Biography
Don Harvey Francks (February 28, 1932 – April 3, 2016), also known by his stage name Iron Buffalo, was a Canadian actor, musician and singer.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Portrait of Snow
2016
as Himself
A serendipitous encounter with a younger artist gives legendary Canadian art icon Michael Snow the opportunity to reflect on his life and career.

He Never Died
2015
as Goatee Man
Jack is a solitary man with a mysterious past. His strange habits will soon become stranger when his past catches up with him.

I'm Not There
2007
as Hobo Joe
Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger...

Lie with Me
2005
as Joshua
Happily unattached, the sexually voracious Leila satisfies her desires with a host of rapidly changing bed partners, unconcerned about the emotional c...

My Name Is Tanino
2002
as Seymour Chinawsky
During a sunny Sicilian summer Tanino has a sweet and tender story with Sally, a young American tourist. But when summer is over, Sally flies back to ...

The Genius of Lenny Breau
1999
as Self
This documentary explores and celebrates the all-too-short, heartbreaking but triumphant life and unworldly talent of Lenny Breau, considered by many ...

Summer of the Monkeys
1998
as Bayliss Hatcher
One summer, Jay finds four chimps on the prairie who have fallen off a circus cart.

The Minion
1998
as Chief Michael Bear
New York, Christmas Eve, 1999 - at the dawn of the new millennium - a subway construction crew unearths an eight hundred year old Celtic skeleton and ...

Mr. Music
1998
as Zal Adamchyk
A high school student is given the opportunity to become a music executive.

Star Wars: Droids - The Pirates and the Prince
1997
as Kybo Ren / Jann Tosh
Artoo, Threepio and a broken down android are traded into the hands of young miner Jann Tosh. The android turns out to be an alien with amnesia and a ...

Dinner at Fred's
1997
as Gus
A young businessman with a skill for magic tricks breaks down en route to his fiancee's parents' house on Christmas and ends up spending the holiday w...

A Prayer in the Dark
1997
as Ken
The Hayworth family lives in a Quaker territory in up-state New York. The matriarch, Emily runs the local bank. Years before, she and her family took ...

Star Wars: Ewoks - The Haunted Village
1997
as Dulok Shaman (voice)
Morag the Tulga Witch seeks revenge on her old enemy Logray, shaman of the Ewoks, who holds the magic Sunstar while she possesses it's darker half, th...

Star Wars: Ewoks - Tales from the Endor Woods
1997
as Dulok Shaman (voice)
Wicket remembers four memorable adventures from his youth: how he fixed up his great grandfather's battle wagon, the occasion when Latara ran away fro...

The Toy Shop
1996
as General Jim (voice)
Locked in a deserted old English toy shop, Katherine and her stuffy cousin Matthew meet some very special friends. Their fantasy world becomes a night...

Tykho Moon
1996
Writer
The McBee family has erected a government over a future 'colony', that looks like a run-down Paris divided into sectors by the Berlin Wall. All male f...

Bogus
1996
as Dr. Surprise
Recently orphaned, a young boy is taken in by his godmother who is shocked to realize that she can see the boy's imaginary friend: a flamboyant, Frenc...

Jungle Boy
1996
as Takina (voice)
Loose animated adaptation of "The Jungle Book".

Harriet the Spy
1996
as Harrison Withers
When the secret notebook of a young girl who fancies herself a spy is found by her friends, her speculations make her very unpopular! Can she win her ...

A Journey to the Center of the Earth
1996
as (voice)
Following the instructions on a mysterious parchment, Prof. Lindenbrock and his companion, Alex, discover and explore the center of the Earth, a myste...

Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story
1996
as Marty
Kerry Ellison is sexually harassed at work. No matter how much she complains, the problem, Jack Gilcrest, is unstoppable. Kerry's only left option is ...

The Werewolf of Fever Swamp
1996
as Swamp Hermit
Things have been strange ever since the new kid moved into Fever Swamp. A kid can't change into a werewolf, or can he?

Captive Heart: The James Mink Story
1996
as Risser
James Mink is a black man in Canada who has built a very successful livery business, and enjoys a white wife and a beautiful daughter, Mary. An excell...

The Deliverance of Elaine
1996
as Hector
A small town schoolteacher is hunted by a paroled con who holds the secret of her dark past.

Swiss Family Robinson
1996
In this animated take on the timeless family adventure, the Robinsons wash ashore of a remote tropical island after their boat capsizes. Though they n...

Call of the Wild
1996
as (voice)
A story of friendship between a lonely little boy who braves Alaskan blizzards in search of gold and his loyal companion Buck, the courageous and fait...

The Conspiracy of Fear
1996
as Norman
The shocking, tragic death of his father propels Chris King into a nightmare. Running for his life, Chris fights off street thugs, a homicidal psychop...

First Degree
1995
as Lou Matlin
A homicide detective falls for a murder victim's wife, who is also the prime suspect.

Johnny Mnemonic
1995
as Hooky
In a dystopian 2021, Johnny is a data trafficker who has an implant that allows him to securely store data too sensitive for regular computer networks...

The Possession of Michael D.
1995
as Marcel
When a dark force begins to destroy a couple's happiness, they decide to turn to a parapsychologist who discovers that the husband is possessed by a d...

Small Gifts
1994
as Peter
Nora and Evan are a young married couple who find their finances are in serious trouble as Christmas draws near in this new take on O. Henry's classic...

