Frankie Faison is an American stage and screen actor, best known for his role as Deputy Commissioner Ervin Burrell in HBO’s television series “The Wire”, and as Barney Matthews in the “Hannibal Lecter” franchise. He studied Drama at Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois, and graduated from New York Universities’ Acting Program.
Frankie Faison Biography / Wiki
| Name | Frankie Faison |
| Also Know | Frankie Russel Faison, Frankie R. Faison, 프ëží‚¤ 페ì´ìŠ¨ |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Newport News, Virginia, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1949-06-10 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 73 |
| Deathday |
Frankie Faison Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Heading Home | Horace Jones | 1995-04-08 | A Vietnam War–era drama chronicling the emotional journey of two unlikely friends who form a bond en route to Washington, D.C…. |
| The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain | Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. | 2021-09-17 | Based on the true story of the events that led to the death of Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., an elderly African American veteran with bipolar disorder, who… |
| Trouble & the Shadowy Deathblow | 2014-06-20 | No man is an island, but there are always exceptions. Meet Jim Funkle, played by Tony Hale. A once promising food scientist, his career came to an end… | |
| Danger Word | Grandpa Joe | 2013-11-07 | A 13-year-old girl and her grandfather, hiding out in a wooded cabin after a plague, meet the challenge of their lives when her birthday trip to a Tra… |
| Gina, An Actress, Age 29 | Albert | 2001-01-20 | A struggling young actress lands her first job…only to discover that her “part” is to lie to an assembly of factory workers to keep them from unioni… |
| Highwaymen | Will Macklin | 2004-02-13 | James Cray watched as his wife was killed by Fargo, a hit-and-run serial murderer. After severely injuring Fargo and going to prison for several years… |
| Tio Papi | Gilly | 2013-09-06 | It was a bachelor’s life for hard-working and fun-loving Ray Ray Dominguez (Joey Dedio) who dreamt of leaving the barrio for a more carefree existen… |
| Messengers | Tom Mabry | 2004-06-27 | Dr. Sarah Chapel returns to the small town of Brighton Mills when her father Dr. Robert Chapel unexpectedly dies. His clients and friends miss him, an… |
| White Chicks | Elliott Gordon | 2004-06-23 | Two FBI agent brothers, Marcus and Kevin Copeland, accidentally foil a drug bust. To avoid being fired they accept a mission escorting a pair of socia… |
| The Rich Man’s Wife | Detective Ron Lewis | 1996-09-13 | A rich man’s wife finds she has a bad prenuptial agreement with an even worse husband. Over drinks with a stranger, she fantasizes about doing her hus… |
| Premium | Phil | 2006-01-02 | Reginald “Cool” Coolidge is a struggling actor, fed up with taking stereotypical African American roles and waiting for his big break in a legitimate … |
| The Spider and the Fly | Lt. Turner | 1994-01-18 | A wager between two novelists about committing the perfect crime becomes real when a murder occurs under the circumstances they had plotted in jest an… |
| Away From Here | Carl | 2014-05-17 | Six years after an affair with the 15-year old daughter of the priest who was his mentor, a former youth minister, now an ex-con and recovering addict… |
| A Little Inside | Tom Donner | 2002-02-17 | When he unexpectedly becomes a single parent, an aspiring professional baseball player trades in his bat for a socket wrench and becomes a small-town … |
| An American Girl Story – Melody 1963: Love Has to Win | Frank Ellison | 2016-10-21 | Set in Detroit during the Civil Rights Movement, “An American Girl Story – Melody 1963: Love Has to Win” examines the joyful life and troubled times o… |
| The Sounding | Roland | 2017-03-10 | On a remote island off the coast of Maine, Liv, after years of silence, begins to weave a language out of Shakespeare’s words. A driven neurologist, b… |
| Redemption in Cherry Springs | Joe | 2021-09-12 | After fallout from a story, reporter Melanie goes home to Cherry Springs for a break. When a friend disappears, she uses her skills to get to the trut… |
| Till | John Carthan | 2022-10-14 | The true story of Mamie Till Mobley’s relentless pursuit of justice for her 14 year old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting h… |
| The Thomas Crown Affair | Detective Paretti | 1999-08-06 | A very rich and successful playboy amuses himself by stealing artwork, but may have met his match in a seductive detective…. |
| Adam | Harlan | 2009-07-07 | Adam, a lonely man with Asperger’s Syndrome, develops a relationship with his upstairs neighbor, Beth…. |
| Down to Earth | Whitney Daniels | 2001-02-16 | Struggling comic Lance Barton knows what it’s like to die on stage. But when his life takes an unexpected turn – straight to heaven – Lance is sure th… |
| Call Me Claus | Dwayne | 2001-12-03 | When Lucy Cullins, a successful but cranky producer at a home shopping network hires an actor named Nick to play Santa Claus on the network, she gets … |
| Exterminator 2 | Be Gee | 1984-09-14 | The flamethrower-wielding vigilante John Eastland returns to rid New York of a drug lord and his gang…. |
