detective Alex Emanuel...

    (2002) ... as Lou Massey
  • My Name is Tanino
    My Name is Tanino
    My Name is Tanino is a 2002 comedy film directed by Paolo Virzì. The picaresque plot is about Tanino, an Italian liberal arts student who falls in love with a young American tourist met in Sicily and decides to track her down in the United States....

    (2002) ... as Chinawsky
  • The Zack Files
    The Zack Files
    The Zack Files is a science fiction television program that revolves around a young boy, played by Robert Clark, who is a magnet for paranormal activity and attends Horace White High School for Boys along with his three friends Cam, Gwen, and Spencer. Zack manages to get himself into trouble with...

    ("Groovin'") (2001)
  • Screech Owls ("Horror on River Road") (2001) ... as Mr. Fontaine
  • Medabots
    Medabots
    Medabots, known in Japan as , is a role-playing video game franchise developed by Natsume and published by Imagineer in Japan in 1997. The video game franchise was later adapted into a Japanese anime television series produced by Bee Train. Spanning 52 episodes, the series originally aired on TV...

    (2001) ... Guest Star
  • Eckhart
    Eckhart (TV series)
    Eckhart is a half-hour animated series presented on Canadian television in 2000 and 2001 . It was created by David Weale and incorporates some of the sounds and culture of Weale's home province of Prince Edward Island in Canada...

    (2001) (voice) ... as Cat/Boss Mouse
  • Earth: Final Conflict
    Earth: Final Conflict
    Earth: Final Conflict is a Canadian science fiction television series based on story ideas created by Gene Roddenberry, and produced under the guidance of his widow, Majel Barrett-Roddenberry. It was not produced, filmed or broadcast until after his death...

    ("Trapped by Time") (2001) ... as Kyle Madrid
  • The Famous Jett Jackson
    The Famous Jett Jackson
    The Famous Jett Jackson is a joint Canadian and American Disney Channel Original Series coming-of-age television series for children ages 12–16 about a boy named Jett Jackson who plays a teenage secret-agent on a fictional TV show-within-a-show called Silverstone...

    ("Backstage Pass") (2000) ... as Phil Phelps
  • Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal
    Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal
    Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal is a Canadian science fiction drama television series which was filmed in and around Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and aired 88 episodes over four seasons from 1996 to 2000...

    ("Wendigo") (2000) ... as Samuel Thompson
  • Relic Hunter
    Relic Hunter
    Relic Hunter is an anglophone Canadian television series, starring Tia Carrere and Christien Anholt. Actress Lindy Booth also starred for the first two seasons; Tanja Reichert replaced her for the third...

    ("Flag Day") (1999) ... as Jake Whitney
  • Dinner at Fred's (1999) ... as Gus
  • Avengers: United They Stand (1999) ... Additional Voices
  • Rescue Heroes
    Rescue Heroes
    Rescue Heroes is a line of toys from Fisher-Price that was introduced in 1997. Rescue Heroes depicts various rescue personnel and their equipment. In 1999, an animated television series titled Rescue Heroes was released and was based on the figurines...

    (1999) ... Additional Voices
  • Seasons of Love
    Seasons of Love
    "Seasons of Love" is a song from the Broadway musical Rent, written and composed by Jonathan Larson. The song starts with an ostinato piano motif, which provides the harmonic framework for the cast to sing "Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes"...

    (1999) ... as Reverend Doctor Garshwin
  • Traders
    Traders (TV series)
    Traders is a Canadian television drama series, which was broadcast on Global Television Network from 1995 to 2000.-Overview:Although Global had locked up most of NBC's "Must See Thursday" situation comedies for their Thursday night broadcasts, they lost the rights to broadcast the medical drama ER...

    ("Little Monsters") (1998)
  • The True Meaning of Crumbfest (1998) (voice) ... as Boss Mouse
  • Summer of the Monkeys
    Summer of the Monkeys
    Summer of the Monkeys is a 1976 children's novel written by Wilson Rawls. The book was published by Doubleday and was the winner of the William Allen White Book Award and the California Young Reader Medal....

    (1998) ... as Bayliss Hatcher
  • Silver Surfer
    Silver Surfer (TV series)
    Silver Surfer, also known as Silver Surfer: The Animated Series, is an animated television series based on the Marvel Comics superhero which aired on the Fox Kids Network in 1998.-Overview:...

