Don Francks Filmography

Born:: February 28, 1932 in Vancouver, BC, Canada
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Canadian actor/singer Don Francks spent his formative performing years in his native country as a nightclub jazz vocalist, an all-night disc jockey, a member of a barbershop quartet called the Model T Four, and a trombonist in a country-western band. Despite all this activity, Francks was...Read More

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Lie With Me

Actors: Eric Balfour, Lauren Lee Smith, Polly Shannon, Don Francks, Kristin Lehman

Synopsis: A young woman who's formed her sexual identity around anonymous one-night-stands considers the option of a committed, monogamous relationship in this erotic psychological drama. Introduced in voiceover, the twentysomething Leila (Lauren Lee Smith) makes clear her preferences for picking up guys Read More

11/11/05
La Femme Nikita: Season 05

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: As originally conceived, La Femme Nikita was to have ended its run with its season-four "Lady or the Tiger" finale. But when thousands of viewers wrote in to the USA network demanding that the series come to a more dramatically satisfying denouement, the series was renewed for a fifth and final Read More

2001
La Femme Nikita: Season 04

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: It appears as though secret agent Nikita (Peta Wilson) has been permanently "reprogrammed" for evil rather than good as La Femme Nikita launches its fourth season. Hoping to save Nikita from herself -- not to mention the retribution of the covert anti-terrorist organization Section One -- her Read More

2000
Mr. Music

Actors: Mick Fleetwood, Jonathan Tucker, Dan Gallagher

Synopsis: In this comedy about the music industry, Mick Fleetwood (who as co-founder of Fleetwood Mac doubtless knows the subject well) plays the head of a record company who hopes to boost his label's sagging fortunes by naming a 15-year-old music fanatic as his new Vice President. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Read More

1999
Dinner at Fred's

Actors: Gil Bellows, Parker Posey, Kevin McDonald, John Neville, Valerie Mahaffey

Synopsis: In this Canadian comedy, Richard (Gil Bellows) departs his office, driving north for a Christmas holiday at the country home of his fiancé Sarah (Kristin Leeman), the daughter of his boss George Billings (Leon Powhall). When his car collapses en route, he arrives instead at a house inhabited by a Read More

1999
La Femme Nikita: Season 03

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: Reluctant spy Nikita (Peta Wilson) continues to perform acts of counterterrorism merely to save her own skin as La Femme Nikita launches its third season. The opening episode finds Nikita trying to ascertain the whereabouts of her partner and lover, Michael Samuelle (Roy Dupuis) -- even while her Read More

1999
Summer of the Monkeys

Actors: Michael Ontkean, Leslie Hope, Wilford Brimley, Corey Sevier, Katie Stuart

Synopsis: Michael Anderson directed this Canadian coming-of-age adventure that generates nostalgia for rural America at the turn of the century. Farmer John Lee (Michael Ontkean) and wife Sarah (Leslie Hope) have two children, Jay Berry (Corey Sevier) and crippled Daisy (Katie Stuart). Hoping to buy a pony Read More

1998
La Femme Nikita: Season 02

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Eugene Robert Glazer, Alberta Watson, Matthew Ferguson

Synopsis: Season one of La Femme Nikita ended on a cliffhanger of sorts, as heroine Nikita (Peta Wilson), who has been forced on threat of death to join the covert anti-terrorist organization Section One, was given the opportunity to escape her penury by her fellow agent, and lover, Michael Samuelle (Roy Dupuis Read More

1998
La Femme Nikita: Escape

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: Anxious to escape the clutches of Section One without being "canceled" in the process, Nikita (Peta Wilson) is open to the plan being hatched by a fellow operative. If all goes well, Nikita and her comrade will be able to flee without danger, and their files will be completely eradicated. Will Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita: Love

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: Nikita (Peta Wilson) and Michael (Roy Dupuis) pose as husband-and-wife mercenaries. Their mission is to capture an elusive chemical-weapons terrorist. Will this assignment add an additional strain to Nikita and Michael's relationship? There isn't much time to ponder this possibility during the Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita: Choice

