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Franklin (Peanuts)
Franklin, sometimes Franklin Armstrong, is Peanuts' first Black character, debuting July 31, 1968 after schoolteacher Harriet Glickman's letters to Charles Schulz; he met Charlie Brown via a beach ball and got his surname in 1994 as homage to cartoonist Robb Armstrong.
Franklin (TV series)
Franklin is a Canadian animated preschool educational series from Nelvana, based on the Franklin the Turtle books by Paulette Bourgeois and Brenda Clark, about a young turtle growing up in Woodland.
Franklin & Bash
Franklin & Bash: TNT legal comedy-drama (2011-2014) created by Bill Chais and Kevin Falls, starring Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Breckin Meyer as street lawyers recruited into a Los Angeles firm; four seasons, canceled after ratings fell 32 percent.
Franklin Cover
Franklin Cover, full name Franklin Edward Cover, was an American actor best known as Tom Willis on The Jeffersons and for his long Broadway stage career.
Franklin J. Schaffner
Franklin J. Schaffner (1920–1989), American film and television director, Oscar winner for Patton (1970), also directed Planet of the Apes, Papillon, and The Boys from Brazil; four-time Emmy winner and DGA president 1987–89.
Franklin Richards (character)
Franklin Benjamin Richards, Marvel Comics character, firstborn son of Reed Richards and Sue Storm of the Fantastic Four; debuted in Fantastic Four Annual #6 (1968) as a reality-warping, universe-creating powerhouse whose mutant status has been retconned.
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn
"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn" is Rhett Butler's closing line in Gone with the Wind (1939), ranked number 1 movie quote by the AFI, fought over with Hollywood censors, and fined $5,000.
Franky Doyle (Wentworth)
Franky Doyle (Francesca Doyle) is a fictional inmate, former Top Dog, and central character of the Foxtel prison drama Wentworth (2013–2021), played by Nicole da Silva, exonerated by season 6; a reimagining of Carol Burns's 1979 Prisoner character.
Frantic (film)
Frantic is a 1988 mystery thriller directed by Roman Polanski, starring Harrison Ford as an American doctor searching Paris for his wife, who vanished from their hotel.
Frantz
Frantz is a 2016 French-German drama by François Ozon, starring Paula Beer and Pierre Niney, set in post-WWI Germany, loosely adapting Rostand's play and Lubitsch's Broken Lullaby, shot mostly in black and white.
Franz (2025 film)
Franz (2025) is Agnieszka Holland's kaleidoscopic biographical drama of Franz Kafka, starring Idan Weiss, 127 minutes, a Czech-German-Polish co-production, Poland's 98th Academy Awards International Feature submission.
Franziska von Karma
Franziska von Karma (狩魔 冥, Karuma Mei) is the whip-wielding prodigy prosecutor of Capcom's Ace Attorney series, daughter of Manfred von Karma, who debuted in Justice for All as Phoenix Wright's rival after passing the bar exam at age 13.
Fraser Clarke Heston
Fraser Clarke Heston, born 1955 in Los Angeles, is an American director, screenwriter, and producer, son of Charlton Heston; known for Needful Things (1993), Treasure Island (1990), Alaska (1996), and Agamemnon Films.
Frasier
Frasier (2023 Paramount+ revival): Kelsey Grammer returns as Dr. Frasier Crane, now teaching at Harvard in Boston after 11 NBC seasons (1993-2004) of the Cheers spin-off; canceled January 2025 after two 10-episode seasons.
Frasier (2023 TV series)
Frasier (2023) is the Paramount+ revival of the NBC sitcom, starring Kelsey Grammer as Dr. Frasier Crane, who returns to Boston to teach at Harvard and reconnect with son Freddy. Two seasons, 2023–2024; canceled January 2025.
Frasier Crane
Frasier Crane, also Dr. Frasier Winslow Crane, is the fictional psychiatrist played by Kelsey Grammer on Cheers (from 1984), the NBC spin-off Frasier (1993–2004, Seattle radio psychiatrist, 37 Emmys), and the 2023 Paramount+ revival set in Boston.
Frat Pack
The Frat Pack, also called the Slacker Pack, was a 2000s Hollywood comedy-actor collective of Ben Stiller, Will Ferrell, Owen Wilson, and Vince Vaughn, named in 2004 after the Rat and Brat Packs.
Frauds (TV series)
Frauds is a 2025 six-part ITV heist drama created by Suranne Jones and Anne-Marie O'Connor, starring Jones and Jodie Whittaker as conwomen Bert and Sam planning an art heist in Spain; distinct from a 2014 Fox comedy project of the same name.
Frazer Hines
Frazer Hines (Frazer Simpson Frederick Hines), British actor born 1944 in Horsforth, Yorkshire; played Jamie McCrimmon, the most prolific Doctor Who companion (1966–1969), and Joe Sugden in Emmerdale Farm (1972–1994).
Freak show
A freak show, also known as circus freaks, was commercial entertainment at circuses and fairs displaying people with unusual bodies, peaking in the late nineteenth century.
Freak Show (film)
Freak Show (2017) is Trudie Styler's comedy-drama, adapted from James St. James's novel, starring Alex Lawther as Billy Bloom, a gay teen running for homecoming queen; premiered at Berlinale, released by IFC Films in 2018.
Freakazoid!
Freakazoid! is a 1995–1997 Warner Bros./Amblin animated comedy about geek Dexter Douglas, transformed into a zany internet superhero. Created by Bruce Timm and Paul Dini, developed by Tom Ruegger for Steven Spielberg; 24 episodes, voiced by Paul Rugg.
Freaked
Freaked (1993) is an American cult comedy directed by Tom Stern and Alex Winter, written with Tim Burns, about a former child star mutated at a mad scientist's freak farm; a Fox release that flopped on two screens and later received a 4K restoration.
Freakier Friday
Freakier Friday (2025) is Disney's sequel to Freaky Friday, directed by Nisha Ganatra, starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan in a four-way body swap; it earned $153.2M worldwide and a 73% Rotten Tomatoes score.
Freakish (TV series)
Freakish is a Hulu horror drama series created by Beth Szymkowski for AwesomenessTV, running 2016–2017 in two seasons of 20 episodes, about students trapped in Kent High School after a chemical plant meltdown unleashes predatory mutants.
Freaks (1932 film)
Freaks (1932) is Tod Browning's MGM pre-Code horror drama, also known as Nature's Mistakes, about circus sideshow performers who avenge a trapeze artist's betrayal; cut, banned in the UK, later a cult classic.
Freaks (2018 film)
Freaks (2018 film), also listed as Freaks (2019), a sci-fi thriller by Zach Lipovsky and Adam B. Stein starring Lexy Kolker, Emile Hirsch, and Bruce Dern; TIFF 2018 premiere, $368,410 worldwide gross, Metascore 63, 88% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Freaks and Geeks
Freaks and Geeks: 1999–2000 NBC one-season teen dramedy by Paul Feig and Judd Apatow, set 1980–81 Detroit suburb, starring Linda Cardellini, Seth Rogen, James Franco, Jason Segel; canceled after 18 episodes.
Freaks of Nature (film)
Freaks of Nature is a 2015 American horror-comedy film directed by Robbie Pickering, in which a human, a vampire, and a zombie teen fight an alien invasion in Ohio.
Freaks Part II
Freaks Part II (also Freaks Underground) is a 2026 Canadian sci-fi horror sequel to Freaks (2018), written, directed, and produced by Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein, starring Amanda Crew, Lili Taylor, and Lorelei Olivia Mote; it premiered as Fantasia 2026's closing film and was acquired by Paramount.