    (1998) (voice) ... as Kalok
  • Mythic Warriors: Guardians of the Legend ("Jason and the Argonauts", "Ulysses and Circe") (1998) (voice) ... as Blue-Eyed Wolf/2nd Sailor
  • Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension
    Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension
    Eerie, Indiana: The Other Dimension was a spin-off of Eerie, Indiana. This series aired on the Fox Kids Network in 1998.-Episode list:...

    ("Nightmare on Eerie Street") (1998) ... Sandman
  • Birdz
    Birdz
    Birdz is an animated television series produced by Canada's Nelvana studio, and Scottish Television . The show was first broadcast in 1998 on CBS...

    (1998) ... Additional Voices
  • Bad Dog
    Bad Dog (TV series)
    Bad Dog was an animated cartoon that aired on FOX Family and Teletoon in 1998. The cartoon focused on the Potanski family and their dog Berkeley. The show's gimmick was that, whenever Berkeley was told that he was a bad dog, he would freeze and pretend to be dead until someone told him he was a...

    (1998) ... Additional Voices
  • Donkey Kong Country
    Donkey Kong Country (TV series)
    Donkey Kong Country is a French/Canadian computer-generated animated television series. It is based on the Nintendo franchise Donkey Kong as portrayed in the Donkey Kong Country video game series by Rare. Created by France 2 and Nelvana, it was originally titled La Planète de Donkey Kong...

    (1998) ... Additional Voices
  • Mr. Music (1998) ... as Zal Adamchyk
  • Little Men
    Little Men (TV series)
    Little Men is a Canadian television show that first aired on November 7, 1998 on the PAX TV network and was shown in Canada on CTV beginning January 1, 1999. The show is set as a continuation from the 1871 Louisa May Alcott novel Little Men as a follow-up to Little Women...

    ("Thanksgiving") (1998) ... as Levi Cole
  • The Minion
    The Minion
    The Minion , is a 1998 American and Canadian action supernatural horror film directed by Jean-Marc Piché. Lukas Sadorov is a middle eastern templar who is a member of an order of templars who are charged with guarding the gateway to Hell that, if opened, will unleash all evil...

    (1998) ... as Michael Baer
  • Sam & Max: Freelance Police ("Christmas Bloody Christmas") (1998) (voice) ... Santa Claus
  • Ned's Newt
    Ned's Newt
    Ned's Newt is a Canadian/German cartoon series produced by Nelvana and TMO Film GmbH. The program aired from 1993 to 1996 in Germany, and on Teletoon from 1997 to 1998 in Canada. In the United States, the program aired on Fox Kids from 1998 to 1999, and was later rerun on Fox Family Channel...

    (1997) ... Additional Voices
  • Pippi Longstocking (1997) ... Additional Voices
  • Freaky Stories
    Freaky Stories
    Freaky Stories is a Canadian television series, which was originally broadcasted by YTV in English and Canal Famille in French...

    (1997) ... Additional Voices
  • Mr. Men and Little Miss
    Mr. Men and Little Miss
    Mr Men and Little Miss aired in both the United Kingdom and the United States. In the United Kingdom, the program was fully animated, and the characters were voiced by British voice actors Geoffrey Palmer, Gordon Peters, Arnold Stang, and Jill Shilling. The show was narrated by Geoffrey Palmer...

    (1997) (voice) ... as Mr. Grumpy and Mr. Clumsy
  • A Prayer in the Dark (1997) ... as Ken
  • La Femme Nikita (1997–2001) ... as Walter
  • Chester Cheetah
    Chester Cheetah
    Chester Cheetah is a fictional character and the official mascot for Cheetos brand snacks and Chester's Puffcorn. According to an article in The New York Times, DDB Needham Worldwide is responsible for the creation of Chester; however, an episode of Unwrapped claims that the mascot was created by...

    (1997) ... Voice
  • First Degree
    First Degree
    First Degree was a 9 part drama series made by BBC Wales which aired in 2002. The series followed the lives, trials and tribulations of students in the fictional Bay College, one of several hi-tech media schools owned and run by an enigmatic entrepreneur based in Sacramento, California known only...

    (1996) ... as Lou Matlin
  • Bogus
    Bogus (film)
    Bogus is a 1996 American fantasy film directed by Norman Jewison, written by Alvin Sargent, and starring Whoopi Goldberg, Gerard Depardieu, and Haley Joel Osment. It features magic tricks with magician Whit Haydn as consultant. It did poorly at the box office and Goldberg was nominated for a Razzie...

    (1996) ... as Dr. Surprise
  • Harriet the Spy
    Harriet the Spy
    Harriet the Spy is a children's novel by Louise Fitzhugh published in 1964. It won the Sequoyah Book Award and the New York Times Outstanding Book Award in 1964.-Plot summary:...

    (1996) ... as Harrison Withers
  • Heck's Way Home (1996) ... as Red
  • Captain Heart: The James Mink Story (1996) ... as Risser
  • Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story
    Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story
    Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story is a 1996 television movie based on Ellison v. Brady, a landmark sexual harassment case. This lawsuit set the precedent for the "reasonable woman" standard in sexual harassment law which allows for cases to be analyzed from the perspective of the...

    (1996) ... as Marty
  • The Deliverance of Elaine (1996) ... as Hector
  • Flash Gordon (1996) ... Additional Voices
  • Journey to the Center of the Earth
    Journey to the Center of the Earth
    A Journey to the Center of the Earth is a classic 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story involves a German professor who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the center of the Earth...

    (1996) ... Voice
  • Stickin' Around
    Stickin' Around
    Stickin' Around is a Canadian animated children's television series from Nelvana, which originally aired on YTV in Canada and on ABC in Australia. In Latin America, it was broadcast by Nickelodeon under the title Los Grafitos...

    (1996) ... Guest Star
  • Blazing Dragons
    Blazing Dragons
    Blazing Dragons is the title of a popular British cartoon series, the brainchild of Monty Python's Terry Jones. A coinciding graphic adventure video game was released for the original PlayStation and Sega Saturn in 1996 by Crystal Dynamics...

    (1996) ... Guest Star
  • Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
    Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (TV series)
    Ace Ventura: Pet Detective is an animated television series based on the film of the same name. The series was produced by Morgan Creek Productions and Nelvana for Warner Bros. Studios. It aired for two seasons from 1995 to 1997 on CBS...

    (1996) ... Additional Voices
  • Goosebumps
    Goosebumps (TV series)
    Goosebumps is a Canadian children's horror anthology television series based on R. L. Stine's Goosebumps books.-Networks:...

    ("The Werewolf of Fever Swamp" Parts 1 and 2) (1996) ... as Swamp Hermit
  • First Degree
    First Degree
    First Degree was a 9 part drama series made by BBC Wales which aired in 2002. The series followed the lives, trials and tribulations of students in the fictional Bay College, one of several hi-tech media schools owned and run by an enigmatic entrepreneur based in Sacramento, California known only...

    (1996) ... as Lou Matlin
  • The Possession of Michael D. (1995) ... as Marcel
  • The Neverending Story
    The Neverending Story (TV series)
    The Neverending Story: The Animated Adventures of Bastian Balthazar Bux is an animated television series, produced by CineVox , Ellipse , and Nelvana , aired for one season on HBO, ran for 26 episodes, and loosely based on Michael Ende's book, The Neverending Story .In the animated series, the...

    (1995) (voice) ... as Gmork
  • Johnny Mnemonic
    Johnny Mnemonic (film)
    Johnny Mnemonic is a 1995 cyberpunk film, loosely based on the short story "Johnny Mnemonic" by William Gibson. The title character, a man with a cybernetic brain implant designed to store information, is played by Keanu Reeves. The film portrays Gibson's dystopian view of the future with the world...

    (1995) ... as Hooky
  • Road to Avonlea
    Road to Avonlea
    Road to Avonlea was a television series which was first broadcast in Canada and the United States between 1990 and 1996. It was created by Kevin Sullivan and produced by Sullivan Films in association with CBC and the Disney Channel, with additional funding from Telefilm Canada.It was adapted from...

    ("The Return of Gus Pike") (1995) ... as Abe Pike
  • A Vow to Kill (1995) ... as Smithford
  • Little Bear
    Little Bear (TV series)
    Maurice Sendak's Little Bear is a Canadian children's television series starring a Little Bear voiced by Kristin Fairlie. Originally produced by Nelvana for Nickelodeon, it currently airs on Treehouse TV in Canada and Nick Jr. in the United States. A direct-to-video full-length feature film was...

