David Franklin

Acting

David Franklin

Born 1962-05-07 · Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia

David Franklin (born May 7, 1962) is an Australian actor, best known to audiences for his roles as Meeklo Braca in the science fiction TV series Farscape and as Brutus in Xena: Warrior Princess.

Acting credits

The Matrix Reloaded poster
7.1

The Resistance builds in numbers as humans are freed from the Matrix and brought to the city of Zion. Neo discovers his superpowers, including the ability to see the code inside the Matrix. With machine sentinels digging to Zion in 72 hours, Neo, Morpheus and Trinity must find the Keymaker to ultimately reach the Source.

The Matrix Reloaded

2003

Ben 10: Race Against Time poster
5.9

Ben, Gwen, and Max must stop an extraterrestrial who plans to open a gateway that leads to an alien invasion.

Ben 10: Race Against Time

2008

My Brilliant Career poster
6.2

A young woman who is determined to maintain her independence finds herself at odds with her family who wants her to tame her wild side and get married.

My Brilliant Career

1979

The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course poster
5.4

Steve Irwin, AKA The Crocodile Hunter, has avoided the death-roll and saved a croc from poachers. But what he doesn't know is that the crocodile has swallowed a top secret U.S. satellite beacon, and the poachers are actually American special agents sent to retrieve it.

The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course

2002

The Distant Home poster
5.7

Government authorities incarcerate a girl whose extraterrestrial origin is discovered after an accident with a car.

The Distant Home

1992

The Flood: Who Will Save Our Children? poster
6.3

In rural Comfort, Texas, the strict protestant Horizon Bible church community holds its annual, pretty strictly supervised summer camp, with mandatory prayer sessions, for fraternizing teens from all over the States. The day before their departure, storm weather is announced, the busses even ride early to keep ahead, but the wind makes a river rise too fast: the busses are caught, everybody must run on foot. As TV reporters see from their helicopter, the rising water is too fast for one bus after choosing the wrong way, children and staff must climb in trees but can't cling on very long.

The Flood: Who Will Save Our Children?

1993

Survive the Savage Sea poster
4.8

After their 43-foot schooner was stove in by a pod of killer whales, the six members of the Robertson family spend 37 days adrift in the Pacific with no maps, compass, or navigational instruments.They use every survival technique they can as they battle 20-foot waves, marauding sharks, thirst, starvation, and exhaustion.

Survive the Savage Sea

1992

Shame poster
6.2

Hardened prosecutor Asta Cadell leaves home for a road trip down the coast of Australia. But Cadell's relaxing ride turns tense when her motorcycle malfunctions and she makes a pit stop in a remote town. Cadell meets teen Elizabeth Curtis, who confides that she has just been raped, and Cadell helps the young woman report the crime to the authorities. When police corruption stands in the way of justice, she takes matters into her own hands.

Shame

1988

Early Frost poster
5.3

Private Detective Mike Hayes is working on a divorce case, when he stumbles upon a series of cover-ups that leads to a corpse. His investigation takes him into the lievs of two families living in the Sydney suburbs. Although they look like ordinary people, one of them is the killer. Hayes meets strange teen David Prentice, who keeps a violent crime scrapbook, and Val Meadows, the mistress who believes that someone is trying to kill her. The more the investigation deepens, the more twisted and complex it becomes. It appears the only people who hate Val enough to want her dead, are her own family. Could it be her two sons, alienated by her dominant nature, her lover, or even her best friend?

Early Frost

1982

No artwork available
NR

Vultures in the Void is a comedic sci-fi action thriller about a four-way Mexican standoff in deep space between three pirates and a crooked freighter pilot.

Vultures in the Void

2014

Violet's Visit poster
3.0

Violet, a feisty 15 year-old who prefers the nickname "Scooter" , decides to run away from her boring life in a small town and goes to visit with the father she has never seen. She believes he lives in the city with his new wife, but in fact he is in a gay relationship with his long-time lover. This inevitably leads to changes and readjustments all round as dad gets to know, reluctantly, the daughter he never wanted.

Violet's Visit

1997

Rock n' Roll Cowboys poster
4.5

Working as a roadie for a high decibel rock band, young Mickey Lagrange, fantasizes about someday playing his own songs up on stage. He also longs for the sexy lead singer and is jealous of the spotlight clamoring Guitarist. Desperate and frustrated Mickey is at his wits end as to a solution, until a neighbour supplies him with a synthesizer that creates music through pure thought.

Rock n' Roll Cowboys

1988

No artwork available
NR

Two social workers reach breaking point with the heartless welfare system which treats destitute children as criminals. Reaching out to these children means entering into the world of drain kids, pinball parlour pimps, graffiti gangs, the 14-year-old dealers and their 12-year-old customers. It's an exhausting and sometimes dangerous occupation but they care about the kids with a passion and the successes make it all worthwhile.

Street Angels

1991