Carl Franklin  (born April 11, 1949) is an American actor, screenwriter and film and television director. Franklin is a graduate of University of California, Berkeley and continued his education at the AFI Conservatory, where he graduated with an M.F.A. degree in directing in 1986. Franklin is most noted for Devil in a Blue Dress, which was based on the book by Walter Mosley and starred Denzel Washington and Don Cheadle. Description above from the Wikipedia article Carl Franklin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Filmography

• Monster: The Lizzie Borden Story — Executive Producer
• Monster: The Ed Gein Story — Executive Producer
• American Sports Story: Aaron Hernandez — Executive Producer, Director
• Manhunt — Executive Producer, Director
• Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story — Director, Executive Producer
• DAHMER - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story — Director, Executive Producer
• I Am the Night — Director
• 13 Reasons Why — Director
• MINDHUNTER — Director
• Ten Days in the Valley — Director
• Good Behavior — Director, Executive Producer
• Vinyl — Director
• Bloodline — Director
• The Affair — Director
• The Leftovers — Director
• 2013Bless Me, Ultima — Director, Screenplay
• House of Cards — Director
• Ray Donovan — Director
• Magic City — Director
• The Newsroom — Director
• Falling Skies — Director
• Homeland — Director
• The Pacific — Director
• The Riches — Director
• Rome — Director
• 2003Out of Time — Director
• 2002High Crimes — Director
• 1998One True Thing — Director
• 1995Devil in a Blue Dress — Director, Screenplay
• Laurel Avenue — Director, Creator
• 1992In the Heat of Passion — Police Det. Rooker
• 1992One False Move — Director
• Capital News — Cop
• 1990Full Fathom Five — Fletcher, Director
• 1989Eye of the Eagle 2: Inside the Enemy — Col. Rawlins, Director, Writer
• 1989Last Stand at Lang Mei — Sergeant T. Deveraux, Writer
• 1989Nowhere to Run — Director
• Roseanne
• 1988Too Good to Be True — Dr. Boyd
• 1986A Smoky Mountain Christmas — Lt. Danvers
• ALF — Dr. Willoughby
• 1986Punk — Director, Writer
• MacGyver — Andrew T. Wiley
• Cover Up
• 1983One Cooks, the Other Doesn't — Officer Lloyd Green
• The A-Team — Captain Crane
• Hill Street Blues
• McClain's Law — Det. Jerry Cross
• 1980Joshua's World
• 1979The Legend of the Golden Gun — Joshua Brown
• Trapper John, M.D.
• Loose Change — Ed Thomas
• Lou Grant
• 1977The Fantastic Journey — Dr. Fred Walters
• The Fantastic Journey — Dr. Fred Walters
• The Incredible Hulk — Crosby
• Battle of the Network Stars
• Quincy, M.E.
• Caribe — Sgt. Mark Walters
• Good Times
• 1974It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Guy — Hovey
• The Rockford Files — Roger Orloff
• 1973Five on the Black Hand Side — Marvin
• 1973The Laughing Policeman — Man on Bus
• The Streets of San Francisco
• Cannon

Appearances as themselves (4)

• 2020Dancing with the Devil: Carl Franklin on 'Devil in a Blue Dress' — Self
• 2006Hitchcocked! — Self
• 2006Shooting the Police: Cops on Film — Self
• 1995Dark and Deadly: Fifty Years of Film Noir — Self