Richard Franklin

Born July 15, 1948· Brighton, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

† Died July 11, 2007

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Emerging from the Brighton suburb of Melbourne, Franklin pursued film studies at the University of Southern California, where he befriended Alfred Hitchcock and shared classes with future luminaries such as George Lucas and John Carpenter. After returning to Australia in the 1970s, he cut his teeth on episodes of the police drama Homicide before helming the provocative comedies The True Story of E…

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources