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Don Francks or Iron Buffalo (born February 28, 1932 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a legendary Canadian actor, vocalist and jazz musician. February 28 is the 59th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will take you to a full 1932 calendar). ...
Vancouver (pronounced ) is a Canadian city in the province of British Columbia. ...
Motto: Splendor Sine Occasu (Latin: Splendour without diminishment) Official languages none stated in law; English is de facto Flower Pacific dogwood Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Lieutenant-Governor Iona Campagnolo Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Parliamentary representation - House seat - Senate seats 36 6 Area Total - Land - Water (% of total) Ranked...
Jazz is an original American musical art form originating around the start of the 20th century in New Orleans, rooted in Western music technique and theory, and is marked by the profound cultural contributions of African Americans. ...
His birth name is Donald Harvey Francks. He is a drummer, poet, native nations champion, motorcyclist, author and peace activist. He is interested in Tibet and supports Greenpeace.
The Free Tibet Campaign is an organisation based in London that is dedicated to establishing the right of Tibetans to determine their own government. ...
Greenpeace is an international environmental organization founded in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1971. ...
He was in vaudeville, worked as a foundryman, and did some summer stock before moving to Toronto. Don Francks worked in Hollywood and lived in Encino, California. After a time, he moved with his family to the Red Pheasant Indian Reserve, near North Battleford, Saskatchewan. He is an honorary Cree, who is also known as Iron Buffalo. Since 1974 he lives in Toronto with his wife Lili (Red Eagle), a member of the Plains Cree First Nation and a former dancer. Don Francks is the father of actress Cree Summer and actor Rainbow Sun. ...
Encino is a neighborhood of the City of Los Angeles, California located in the San Fernando Valley. ...
Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area Ranked 3rd - Total 158,302 sq. ...
In Canada, an Indian reserve is specified by the Indian Act as a tract of land, the legal title to which is vested in Her Majesty, that has been set apart by Her Majesty for the use and benefit of a band. ...
North Battleford is a small city in west central Saskatchewan, Canada. ...
Motto: Multis E Gentibus Vires (Latin: From many peoples, strength) Official languages English (but legally required to provide some services in French) Capital Regina Largest city Saskatoon Lieutenant-Governor Gordon Barnhart Premier Lorne Calvert (NDP) Parliamentary representation - House seat - Senate seats 14 6 Area Total • Land • Water (% of total) Ranked...
The Cree are an indigenous people of North America whose people range from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean in both Canada and the United States. ...
The Cree are an indigenous people of North America whose people range from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Ocean in both Canada and the United States. ...
First Nations is the current title used by Canada to describe the various societies of the indigenous peoples, called Native Americans in the U.S. They have also been known as Indians, Native Canadians, Aboriginal Americans, Amer-Indians, or Aboriginals, and are officially called Indians in the Indian Act, which...
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Rainbow Sun Francks as Lt. ...
He appeared many times at George's Spaghetti House, a Toronto jazz club that was the equivalent of New York's Birdland. He was also known to sit in on drums at the Colonial Tavern and other Toronto afterhours clubs and jazz venues. Georges Spaghetti House was a famous jazz club in Toronto on Sherbourne street in which Moe Koffman led the house band. ...
In jazz, Birdland may refer to: A famous jazz club in New York City, originally located on 52nd Street, now at at 315 W. 44th St. ...
The Colonial Tavern was one of the most famous jazz venues in Canada from the 1950s til its closure in the late 1970s. ...
Don Francks has appeared in the La Femme Nikita television series. His earlier work in television included such favourites as Mission: Impossible, Wild Wild West, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Little Men, Traders and countless episodic television appearances, and his film appearances have included Johnny Mnemonic through Finian's Rainbow with Fred Astaire and Petula Clark. Nikita (re-titled La Femme Nikita in the United States and other international markets) is a television spy drama based upon the French film directed by Luc Besson (see Nikita). ...
Mission: Impossible is the name of an American television series which aired on the CBS network from September 1966 to September 1973. ...
For the 1960s television series, see The Wild Wild West. ...
Rare childrens storybook based upon Left to right: David McCallum, Robert Vaughn, and the late Leo G. Carroll. ...
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Petula Clark in the 1968 Warner Brothers film version Finians Rainbow, with music by Burton Lane and lyrics by E.Y. Harburg, opened on Broadway in 1947, with Ella Logan and David Wayne in the lead roles. ...
Fred Astaire Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987), born Frederick Austerlitz in Omaha, Nebraska, was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. ...
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Selected filmography
Puppets Who Kill is a Canadian television comedy series produced by and appearing on the Canadian Comedy Network. ...
Cara Pifko, right, of This is Wonderland. ...
My Dad the Rock Star was an animated television series created by KISS rocker Gene Simmons, and produced by Canadian company Nelvana. ...
Earth: Final Conflict is a science fiction television series posthumously created by Gene Roddenberry. ...
The Famous Jett Jackson is a Disney Channel show about an African American actor named Jett Jackson(Lee Thompson Young) who plays a teenage secret-agent on a fictional TV show-within-a-show called Silverstone. ...
