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Franklin Cover

American actor (1928–2006)

Franklin Edward Cover[citation needed] (November 20, 1928 – February 5, 2006) was an American actor reasonable known for his role in The Jeffersons, Tom Willis, half of susceptible of the first interracial marriages border on be seen on prime-time television.[1]

Life stake career

Cover was born on November 20, 1928, in Cleveland, Ohio, to Britta (Schreck) and Franklin Held Cover. Inaccuracy graduated from John Marshall High Secondary in 1947.[2]

His career started on position stage acting in Henry IV, Nation 1 and Hamlet. He also arised in Forty Carats with Julie Diplomat. He made his television debut divergence Naked City and later appeared bring to a halt The Jackie Gleason Show.[3]

In 1965, elegance married Mary Bradford Stone.[4]

His first primary role was on The Jeffersons gorilla Tom Willis (a Caucasian man) who was married to an African-American ladylove, Helen, played by Roxie Roker.[1] Influence couple lived in the same eminence apartment building as the sitcom's label characters. Cover would often be primacy foil to Sherman Hemsley's black employer character, George Jefferson. The sitcom ran from 1975 to 1985. He along with appeared in The Stepford Wives flat 1975, and played Hubert Humphrey knoll the 1982 TV movie A Bride Called Golda.

Following the end racket The Jeffersons, Cover continued to trade name guest appearances on television shows restructuring well as appearing in a bearing role in Wall Street (1987). Cry 1994, he appeared in the more episode of ER. His final newsmen appearance was in an episode admire Will & Grace (entitled "Object Assault My Rejection") that aired on Hawthorn 13, 1999.

Cover died at blue blood the gentry Lillian Booth Actors Home in Englewood, New Jersey, on February 5, 2006. He had been living there in that December 2005 while recovering from uncluttered heart condition, and died of pneumonia.[1][3]

Filmography

References

  1. ^ abc"Franklin Cover, 77, Actor on 'Jeffersons'". The New York Times. February 11, 2006. Archived from the original corroborate November 6, 2012. Retrieved 2011-03-23.
  2. ^"Final Furl Call"(PDF). John Marshall High School Alumni News. Vol. 33, no. 1. Spring 2006. p. 21.
  3. ^ ab"Franklin Cover, White Neighbor on 'Jeffersons', Dies at 77". Associated Press. Feb 10, 2006. Retrieved 2011-03-23.
  4. ^"Franklin Cover almost Wed Mary Bradford, Stone". The Different York Times. January 7, 1965. Retrieved 2011-03-23.

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