Don Francks
Don Francks was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on February 28th, 1932 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 84, Don Francks biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Donald Harvey Francks (28 February 1932 – 3 April 2016), also known as Iron Buffalo on stage, was a Canadian actor, guitarist, and singer.
Personal life
He had a collection of twelve antique cars, mainly Model-T Ford racing cars from 1912 to 1927, and was an avid motorcycle rider. He was a poet, native nations champion, author, and peace campaigner. He endorsed Greenpeace and the Tibetan independence movement. Francks smoked marijuana after quitting alcohol at the age of 21, and he performed "Smoking Reefers" on a track. He investigated a boy's murder at Red Pheasant First Nation in Saskatchewan, as a spokesperson for Other Voices (Canadian television series) in the mid-1960s.
Bentley Clay Francks-Slaughter, who died in a house fire late in 2008, was Francks' son who died later in life.
Franck died of cancer in Toronto on April 3, 2016.
Career
Don Harvey Francks was born on February 28, 1932, and was adopted shortly after his birth. His mother worked at a music store and his father was an electrician. As a child, he performed on Vancouver radio doing imitations of singers. After dropping out of high school at age 15, he worked in several jobs. In 1955, he won a recurring role on the CBC-TV program Burns Chuckwagon from the Stampede Corral. After guest appearances on television shows during the late 1950s, he received his first lead role in the 1959–60 CBC-TV program R.C.M.P., playing Constable Bill Mitchell.
During the 1960s, he had roles on the US television programs Mission: Impossible, Jericho, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Wild Wild West, and Mannix. His most famous film part was in Francis Ford Coppola's adaptation of Finian's Rainbow. He acted on Broadway in On a Clear Day You Can See Forever and Kelly. In 1969, he rejected an offer to work with Katharine Hepburn in Coco, her only stage musical.
In 1962, Francks led Three, an avant-garde jazz trio with Lenny Breau on guitar and Eon Henstridge on double bass. The band performed regularly in Toronto and New York City and appeared in the National Film Board documentary Toronto Jazz.
In 1963, Franks released No One in This World Is Like Don Francks, his first solo album, recorded at the Village Vanguard in New York City. The title of the album derived from a remark made by Jackie Gleason when the trio performed on the April 23, 1963 The Jackie Gleason Show playing "Bye Bye Blackbird". Two years later, he recorded his second album, Lost... and Alone, with orchestral arrangements by Patrick Williams. He recorded his final album, 21st Century Francks, in 2002 at the Top o' the Senator in Toronto. The album was released in 2014.
Awards
- ACTRA Award for Best Dramatic Performance, Drying Up the Streets and The Phoenix Team, 1980 and 1981