    (1995) ... as Additional Voices
  • Ultraforce
    Ultraforce (comics)
    The Ultraforce is a fictional superhero group that appears in comic books published by Malibu, and later Marvel, as well as an animated series produced by DIC. Their purpose was to protect the public and keep other Ultras from getting out of line...

    (1995) ... Additional Voices
  • Paint Cans (1994) ... as Maitland Burns
  • Small Gifts (1994) ... as Peter
  • Highlander: The Animated Series
    Highlander: The Animated Series
    Highlander: The Animated Series is a Canadian-French animated television series which premiered on September 18, 1994. It is a loose spinoff of the cult classic 1986 film of the same name. The series was produced by Gaumont Multimedia with the worldwide distribution rights owned by Bohbot...

    (1994) ... Guest Star
  • Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
    Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
    Kung Fu: The Legend Continues is a spin-off of the 1972-1975 television series Kung Fu. David Carradine and Chris Potter starred as a father and son trained in kung fu - Carradine playing a Shaolin monk, Potter a police detective. This series aired in syndication for four seasons, from January 27,...

    ("Enter the Tiger") (1994) ... as Stranger
  • WildC.A.T.S. (1994) ... Guest Star
  • Free Willy
    Free Willy (TV series)
    For the 1954-1955 CBS situation comedy starring June Havoc, see Willy.Free Willy is an animated television series, inspired by the 1993 film of the same name....

    (1994) ... Guest Star
  • Side Effects
    Side Effects (TV series)
    Side Effects was a Canadian television series, which aired from February, 1994 to January, 1996 on CBC Television.A hospital-themed drama created by Brenda Greenberg and Guy Mullally, the cast included Elizabeth Shepherd, Albert Schultz, Joseph Ziegler, Jovanni Sy and Arsinée Khanjian....

    ("The Great Chendini") (1994) ... as Mr. Harrison
  • Madonna: Innocence Lost (1994) .... as Jerome Kirkland
  • Blauvogel (1994) ... as Captain Savard
  • Hello Kitty and Friends (1994) ... Additional Voices
  • Tales from the Cryptkeeper
    Tales from the Cryptkeeper
    Tales from the Cryptkeeper is an animated series aimed at children made byNelvana Limited, PeaceArch Entertainment, kaBOOM! Entertainment and Warner Bros. Television Animation. It was shown on TVO and ABC,and is still shown near Halloween on Teletoon. It was based on the live-action television...

    (1993) ("Ghost Ship") (voice) ... as Red Beard
  • Cadillacs and Dinosaurs
    Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (TV series)
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    (1993) (voice) ... as Girth/Hobbs
  • The Busy World of Richard Scarry
    The Busy World of Richard Scarry
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    (1993) ... Additional Voices
  • The Diviners
    The Diviners
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    (1993) ... as Royland
  • E.N.G.
    E.N.G.
    E.N.G. is a Canadian television drama, following the staff of a fictional Toronto television news station . The show aired on CTV from 1988 to 1994...

    ("The Sleep of Reason") (1992) ... as Pointer
  • Quiet Killer (1992) ... as Dr. Martin
  • The Trial of Red Riding Hood (1992) ... as Singer
  • The Adventures of Tintin
    The Adventures of Tintin (TV series)
    The Adventures of Tintin is an animated television series based on The Adventures of Tintin, a series of books by Hergé. It debuted in 1991, and 39 half-hour episodes were produced over the course of three seasons...

    (1992) (voice) ... as Captain Francis Haddock
  • Dog City
    Dog City
    Dog City is a television series that was produced by Nelvana Limited and Jim Henson Productions and aired on FOX from September 26, 1992 to January 28, 1995, and in Canada on Global in 1993, then on Teletoon until 2000. The show contained both animation by Nelvana, and puppetry by Jim Henson...

    (1992) (voice) ... as the Dog City Residents
  • X-Men
    X-Men (TV series)
    X-Men, also known as X-Men: The Animated Series, is an American animated television series which debuted on October 31, 1992, in the United States on the Fox Network as part of its Fox Kids Saturday morning lineup...

    (1992) (voice) ("Cold Vengeance", "Deadly Reunions
    Deadly Reunions
    Deadly Reunions is an episode in the animated TV series X-Men Animated Series. The title "Deadly Reunions" later appeared in a work based on the episode. -Summary:...

