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...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Dancing with the Devil: Carl Franklin on 'Devil in a Blue Dress'
2020
as Self
This conversation between director Carl Franklin and film noir historian Eddie Muller was recorded live onstage for a screening of 'Devil in a Blue Dr...
Bless Me, Ultima
2013
Director, Screenplay
In a village in New Mexico, the life of young farm boy Antonio is dramatically changed when an old medicine woman joins his household. This affecting ...
Hitchcocked!
2006
as Self
A tribute to the work of Alfred Hitchcock, featuring contemporary filmmakers, writers, performers, and cultural critics.
Shooting the Police: Cops on Film
2006
as Self
Documentary about how police have been portrayed on screen.
Out of Time
2003
Director
Matt Lee Whitlock, respected chief of police in small Banyan Key, Florida, must solve a vicious double homicide before he himself falls under suspicio...
High Crimes
2002
Director
A female attorney learns that her husband is really a marine officer awol for fifteen years and accused of murdering fifteen civilians in El Salvador....
One True Thing
1998
Director
A career woman reassesses her parents' lives after she is forced to care for her cancer-stricken mother.
Devil in a Blue Dress
1995
Director, Screenplay
In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a my...
Dark and Deadly: Fifty Years of Film Noir
1995
as Self
One of the first film noir documentaries, made for British Channel Four, and including interviews with Paul Schrader, Robert Wise, John Dahl, Bryan Si...
In the Heat of Passion
1992
as Police Det. Rooker
A struggling actor lands the part of a rapist in a TV reenactment for a "Crimebusters" segment. He soon meets a beautiful rich woman whom he begins an...
One False Move
1991
Director
Following a series of drug deals and murders, three criminals -- Fantasia, Ray Malcolm and Pluto -- travel from Los Angeles to Houston, finally arrivi...
Full Fathom Five
1990
as Fletcher
Adapted from the bestselling novel. Navy Captain Peter Mackenzie is sent on his toughest assignment when the Soviet nuclear sub KIROV is stolen and th...
Full Fathom Five
1990
Director
Adapted from the bestselling novel. Navy Captain Peter Mackenzie is sent on his toughest assignment when the Soviet nuclear sub KIROV is stolen and th...
Last Stand at Lang Mei
1989
as Sergeant T. Deveraux
Vietnam, 1968. Army Headquarters has written off Captain Fahey's men as Missing In Action after they were fighting deep over enemy lines. Cut off from...
Last Stand at Lang Mei
1989
Writer
Vietnam, 1968. Army Headquarters has written off Captain Fahey's men as Missing In Action after they were fighting deep over enemy lines. Cut off from...
Eye of the Eagle 2: Inside the Enemy
1989
as Col. Rawlins
When soldier Anthony Glenn discovers that Mai is missing, he sets out to rescue her from the corrupt Major Sorenson pitting soldier against soldier in...
Eye of the Eagle 2: Inside the Enemy
1989
Director, Writer
When soldier Anthony Glenn discovers that Mai is missing, he sets out to rescue her from the corrupt Major Sorenson pitting soldier against soldier in...
Nowhere to Run
1989
Director
Rural Texas, 1960 -- An age of good times and innocence, when growing up was supposed to be easy. Six high school seniors know the terrible secret tha...
Too Good to Be True
1988
as Dr. Boyd
A self-entitled woman is determined to keep her new man to herself at all costs.
ALF’s Special Christmas
1987
as Dr. Willoughby
The Tanners decide to spend Christmas in a cabin in the woods but ALF soon gets trapped in a box of toys going to a children's hospital.
A Smoky Mountain Christmas
1986
as Lt. Danvers
A country-western singer on a trip through the Tennessee mountains runs into a reclusive backwoodsman — and a witch.
Punk
1986
Director, Writer
Dominic is a boy trying to cope with the turmoil surrounding him. His life is about to take a very sharp turn.
One Cooks, the Other Doesn't
1983
as Officer Lloyd Green
A real estate agent has a problem: his ex-wife and son are moving in with him-and his jealous bride.
Joshua's World
1980
The pilot story, set in the small town of Strawee, Arkansas in the '30s, follows the experiences of Joshua Torrance, a doctor whose practice is jeopar...
The Legend of the Golden Gun
1979
as Joshua Brown
In Kansas during the middle of the Civil War, John Golden is left for dead and his family has been killed by the ruthless Confederate outlaw William Q...
Loose Change
1978
as Ed Thomas
Three girlfriends -- an author, an artist, and a political activist -- mature and change during the turbulent 1960s.
The Fantastic Journey
1977
as Dr. Fred Walters
1 hour 55 minute edited "movie" version comprised of primarily episodes 1 and 2 of TV series of same name available on Tubi. Travelers are stranded i...
It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy
1974
as Hovey
When Harry Walters runs out of gas, he gets picked up by a beautiful young woman. But when she pulls a gun on him and orders him to take his clothes o...
Five on the Black Hand Side
1973
as Marvin
Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values whe...