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: In this follow-up to the previous episode "Gray," Nikita (Peta Wilson) is still romantically involved with architect Gray Wellman (Callum Keith Rennie) -- and in fact, Gray is the first and only true love of her life. Alas, if she doesn't dump Wellman and concentrate all her attention on Section Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita: Gray

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: The Registry, a computer program listing all Section One members throughout the world, is stolen by a terrorist who intends to auction off the list to the highest bidder. Tracking the terrorist to Prague, Michael (Roy Dupuis) discovers that the list has been planted on a supposedly innocent Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita: Mother

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: Nikita (Peta Wilson) poses as the long-lost daughter of Helen Wicke (Alberta Watson), a sociopath who runs a vicious arms-dealing operation with her husband, John (Wayne Best). It's all part of a scheme hatched by Operations (Eugene Robert Glazer) to retrieve a stolen nuclear trigger. Not Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita: Friend

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: Assigned to protect peacemaking politician Jovan Mijovich (David Calderisi), Nikita (Peta Wilson) meets a woman (Marnie McPhail) who claims to be her childhood friend Julie. Defying orders from Operations (Eugene Robert Glazer) to "cancel" Julie, Nikita goes to great lengths to protect the woman. Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita: Nikita

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: This debut episode of the TV series La Femme Nikita adheres to the premise set up by the 1990 French theatrical feature (and its 1993 American remake) -- up to a point, that is. Falsely accused of murdering a cop and sentenced to life, sexy street punk Nikita (Peta Wilson) is offered a "second Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita: Charity

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: Nikita (Peta Wilson) is suspicious of Section One's motives when she is assigned to romance celebrated charity fundraiser Alec Chandler (Simon MacCorkindale); after all, if Alec is only a "money launderer" as her superiors claim, why go to the trouble of putting him under surveillance? Things Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita: Simone

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: Nikita (Peta Wilson) poses as a recruit for Glass Curtain, a terrorist organization that picks its members from Internet chat rooms. Welcomed into the Glass Curtain fold, Nikita discovers that the group is holding former Section One operative Simone (Mung-Ling Tsui) captive. Complicating matters Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita: Rescue

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: The Section One team is forced to abandon a wounded Michael (Roy Dupuis) after a botched operation in Eastern Europe. Nikita (Peta Wilson) is all for returning to rescue Michael, but is told that such an undertaking would be "too risky." (Hmmm...Why hasn't such a possibility ever bothered Nikita's Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita: Voices

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: While on an undercover mission, Nikita (Peta Wilson) is attacked by a serial rapist/killer. Having long been in pursuit of the perpetrator, Detective Marco O'Brien (Stephen Shellen) demands that Nikita testify in court. But if she talks, her cover will be blown and Section One's mission to Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita: Missing

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: Nikita (Peta Wilson) discovers that one of the three thieves who have stolen a valuable computer chip is Steven Wolfe (Christopher Kennedy). Under any other circumstances, Wolfe would be dead meat -- except that he happens to be the long-estranged son of Nikita's superior Operations (Eugene Robert Glazer Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita: Brainwash

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: A terrorist intends to use a cache of virtual-reality "phasing shells" as part of a mysterious master plan. To find out what the villain is up to, Nikita (Peta Wilson) agrees to test a captured VR shell. Alas, like so many others, Nikita becomes addicted to the thrills provided by the shell. But Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita [TV Series]

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Eugene Robert Glazer, Alberta Watson, Matthew Ferguson

Synopsis: Premiering January 13, 1997, on the USA network, the hour-long espionage series La Femme Nikita was based on the 1990 French film of the same name -- or, to be more accurate, it was based on the 1993 American remake, Point of No Return. Peta Wilson starred as Nikita, a convicted criminal serving a Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita: Season 01

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Lawrence Bayne, Matthew Ferguson, Don Francks, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: Given a choice between serving a life sentence for a crime she didn't commit and working as a secret agent for the covert government anti-terrorist organization Section One, a young woman known only as Nikita (Peta Wilson) reluctantly accepts the latter option as La Femme Nikita begins its first Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita: War

