Carl Franklin

Carl Franklin

Nacimiento : 1949-04-11, Richmond, California, USA

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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 CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Carl Franklin
Carl Franklin

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Bendíceme, Ultima
Screenplay
Historia ambientada en Nuevo México durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, y que trata de la relación entre un joven y una vieja curandera que le ayuda en la lucha entre el bien y el mal que se ha desatado en su pueblo... Adaptación de la novela de Rudolfo Anaya.
Bendíceme, Ultima
Director
Historia ambientada en Nuevo México durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, y que trata de la relación entre un joven y una vieja curandera que le ayuda en la lucha entre el bien y el mal que se ha desatado en su pueblo... Adaptación de la novela de Rudolfo Anaya.
Hitchcocked!
Himself
A tribute to the work of Alfred Hitchcock, featuring contemporary filmmakers, writers, performers, and cultural critics.
Shooting the Police: Cops on Film
Documentary about how police have been portrayed on screen.
A contrarreloj
Director
Matt Lee Whitlock (Denzel Washington), el jefe de policía de la pequeña ciudad de Banyan Key, en Florida, es apreciado por sus colegas y querido por los vecinos. Pero cuando la ciudad se ve conmocionada por un doble homicidio, se da cuenta de que debe resolver el crimen antes de que él mismo se convierta en sospechoso. Su invvestigación de los hechos deberá ir por delante de la de sus propios compañeros del cuerpo.
Toda la verdad
Director
Claire Kubik (Ashley Judd) es una dinámica abogada de éxito, casada con un contratista, Tom Kubik (Jim Caviziel). Ambos viven en la idílica Marin County, y están muy enamorados, tanto que piensa en ampliar la familia. Una noche, unos ladrones entran en su casa, y a partir de ese momento se suceden una serie de extraños hechos que romperán su vida en pedazos. Poco después del robo, les abordan unos agentes del FBI, y arrestan a Tom en plena calle ante la mirada de Claire. Le acusan de haber asesinado a sangre fría, bajo su verdadero nombre, Ronald Chapman, y su verdadera identidad, militar de operaciones especiales, a nueve civiles en El Salvador en el transcurso de una operación.
The Directors: The Films of Roger Corman
self
Documentary on Roger Corman
Cosas que importan
Director
Ellen Gulden es una ambiciosa periodista que tan sólo vive para su trabajo. Cuando un día recibe la noticia de que su madre está gravemente enferma, se ve en la obligación de regresar a su pueblo natal. La intensa convivencia con sus padres le permitirá conocerlos a fondo, descubrir aspectos singulares de su pasado y madurar como persona.
El demonio vestido de azul
Screenplay
Los Ángeles, 1948. Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins busca un trabajo honrado para poder sufragar los gastos de su casa. Acuciado por la falta de dinero, se ve obligado a aceptar el encargo de encontrar a una mujer blanca desaparecida hace pocos días. Sólo cuenta con una pista: la mujer en cuestión es muy aficionada a frecuentar los clubes nocturnos de jazz. Lo que en principio parece un trabajo fácil se convierte en una pesadilla al verse involucrado en dos violentos asesinatos que apuntan a una misteriosa mujer vestida de azul. (FILMAFFINITY)
El demonio vestido de azul
Director
Los Ángeles, 1948. Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins busca un trabajo honrado para poder sufragar los gastos de su casa. Acuciado por la falta de dinero, se ve obligado a aceptar el encargo de encontrar a una mujer blanca desaparecida hace pocos días. Sólo cuenta con una pista: la mujer en cuestión es muy aficionada a frecuentar los clubes nocturnos de jazz. Lo que en principio parece un trabajo fácil se convierte en una pesadilla al verse involucrado en dos violentos asesinatos que apuntan a una misteriosa mujer vestida de azul. (FILMAFFINITY)
Dark and Deadly: Fifty Years of Film Noir
Self
One of the first film noir documentaries, made for British Channel Four, and including interviews with Paul Schrader, Robert Wise, John Dahl, Bryan Singer, Edward Dmytryk, Dennis Hopper, John Alton.
Un paso en falso
Director
Lo hicieron por dinero, por poder, y por diversion. En los suburbios de Los Ángeles, Fantasía, una joven negra, su novio y el compañero de este deciden huir hacia Arkansas, dejando tras de sí un reguero de sangre y cadáveres: entraron los tres en una fiesta provocando una masacre. Dos policías de Los Angeles comienzan su persecución, a la que más tarde se unirá el Sheriff de Star City (Arkansas), Dale "Huracan" Dixon. (FILMAFFINITY)
In the Heat of Passion
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 affair with, even though she is married. Her husband soon finds out and is accidently killed. The two lovers cover up the crime, but the actor begins to wonder if there's more going on than he knows.
Full Fathom Five
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 the weapons are aimed at the United States.
Full Fathom Five
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 the weapons are aimed at the United States.
Eye of the Eagle 3
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 their platoon, they must fight their way back, or die! A true story of bravery and courage set amidst the chaos of war, and witness the gripping conclusion to the bloodiest day in American war history
Eye of the Eagle 3
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 their platoon, they must fight their way back, or die! A true story of bravery and courage set amidst the chaos of war, and witness the gripping conclusion to the bloodiest day in American war history
Eye of the Eagle 2: Inside the Enemy
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 a bloody game of honor.
Eye of the Eagle 2: Inside the Enemy
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 a bloody game of honor.
Eye of the Eagle 2: Inside the Enemy
Director
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 a bloody game of honor.
Nowhere to Run
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 that will make the difference in the biggest election in the county's history. Now they must make the most difficult decision of their lives. They must become adults. Written by Concorde - New Horizons
Pasión fatal
Dr. Boyd
Ellen Berent es una mujer bella e irresistible; Richard Harland es viudo y rico, una presa fácil para ella. Nada puede interponerse entre su pasión, nada... excepto el gran amor que Richard siente hacia su hijo, algo que Ellen no está dispuesta a soportar. Paulatinamente, los enfermizos celos de Ellen harán que vea el asesinato como la única opción posible, dando lugar a un trágico desenlace...
ALF’s Special Christmas
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
Lt. Danvers
Un cantante de country / western en un viaje a través de las montañas de Tennessee se topa con un hombre recóndito y una bruja.
Punk
Writer
Dominic is a boy trying to cope with the turmoil surrounding him. His life is about to take a very sharp turn.
Punk
Director
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
Officer Lloyd Green
A real estate agent has a problem: his ex-wife and son are moving in with him-and his jealous bride.
La leyenda del revolver de oro
Joshua Brown
Un joven agricultor y un equipo esclavo fugitivo hasta localizar el legendario guerrillero confederado William Quantrill. En el camino, se encuentran con el legendario pistolero, un joven granjero que enseñó a disparar y le da un arma especial que dispara la ronda siete, séptimo, que debe utilizar para luchar contra el mal.
Loose Change
Ed Thomas
Three girlfriends -- an author, an artist, and a political activist -- mature and change during the turbulent 1960s.
It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy
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 off, Harry puts up no resistance and is sexually assaulted. He reports the incident to the authorities, but they either don't believe him, or, if they do, can't understand why he would consider it a crime - a reaction he also gets from his friends and family.
Five on the Black Hand Side
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 when his previously docile wife (Clarice Taylor) joins their three children in rebelling against her husband's retrogressive behavior.