| Julian Po | Sheriff Leon | 1997-09-05 | Christian Slater is a stranger who comes to a small town. The local citizens think he’s up to no good. After bothering him for a while, he blurts out … |
| The Sleepy Time Gal | Jimmy Dupree | 2001-01-24 | A young woman learns of her adoption and eventually quits her law firm job and goes on a journey to find her birth mother…. |
| Mayor Cupcake | Lenny Davis | 2011-07-19 | A hard-working cupcake maker is inadvertently elected mayor of a small town burdened with debt. Uneducated, she relies on her street smarts to clean u… |
| The Case for Christ | Joe Dubois | 2017-04-07 | Based on the true story of an award-winning investigative journalist — and avowed atheist — who applies his well-honed journalistic and legal skills… |
| Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later | 2009-06-30 | In this documentary directed by Spike Lee, he interviews the cast and crew of his 1989 film DO THE RIGHT THING. It also includes footage from a twenti… | |
| I’m Your Woman | Art | 2020-10-15 | A woman is forced to go on the run after her husband betrays his partners, sending her and her baby on a dangerous journey…. |
| The Oedipus Project | Shepherd | 2020-06-24 | The Oedipus Project is an innovative new digital initiative by Theater of War Productions that will present acclaimed actors performing scenes from So… |
| Splinterheads | Pope | 2009-11-06 | SPLINTERHEADS introduces Thomas Middleditch as Justin Frost, a twenty-something slacker whose “thing†is that he has no “thing†at all. When a… |
| For Sale By Owner | Gene Woodman | 2009-10-27 | One man’s journey to find his past leads him to discover the secret to one of America’s most haunting mysteries…. |
| Breaking Point | Richter Green | 2009-12-04 | “Breaking Point” is a dramatic tale of corruption and self-realization, in which one man has to overcome a deep-seated conspiracy and his own lingerin… |
| Coming to America | Landlord | 1988-06-29 | An African prince decides it’s time for him to find a princess… and his mission leads him and his most loyal friend to Queens, New York. In disgui… |
| Maximum Overdrive | Handy | 1986-07-25 | When a comet passes close to the earth, machines all over the world come alive and go on homicidal rampages. A group of people at a desolate truck sto… |
| America Brown | Coach Bryant | 2005-10-28 | A coming-of-age drama that centers on a young quarterback from West Texas, a priest in New York, and the two women in their lives…. |
| City of Hope | Levonne | 1991-10-11 | This gritty inner-city film follows various people living in a troubled New Jersey setting, most notably Nick Rinaldi, a disillusioned contractor who … |
| My Blueberry Nights | Travis | 2007-11-28 | Elizabeth has just been through a particularly nasty breakup, and now she’s ready to leave her friends and memories behind as she chases her dreams ac… |
| Cat People | Det. Brandt | 1982-04-02 | After years of separation, Irina and her minister brother, Paul, reunite in New Orleans in this erotic tale of the supernatural. When zoologists captu… |
| Hannibal | Barney Matthews | 2001-02-08 | After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again wh… |
| Jaded | Henry Broker | 1998-07-09 | When an innocent young girl finds herself befriended by two sexy, uninhibited girls at a small-town bar, she discovers that they have more planned tha… |
| Cowgirls n’ Angels | Augustus | 2012-05-25 | A group of rodeo trick-riders recruits a young girl to join them…. |
| The Cookout 2 | JoJo Anderson | 2011-09-03 | Basketball coach Ashmokeem kidnaps and blackmails the opposite team’s player and his family in order to secure the championship for his team…. |
| Freejack | Eagle Man | 1992-01-17 | Time-traveling bounty hunters find a doomed race-car driver in the past and bring him to 2009 New York, where his mind will be replaced with that of a… |
| The Stupids | The Lloyd | 1996-08-08 | An incredibly dull-witted family unknowingly stumble upon an illegal weapons deal while on the trail of their “stolen” garbage…. |
| Mother Night | Robert Sterling Wilson | 1996-11-01 | An American spy behind the lines during WWII serves as a Nazi propagandist, a role he cannot escape in his future life as he can never reveal his real… |
| Albino Alligator | Agent Marv Rose | 1996-09-09 | While escaping from a foiled robbery attempt, three thieves find themselves surrounded by police at a New Orleans bar–only they’re not the people the… |
| An Actor Prepares | Deacon Frank Dodge | 2018-08-31 | After suffering a heart attack, a world-famous and hard-drinking actor is forced to drive across country with his estranged son—who testified agains… |
| The Grudge | William Matheson | 2020-01-01 | After a young mother murders her family in her own house, a detective attempts to investigate the mysterious case, only to discover that the house is … |
| The Silence of the Lambs | Barney Matthews | 1991-02-14 | Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI’s training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatris… |
| In Good Company | Corwin | 2004-12-29 | Dan Foreman is a seasoned advertisement sales executive at a high-ranking publication when a corporate takeover results in him being placed under naiv… |
| Oxygen | Phil Kline | 1999-11-12 | When housewife Frances Hannon is abducted and buried alive, detective Madeline Foster is brought in. With only 24 hours before Frances’ oxygen runs ou… |
| Fatherhood | Mike | 2021-06-18 | A widowed new dad copes with doubts, fears, heartache and dirty diapers as he sets out to raise his daughter on his own. Inspired by a true story…. |
| Sommersby | Joseph | 1993-02-05 | Set in the South just after the US Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm without her husband, believed killed in battle. By al… |
| Red Dragon | Barney Matthews | 2002-10-02 | Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal ‘The Cannibal’ Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it … |
| The Cookout | Jojo Andersen | 2004-09-03 | When Todd Anderson signs a $30 million deal with his hometown team, the New Jersey Nets, he knows that his life is set for a big change. To keep thing… |
| Showtime | Lt. Winship | 2002-03-14 | A spoof of buddy cop movies where two very different cops are forced to team up on a new reality based T.V. cop show…. |
| Mississippi Burning | Eulogist | 1988-12-08 | Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where… |
| Meet the Browns | L.B. | 2008-03-21 | A single mother living in inner city Chicago, Brenda has been struggling for years to make ends meet and keep her three kids off the street. When she’… |
| Permanent Vacation | Man in Lobby | 1980-10-01 | In downtown Manhattan, a twenty-something boy whose Father is not around and whose Mother is institutionalized, is a big Charlie Parker fan. He almost… |
| Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant | Rhamus Twobellies | 2009-10-23 | Darren Shan is a regular teenage kid. He and his friend Steve find out about a Freak Show coming to town and work hard at trying to find tickets. They… |
| Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist | Janitor | 2008-10-03 | Nick cannot stop obsessing over his ex-girlfriend, Tris, until Tris’ friend Norah suddenly shows interest in him at a club. Thus begins an odd night f… |
| Money for Nothing | Madigan | 1993-09-10 | When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides to do the logical thing: take the money and run. … |
| Manhunter | Lt. Fisk | 1986-08-14 | FBI Agent Will Graham, who retired after catching Hannibal Lecktor, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecktor to capture a … |
| Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal | Self | 2001-08-21 | Several aspects of Ridley Scott’s masterpiece Hannibal (2001) are examined through interviews with the cast and crew, and behind the scenes footage. W… |
| C.H.U.D. | Sgt. Parker | 1984-08-31 | A rash of bizarre murders in New York City seems to point to a group of grotesquely deformed vagrants living in the sewers. A courageous policeman, a … |
| Gods and Generals | Jim Lewis | 2003-02-21 | The film centers mostly around the personal and professional life of Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, a brilliant if eccentric Confederate general, from th… |
| Do the Right Thing | Coconut Sid | 1989-06-14 | Salvatore “Sal” Fragione is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn. A neighborhood local, Buggin’ Out, becomes upset when he sees that the pizzer… |
| A Little Sex | Electrician | 1982-04-02 | Michael and Katherine have enjoyed a long relationship together even before they tie the knot. But Michael does not hide the fact he’s a womanizer and… |
| Common Ground | Otis Debnam | 1990-03-25 | Fact based story about the racial tensions that occurred in Boston in the 1970’s because of court ordered busing to end desegregation. The story focus… |
| Brief Interviews with Hideous Men | Subject #42 | 2009-01-19 | After her boyfriend mysteriously leaves her with little explanation, a doctoral candidate in anthropology at a prestigious East Coast university Sara … |
| Ragtime | Gang Member No. 1 | 1981-11-20 | A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nos… |
| Sessions | Intern | 1983-09-26 | High-priced call girl Lee Churchill, is examining her life via therapy “sessions”. Her double life is unknown to her parents, sister and “straight” ma… |
| Where the Money Is | Security Guard | 2000-04-14 | Henry Manning has come up with a new way to break out of prison: fake a stroke and get transferred to a nursing home. It’s a perfect plan, except for … |
| Roommates | Professor Martin | 1995-03-03 | An elderly, yet young-at-heart man, moves in with his grandson, and both their lives turn upside-down…. |
| The Money Pit | James | 1986-03-26 | After being evicted from their Manhattan apartment, a couple buy what looks like the home of their dreams—only to find themselves saddled with a ban… |
| Hanky Panky | Cop Driver | 1982-06-04 | The complete innocent, Michael Jordon, is drawn into a web of secrecy and government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a tax… |
| I Love Trouble | Police Chief | 1994-06-29 | Rival Chicago reporters Sabrina Peterson and Peter Brackett join forces to uncover a train wreck conspiracy…. |
| Thirteen Conversations About One Thing | Dick Lacey | 2001-09-02 | The lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a housecleaner, a professor, and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of… |
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