Will Benjamin Franklin be re-broadcast?
To find out when Benjamin Franklin will be rebroadcast
in your city, contact your local
station.
How do I order a VHS or DVD copy of Benjamin Franklin?
To order Benjamin Franklin
or other PBS productions, visit PBS Home Video online
at shopPBS,
or call PBS Home Video at 800/645-4PBS.
How can I learn more about the producers of this series?
Benjamin Franklin was a production
of TPT/ Twin Cities Public Television in association with
Middlemarch Films, Inc. To learn more about TPT/ Twin
Cities Public Television, visit www.tpt.org.
To learn more about Middlemarch Films, visit www.middlemarchfilms.com.
I love some of the images on this website. Can I use
them?
The producer of this web site, TPT, does not hold the
copyright to the site’s images and, therefore, cannot
grant anyone permission to use the images featured on
this site. This also applies to image requests for educational
or non-profit purposes.
Can I link my website to www.pbs.org/benfranklin?
Definitely. Just remember, you cannot sell or reproduce
any Benjamin Franklin or PBS online content on
your site.
I’m a teacher and would like to show this program
in my classroom. Do I need to purchase a home video?
PreK-12 teachers may videotape the
series off air and use it in the classroom for one year.
(For more information on teacher resources to accompany
PBS programs and on PBS extended taping rights for educators,
please visit the PBS
TeacherSource Web site.)
An extensive Benjamin Franklin Teacher’s Guide
can be downloaded at http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/teachersguide.html.
I want to know who played a particular character in Benjamin
Franklin.
Benjamin Franklin involved hundreds of extras and dozens
of actors. Colm Feore narrated the series, and the following
actors portrayed historical figures on-camera:
Benjamin Franklin: Richard Easton
Young Benjamin Franklin: Dylan Baker
John Hughes: Matthew Bennett
Silence Dogood: Kathleen Chalfant
Joseph Priestley: Daniel Gerroll
Ephraim Eliot: John Christopher Jones
Jared Ruggles: Eddie Korbich
Cotton Mather: Josef Sommer
Sayings of Poor Richard: Peter McRobbie, John Ellison
Conlee, Martin Rayner, Blair Brown, Roberta Maxwell, Peter
Gerety, Simon Jones, John Curless, Marian Seldes
George III: Anthony Cochrane
William Strahan: John Curless
Catherine Ray: Jennifer Dundas
Joseph Galloway: Peter Gerety
Alexander Wedderburn: John Horton
Thomas Penn: Simon Jones
Deborah Read Franklin: Roberta Maxwell
British Government Official: Andrew Seear
William Franklin: James True-Frost
John Jay: David Adkins
Paul Wentworth: Gerry Bamman
Jane Mecom: Blair Brown
George III: Anthony Cochrane
John Adams: Peter Donaldson
Le Comte de Vergennes: Ronald Guttman
Jonathan Austin: Anthony Heald
Elkanah Watson: Jefferson Mays
Viscount Stormont: Brian Murray
Robert Whittington: Martin Rayner
French aristocrat: Sebastian Roche
Mme. Brillon de Jouy: Natacha Roi
Armonica Player: Vera Meyer
Calligrapher: Brody Neuenschwander