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Richard Franklin (15 July 1948 – 11 July 2007) was an Australian film director.
Richard Franklin. Director: Hotel Sorrento. Writer, director and producer Richard Franklin was born on July 15, 1948 in Melbourne, Australia. Infatuated with cinema at an early age, Franklin first began making 8mm films at age 10.
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- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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- Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Richard Kimber Franklin (15 January 1936 – 24 December 2023) was an English actor, writer, director and political activist.
Richard Franklin. Director: Hotel Sorrento. Writer, director and producer Richard Franklin was born on July 15, 1948 in Melbourne, Australia. Infatuated with cinema at an early age, Franklin first began making 8mm films at age 10.
- July 15, 1948
- July 11, 2007
Dec 25, 2023 · Director Franklin was mainly a stage actor. He also appeared as a regular character in several high-profile British TV programmes. Franklin famously played Captain Mike Yates of UNIT in the...
Dec 26, 2023 · Franklin is best known for for portraying Captain Mike Yates of UNIT in Doctor Who from 1971 until 1974. He also appeared in Crossroads and played businessman Denis Rigg in ITV's...
As director of the Hitchcockian thriller Road Games (1981), Franklin was unfazed by it being the most expensive film yet made in his native Australia. He was similarly sanguine about revisiting one of Hitch's bona fide classics, when he directed Psycho II (1983).
