Don Francks

Don Harvey Francks, singer, actor (born 28 February 1932 in Burnaby, BC; died 3 April 2016 in Toronto, ON). An actor as a child and later a dixieland trombonist, Francks began his CBC career in Vancouver singing on Lorraine McAllister's radio show Sing for Your Supper and starred 1954-55 with McAllister on The Burns Chuckwagon Show. At Theatre Under the Stars he played leads in Oklahoma (1954) and Anything Goes (1955). Moving to Toronto in 1957 he sang with Patti Lewis on CBC radio's Country Club. Concurrently Francks took roles in many CBC TV dramas and in 1961 starred in The Drylanders, the National Film Board's first feature-length dramatic film. He was in the cast for productions of The Fantasticks, and of Spring Thaw, and other revues, and was co-producer of...