Charles Frank

Charles Reser Frank (born April 17, 1947) is an American actor noted for playing Bret Maverick's cousin Ben Maverick in the 1978 TV movie The New Maverick with James Garner and Jack Kelly, and in the short-lived 1979 television series Young Maverick. Both featured Frank's real-life wife Susan Blanchard as Ben Maverick's girlfriend. Career From 1970 to 1974 (and again in 1988 and 1995), Frank played Dr. Jeff Martin on the ABC soap opera All My Children. In 2006, it was announced that the character would be taken over by John James, formerly of ABC's Dynasty series. He also appeared in two episodes of M*A*S*H and once on the CBS family drama, Three for the Road. In 1977, Frank costarred with Deborah Winters and Claude Akins in the television horror film, Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo, directed by Stuart Hagmann. The same year, he played the murder victim in the Columbo episode entitled, "Try And Catch Me". Also in 1977, Frank played Todd Seymour in the Hawaii Five-O episode "Practical Jokes Can Kill You". In the second season of Barney Miller he appeared in the episode "Massage Parlor".