Charles Frank
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| birthdate = {{birth date and age|1947|04|17}}
| location = {{flagicon|USA}} [[Olympia, Washington|Olympia]], [[Washington State]], [[United States|U.S.]]
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| occupation = [[Actor]] in ''[[Young Maverick]]'' and ''[[Emerald Point N.A.S.]]''
| spouse = [[Susan Blanchard (actress)|Susan Blanchard]] (1977-present)
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'''Charles R. Frank''' (born [[April 17]], [[1947]]) is an [[United States|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 (actor)|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 [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] [[soap opera]] ''[[All My Children]]''. In 2006, it was announced that the character would be taken over by [[John James (actor)|John James]].
In 1982, he played independently wealthy [[Stanley Beck]] on the short lived series ''[[Filthy Rich (1982 TV series)|Filthy Rich]]''. Frank also played astronaut [[Scott Carpenter]] in the movie version of [[Tom Wolfe]]'s novel ''[[The Right Stuff (book)|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 [[divorce]]s him to marry another lieutenant, Simon Adams, played by [[Richard Dean Anderson]], later [[American Broadcasting Company|ABCs]] ''[[MacGyver]]''.
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?]
===Personal life===
It was on the set of ''All My Children'' that Frank met his wife [[Susan Blanchard (actress)|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.
==External links==
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