David Franklin

David has done numerous commercials, including those for Rogaine, Tommy Cologne, Sunscape Sunglass Shops, and the Mitsubishi Mirage.

David is represented professionally by the firm Mollison Keightley Management.

David was the third and last actor to play the role of Brutus on Xena.

David laments the fact that Farscape ended a year sooner than it's creators intended, because they had planned to do an episode centered around his character Meeklo Braca, developing his character's back story.

David likes to joke that his character Meeklo Braca was like the character Smithers on The Simpsons, and Scorpius was Mr Burns. That's fine with him, because he's a big fan of The Simpsons, and watches it regularly.

When asked if he modeled his character of Meeklo Braca from Farscape on anyone, he said that the person who came to his mind was Alan Rickman in Galaxy Quest, because "he's got that jaded evil thing going on."

David's favorite role was on a miniseries called Blue Murder. It was a true story based on corruption in the New South Wales, Australia police force. David played a villain who he describes as "mad as a cut snake", that is, psycho.

David was greatly relieved when his character Braca was promoted to Captain on the show Farscape, because he says they gave him a new uniform that wasn't skintight like his Lieutenant's uniform. But a few months later when they did a flashback episode ("Unrealized Reality") he had to wear his old costume, and much to everyone's dismay (especially his) it no longer fit! And since they hadn't thought to try it on ahead of time they didn't have time to make any major adjustments to it, so he was forced to squeeze himself into it as best as he could.

David would like to eventually move into producing.

David was only signed for his role as Lt Braca on Farscape one day before he shot his first episode. That meant the costume department couldn't create a complete PeaceKeeper uniform for him before the shoot, so they gave him a pair of galoshes instead of proper boots, and had him wear a borrowed costume.

David starred as Elvis Presley in the musical Are You Lonesome Tonight?

While shooting The Matrix Reloaded they took a week to film the scene with David in it. They weren't sure if they wanted David's character the Maitre D' to speak English, French, or English with a French accent, so they filmed it all three ways.

David's least favorite part of appearing on Xena was the fake blood. It was a mixture of maple syrup, coffee, and red food coloring, and for his death scene he was forced to have a full mouthful of it. Lucy says in the episode's commentary that between takes David spent the whole time retching.

Franklin freely admits that he told a "little white lie" to become involved with the show. He saw Xena screening in Australia, and thought it was a cool show. So he decided that he'd really love to be on it and he got his agents to get in touch with the casting people. Unfortunately, they said, "We're not interested in taking anybody from Australia." So he flew over to New Zealand and got his agents to call up and say that he was over there for a wedding, and that he might pop in and say hello. Franklin's plan worked. They said, "While you're here, why don't you read for this character that's coming up?" So he ended up doing an audition, and they offered him the role of Brutus.