Charles Frank

Charles Frank is an American actor best known for playing Ben Maverick, the cousin of Bret Maverick, in the 1978 television movie The New Maverick and the short-lived 1979 series Young Maverick. Earlier he had played Dr. Jeff Martin on the ABC serial All My Children, a role he began in 1970, stayed with until 1974, and took up again in 1988 and 1995. His television credits include Columbo, Hawaii Five-O, Barney Miller and The Love Boat, where four appearances between 1977 and 1985 included the first love interest for the character Julie. He appeared in four episodes of the miniseries The Chisholms and in the short-lived series Filthy Rich and Emerald Point N.A.S. On film he played astronaut Scott Carpenter in The Right Stuff (1983), and his other movies include Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo (1977), The One and Only (1978) and Russkies (1987). He narrated C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America in 2004.