List of Franklin Characters - Minor Characters

Minor Characters

  • Miss Lynx - She manages a historical village that Franklin and his parents visit in the second season. She tries to keep them busy with all sorts of activities. She was voiced by Diane D'Aquila.
  • Mr Lynx - He is the janitor at the library. When he was putting up the banners at Bookfest Franklin had hidden one of them (being a picture of him as a baby reading a baby book). But when his Granny had arranged the banner Franklin felt bad for hiding it so after some attempts to get it hung. Mr Lynx sorted it all out.
  • Pioneer Worker Bear - He is one of the main inhabitants of the historical village that Miss Lynx runs. He is shown pushing a wagon. He wears a pioneer hat, some blue pants and white suspenders.
  • Railroad Worker Fox - He is one of the creatures that works at the train station. He is shown brushing the floor. He wears some green overalls with blue suspenders.
  • Conductor Goose - He is at the train station. He wears a cap, some glasses and a cape.
  • Dynaroo - Franklin's hero, a masked and caped marsupial. She carries a golden lasso to catch evildoers, and is said to also have a rocket jetpack. Appeared in person in one episode during a book signing, with no spoken dialogue. (Stitches on her thighs combined with her silence suggested that she may have been an actor in a mascot suit, as often seen at children's events.) Has a sidekick, like most superheroes.
  • Mr. Coyote - A coyote (a member of the fox family), who tried his hardest not to photograph Franklin. Franklin was on a mission to do go deeds and make into the paper. He made it in, but there was no picture of him and Mr. Coyote incorrectly gave his name as "Frank." Mr. Coyote was voiced in his only appearance by Stephen Ouimette.
  • Coyote- Hockey player - Not the same person as Mr. Coyote. A hockey player who Franklin and Bear actually get to meet. He's a great player, but he tells them that the person they really should look up to is Mrs. Muskrat. Elijah Wood provides the voice of Coyote.
  • Bill Buffalo- Hockey player- A hockey playing American bison who inexplicably replaces Coyote as Franklin's favorite in the sixth season. Franklin also gets to meet him. He gives Franklin his very own Franklin rookie card. He is voiced by Dan Green.
  • Constable Raccoon Police officer - The law-enforcement official of Woodland. To date, no crimes have ever been mentioned on the series, so the Constable's work focuses mainly on issues of safety. He is most likely Raccoon's father. And Mrs. Raccoon would be likely his wife and twin sister. Dan Lett provides the voice of Constable Raccoon.
  • Mr. Heron Ecologist -A Great blue heron who gives Franklin a small tree seedling and encourages him to look after it. When Franklin doesn't think much of it at first, Mr. Heron helps him to see its value. Mr. Heron planted the tree that now houses the tree fort which Franklin and his friends sometimes play in. Mr. Heron is voiced by Wayne Robson.
  • Mrs. Heron - Very little is known about Mrs. Heron, but it can be presumed she is Mr. Heron's wife or perhaps Mr. Heron's sister. It's possible that she may run a coffee shop, as she was seen coming out of one in the second season. She is voiced by Kay Hawtrey.
  • Mrs. Periwinkle Pilot - She's the only adult snail character seen on the program to date. She helps Snail achieve his dream of flying high in the sky. Snail had been told that snails can't fly, but back when she was a kid, she was told that girls can't be pilots. Mr. Turtle introduces Snail to her when Franklin tells him about Snail's dream. She was voiced by Jill Frappier.
  • Martin the Magnificent Magician - A performer who inspires Franklin to try his own magic tricks. Seen in only one story so far. His repertoire of tricks includes making things appear and making himself disappear. Although only appearring in one episode, he was mentioned once in the fifth season. Voiced by Keith Knight.
  • Sparrow, Duck, Polar Bear, Mr. Lion - A series of characters in a tale in the first season story "Franklin in the Dark," which was based on the first-ever Franklin book. The story is about a little turtle who meets all of these animals and learns about the things they're afraid of. The Bird was voiced by Richard Binsley, the Duck by Elizabeth Hanna, the Polar Bear by Phillip Williams and Mr. Lion by Gary Krawford.