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: The Registry, a file listing the whereabouts of all Section One agents, is now in the hands of the Red Cell, a terrorist group. As the Red Cell minions begin stalking agents all over the world, Michael (Roy Dupuis) makes an astonishing security error by informing Nikita (Peta Wilson) where Section Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita: Recruit

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: Nikita (Peta Wilson) is ordered by her manipulative superior Madeline (Alberta Watson) to evaluate the performance of Section One recruit Karyn (Felicity Waterman). If Karyn passes inspection, she will be welcomed into the organization; if she isn't quite ready, however, Karyn will be "canceled" Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita: Innocent

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: Birkoff (Matthew Ferguson) is alerted to the fact that a nuclear bomb is being smuggled into the United States. The only witness to this operation is Rudy (Maury Chaykin), a mentally challenged pizza deliverer who accidentally spotted the smugglers at a large municipal airport. When Rudy is Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita: Gambit

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: Kessler (Harris Yulin), an international terrorist and master of disguise, plans to use radioactive cobalt to poison a major city's water system. Madeline (Alberta Watson) subjects Kessler to intense interrogation, only to have the tables turned during a grim psychological game of one-upmanship. Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita: Noise

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: Birkoff (Matthew Fergusan) is traumatized when he forced to make his first kill. Madeline (Alberta Watson) puts Birkoff in "abeyance," ostensibly until he has recovered sufficiently to be of value to Section One. Knowing full well that abeyance is one step short of "cancellation," Nikita (Peta Wilson Read More

1997
La Femme Nikita: Obsessed

Actors: Peta Wilson, Roy Dupuis, Don Francks, Matthew Ferguson, Eugene Robert Glazer

Synopsis: To retrieve "The Book," a file crucial to Section One security, Michael (Roy Dupuis) goes after David Fanning (Douglas O'Keeffe), the terrorist who has stolen The Book, and intends to turn it over to the enemy. As part of his strategy, Michael becomes close to Lisa Fanning (Yvonne Scio), David's Read More

1997
The Deliverance of Elaine

Synopsis: Throughout her life, small-town schoolteacher Elaine Hodges (Mare Winningham) has been fiercely devoted to her infirm, alcoholic father Addison (Lloyd Bridges). Even her affection for a local cop (Ron Lea)--who happens to already have a wife--will not permit Elaine to even consider leaving her Read More

1996
Captive Heart: the James Mink Story

Actors: Kate Nelligan

Synopsis: Devoted parents search for their daughter in this strange, fact-based made-for-television movie. Set in the 1850s, Louis Gossett Jr. stars as James Mink, a wealthy Canadian businessman who is married to a white woman (Kate Nelligan). When their daughter is duped into marrying a slave trader, the Read More

1996
Bogus

Actors: Whoopi Goldberg, Gérard Depardieu, Haley Joel Osment, Denis Mercier, Andrea Martin

Synopsis: Albert Franklin (Haley Joel Osment) is the son of stage magician Lorraine Franklin, and has learned to do a few magic tricks of his own. However, when his mother dies and he is sent to live with his aunt Harriet (Whoopi Goldberg), it becomes clear that for him the boundary between stage magic and Read More

1996
Harriet the Spy

Actors: Michelle Trachtenberg, Rosie O'Donnell, Vanessa Lee Chester, Gregory Smith, J. Smith-Cameron

Synopsis: The first feature film from the Nickelodeon cable channel, Harriet the Spy is an updated version of Louise Fitzhugh's best-selling 1964 children's novel. Sixth grade outcast Harriet (Michelle Trachtenberg) is an only child who has mostly been raised by her nanny, Golly (Rosie O'Donnell), rather Read More

1996
Johnny Mnemonic

Actors: Henry Rollins, Keanu Reeves, Dolph Lundgren, Beat Takeshi Kitano, Ice-T, Dina Meyer

Synopsis: In a near-future world in which the fast-paced digital lifestyle has given rise to a worldwide plague called Nerve Attenuation Syndrome, Johnny (Keanu Reeves), a data courier, accepts an assignment that he hopes will allow him to pay for the restoration of the childhood memories he dumped in order Read More

