1. Don Harvey Francks was born on February 28,1932, and was adopted shortly after his birth.
15 Facts About Don Francks
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Don Francks's mother worked at a music store and his father was an electrician.
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Don Francks acted on Broadway in Kelly and Off-Broadway in Leonard Bernstein's Theatre Songs in 1965.
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Don Francks portrayed writer Grey Owl, returning fifty years after his death to be disturbed by the ecological deterioration.
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Don Francks performed in jazz clubs such as George's Spaghetti House in Toronto and the Village Vanguard in New York City, where he recorded the album Jackie Gleason Says No One in This World Is Like Don Francks.
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In 1999, Don Francks appeared in the documentary The Genius of Lenny Breau.
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Don Francks recorded his final album, 21st Century Francks, in 2002 at the Top o' the Senator in Toronto.
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Don Francks played Archie Goodwin with Mavor Moore as Nero Wolfe for a 1982 series on Canadian radio.
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Don Francks provided the voice of "Skunk" in Gene Simmons' animated television show, My Dad the Rock Star.
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Don Francks, credited, voiced the role of Boba Fett in an episode of Star Wars: Droids.
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Don Francks voiced several characters in Inspector Gadget, along with his daughter, Cree Summer, who voiced Penny during the first season of the show.
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Don Francks provided the voice for Mok Swagger in the 1983 Canadian animated film Rock and Rule, and the voice of Sabretooth on X-Men.
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An avid motorcycle rider, Don Francks had a collection of twelve antique cars, mostly Model-T Ford racing cars dated 1912 to 1927.
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Later in life, Don Francks had a son, Bentley Clay Don Francks-Slaughter, who died in a house fire late in 2008.
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Don Francks died in Toronto on April 3,2016, of lung cancer.