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3 unusual facts about Franklyn


Franklyn

Franklyn is a 2008 British film written and directed by Gerald McMorrow as his debut feature.

Writer-director Gerald McMorrow wrote the original science fiction script Franklyn as his feature debut.

Preest also bears a resemblance to the character Rorschach in Watchmen, not only in terms of clothing but in terms of character.


Brendan Courtney

From 2006–2008 he hosted and produced The Clothes Show with Caryn Franklyn and Louise Redknapp, As of Autumn 2008, he was co-hosting RTÉ One's Off the Rails.

Franklyn Hinds

Franklyn Hinds first played cricket for the Cayman Islands in August 2000, when he played against Bermuda and the USA in the Americas Championship at the Maple Leaf Cricket Club in King City, Ontario.

John Norris

J. Frank Norris (John Franklyn Norris, 1877–1952), American fundamentalist preacher

Milt Franklyn

As Franklyn could play a number of instruments, he joined a band in San Francisco and for the next few years played at the Palace and St. Francis hotels.

At the time of his death, Franklyn was composing the score for a Tweety cartoon, The Jet Cage.

Among the songs Franklyn is said to have composed with director Chuck Jones and writer Michael Maltese is The Michigan Rag for the 1955 cartoon One Froggy Evening, featuring Michigan J. Frog.

Poecilia wingei

The species was first collected from Laguna de Patos in Venezuela by Franklyn F. Bond in 1937, and rediscovered by Dr. John Endler in 1975.

Robert Franklin Muirhead

Born at Shawlands, Glasgow, in January 1860, Robert Franklyn Muirhead received his early education from private tutors and the village school at Lochwinnoch.

Sabina Franklyn

Sabina Franklyn (born 15 September 1954) is an English actress, and the daughter of William Franklyn and Margo Johns.

T. J. Jemison

Approaching the end of his tenure (a result of term limits), Jemison selected Dr. W. Franklyn Richardson as his successor, but Richardson was defeated by Dr. Henry Lyons at the 1994 convention.

The Cimarons

Jamaican natives, the Cimarons migrated to Britain in 1967 with a lineup consisting of Franklyn Dunn (bass), Carl Levy (keyboards), Locksley Gichie (guitar), and Maurice Ellis (drums); vocalist, Winston Reid (better known as Winston Reedy) joined in London.

Toytown

Larry the Lamb was always played (at least when broadcast from London) by Derek McCulloch, Dennis at various times by Norman Shelley, Ernest Jay and Preston Lockwood, the Mayor by Franklyn Bellamy and Felix Felton, Ernest the Policeman by Arthur Wynn, Peter Claughton and Stephen Jack and the Inventor usually by Ivan Samson.


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