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Frank was reunited with former co-star [[Dixie Carter]] (she played his snide and snobby sister in-law, [[Carlotta Beck|Carlotta]]) on her CBS series, ''[[Designing Women]]''. In a 1992 episode, Frank played Mark, a male date of her character, [[Julia Sugarbaker|Julia]].
Frank was reunited with former co-star [[Dixie Carter]] (she played his snide and snobby sister in-law, [[Carlotta Beck|Carlotta]]) on her CBS series, ''[[Designing Women]]''. In a 1992 episode, Frank played Mark, a male date of her character, [[Julia Sugarbaker|Julia]].


In 2004, Frank narrated "[[C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America]]", a [[mockumentary]] based in an alternate timeline in which the Confederacy won the [[American Civil War]]. Many have viewed it as only yet another attack of the media upon the South and its people by using bigoted stereotypes of Southerners.[source?]
In 2004, Frank narrated "[[C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America]]", a [[mockumentary]] based in an alternate timeline in which the Confederacy won the [[American Civil War]]. Some consider it to be an attack by the media upon the South and its people by using bigoted stereotypes of Southerners.


===Personal life===
===Personal life===

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Charles Frank
Occupation(s)Actor in Young Maverick and Emerald Point N.A.S.
SpouseSusan Blanchard (1977-present)

Charles R. Frank (born April 17, 1947) is an American actor noted for playing Bret Maverick's cousin Ben Maverick in the 1978 TV-movie The New Maverick with James Garner and Jack Kelly, and in the short-lived 1979 television series Young Maverick.

Biography

Career

From 1970 to 1974 (and again in 1988 and 1995), Frank gained his greatest fame playing Dr. Jeff Martin on the ABC soap opera All My Children. In 2006, it was announced that the character would be taken over by John James.

In 1982, he played independently wealthy Stanley Beck on the short lived series Filthy Rich. Frank also played astronaut Scott Carpenter in the movie version of Tom Wolfe's novel The Right Stuff (1983). He costarred in CBS's short-lived (1983-1984) Emerald Point N.A.S. as Jack Warren, who was married to Susan Dey's character, Celia Mallory, who in the series divorces him to marry another lieutenant, Simon Adams, played by Richard Dean Anderson, later ABCs MacGyver.

Frank was reunited with former co-star Dixie Carter (she played his snide and snobby sister in-law, Carlotta) on her CBS series, Designing Women. In a 1992 episode, Frank played Mark, a male date of her character, Julia.

In 2004, Frank narrated "C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America", a mockumentary based in an alternate timeline in which the Confederacy won the American Civil War. Some consider it to be an attack by the media upon the South and its people by using bigoted stereotypes of Southerners.

Personal life

It was on the set of All My Children that Frank met his wife Susan Blanchard, who played his character's wife, Mary Kennicott Martin. They married in 1977 and have one child.

References

  • King, Susan (2003). "Looking back at a film with 'The Right Stuff'; Director Philip Kaufman and some of his stars revisit the making of the 1983 space-race saga." Los Angeles Times. June 7.
  • Smith, Cecil (1979). "Husband-Wife Co-Stars: New Maverick Faces Long Odds." Los Angeles Times. November 26.
  • Wakefield, Dan (1976). All Her Children. New York: Doubleday.