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Franklin Cover

Franklin Cover
Nome de nascimento: Franklin Edward Cover
Data de nascimento: 20 de novembro de 1928 ( 77 anos)
Falecimento: 05 de fevereiro de 2006
Atividades: Ator
Local de nascimento: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Anos ativo: 1965 - 2006

Franklin Cover

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Franklin Edward Cover (November 20, 1928 – February 5, 2006) was an American actor best known for starring in the sitcom The Jeffersons. His character, Tom Willis, was half of one of the first interracial marriages to be seen on prime-time television. Cover was born on November 20, 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio, to Britta (Schreck) and Franklin Held Cover. He graduated from John Marshall High School in 1947. Cover graduated from Denison University in 1951, and he received his MA in Theater in 1954 and MFA in Theater in 1955 both from Case Western Reserve University. His career started on the stage acting in Henry IV, Part 1 and Hamlet. He also appeared in Forty Carats with Julie Harris. He made his television debut on Naked City and later appeared on The Jackie Gleason Show. In 1965, he married Mary Bradford Stone. His first starring role was on The Jeffersons as Tom Willis who was married to a black woman, Helen, played by Roxie Roker. The couple lived in the same high-rise apartment building as the sitcom's title characters. Cover would often be the foil to Sherman Hemsley's black businessman, George Jefferson. The sitcom ran from 1975 to 1985. He also appeared in The Stepford Wives in 1975, and played Hubert Humphrey in the 1982 TV movie A Woman Called Golda. Following the end of The Jeffersons, Cover continued to make guest appearances on television shows as well as appearing in a supporting role in Wall Street (1987). In 1994, he appeared in the second episode of ER. His final television appearance was in an episode of Will & Grace (entitled "Object Of My Rejection") that aired on May 13, 1999. Cover died at the Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood, New Jersey, on February 5, 2006. He had been living at the home since December 2005 while recovering from a heart condition, and died of pneumonia. He was survived by his wife; the former Mary Bradford Stone, two adult children; Susan and Bradford, and a grandson, Maxwell. His son, Bradford Cover, an actor who lives in New York City, has appeared on Law and Order, Broadway, and Off Broadway, and is a company member at The Pearl Theatre Company. His daughter Susan is the founder of Susie's Supper Club (now closed), a home delivery food service that catered to parents and children in New York. CLR

Filmografia ( 15 obras)

Ano Nota Título Personagem
1998 - Os Quase Heróis Nicholas Burr
1994 - Cosmic Slop (segment 'Space Traders')
1994 - Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle -
1992 - Brain Donors Doctor
1988 - Zits FBI Chief
1987 - Wall Street: Poder e Cobiça Dan
1982 - Golda Meir Hubert Humphrey
1982 - The Day the Bubble Burst Herbert Hoover
1975 - Esposas em Conflito Ed Wimpiris
1974 - O Grande Gatsby Senator Evans (uncredited)
1973 - The Connection Lee Harris
1972 - Short Walk to Daylight Conductor
1972 - Between Time and Timbuktu Col. Donald 'Tex' Pirandello
1968 - What's So Bad About Feeling Good? Medical Expert
1965 - Miragem Group Leader

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