Madonna - Innocence Lost
1994
as Jerome Kirkland
Pop-singer and actress Madonna's rise to fame is chronicled in this made-for-television movie. Terumi Matthews stars as the dancer-turned-musician, wh...

Paint Cans
1994
as Maitland Burns
A Canadian take on The Player.

The Diviners
1993
Morag Gunn, a writer who is having trouble with her teenage daughter, examines her own relationship history, which includes a period of turbulence wit...

Heritage Minutes: Joseph Tyrrell
1992
as Additional Cast
Geologist and cartographer Joseph Tyrrell discovers a plethora of dinosaur bones in Alberta.

Married to It
1991
as Sol Chamberlain
While setting up a school pageant, the parents at an elite private academy in New York City with contrastive lifestyles and professional paths reflect...

On Thin Ice: The Tai Babilonia Story
1990
The true story of Olympic champion figure skater Tai Babilonia, her rise to fame and her fall from grace.

The Call of the Wild
1990
Buck, stolen from his California home, is sold as a sled dog in the 1890's Klondike Gold Rush. Abused, he is rescued by John Thornton, who forms a bon...

The Christmas Wife
1988
as Social Arranger
An aging and recent widower, not wanting to spend his first Christmas alone, responds to an ad in the newspaper which reads: "You are not alone. We ma...

Hot Paint
1988
as Don Spatulo
Two losers rob a rich guy and discover that, among the loot, they've taken a rare painting worth $2.8 million. John Larroquette plays his usual rude, ...

The Big Town
1987
as Carl Hooker
It is 1957. J.C. Cullen is a young man from a small town, with a talent for winning at craps, who leaves for the big city to work as a professional ga...

Oklahoma Smugglers
1987
as George Taip
Two ex-Navy guys set out to put the brakes on a dope smuggling ring.

Madballs: Escape from Orb!
1986
as Wolf Breath (voice)
The Madballs are a zany animated rock band who rock and roll their way across the galaxy. Music is illegal on their home planet so they make a break f...

Terminal Choice
1985
as Chauncy Rand
A patient in an hospital dies under mysterious circumstances. The attending doctor Frank Holt gets under suspect - he'd been fired already from his la...

Rock & Rule
1983
as Mok (voice)
A malevolent rock star kidnaps a female singer to force her to participate in the summoning of a demon and her band must help her stop him.

No More Hibakusha!
1983
as (voice)
Survivors of the 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki travel to New York for a UN conference on disarming nuclear weapons.

984: Prisoner of the Future
1982
as The Warden
A corporate executive is taken prisoner by an underground organization known as The Movement, and is turned over to a ruthless interrogator.

Heavy Metal
1981
as Grimaldi / Co-Pilot / Barbarian (voice)
The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror.

My Bloody Valentine
1981
as Chief Jake Newby
Twenty years after a Valentine's Day tragedy claimed the lives of five miners, Harry Warden returns for a vengeful massacre among teen sweethearts gea...
Fish Hawk
1980
as Deut Boggs
A hardened and embittered man turns his life around with the help of a farm boy in this uplifting family tale. Down on his luck and dependent on booze...

Summer's Children
1979
as Albert
SUMMER'S CHILDREN is the story of a young man who tries to escape his troubled home and sister to find a new life for himself. He takes on a new job a...

Fast Company
1979
as Elder
An over the hill drag racer finds himself considering retirement and ceding the spotlight to his protégé and targeted for replacement by the oil-compa...

The Star Wars Holiday Special
1978
as Boba Fett (uncredited voice)
Luke Skywalker and Han Solo battle evil Imperial forces to help Chewbacca reach his imperiled family on the Wookiee planet - in time for Life Day, the...

Drying Up the Streets
1978
as Peter Brennan
An ex-junkie takes on seedy urban culture to try and locate his daughter.

The Overlanders
1974
as The Hand Me Down Kid
The year is 1862. The settings. The Canadian northwest. The lure is gold. Nine men, two women (one of them pregnant), and a young boy begin the odysse...

McCabe & Mrs. Miller
1971
as Buffalo
A gambler and a prostitute become thriving business partners in a remote Old West mining town until a large corporation arrives on the scene.

Finian's Rainbow
1968
as Woody Mahoney
An Irish immigrant and his daughter arrive in Kentucky with a magical piece of gold that alters the course of several lives, including those of a stru...

The World Premiere of 'Finian's Rainbow'
1968
as Self
This documentary has interviews with actors and the director as they arrive for the 1968 New York world premiere of "Finian's Rainbow."

The Circle
1967
as Don
Produced in 1967, this black and white film is an inmate's view of Daytop, a drug treatment centre on Staten Island, New York, where addicts learn to ...

High Steel
1965
as Narrator (voice)
A dizzying view of Manhattan in the 1960s, the tallest town in the world, and the men who work cloud-high to keep it growing. They are the Mohawk Indi...

Alexander Mackenzie: The Lord of the North
1964
as Alexander Mackenzie
Filmed on the great Mackenzie River, this short fiction film recreates the amazing voyage of the man who gave his name to it. Following the path outli...

Toronto Jazz
1963
as Himself
Toronto is regarded as the third largest jazz centre in North America. This film features a cross-section of jazz bands of that city: the Lenny Breau ...

Drylanders
1962
as Russel
The epic story of the opening of the Canadian West and the drought that brought the Depression in the thirties. This is the saga of a family who left ...