Franklyn Ajaye
13. mai 1949 (77 aastat), Brooklyn, New York, USA
Franklyn Ajaye (born May 13, 1949) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. His nickname is "The Jazz Comedian" for his distinctive jazz-inflected style of delivery, timing, and use of silence. He released a series of comedy albums starting in 1973 and has acted in film and television shows from the 1970s through the present, including as a primary character in the 1976 ensemble comedy Car Wash and a supporting role in Sam Peckinpah's Convoy (1978).
Tuntud rollide järgi
7.5 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
6.9 Saturday Night Live
1975
8.1 Deadwood
2004
7.3 Barney Miller
1975
7.0 The Bionic Woman
1976
6.7 Goof Troop
1992
6.3 Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
6.5 Pruutneitsid
2011
6.1 Queen of the Damned
2002
6.8 The 'Burbs
1989
6.4 Thank God You're Here
2006
7.1 Utopia
2014
Filmograafia
- 2019Deadwood: Film (Samuel Fields)
- 2014Utopia (Marvin Hudfield)
- 2011Pruutneitsid (Lillian's Dad)
- 2010The Green Room with Paul Provenza (Self)
- 2010I Am Comic (Self)
- 2009Why We Laugh: Black Comedians on Black Comedy (Self)
- 2008Before They Die! ((Voice))
- 2006Thank God You're Here
- 2004Deadwood (Samuel Fields)
- 2002Queen of the Damned (Dealer)
- 1995Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (Sporty the Cat (voice))
- 1993American Yakuza (Sam)
- 1992Goof Troop ((voice))
- 1990Franklyn Ajaye: Upside Downunder
- 1989Robert Townsend: Partners in Crime: Vol. 4
- 1989Robert Townsend: Partners in Crime: Vol. 3
- 1989The 'Burbs (Detective #1)
- 1988Robert Townsend: Partners in Crime: Vol. 2
- 1988The Wrong Guys (Franklyn)
- 1987Robert Townsend: Partners in Crime: Vol. 1
- 1987Hollywood Shuffle (Body Guard #1)
- 1985Fraternity Vacation (Harry)
- 1983Get Crazy (Cool)
- 1982Hysterical (Leroy)
- 1982The New Odd Couple (Henry)
- 1980The Jazz Singer (Bubba)
- 1980Kanapead vanglas (Young Man in Hospital)
- 1978Convoy (Spider Mike)
- 1976Car Wash (Theodore Chauncy "T.C." Alcott (The Fly))
- 1976Sweet Revenge (Edmund)
- 1976The Bionic Woman
- 1975Saturday Night Live (Self)
- 1975Barney Miller (Wendell Frazier)
- 1969Uncle Tom's Fairy Tales
- 1962The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (Self)