Hugh Franklin

Hugh Franklin (1916-1986) was an actor of stage and television, best known his long running role as Dr. Charles Tyler on All My Children (from 1970 to 1983). In 1983, his final year on the soap, Franklin appeared as Dr. Mudd in Episode 1789 of Sesame Street. 
Franklin's other TV credits include soap opera stints on Dark Shadows (as lawyer Richard Garner in the early episodes), As the World Turns, and Young Dr. Malone (based on the radio serial), as well as prime-time appearances on The Defenders, N.Y.P.D. (with Jack Warden), and several TV movies. 
A Broadway actor from the 1930s to the seventies, Franklin appeared in The Cherry Orchard, Medea (with John Gielgud), Harriet (with Helen Hayes), a 1947 Alice in Wonderland (replacement as the White Knight), The Devils (with Anne Bancroft and James Coco), The Best Man (first in support and then taking over the lead), and A Shot in the Dark (with William Shatner). He starred in the 1973 revival of The Play's the Thing (adapted from the French by P. G. Wodehouse). 
Franklin's few films included a featured part in 1964's The Curse of the Living Corpse and uncredited roles in The Swimmer (with Burt Lancaster), What's So Bad About Feeling Good? (with Mary Tyler Moore, Dom DeLuise, and Joe Ponazecki), and The Secret Life of an American Wife (with Walter Matthau).
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*Internet Broadway Database
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