Background
Gary Franklin was born to a Jewish family in Leipzig, Germany on September 22, 1928.
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Education
City College of New New York
Career
His family moved to the United States in 1938 to escape persecution by the Nazis. Franklin earned a bachelor"s degree in film at the City College of New New York He worked as a cameraman for the United States. Army during the Korean War.
He began creating documentaries in New York and Canada following his return for the war.
Franklin began his broadcasting career in 1954 in Virginia. He worked for several radio and television stations throughout the United States before his career led him to Los Angeles in 1972 where he became a roving night-side news reporter for all-news radio station KFWB. While at KFWB, Franklin occasionally contributed film reviews and in 1981 he was hired by KNXT (now KCBS-television) as a full-time film critic.
Franklin"s career as a film critic was most associated with KABC-television where he was employed from 1986 to 1991. While at KABC-television, he used a 1-to-10 ratings scale (10 being the best) calling it "The Franklin Scale" for his movie reviews.
Gary Franklin suffered four separate strokes in the final years of his life.
He died on October 2, 2007 at his home in Chatsworth, California at the age of 79.
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