1995
Heck's Way Home

Actors: Michael Riley, Chad Krowchuk, Shannon Lawson, Alan Arkin, Cecilley Carroll

Synopsis: When he is accidentally left behind by his owners, a devoted dog sets off on an incredible journey across Canada to find them. Though Heck the dog doesn't know it, he must hurry, for the family is about to leave Vancouver, British Columbia and move to Australia. Heck is helped out along the way by Read More

1995
First Degree

Actors: Rob Lowe, Leslie Hope, Tom McCamus

Synopsis: In this suspenseful detective drama, a police detective's personal involvement with a beautiful widow takes a professional turn when she is accused of murdering her husband. The gumshoe feels it is his job to prove her innocent. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1995
Madonna: Innocence Lost

Synopsis: Pop-singer and actress Madonna's meteoric rise to fame is chronicled in this trashy made-for-television movie of her life. Terumi Matthews stars as the dancer-turned-musician, who came to New York City in search of fame and fortune. Based on the book Madonna: Unauthorized, the docudrama follows Read More

1994
Paint Cans

Actors: Chas Lawther, Robyn Stevan, Bruce Greenwood, Nigel Bennett, Don Francks

Synopsis: This Canadian comedy spoofs the government film fund and provides valuable insight to those interested in learning the lingo of bureaucracy. Wick Burns is a government official with all the self-motivation and personality of a robot. His newest project is to find funding for a small art film Read More

1994
The Diviners

1993
Married to It

Actors: Beau Bridges, Stockard Channing, Robert Sean Leonard, Mary Stuart Masterson, Cybill Shepherd

Synopsis: Arthur Hiller directed this comedy/drama concerning three couples, thrown together by fate, who become friendly and help each other through their marriage difficulties. Claire (Cybill Shepherd) and Leo (Ron Silver) are a wealthy couple having trouble with a daughter from a previous marriage. John (Beau Bridges Read More

1993
Black Death

Actors: Kate Jackson, Jerry Orbach, Kathleen Robertson, Luis Guzman, Al Waxman

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV drama, a teenage girl named Sarah (Kathleen Robertson) is flying home to see her parents when she falls ill. While Sarah is convinced that she has simply come down with a bad cold, when she keels over and dies while crossing a street, an autopsy reveals that Sarah had in fact Read More

1992
On Thin Ice: The Tai Babilonia Story

Actors: Rachel Crawford, Charles Stratton, William Daniels

Synopsis: As indicated by the title, this made-for-TV movie charts the rise and fall of Olympic figure skater Tai Babilonia. Partnered since childhood with Randy Gardner, Tai skated her way to the 1979 World Championship. Her hopes for Olympics success in 1980 are scuttled when her partner Gardner suffers a Read More

1990
Labor of Love

1990
Hot Paint

Synopsis: The inadvertent theft of a valuable Renoir force an actor and an unemployed salesman into the limelight in this crime comedy. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1988
The Christmas Wife

Synopsis: Afraid to spend the Christmas holiday alone, an aging widower decides to hire himself a spouse to spend the vacation with him in his lovely mountain retreat and finds true romance in this heartwarming made-for-cable television drama that is based on a story by Helen Norris. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

1988
The Big Town

Actors: Matt Dillon, Diane Lane, Tommy Lee Jones, Bruce Dern, Lee Grant

Synopsis: The Big Town is Chicago, circa 1957. Matt Dillon stars as a small-town crapshooter who heads to the Windy City to seek his fortune. There he becomes the pawn of two high-rolling professional gamblers, played by Lee Grant and Bruce Dern. He later gets mixed up in a revenge scheme cooked up by Diane Lane Read More

9/25/87
Terminal Choice

Actors: Joe Spano, Diane Venora, David McCallum, Robert Joy, Don Francks

Synopsis: In an uneasy blend of sci fi computer hokum and human miscreants at work, this story of suspicious deaths in a hospital is ominous on various counts but not likely to keep tension high-strung. Dr. Frank Holt (Joe Spano) has already had one malpractice suit that cost him a job, so when one of his Read More

