# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carl-franklin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:04:29.536Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carl-franklin"
name: "Carl Franklin"
slug: "carl-franklin"
description: "Carl Michael Franklin is an American film and television director, producer, screenwriter, and former actor. He began his career in the 1970s as a television actor, playing regular roles as Dr. Fred Walters on The Fantastic Journey, Detective Jerry Cross on McClain's Law, and Captain Crane on The A-Team. In the 1980s, he graduated from the AFI Conservatory, and began directing B-movies at Roger Corman's Concorde Pictures."
tagline: "Actor, screenwriter, Film and television director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Carl_Franklin_publicity_photo_from_Fantastic_Journey_cast%2C_1977_(cropped).JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1949-04-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.51
  momentum:             0
  historical:           14.155376
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002083/"
    handle:    "nm0002083"
sources:
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    title: "کارل فرینکلن"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كارل فرانكلين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "كارل فرانكلين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%A9%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "کارل فرانکلین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%A9%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "کارل فرانکلین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Franklin"
    title: "Carl Franklin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Franklin"
    title: "Carl Franklin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%A9%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "کارل فرانکلین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Carl Franklin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Franklin"
    title: "Carl Franklin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Franklin"
    title: "Carl Franklin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3"
    title: "カール・フランクリン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%B9%BC_%ED%94%84%EB%9E%AD%ED%81%B4%EB%A6%B0"
    title: "칼 프랭클린"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Franklin"
    title: "Carl Franklin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Franklin"
    title: "Carl Franklin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BB"
    title: "Франклин, Карл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q643246"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/21712"
    title: "Carl Franklin"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump