Sergeant Carl Proctor on the 1988 Police Academy animated series. Personal life An avid motorcycle rider, Don Francks also had a collection of twelve antique cars, mostly Model-T Ford racing cars dated 1912 to 1927. He supported Greenpeace and the Tibetan independence movement. After quitting alcohol at the age of 21, Francks smoked marijuana, performing a song called "Smoking Reefers". As a spokesman for Other Voices (Canadian TV series) in the mid-1960s, he investigated a boy's murder at Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan. Later in life, Francks had a son, Bentley Clay Francks-Slaughter, who died in a house fire late in 2008. Francks died in Toronto on April 3, 2016, of lung cancer. Selected filmography Film Television Videogames Awards ACTRA Award for Best Dramatic Performance, Drying Up the Streets and The Phoenix Team, 1980 and 1981 Discography Bibliography Heyn, Christopher. "A Conversation with Don Francks". Inside Section One: Creating and Producing TV's La Femme Nikita. Introduction by Peta Wilson. Los Angeles: Persistence of Vision Press, 2006. p. 100–105; . References External links Official website archived Filmography Entry at thecanadianencyclopedia.ca 1932 births 2016 deaths Canadian jazz drummers Canadian jazz singers Canadian male film actors Canadian male singers Canadian male television actors Canadian male video game actors Canadian male voice actors Canadian people of English descent Canadian people of German descent Deaths from cancer in Ontario Foundrymen Male actors from British Columbia Canadian male drummers People from Burnaby Canadian male jazz musicians