Franklin B. Coates
actor, director, writer
- Birth name:
- Franklin Bentley Coates
- Born:
- 1879-07-13, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA
- Professions:
- actor, director, writer
Biography
Franklin B. Coates first drew breath on a steamy 13 July 1879 in Springfield, Massachusetts, a day that quietly set the stage for a career in silent-era spectacle. Within a decade of the new century he was behind the camera, marshalling apes for The Revenge of Tarzan (1920), launching biplanes across the skies in A Romance of the Air (1918), and chasing bandits through the hills for Jesse James as the Outlaw (1921).