1985
Inspector Gadget: Season 01

Actors: Don Adams, Cree Summer, Frank Welker

1983
Rock & Rule

Actors: Don Francks, Paul Le Mat, Susan Roman, Dan Hennessy

Synopsis: A rock & roll singer searches for eternal life in this animated musical fantasy set in a post-nuclear dystopia. Similar to the earlier Heavy Metal (1981) in tone, this film attempts to incorporate mythical themes and mutant beings with music by Cheap Trick, Deborah Harry, Iggy Pop, and other Read More

1983
My Bloody Valentine

Actors: Paul Kelman, Lori Hallier, Neil Affleck, Keith Knight, Alf Humphreys

Synopsis: It's Valentine's Day in the tiny mining town of Valentine's Bluff, Nova Scotia, and for the first time in two decades the residents are planning a holiday dance. The long hiatus is due to the tragic events of 20 years earlier, when a pair of mining supervisors were too busy enjoying themselves at Read More

1981
Heavy Metal

Actors: Rodger Bumpass, Jackie Burroughs, John Candy, Don Francks, Eugene Levy, Harold Ramis, Richard Romanus

Synopsis: Inspired by stories from the fantasy graphics magazine Heavy Metal, this five-part animated feature combines the talents of hundreds of artists and animators from 17 different countries. A glowing green orb called Loc-Nar that contains the sum total of all evil in the universe travels Read More

1981
Phoenix Team

Synopsis: The Phoenix Team has the "feel" of a TV pilot film. This Canadian actioner stars Don Francks and Elizabeth Sheperd as secret agents. Though they try to keep a professional distance, Francks and Shepard fall in love all the same. Their emotional bonds seriously jeopardize their mission and their Read More

1980
Summer's Children

Actors: Thomas Hauff, Paully Jardine, Don Francks, Kate Lynch, Patricia Collins

Synopsis: This provocative Canadian drama observes the aftermath of a passionate incestuous affair between a brother and sister. Afterwards the two are appalled and split up. The brother heads for the city where he gets involved with another woman. Soon after moving in with her, he discovers that his sister Read More

1979
The Tomorrow Man

Synopsis: In this sci-fi film, a pilot for a Canadian TV series, a political prisoner suffers torture after he is captured by a strange cult that is determined to take over the world. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1979
Fish Hawk

Actors: Will Sampson, Charlie Fields, Geoffrey Bowes, Mary Pirie, Don Francks

Synopsis: Native American actor Will Sampson (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) plays the title role in Fish Hawk. Sampson's character starts out on the wrong foot by getting roaring drunk at the slightest opportunity. In response to a hero-worshipping young farm boy (Charlie Fields), the man swears off Read More

1979
Fast Company

Actors: William Smith, John Saxon, Claudia Jennings, Nicholas Campbell, Don Francks

Synopsis: Amidst such formative shockers as Shivers, Rabid and The Brood, writer/director David Cronenberg dashed off this semi-documentary. Fast Company relates the life story of race car champion Lonnie Johnson. The ubiquitous William Smith, veteran of many a low-budget cycle flick, is quite convincing as Read More

1978
Drying up the Streets

Synopsis: In this socially conscious Canadian drama, a drug enforcement team battles corruption and violence on the street in hopes of saving women from grim lives of prostitution. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1976
Overlanders

Crew: Songwriter

Synopsis: In this adventure, set in the Canadian Northwest during the 1860s, a group of nine men, two women, and a boy struggle to survive in the unforgiving wilderness. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1974
McCabe & Mrs. Miller

Actors: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, René Auberjonois, William Devane, Shelley Duvall, John Schuck, Corey John Fischer

Synopsis: Memorably described by Pauline Kael as "a beautiful pipe dream of a movie," Robert Altman's McCabe & Mrs. Miller reimagines the American West as a muddy frontier filled with hustlers, opportunists, and corporate sharks -- a turn-of-the-century model for a 1971 America mired in violence and lies. Read More

1971
Mission: Impossible: The Numbers Game

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