Psi Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal was a Canadian sci-fi/drama television series which aired from 1996 to 2000. ...
Nigel shows an artifact to Sydney in Relic Hunter Relic Hunter is an American television series, starring Tia Carrere and Christien Anholt. ...
Nikita (re-titled La Femme Nikita in the United States and other international markets) is a television spy drama based upon the French film directed by Luc Besson (see Nikita). ...
VCR tape box cover. ...
Road to Avonlea is a television series which was first broadcast in Canada and the United States between 1990 and 1996. ...
The X-Men Animated Series debuted in the 1992-1993 season on the Fox Network. ...
Deadly Reunions is an episode in the animated TV series X-Men Animated Series. ...
Enter Magneto is an episode in the animated TV series X-Men Animated Series. ...
Repo Man is a 1984 cult film directed by Alex Cox, produced by Michael Nesmith, and starring Emilio Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton. ...
AlfTales was an animated American series that ran on the NBC television network on Saturdays from August 1988 to December 1989. ...
Street Legal was a Canadian television series, which aired on the CBC from 1987 to 1994. ...
Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future was a 1987 television series that ran for 22 episodes. ...
Seeing Things was a Canadian dramedy mystery television series which aired on the CBC in the 1980s. ...
Opening for the 1979 TV series The Littlest Hobo The Littlest Hobo is the title of a 1958 American motion picture, a Canadian-produced television series based upon the film that aired from 1963 to 1965 and a second Canadian series (a revival) that aired on CTV from 1979 to...
Countdown to Looking Glass is a made for television movie that premiered in the United States on HBO on 14 October 1984. ...
Inspector Gadget is an animated television series about a clumsy, absent-minded, and oblivious detective, Inspector Gadget, who is a cyborg with various gadgets built into his anatomy. ...
This article or section is missing references or citation of sources. ...
Heavy Metal is a 1981 Canadian animated film from executive producer Leonard Mogel, who also was the publisher of Heavy Metal magazine. ...
My Bloody Valentine is a low-budget Canadian horror film released in the wake of the rise of the slasher genre that had overtaken the 1980s, considered an example of the low-budget copycat films attempting to rake in money off the success of Halloween (1978) and Friday the 13th...
Fast Company is a 1979 film by Canadian director David Cronenberg. ...
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Mannix is the name of a television detective series that ran from 1967 to 1975 on CBS. Developed by executive producer Bruce Geller, the title character played by Mike Connors is an American private investigator of Armenian heritage. ...
Mission: Impossible is the name of an American television series which aired on the CBS network from September 1966 to September 1973. ...
The Virginian was a Western-themed television series which aired on NBC from 1962 to 1971. ...
Mister Rogers Neighborhood was a childrens television show created and hosted by Fred Rogers which was produced by Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania public broadcaster WQED and Rogers not-for-profit production company Family Communications, Inc. ...
Petula Clark in the 1968 Warner Brothers film version Finians Rainbow, with music by Burton Lane and lyrics by E.Y. Harburg, opened on Broadway in 1947, with Ella Logan and David Wayne in the lead roles. ...
Rare childrens storybook based upon Left to right: David McCallum, Robert Vaughn, and the late Leo G. Carroll. ...
The Wild Wild West Season 1 VHS The Wild Wild West was an American television series that ran on CBS for four seasons (104 episodes) from September 17, 1965 to September 7, 1970. ...
Dr. Maggie Graham (Bettye Ackerman) and Vince Edwards as the title character Ben Casey was a medical drama series which ran on ABC from 1961 to 1966. ...
The Forest Rangers was a Canadian television series that ran from 1963 to 1966. ...
This Land was a Canadian television series, which aired from 1970 to 1986 on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. ...
The Merv Griffin Show was a long-running American television talk show, starring singer Merv Griffin. ...
Awards - 1980 and 1981 - Don Francks won ACTRA Awards for Best Dramatic Performance for his roles in Drying Up The Streets and The Phoenix Team.
An ACTRA Award is a Canadian prize given to members of the Alliance of Canadian Cinema, Television and Radio Artists for accomplishment in film, radio and television. ...
Selected discography - At The Purple Onion, with Lenny Breau and Eon Henstridge, 2004, Art of Life Records. Recorded live at the coffeehouse Purple Onion in Toronto in August 1962.
- No One In This World Is Like Don Francks, LP, 1963, Knapp Records. Don Francks, Lenny Breau and Eon Henstridge formed the trio Three.
- Lost... and Alone, LP, 1964, Kapp Records.
Lenny Breau (August 5, 1941–August 12, 1984) was a brilliantly innovative American-born Canadian jazz guitarist who brought together country, classical, flamenco and jazz guitar techniques, then merged and developed them into a unique and influential personal style. ...
33â…“ LP vinyl record album from the 1960s A gramophone record (also phonograph record, or simply record) is an analogue sound recording medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed modulated spiral groove. ...
External links - Don Francks at the Internet Movie Database
- Don Francks' official website
- Encyclopedia of Music in Canada, Don Francks
- fan site with intel, interviews, transcripts, music and more
- Don Francks on Northern Stars
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