Caucasian Chalk Circle. Working primarily in the experimental Equity Waiver theaters of L.A.'s Westside, Seales was seen in No Place to Be Somebody, as "Hamlet" in the Charles Marowitz drama, in Babbitt and Oh Dad Poor Dad. Despite his talent some of the roles he most wanted sometimes eluded him. "Either I'm not black enough or I look too Hispanic or Cuban", he said in one of his last interviews in 1988. "I have to be hired by someone who knows my work." His last major triumph was at the Mark Taper Forum in October 1988, in Nothing Sacred, an adaptation of Ivan Turgenev's novel Fathers and Sons. Along with acting, Seales was a painter. Personal life and death According to Walter Hill, the director of Southern Comfort, Seales was gay. Franklyn Seales started noticing symptoms of AIDS related illness (in particular a persistent cough) on the set of Amen and had been unable to work regularly for the last couple years of his life. On May 14, 1990, Seales died at the age of 37 from complications of AIDS at his family's home in Brooklyn. He was cremated and his ashes were scattered in the Caribbean Sea. Filmography References External links Jean Dorsinville interview on Franklyn Seales biography on YouTube 1952 births 1990 deaths 20th-century American male actors AIDS-related deaths in New York (state) Abraham Lincoln High School (Brooklyn) alumni African-American male actors African-American artists American male film actors American male stage actors American male television actors American people of English descent American people of Portuguese descent American people of Scottish descent American gay actors Juilliard School alumni LGBT African Americans People from Saint George Parish, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Saint Vincent and the Grenadines emigrants to the United States 20th-century African-American people 20th-century LGBT people