    ", "Enter Magneto
    Enter Magneto
    "Enter Magneto" is an episode in the animated TV series X-Men Animated Series. This episode is loosely based on "Uncanny X-Men #1" , where Magneto attacked the Cape Citadel missile base...

    " ... as Sabretooth/Victor Creed
    Sabretooth (comics)
    Sabretooth is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics supervillain created by writer Chris Claremont and artist/co-writer John Byrne. The character first appeared in Iron Fist #14...

    ), ("Repo Man" ... as Puck/Eugene Milton Judd
    Puck (comics)
    Puck is the codename of two fictional characters, a father and daughter pair who are both members of Alpha Flight, in the Marvel Comics universe.-Puck :...

    /Shaman/Dr. Michael Twoyoungmen
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    Shaman is a fictional character, a superhero in the Marvel Comics universe and a member of Alpha Flight.-Fictional character biography:...

    ), ("The Phalanx Covenant: Part 1" ... as Sabretooth/Victor Creed Phalanx)
  • Married to It
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    (1991) ... as Sol Chamberlain
  • Rupert
    Rupert (TV series)
    Rupert is an animated television series based on the Mary Tourtel character Rupert Bear, produced by Nelvana, Ellipse Programmé and TVS for the first season, with Scottish Television taken over control when TVS closed. Aired from 1991 to 1997 with 65 half-hour episodes produced. It was broadcast...

    (1991) ... Additional Voices
  • Swamp Thing
    Swamp Thing (1991 TV series)
    Swamp Thing was an American animated television series based on the DC Comics character Swamp Thing. The series was short-lived, with the pilot episode airing on October 31, 1990 followed by four additional episodes airing weekly from April 20 to May 11, 1991...

    (1991) (voice) ... as Anton Arcane
    Anton Arcane
    Anton Arcane is a DC Comics villain who first appeared in Swamp Thing vol. 1 #2, and was created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson.-Fictional character biography:...

  • Top Cops
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    (1990) ... Announcer
  • Labor of Love (1990)
  • Piggsburg Pigs (1990) ... Additional Voices
  • Beetlejuice
    Beetlejuice (TV series)
    Beetlejuice is an American-Canadian animated television series which ran from September 9, 1989 to May 7, 1992 on ABC and, later on, on Fox. Loosely based on the 1988 homonymous film of the same name, it was developed and executive-produced by the film's director, Tim Burton...

    (1989) (voice) ... as Count Mein/Mr. Big
  • Babar
    Babar (TV series)
    Babar is an animated television series produced in Canada by Nelvana Limited and The Clifford Ross Company. It premiered in 1989 on CBC and HBO, subsequently was rerun on HBO Family and Qubo. The series is based on Jean de Brunhoff's original Babar books, and was Nelvana's first international...

    (1989) ... Additional Voices
  • The Legend of Zelda
    The Legend of Zelda (TV series)
    The Legend of Zelda is an American animated series based on the The Legend of Zelda video game series for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The plot follows the adventures of Link and Princess Zelda as they defend the kingdom of Hyrule from an evil wizard named Ganon...

    (1989) ... Additional Voices
  • Police Academy
    Police Academy (TV series)
    Police Academy, also known as Police Academy: The Animated Series, is a 1988 American animated television series based on the Police Academy series of films. The show was produced by Ruby-Spears Productions for Warner Bros. Television. It aired on Saturday mornings and lasted two seasons for a...

    (1988) (voice) ... as Proctor/Thomas "House" Conklin
  • The Christmas Wife (1988) ... as Social Arranger
  • Hot Paint (1988) ... as Don Spatulo
  • Care Bears Nutcracker Suite
    Care Bears Nutcracker Suite
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    (1988) (voice) ... as Vizier
  • AlfTales
    AlfTales
    ALF Tales is an animated American series that ran on the NBC television network on Saturdays from August 1988 to December 1989. The show was a spinoff from the series ALF: The Animated Series. The show had characters from that series play various characters from fairy tales...

    (1988) ... Additional Voices
  • ALF: The Animated Series
    Alf: The Animated Series
    ALF: The Animated Series was an animated cartoon spin-off based on the live-action Sitcom series ALF. It premiered on September 26, 1987 and ran for 26 episodes.-Synopsis:...