  • Moose - A teenaged moose who appeared only in one episode, "Franklin's New Friend," Moose was a new kid in Franklin's class who is awkward and shy. Franklin eventually comes to befriend him after being upset at Moose for breaking his favorite colored pencil. He also helped Franklin with a bake sale. It was also said he moved from somewhere far away. He is voiced by Jason Anthony Griffith
  • Mrs. Moose - Appeared as Moose's mother in the same episode that Moose did. She is voiced by Ellen Ray Hennessy.
  • porcupine - Porcupine shows up in a first-season episode and creates a secret club, but won't let Franklin join. Possibly, Coach Porcupine's daughter. She was voiced by Sharai-Ann Ross-Laney.
  • Squirrel - A cheerful grey squirrel who is a bit younger than Franklin and his friends. In the third season, Squirrel shows up while Franklin, Raccoon and Fox are playing and wants to know if they'll play with him. Franklin becomes a sort of surrogate big-brother to him. In this story, Squirrel was voiced by Cole Caplan, who would later assume the role of Franklin beginning with the special "Back to School with Franklin." Squirrel's real best friend is Possum (below).
  • Possum - A young opossum who becomes a good friend of Bear's when he and Franklin attend day camp. Franklin grows jealous of the friendship and acts goofy to try to get Bear's attention. Possum was voiced by Jake Goldsbie in his only appearance on the show.
  • Mole - Mr. Mole's grandson. Mole only shows up once or twice as a visitor to Franklin's town. He appears in the second season and is voiced by Jamie Haydon-Devlin, who later assumes the voice of Raccoon from the third season on. As shown in Mole's debut, he is a hard child to be friends with. Mole has a personality that is very similar to that of a brat, as he wants whatever he can get, and refuses all of Franklin's ideas in lieu of his own. Mole even goes as far as to turn down a soccer game invitation from Franklin's friends, because Mole would rather play with Franklin's toys (without Franklin's consent).
  • Bat - He appeared in an episode called "Franklin and His Night Friend." Like any bat, he's most active at night and hangs upside down in trees. Franklin, however, learns that despite these differences, they can still be friends. In his only appearance to date, Bat was voiced by Jonathan Malen.
  • Mr. Bat - Bat's father. Voiced by Donald Burda, who is also the voice of Mr. Bear.
  • Mrs. Bat - Bat's mother. Voiced by Mari Trainor, who is also the voice of Mrs./Dr. Bear and Coach Porcupine.
  • Bunny - A young rabbit who's been seen in a few episodes. He is Rabbit's little brother. Voiced by Kristen Bone.
  • Junior Marmot - A young marmot who loses a puppy in the third season of the program. Franklin finds the puppy and is a bit sad to give it back at first. He changes his mind once he sees how happy Junior Marmot is to have the puppy back. Voiced by Frannie Diggins.
  • Mrs. Marmot - Junior Marmot's mother. Voiced by Judy Marshak, who was also the voice of the Narrator in the first season of the show.
  • Mr. Marmot Safety inspector - Franklin and Bear meet him in the sixth season and find him working to reinforce a river bank. When he tells them that he's a safety inspector, Franklin starts becoming obsessive about safety. He annoys his friends with it, but saves them all when he discovers a problem with the treehouse. Later, Mr. Marmot is seen laying a telephone cable. Mr. Marmot may be Junior Marmot's father, although this is unknown. Voice actor is unknown, due to generic credits.
  • Ermine - A young ermine in the fourth season who Franklin keeps seeing, but none of his friends spot him. They begin to think that Franklin is making him up. As it turns out, Ermine is just shy. Voiced by John Hagley.
  • Grandma Ermine - Ermine's Grandma. Voiced by Kay Hawtrey, who's also the voice of Mrs. Heron. She reappears in the sixth season briefly, pushing around a shopping cart.
