Frankie Faison

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Frankie Faison

Frankie R. Faison (born June 10, 1949 in Newport News , Virginia ) is an American actor .

Life

Faison studied acting at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington . From 1972 he appeared in the theater. In 1974 he appeared in the Great Performances series in the television staged theater production of King Lear . In 1987 he was nominated for a Tony Award in the category Best Supporting Actor for his role in the play Fences .

In 1982 he had his first major role in a movie in Paul Schrader's Katzenmenschen . In 1986, Faison was in Blood Moon and the Stephen King film adaptation of Rhea M - It Started To See Without Warning . In The Prince of Zamunda in 1988 he took on a role alongside Eddie Murphy as the landlord of a run-down apartment in New York City. In the same year Faison had a supporting role in the drama Mississippi Burning - The Root of Hate as a speaker at a funeral mass. In Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing , he played Coconut Sid , one of three unemployed friends who comment on the film like a Greek choir.

From 1990 he was seen in 35 episodes of the sitom Alles totally normal - Die Bilderbuchfamilie as the father of an intercultural blended family . In the second season of the series, his role was remodeled with Cleavon Little .

In 1991 Faison impersonated the psychiatrist Barney for the first time in Jonathan Demme's thriller The Silence of the Lambs . Faison played the same role in Hannibal (2001) and Roter Drache (2002).

In the Stephen King film adaptation The Langoliers , he appeared in the role of Don Gaffney in 1995 . From 2002 Faison starred in the television series The Wire as Ervin H. Burrell . From 2013 to 2016 he starred in the television series Banshee - Small Town. Big Secrets. the Sugar Bates . He starred as Henry 'Pop' Hunter in two episodes of the Netflix comic series Marvel's Luke Cage .

Faison's marriage to Jane Mandel in 1988 resulted in three children.

Filmography (selection)

Theater (selection)

  • 1972: The Corner (Joseph Papp Public Theater / Susan Stein Shiva Theater)
  • 1973: As You Like It (Delacorte Theater)
  • 1973: King Lear (Delacorte Theater)
  • 1974: Nowhere to Run, Nowhere to Hide (St. Mark's Playhouse)
  • 1974: The Last Days of British Honduras (Joseph Papp Public Theater / Susan Stein Shiva Theater)
  • 1974–1975: Of Mice and Men (Brooks Atkinson Theater)
  • 1976: Livin 'Fat (St. Mark's Playhouse)
  • 1977: The Great Macdaddy (Lucille Lortel Theater)
  • 1978: Black Body Blues (St. Mark's Playhouse)
  • 1979: Coriolanus (Joseph Papp Public Theater / Anspacher Theater)
  • 1984: District Line (Theater Four)
  • 1987–1988: Fences (46th Street Theater)
  • 1989: The Forbidden City (Joseph Papp Public Theater / LuEsther Hall)
  • 1992: Before it Hits Home (Joseph Papp Public Theater / LuEsther Hall)
  • 1993: Playland (New York City Center-Stage II)
  • 1994–1995: The Shadow Box (Circle in the Square Theater)
  • 1996: Getting Away With Murder (Broadhurst Theater)
  • 2006: Two Trains Running (Peter Norton Space)
  • 2013: Water By The Spoonful (Second Stage Theater)

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1987 Tony Award Winners . In: broadwayworld.com, accessed April 5, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Faison, Frankie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Faison, Frankie Russel; Faison, Frankie R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Newport News , Virginia