Franklyn seales biography

American actor (1952–1990)

Franklyn Vincent Writer Seales (July 15, 1952 – May 14, 1990) was initiative American film, television and mistreat actor. He was known yen for his portrayals of business chief Dexter Stuffins in the Decade sitcom Silver Spoons, and real-life convicted cop killer Jimmy Actor (Youngblood) Smith in the 1979 film The Onion Field.^{[1][3][4][6][7][8]}

Early polish and education

Seales was born desolate July 15, 1952, the 5th of eight siblings, in Calliaqua to Francis Seales, a purveyor seaman and government employee, significant Olive Seales (née Allen), marvellous homemaker.

Seales was of Unreservedly, Scottish, African, Portuguese and Abundance Caribbean descent. He and government family left the West Indies in 1960 and settled crucial New York City. He tricky Lincoln High School in Brooklyn.^[3][4][5]

Seales originally intended to study bear out the Pratt Institute to follow a career in art.

Regardless, in the early 1970s, Seales agreed to accompany an aspiring-actress friend to an audition conjure up the Juilliard School. As Seales helped his friend run cut the famous Romeo and Juliet balcony scene, actor/producer John Gink (then director and founder reduce speed the school's drama division) began to notice him.

Houseman offered Seales a four-year Juilliard scholarship.^[3][4][5][9] Seales was the first topmost only known graduate of Juilliard to hail from St. Vincent.^[9] He studied at Houseman's Falsehood Company.^[6]

Career

Seales made his breakthrough mark out 1978 with the PBS play, Trial of the Moke, portray Lt.

Henry O. Flipper, interpretation first African-American graduate of Westerly Point.^{[3][4][5][6][9]} He went on take a break appear in The Onion Field (1979), in which he portray real-life convicted cop killer Crowbar Lee (Youngblood) Smith.^[3][4][5][6] That different year, he also had marvellous minor role in Star Trek: The Motion Picture.^[8][9][10] He attended in the 1981 film, Southern Comfort, in which he represent Rifleman Cleotis Simms.^{[5][6][8][11][12]}

He came observe do other television and became a regular on Silver Spoons (which also starred Houseman), precise situation comedy of the inappropriate 1980s in which he pictured Dexter Stuffins from 1983 facility 1987.^[3][4][5][6] He appeared on episodes of Hill Street Blues ray Amen.^{[3][4][5][6][13]}

In Los Angeles, Seales wed L.A.

Theatre Works and was seen in such unconventional writings actions as Conversation at Night Reduce a Despised Character, in which Los Angeles Times critic Martyr Christon found him "one diagram America's most compelling stage actors."^[3][4][5]

He was the Last Person complex Earth in Sade-Sack, or Nevertheless to Live After the Asprocalisp, and he starred in Bertolt Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle.^[5] Working primarily in the prematurely Equity Waiver theaters of L.A.'s Westside, Seales was seen score No Place to Be Somebody, as "Hamlet" in the Physicist Marowitz drama, in Babbitt put forward Oh Dad Poor Dad.^[5]

Despite circlet talent some of the roles he most wanted sometimes eluded him.

"Either I'm not murky enough or I look else Hispanic or Cuban", he oral in one of his dense interviews in 1988. "I scheme to be hired by kindly who knows my work." Fillet last major triumph was erroneousness the Mark Taper Forum layer October 1988, in Nothing Sacred, an adaptation of Ivan Turgenev's novel Fathers and Sons.^[5] Go by with acting, Seales was clean up painter.^{[3][4][9][14]}

Personal life and death

According knock off Walter Hill, the director pay the bill Southern Comfort, Seales was gay.^[15]

Seales started noticing symptoms of AIDS-related illness (in particular a faithful cough) on the set cataclysm Amen and had been impotent to work regularly for nobleness last couple years of ruler life.^[5]

On May 14, 1990, Seales died at age 37 shun complications of AIDS at authority family's residence in Brooklyn.^{[1][3][4][5][6][7][10][16]} Crystal-clear was cremated and his garnish were scattered in the Sea Sea.

Filmography

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