James Franco (1978)

James Franco
General Information
Birth Name	James Edward Franco
Gender	Male
Birth Place	Palo Alto, California
Birth Date	April 19, 1978
Occupation	Actor, Artist, Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Model, Producer, Teacher, Writer
Years Active	1997 to Present

Filmography

• Pacific Blue (1997) 1 episode
• 1973 (1998)
• To Serve and Protect (1999) 2 episodes
• Profiler (1999) 1 episode
• Never Been Kissed (1999)
• Freaks and Geeks (1999-00) series regular
• Whatever It Takes (2000)
• At Any Cost (2000)
• If Tomorrow Comes (2000)
• The X-Files (2001) 1 episode
• Some Body (2001)
• Mean People Suck (2001)
• James Dean (2001)
• Spider-Man (2002)
• Deuces Wild (2002)
• The Car Kid (2002)
• You Always Stalk the Ones You Love (2002)
• Mother Ghost (2002)
• Blind Spot (2002)
• Sonny (2002)
• City by the Sea (2002)
• The Company (2003)
• Spider-Man 2 (2004)
• The Ape (2005)
• The Great Raid (2005)
• Fool's Gold (2005)
• Tristan + Isolde (2006)
• Annapolis (2006)
• The Wicker Man (2006)
• Flyboys (2006)
• Grasshopper (2006)
• The Dead Girl (2006)
• An American Crime (2007)
• Interview (2007)
• Finishing the Game: The Search for a New Bruce Lee (2007)
• Knocked Up (2007)
• Spider-Man 3 (2007)
• Good Time Max (2007)
• In the Valley of Elah (2007)
• The Hills with James Franco and Mila Kunis (2007)
• Camille (2008)
• Pineapple Express (2008)
• Nights in Rodanthe (2008)
• Milk (2008)
• General Hospital (2009-12) 54 episodes
• 30 Rock (2010) 1 episode
• Howl (2010)
• Date Night (2010)
• Shadows & Lies (2010)
• Masculinity & Me (2010)
• Eat Pray Love (2010)
• Love & Distrust (2010)
• 127 Hours (2010)
• The Green Hornet (2011)
• The Colbert Report (2011) 1 episode
• Your Highness (2011)
• The Broken Tower (2011)
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
• Sal (2011)
• Rebel (2011)
• About Cherry (2012)
• Rebel Dabble Babble (2012)
• FCU: Fact Checkers Unit (2012) 1 episode
• The Iceman (2012)
• Spring Breakers (2012)
• The Letter (2012)
• Hollywood Heights (2012) 6 episodes
• The Color of Time (2012)
• Maladies (2012)
• Interior. Leather Bar. (2013)
• Lovelace (2013)
• Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)
• As I Lay Dying (2013)
• This Is the End (2013)
• Palo Alto (2013)
• Child of God (2013)
• Third Person (2013)
• The Mindy Project (2013) 1 episode
• Homefront (2013)
• Richard Peter Johnson (2013)
• Veronica Mars (2014)
• Obituaries (2014)
• Good People (2014)
• Dave Skylark's Very Special VMA Special (2014)
• The Sound and the Fury (2014)
• Of Mice and Men (2014)
• Grow a Guy (2014)
• The Interview (2014)
• I Think You're Totally Wrong: A Quarrel (2014)
• Making a Scene with James Franco (2014-15) series regular
• Don Quixote (2015)
• True Story (2015)
• Yosemite (2015)
• I Am Michael (2015)
• Queen of the Desert (2015)
• Every Thing Will Be Fine (2015)
• A Walk in Winter (2015)
• Wild Horses (2015)
• The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards (2015)
• The Adderall Diaries (2015)
• Deadbeat (2015) 1 episode
• The Little Prince (2015)
• Black Dog, Red Dog (2015)
• Memoria (2015)
• The Night Before (2015)
• Richard Peter Johnson (2015)
• Goat (2016)
• Sausage Party (2016)
• 11.22.63 (2016) 8 episodes
• King Cobra (2016)
• Burn Country (2016)
• The Caged Pillows (2016)
• Mother, May I Sleep with Danger? (2016)
• Angie Tribeca (2016) 6 episodes
• In Dubious Battle (2016)
• Why Him? (2016)
• The Labyrinth (2017)
• High School Lover (2017)
• Alien: Covenant - Prologue: Last Supper (2017)
• The Institute (2017)
• Actors Anonymous (2017)
• The Show (2017)
• Alien: Covenant (2017)
• Don't Come Back from the Moon (2017)
• Blood Heist (2017)
• Dumpster Diving (2017)
• The Vault (2017)
• The Disaster Artist (2017)
• Blood Ride (2017)
• Blood Surf (2017)
• The Deuce (2017) 8 episodes
• Future World (2018)
• Kin (2018)
• Arctic Dogs (2019)

Trivia

• Is a talented mathematician. He interned at Lockheed Martin, the American global aerospace, defense, security, and advanced technology company.
• He completed his private pilot's license to prepare for his role in 2006's Flyboys (2006).
• Mother Betsy Franco also played his character's mother on General Hospital (1963).
• Auditioned for the role of Peter Parker in Spider-Man (2002), but was given the part of Harry Osborn.
• He did eight months of boxing training for Annapolis (2006).
• Although he always hated it, he started smoking for his lead role in James Dean (2001).
• Has his own production company - Rabbit Bandini Productions.
• Chosen by Premiere magazine as one of the "The 40 Most Handsome Hollywood Men"(#1)[2009].
• Was named one of Salon.com's "10 men who might just inspire the rebirth of Jewish male cool."
• Was named one of People Magazine's 50 Hottest Bachelors [2004]

Quotes

• I needed an outlet in high school and came across painting. I've actually been painting longer than I've been acting. A movie is a collaborative effort, and with painting you just have yourself.
• When I was a child, I wanted to be an actor, but I had really bad buck teeth. I didn't want to get braces, but my mom said I couldn't be an actor if I didn't get the braces. So, I got the braces.
• I worked at a McDonald's drive-through. I could always tell when girls were interested: They'd drive around again and say, "I forgot something."
• Acting is an art form and you want to take roles that are challenged and it's more of a challenge I think to play dark characters. Not that I want to always play those, but it is a challenge and challenges are rewarding and fun.
• There's this public persona that's 'James Franco' that's half my creation but half of it isn't. Half of it's what other people write about me or how they perceive me. [His art is] a way of using... an image that other people have created and re-presenting it.