Franklin Edward Cover Net Worth Is $300,000 Franklin Edward Cover Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family Franklin Edward Cover (November 20, 1928 –...
Franklin Edward Cover Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Franklin Edward Cover (November 20, 1928 – February 5, 2006) was an American actor best known for starring on the sitcom The Jeffersons. His character, Tom Willis, was half of one of the first interracial marriages to be seen on prime-time television.
Full Name
Franklin Edward Cover
Net Worth
$300,000
Date Of Birth
November 20, 1928
Died
2006-02-05
Place Of Birth
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Height
6' 4" (1.93 m)
Occupation
Actor
Profession
Actor
Spouse
Mary Bradford Stone,
Nicknames
Franklin Cover, Cover, Franklin
Star Sign
Scorpio
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Fact
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Played opposite African-American actress Roxie Roker as the character of Tom Willis on The Jeffersons (1975). They became one of the first interracial marriages to be seen weekly on prime-time television.
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Son of Franklin Held and Britta (née Schreck) Cover.
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Originally from the classical stage where he played parts in such Shakespearean plays as "Julius Caesar," "Hamlet," "Macbeth" (title role) and "Henry IV, Part I".
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Wife Mary Bradford Stone was a dance company director. Their children are Bradford, Franklin and Susan.
5
Son Bradford is a 1985 graduate of Milton Academy.
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Cover attended Denison University, graduating in 1951. He was one of 12 members of the Denison Players, a troupe who acted as an exchange group first around the United Kingdom in the summer of 1953, and then around U.S. military bases in Europe and East Asia from 1954 to 1958.
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His career spanned four decades in show business.
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Has one son, Bradford and one daughter, Susan
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Brain Donors
1992
Doctor
Davis Rules
1992
TV Series
Captain
In the Heat of the Night
1991
TV Series
Tommy Vincent
Who's the Boss?
1991
TV Series
Mr. Campbell / Mr. Kimball
They Came from Outer Space
1991
TV Series
Mr. Renick
Zits
1988
FBI Chief
Hothouse
1988
TV Series
Sheriff Joe Gates
227
1988
TV Series
Albert Blotchbinder
Wall Street
1987
Dan
The Love Boat
1985
TV Series
Marvin Brown
The Jeffersons
1975-1985
TV Series
Tom Willis
A Woman Called Golda
1982
TV Movie
Hubert Humphrey
The Day the Bubble Burst
1982
TV Movie
Herbert Hoover
The Stepford Wives
1975
Ed Wimpiris
All in the Family
1975
TV Series
Tom Willis
Change at 125th Street
1974
TV Movie as Frank Cover
The Connection
1973
TV Movie
Lee Harris
Short Walk to Daylight
1972
TV Movie
Conductor
Between Time and Timbuktu
1972
TV Movie
Col. Donald 'Tex' Pirandello
What's So Bad About Feeling Good?
1968
Medical Expert (uncredited)
N.Y.P.D.
1967-1968
TV Series
Pepper / The Captain
The Jackie Gleason Show
1967
TV Series
Police Officer / Police Officer Callahan
Mirage
1965
Group Leader (as Franklin E. Cover)
Naked City
1962
TV Series
Steelworker
Play of the Week
1960
TV Series
Will & Grace
1999
TV Series
Justice of the Peace
Almost Heroes
1998
Nicholas Burr
Mad About You
1998
TV Series
Yankee Infielder
Columbo
1997
TV Series
Harry Jenkins
New York Daze
1996
TV Series
Professor Skaggs
Coach
1996
TV Series
Gunnar
Batman: The Animated Series
1994
TV Series
General Vreeland
Living Single
1994
TV Series
Professor Fletcher
ER
1994
TV Series
Mr. Thurnhurst
A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle
