Carl Franklin studied history and dramatic arts at UC Berkeley. After several years as a television actor with guest shots, roles in TV movies, miniseries, and appearing as a regular on a few unsuccessful series, he returned to school and received his master's degree in directing from the American Film Institute. He was then hired by Roger Corman's Concorde Films because they were impressed with his thesis film. Although it took several years, in 1992 Franklin made his directorial breakthrough with the crime drama One False Move (1992), the story of a manhunt for three small-time criminals after a drug deal that had gone bad. The film also earned him the New Generation Award by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association in 1992, the MTV Movie Award for Best New Filmmaker and the IFP Spirit Award for Best Director in 1993. Franklin wrote and directed Denzel Washington in Devil in a Blue Dress (1995). Despite rave reviews from the critics, the film failed to attract an audience. In 1998 Franklin directed the adaptation of Anna Quindlen's autobiographical novel One True Thing (1998) with Meryl Streep, Renée Zellweger, and William Hurt. This film, too, had difficulty at the box office, but earned Streep Oscar and Golden Globe nominations as a mother dying of cancer. He returned to television for a few years directing the series Partners (1995). In 2002 he returned to films with High Crimes (2002).
Carl G. Brooks is known for The Bacon Hair (2020), Ghostrunner (2020) and Black Clover (2017).
Carl Gabriel Yorke was born on November 23, 1952 in Burbank, California, USA. He is an actor, known for Cannibal Holocaust (1980), Apollo 13 (1995) and Idle Hands (1999).
Carl Gallagher is an actor, known for Adventures of Little Herbert in Mushroom Land (2008).
Carl Garcia is known for Ignored (2022), Until the Day I Die: Part 1 (2016) and Community Theater Christmas (2019).
Carl Garrison is an actor, known for Hostile (2017), Unknown Soldier (2004) and Flaky (2021).
Carl Gilliard Actor, Producer, Director, Writer, Educator, Entertainment Consultant Carl Rousseau Gilliard is the President/CEO of the Gilliard Media Group, LLC (GMG), based in Los Angeles, CA. GMG provides media consultation, casting, media content creation, publishing, coaching and entertainment production services. His wife, Latonya Gilliard, serves as Vice President of Operations. Carl is also the Co-Creator of the Bill Duke Media Foundation's Youth Media Camp, a non-profit organization with a distinct emphasis on offering new media arts and financial literacy to inner-city youth, ages 15 thru 18, in South Los Angeles, California. Carl is a graduate of Michigan State University, and a native of Detroit, Michigan, by way of Chicago, Illinois. Upon moving to California, he dove into acting and landed many television and film roles, which facilitated his masterful skills in networking and forming relationships that has catapulted him into becoming extremely well-respected in the industry. Carl has numerous film credits, including: Inception (Warner Bros), Red Eye (DreamWorks), Coach Carter (Paramount), and many television credits, including: Shameless, Greys Anatomy, Amazon's The Last Tycoon & House, MD, just to name a few. Mr Gilliard is presently recurring on the hit action/drama, The Family Business, now streaming on BET+. and on Peacock's Bel Air. He has appeared in dozens of independent short and feature films. He is also the Creator, Writer, Executive Producer and Star of the HIT digital series, Two Degrees. Season One of Two Degrees is currently available on Facebook and YouTube as Two Degrees The Series. www.youtube.com/twodegreestheseries Along with starring on the large and small screens, Carl has appeared in dozens of stage plays, including Ninth Wave, South Of Where We Live, The River Niger, Waiting For The Rain, The Living Quarters, and Sweet Lucy's Love Lounge. Carl is an accomplished NAACP Theater Award nominated Producer and Director. He produced and directed, Section 8, Power Couple Struggle, and Peace Be Still in Los Angeles. Carl also produced Steel Magnolias with the FCBC Repertory Company, the drama ministry at Faithful Central Bible Church that he founded in 2006 and led for 10 years. Steel was also nominated for multiple NAACP Theater Awards. Carl resides in Los Angeles, with his wife and business partner, Latonya Gilliard. His children include Corinne Gilliard, a Producer and Executive at Spotify, Colin Gilliard, Musician/Director, and three Bonus children, Raven, Joshua & Jordan.
Carl Goldstein has worked on 50 studio feature films and over 100 television projects as a producer, writer, director and assistant director. He started out as an actor graduate of classical theater from the esteemed Dome Theater School in Montreal and then to Design and Film studies at Ryerson University in Toronto. His first independently produced film The Rock N' Roll Rabbi won an audience favorite award at the World Film Festival in Montreal. Soon after working for Partners Film Company on over 400 commercials, Goldstein found himself working as an assistant director as part of the production team behind Stanley Kubrick and David Lean. During this time, Mr. Goldstein had the opportunity to work closely with many talented directors and producers, such as Sam Raimi, Brian DePalma, Michael Cimino, Sean Penn, Ivan Reitman, Michael Mann, Al Pacino, Robert Benton, Keenan Ivory Wayans, David Madden and John McTernan. He was also given the opportunity to choreograph and direct 2nd Unit action sequences for Last of the Mohicans, Die Hard with a Vengeance, Most Wanted, Path to 911 and Sony Pictures Sniper: Ultimate Kill. He also Co-Produced the film Fatale released in 2020. Between 1997-2006 Goldstein became a prolific episodic television director and creative consultant for a multitude of hit action comedy shows for the young adult market that served FOX Family, Disney, BBC, ABC, NBC, ABC Family, Nickelodeon and many other International Studios. Goldstein also wrote, produced, directed and financed the Regent released feature film "The Bail aka Fizzy Business" with longtime friend and producer Howard Barish (Academy Award Nominee for 13th w/ Ava Du Vernay) as well as Warner Bros Kids first live-action feature length film Zolar for writer-producer Barry Levy (Vantage Point). During the fall of 2005- 2015, Mr. Goldstein purchased the rights to absurdist author Christopher Moore's The Stupidest Angel, co-wrote several screenplays and embarked on creating a major franchise/universe with the characters from the novel. He simultaneously worked as a producer and director for Kandoo Films and ran his production company Swim Pictures as head of production. Mr. Goldstein has had the fortunate opportunity to collaborate and create a variety of marketing campaigns with every network and their entire casts of star talent such as; Sally Fields (Forrest Gump) the cast of "Friends", SNL, Seinfeld, Vampire Diaries, I-Zombie, Prison Break, Nikita, Beverly Hills 90210, Melrose Place, Mad About You, CSI, CSI Miami, Homeland, Breaking Bad, Two and Half Men and The Honeymooners with Cedric the Entertainer. Goldstein won multiple Promax Awards for producing and directing network advertisements and even received a "Two Thumbs Up" from legendary critic Roger Ebert for his two Superbowl Ads for CBS's Martial Law. Carl Goldstein is known to have a vast amount of International production experience having set up productions and filmed in; Colombia, Canada, U.K. South Africa, Eastern Europe, Thailand, Malaysia, Western Europe and the USA . Goldstein is currently working on a film on the profound indigenous actor, Graham Greene entitled, "No Reservation Required".
Member of The Committee, an early improvisational comedy theater group in San Francisco, founded in the mid-1960s, which shared cast members including Gary Goodrow, Larry Hankin, Morgan Upton, Peter Bonerz, Del Close and John Brent, with similar groups such as the Compass Players (St. Louis) and the Second City (Chicago and New York).