    (1987) ... Additional Voices
  • My Pet Monster
    My Pet Monster
    My Pet Monster is a plush doll first produced by American Greetings in 1986. As one of the few plush dolls marketed to boys at the time, My Pet Monster would prove popular throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s. The doll has blue fur, horns, and a fanged smile and is recognizable by its orange...

    (1987) ... Additional Voices
  • Madballs
    Madballs
    Madballs were a series of toy rubber balls created by AmToy, a subsidiary company of American Greetings in the mid-1980s.The toys incorporated gross-out humor in the vein of Wacky Packages and Garbage Pail Kids...

    (1987) (voice) ... as Commander Wolf Breath
  • Garbage Pail Kids (1987) ... Additional Voices
  • Starcom: The U.S. Space Force (1987) (voice) ... Adm. Franklin Brinkley (Starcom Commander)
  • Street Legal
    Street Legal (TV series)
    Street Legal is a Canadian television series, which aired on CBC Television from 1987 to 1994.-Synopsis:A spinoff from the 1985 television movie Shellgame, Street Legal focused on the professional and private lives of the partners in a small Toronto, Ontario law firm, Barr, Robinovitch and Tchobanian...

    ("I'll Be Home for Christmas") (1987) ... as Mel
  • Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future (1987) (voice) ... as Lacchi
  • The Big Town (1987) ... as Carl Hooker
  • Alfred Hitchcock Presents
    Alfred Hitchcock Presents
    Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock. The series featured dramas, thrillers, and mysteries. By the premiere of the show on October 2, 1955, Hitchcock had been directing films for over three decades...

    ("The Mole") (1987) ... as Sgt. Jim Willis
  • The Care Bears
    The Care Bears (TV series)
    The Care Bears is an animated television series based on the Care Bears franchise, which aired between 1985 and 1988 in syndication; on the ABC network in the United States; and on Global in Canada. The 1985 episodes were produced by DIC Entertainment; the ABC/Global episodes were made by...

    (1986) ... Additional Voices
  • Seeing Things ("I'm Looking Through You") (1984) ... as Sunshine, ("Blind Alley") (1985) ... as Gary
  • Star Wars: Ewoks
    Star Wars: Ewoks
    Star Wars: Ewoks is an American/Canadian animated television series featuring the Ewok characters introduced in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi....

    (1985–1986) (voice) ... as Umwak/Dulok Shaman
  • Star Wars: Droids
    Star Wars: Droids
    Star Wars: Droids, also known as Droids: The Adventures of R2-D2 and C-3PO, was an animated television series that featured the exploits of R2-D2 and C-3PO, the droids who have appeared in all six Star Wars films...

    (1985) (voice) ... as Jann Tosh
  • Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
    Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors
    Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors is a French/North American animated TV show which first aired on September 16, 1985. It was produced by DIC Entertainment , and animated by Japanese animation studios Sunrise, Shaft, Studio Giants, Studio Look and Swan Production...

    (1985) (voice) ... as Noak
  • The Littlest Hobo
    The Littlest Hobo
    The Littlest Hobo is a Canadian television series based upon a 1958 American film of the same name directed by Charles R. Rondeau. The series first aired from 1963 to 1965 in syndication, and was revived for a popular second run on CTV from October 11, 1979 to March 7, 1985.All three productions...

    ("The Good Shepherd") (1984) ... as Reverend Dobson
  • Countdown to Looking Glass
    Countdown to Looking Glass
    Countdown to Looking Glass is a Canadian made-for-television movie that premiered in the United States on HBO on 14 October 1984 and was also broadcast on CTV in Canada. The movie presents a fictional confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the Strait of Hormuz, the...

