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Franklin Cover Biography

Birth Name:
Franklin Edward Cover
Birth Place:
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Profession
Actor

Fast Facts

  • Acting career began on stage in Hamlet and Henry IV
  • Appeared in numerous Broadway productions, including Applause and Born Yesterday
  • Made history playing the husband in the first interracial married couple featured on a network primetime show (Tom Willis on The Jeffersons)
  • Son, Bradford Cover, is also an actor

Relationships

  • Susan -- Daughter
  • Franklin Held Cover -- Father
  • Britta Cover -- Mother
  • Mary Bradford Stone -- Wife