DETROIT FREE PRESS 4\/11\/93<\/b>
\nSunday, April 11, 1993<\/p>\n
Bettelou Peterson<\/i>
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TV BOOK; CELEBRITY QUESTION<\/i>S<\/b><\/p>\n
Q.<\/b> What’s the name of the Englishman who plays Teddy’s boss on “Sisters”? Is he married? What’s his age? What else has he done? – Mrs. L.C. Wright, Detroit<\/p>\n
A.<\/b> Mark Frankel, who plays Simon Bolt, is from London, England. He won’t give his age, but he’s twentysomething and is married to actress Caroline Besson. His credits are in British TV.<\/p>\n DETROIT FREE PRESS 9\/6\/94<\/b> ‘SISTERS’ ACTOR STUDIED AT LONDON ACADEMY<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n STACY JENEL SMITH<\/i><\/p>\n Page: 13C<\/p>\n Memo: ASK STACY<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Q.<\/b> Please tell me the name of the actor who played Simon Bolt on the series “Sisters.” Could you also tell me if he’s been in other roles? – Karla J., Jamaica, N.Y.<\/p>\n A.<\/b> British-born Mark Frankel is the actor you mean. A graduate of London’s Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts, he was cast as the title character of TNT’s “Michelangelo: A Season of Giants” while acting in his first professional stage play. He went on to play Count Orlov in TNT’s “Young Catherine” with Vanessa Redgrave and Christopher Plummer. Frankel’s other credits include several London stage productions.<\/p>\n INDIANAPOLIS NEWS 11\/23\/94<\/b> SHULL’S MAILBAG Dear R.K. Shull:<\/b> My friends and I love the new show “Fortune Hunter”. We would like to know about the guy who plays Carlton Dial. I love the accent. Where is he from? – C.D.<\/p>\n Dear Reader:<\/b> Mark Frankel is a classically-trained English actor best known as one of Sela Ward’s ex-beaus on “Sisters”. He had tried out for the James Bond film role that has gone to Pierce Brosnan. As a consolation prize, he got to do “Fortune Hunter”, a Bond spoof.<\/p>\n SUN-SENTINEL<\/b> TV Book<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n Tom Jicha<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Q.<\/b> Will Fox be bringing back Kindred: the Embraced? Also, could you tell me a little about the star, Mark Frankel? – Harriet Clement, Miramar<\/p>\n A.<\/b> Fox has driven a spike through the heart of Kindred: the Embraced. This was the second strike for Frankel at Fox. Last season he played the lead in Fortune Hunter, an attempt to knock off James Bond. He also had a recurring role in Sisters.<\/p>\n INDIANAPOLIS STAR<\/b> SHULL’S MAILBAG<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n Disengaged<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Dear R.K. Shull:<\/b> Whatever happened to Kindred: the Embraced? Are they going to be back again? – L.M.<\/p>\n Dear Reader:<\/b> Just call it Kissed-off: the Rejected. Fox dumped it.<\/p>\n INDIANAPOLIS STAR 11\/21\/96<\/b> SHULL’S MAILBAG<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n Vampire died<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Dear R.K. Shull:<\/b> A lot of people write to you about a show on Fox last season, Kindred: the Embraced. I thought they might like to know that in Soap Opera Weekly it was reported that handsome and very talented Mark Frankel that played the head vampire was killed in a motorcycle crash in London. The soap opera press is always right about matters that are about soap stars. – A.M.<\/p>\n Dear Reader:<\/b> It didn’t happen in just Soap Opera Weekly, it’s a fact that Frankel, 34, died Sept. 25 of injuries from a cycle accident in West London in his native England. In addition to the short-lived vampire show he was seen over here in 1991 in the TNT miniseries, Young Catherine.<\/p>\n PARADE MAGAZINE<\/b> Walter Scott’s Personality Parade<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Q.<\/b> I was captivated by the late Mark Frankel who played the vampire prince on FOX’s Kindred: The Embraced series. Can you tell me about his personal life his other roles and the circumstances of his death? – L.D.A. Tampa, Fla.<\/p>\n A.<\/b> “Mark died on Sept. 24 after his motorcycle was hit by a truck in West London in an accident still being investigated,” a source close to the actor told us. “It’s very sad, especially because his wife, Caroline, is pregnant with their second child.” Frankel, who was 34, also left a son, Fabian, 2. Prior to “Kindred,” Frankel was an internationally ranked tennis player. He gave up tennis for acting and appeared in two American series “Sisters” and “Fortune Hunter,” plus a pair of British mini-series “Young Catherine” and “Michelangelo: A Season of Giants.” He also starred in the films “Leon The Pig Farmer” (a cult classic in Europe) and “Solitaire for Two” both directed by Gary Sinyor. A few months before his death, Frankel completed “Roseanna’s Grave,” a romantic comedy set for release on Valentine’s Day. His “Roseanna” co-star, the Oscar winner Mercedes Ruehl, told us, “Everyone in the tiny Italian village where we were filming – especially the children – grew to love Mark. Besides being physicallly beautiful, he was a beautiful soul and a gentle person.”<\/p>\n
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