Franklyn Seales

Franklyn Seales was an American film, television and stage actor. He was best known for his portrayals of business manager Dexter Stuffins in the 1980s sitcom, Silver Spoons, and reallife convicted cop killer Jimmy Lee Smith in the 1979 film The Onion Field.

Franklyn Vincent Ellison Seales was born on July 15, 1952 in Calliaqua to Francis Seales, a merchant seaman and government employee, and Olive Seales , a homemaker. He was the fifth eldest of eight siblings and second eldest son. Seales was of English, Scottish, African, Portuguese and Native Caribbean descent. He grew up among a colonial gathering of British officersmen with their little sticks and stiff mustaches, Seales would say. He and his family left the West Indies in 1960 and settled in New York City, where he met his eventual brotherinlaw, Jean Dorsinville. Seales attended Lincoln High School in Brooklyn.

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