John Franklin

John Franklin is the actor who played Kipp in the seventh season episode .
Franklin has a growth hormone deficiency, and only grew to about five feet tall. He is best known for playing Isaac Chroner in the 1984 horror film Children of the Corn based on the short story of the same name by . He played a teenager despite being twenty-three at the time of filming due to his deficiency. He later co-starred in (1988, with Brad Dourif, Catherine Hicks, and Chris Sarandon), (1997, with Kirsten Dunst and Lindsay Ridgeway), (1997, with Kirsten Dunst, Geoffrey Blake, John Cho, Andrea Martin, J. Patrick McCormack, Phil Morris, Suzie Plakson, Rick Scarry, and Jack Shearer). Franklin's next film role was in the straight-to-video The Killing Grounds (1998, with Charles Rocket). Franklin never made it to the big screen even in his next film, Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return (1999, with Paul Popowich). Telefilms followed, first with (2000,with David Bowe, Ed Lauter, and Wil Wheaton) and 2004's Tales of a Fly on the Wall (directed by Brian Tochi and co-starring Jason Marsden). Franklin's most prominent work was in The Addams Family movie series portraying the diminutive Cousin Itt (a role first played by Felix Silla in the original TV series) sharing the big screen success with Christopher Lloyd and Carel Struycken with them alone in the first film released in 1991, but Franklin, Lloyd, and Struycken were joined in the 1993 sequel Addams Family Values by Ian Abercrombie, Camille Saviola, and Rick Scarry. After the September 11th terrorist attacks, he retired from acting and began teaching eventually returning to acting after fourteen years.
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