Carl Franklin

Carl Franklin (born April 11, 1949) is an American actor, screenwriter and film and television director. He attended the AFI Conservatory and graduated with an M.F.A. degree 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. He also attended the University of California, Berkeley.

Filmography

Actor

• Five on the Black Hand Side (1973)
• The Streets of San Francisco (1 episode, 1974)
• It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy (1974)
• Caribe (Unknown episodes)
• Good Times (2 episodes, 1975-1976)
• Visions (1 episode, 1976)
• Most Wanted (1 episode, 1976)
• The Fantastic Journey (10 episodes, 1977)
• Loose Change (1978)
• The Incredible Hulk (1 episode, 1978)
• Centennial (1978)
• The Rockford Files (2 episodes, 1978)
• The Legend of the Golden Gun (1978)
• Trapper John, M.D. (1 episode, 1979)
• Barnaby Jones (2 episodes, 1975-1980)
• The White Shadow (1 episode, 1980)
• Lou Grant (1 episode, 1980)
• McClain's Law (Unknown episodes, 1981-1982)
• Quincy, M.E. (1 episode, 1982)
• One Cooks, the Other Doesn't (1983)
• Cover Up (1 episode, 1985)
• The A-Team (16 episodes, 1983-1985)
• MacGyver (1 episode, 1985)
• Riptide (1 episode, 1985)
• Hill Street Blues (1 episode, 1986)
• Frank's Place (1 episode, 1987)
• ALF (2 episodes, 1987)
• Too Good to Be True (1988)
• Eye of the Eagle 2: Inside the Enemy (1989)
• Last Stand at Lang Mei (1990)
• Steel Magnolias (1 episode, 1990)
• Full Fathom Five (1990)
• In the Heat of Passion (1992)
• Roseanne (2 episodes, 1991-1992)

Director

• Punk (1986)
• Nowhere to Run (1989)
• Eye of the Eagle 2: Inside the Enemy (1989)
• Full Fathom Five (1990)
• One False Move (1992)
• Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
• One True Thing (1998)
• Partners (Unknown episodes, 1999)
• High Crimes (2002)
• Out of Time (2003)
• Rome (1 episode, 2007)
• The Riches (1 episode, 2007)
• The Pacific (2009)
• Snitch (2009)
• The Senator's Wife (2009)

Writer

• Punk (1986)
• Eye of the Eagle 2: Inside the Enemy (1989)
• Last Stand at Lang Mei (1990)
• Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)

Awards and nominations

External links

• Carl Franklin at the Internet Movie Database