  • Possum - A different opossum from the previous entry, sometimes babysat by Franklin's Granny. Granny introduces him to Franklin and they try to play together, but Franklin becomes a bit jealous of all the attention Possum gets from Granny. He eventually gets over it once he learns that Granny brags about him a lot to Possum. Voiced by David Klar.
  • Betty - Beaver's cousin. Could be mistaken for Beaver if she doesn't wear some sort of identification on her, though she is a slightly lighter shade of brown and doesn't have whiskers like Beaver. Additionally, she has light brown eyes, unlike Beaver's, which are black. She usually dons a purple sweater. She totally admires Franklin's sandcastle, and likes pretending to be a knight as well. She wears a unicorn pin, which she gave to Franklin. Has only appeared in one episode to date. Her friendship with Franklin caused Franklin to be teased about having a girlfriend. Due to the generic credits screen used in the fifth season, her voice-actor is unknown.
  • Wolverine - A rough-playing fellow, Franklin and his friends didn't like how he plays rough at first. Franklin was also afraid that he'd hurt Harriet, but realizes that he was wrong after seeing Wolverine play nice with Harriet. Has only appeared in one episode so far. Wolverine's voice actor is unknown.
  • Little and Big Crab - Two crabs who Franklin and Bear met during a trip to the seashore. After a misunderstanding, they ended up being friends. These two have only been in one episode. Marc Donato was the voice of Little Crab, while Nickolas Swan was the voice of Big Crab.
  • Granny Goose - Goose's grandmother on her father's side. It would be that Goose's grandfather on his father's side died of natural causes before Mr. and Mrs. Goose were married.
  • Grandpa Goose - Goose's grandpa on her mother's side. He wears glasses, a shirt and some pants and suspenders. He is a widower. For Goose's grandmother on her mother's side sometimes after Goose's grandfather on her father's side died and before Mr. and Mrs. Goose were married.
  • Aunt Goose - Goose's aunt on her mother's side.
  • Uncle Goose - Goose's uncle on her mother's side and Aunt Goose's husband and twin brother.
  • Giselle - Goose's younger cousin on her mother's side and the daughter of Aunt Goose and Uncle Goose who are married twin siblings.
  • Great Aunt Harriet - Great Aunt Harriet has been mentioned on the TV show, but never seen. She has appeared in at least one Franklin book, Franklin's Christmas Gift and is rather old and wears glasses. She is known for giving great gifts filled with love. In both the TV show and the books, Franklin names his little sister Harriet in honor of her. It appears that she could be the older sister of Grandma Jenny Turtle and Grandfather Turtle.
  • Carbunkel - A museum tour guide who appeared only in the book Franklin's Class Trip and in the stage show Franklin's Big Adventure. She thinks a lot of her abilities and enjoys greeting and being greeted with a cheerful "hello." Franklin doesn't think much of her somewhat wacky personality at first, but later warms up to her. The spelling of her name is unusual --- Carbunkel instead of Carbunkle.
  • Dinosaur - An actual dinosaur that Franklin and Snail talk with and sing a song with in "Franklin's Big Adventure." He makes sure that they know he's a vegetarian and eats trees, but just the leaves.
  • Aunt Lucy - An archaeologist. Her goddaughter is Sammy. She could be Franklin aunt on his mother's side and the older sister of Mrs. Turtle.
  • Aunt Kay and Uncle Carl Turtle - Franklin's aunt and uncle on his mother's side
  • Franklin's Cousin - Franklin's cousin on his mother's side and the son of Aunt Kay and Uncle Carl Turtle.
  • Bear's Cousin - Bear's cousin as mentioned in the episode called Franklin and the Thunderstorm.
  • Samantha "Sam" - The goddaughter of Aunt Lucy.

Note that in the first, fifth and sixth seasons of the program, Franklin uses a generic voice credits screen that only lists some roles and appears at the end of every episode. In the second to fourth seasons, voice actors/actresses were credited in the episodes that they appeared in. Most, if not all characters, that have speaking roles of any sort are now listed. Many of these, as well as many that have been mentioned, seem to flit on and off the series with little or no explanation.

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