    (1984) ... as Don Geller
  • Inspector Gadget
    Inspector Gadget
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    (1983) .... Additional Voices
  • Rock & Rule
    Rock & Rule
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    (1983) (voice) ... as Mok
  • 984: Prisoner of the Future (1982) ... as The Warden
  • Heavy Metal
    Heavy Metal (film)
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    (1981) (voice) ... as Grimaldi/Co-Pilot/Barbarian
  • My Bloody Valentine
    My Bloody Valentine (film)
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    (1981) ... as Chief Jake Newby
  • The Phoenix Team (1980) ... as David Brook
  • Summer's Children (1979) ... as Albert
  • Riel
    Riel (film)
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    (1979) ... as Ouilette
  • Overlanders (1979) ... as The Hand Me Down Kid
  • The Great Detective
    The Great Detective
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    ("The Black Curse") (1979) ... Guest Star
  • Fast Company
    Fast Company (1979 film)
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    (1979) ... as Elder
  • Fish Hawk (1979) ... as Deut Boggs
  • Drying Up the Streets (1978) ... as Peter Brennan
  • The Star Wars Holiday Special
    The Star Wars Holiday Special
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    (1978) (voice) ... as Boba Fett
  • Flashpoint (1977) ... Voice
  • Drylanders Episode 1 (1974) ... Role
  • McCabe & Mrs. Miller
    McCabe & Mrs. Miller
    McCabe & Mrs. Miller is a 1971 American Western film starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie, and directed by Robert Altman. The screenplay is by Altman and Brian McKay from the novel McCabe by Edmund Naughton. The cinematography is by Vilmos Zsigmond and the soundtrack includes three songs by...

    (1971) ... as Buffalo
  • Mannix
    Mannix
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    ("Memory: Zero") (1969)
  • Lancer
    Lancer (TV series)
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    ("Little Darling of the Sierras") (1969) ... as Noah Fletcher
  • Mission: Impossible
    Mission: Impossible
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    ("A Game of Chess") (1968) ... as Nicholas Groat, ("The Numbers Game") (1969) ... as Major Alex Denesch
  • The Virginian
    The Virginian (TV series)
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    ("The Land Dreamer") (1969) ... as Caleb and Jack Welles
  • Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
    Mister Rogers' Neighborhood
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    (1968–1970) ... as Mr. Anybody
  • Finian's Rainbow
    Finian's Rainbow (film)
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    (1968) ... as Woody Mahoney
  • The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
    The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
    The Man from U.N.C.L.E. is an American television series that was broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1964, to January 15, 1968. It follows the exploits of two secret agents, played by Robert Vaughn and David McCallum, who work for a fictitious secret international espionage and law-enforcement...

    ("The Round Table Affair") (1966)... as Artie King
  • The Wild Wild West
    The Wild Wild West
    The Wild Wild West is an American television series that ran on CBS for four seasons from September 17, 1965 to April 4, 1969....

    ("The Night of the Grand Emir") (1966) ... as T. Wigget Jones
  • Ben Casey
    Ben Casey
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    ("You Wanna Know What Really Goes on in a Hospital?"), ("Why Did the Day Go Backwards?") (1965)
  • The Forest Rangers
    The Forest Rangers
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    ("The Game Reserve") (1963) ... as Sanders, Jack Brass' Friend
  • This Land
    This Land
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    (1978–1982) ... as Host
  • High Steel (1966) ... as Narrator
  • The Merv Griffin Show
    The Merv Griffin Show
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    (Episode dated 15 February 1968) ... as Himself
  • R.C.M.P.
    R.C.M.P. (TV series)
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    (1959–1960) ... as Constable Bill Mitchell

Awards

  • 1980 and 1981 - Don Francks won ACTRA Award
    ACTRA Award
    The ACTRA Awards were first presented in 1972 to celebrate excellence in Canada's television, film and radio industry. Organized and presented by ACTRA, the Association of Canadian Television and Radio Artists, which represented performers, writers and broadcast journalists, the Nellie statuettes...

    s for Best Dramatic Performance for his roles in Drying Up The Streets and The Phoenix Team.

Selected discography

  • At The Purple Onion, with Lenny Breau
    Lenny Breau
    Leonard Harold "Lenny" Breau was a musician, guitar player, and music educator. He was known for blending many styles of music including: jazz, country, classical and flamenco guitar...

     and Eon Henstridge, 2004, Art of Life Records. Recorded live at the coffeehouse Purple Onion in Toronto in August 1962.
  • No One In This World Is Like Don Francks, LP
    Gramophone record
    A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...

    , 1963, Kapp Records. Don Francks, Lenny Breau and Eon Henstridge formed the trio Three.
  • Lost... and Alone, LP, 1964, Kapp Records.


"Josephine, the Short Necked Giraffe" Voice of "Jack Giraffe".(1968)

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