Franklyn Seales was an American film, television and stage actor.
15 Facts About Franklyn Seales
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Franklyn Seales was known for his portrayals of business manager Dexter Stuffins in the 1980s sitcom Silver Spoons, and real-life convicted cop killer Jimmy Lee Smith in the 1979 film The Onion Field.
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Franklyn Vincent Ellison Seales was born on July 15,1952, the fifth eldest of eight siblings, in Calliaqua to Francis Seales, a merchant seaman and government employee, and Olive Seales, a homemaker.
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Franklyn Seales originally intended to study at the Pratt Institute to pursue a career in art.
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However, in the early 1970s, Franklyn Seales agreed to accompany an aspiring-actress friend to an audition at the Juilliard School.
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Franklyn Seales was the first and only known graduate of Juilliard to hail from St Vincent.
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Franklyn Seales made his breakthrough in 1978 with the PBS drama, Trial of the Moke, portraying Lt.
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Franklyn Seales went on to appear in The Onion Field, in which he portrayed real-life convicted cop killer Jimmy Lee Smith.
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Franklyn Seales appeared in the 1981 film, Southern Comfort, in which he portrayed Rifleman Cleotis Simms.
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Franklyn Seales came to do other television and became a regular on Silver Spoons, a situation comedy of the early 1980s in which he portrayed Dexter Stuffins from 1983 to 1987.
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Franklyn Seales appeared on episodes of Hill Street Blues and Amen.
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Franklyn Seales was the Last Person on Earth in Sade-Sack, or How to Live After the Asprocalisp, and he starred in Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle.
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Franklyn Seales started noticing symptoms of AIDS-related illness on the set of Amen and had been unable to work regularly for the last couple years of his life.
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On May 14,1990, Franklyn Seales died at age 37 from complications of AIDS at his family's residence in Brooklyn.
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Franklyn Seales was cremated and his ashes were scattered in the Caribbean Sea.