Franklin Ruehl

Born: 1950-01-01

Franklin Ruehl is an American ufologist and cryptozoologist. He holds a Ph.D. in theoretical nuclear physics from UCLA. He has appeared on such shows as Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Roseanne Show and Tom Green Live among others. Ruehl's own show, Mysteries from Beyond the Other Dominion, started on a public-access television cable TV channel in the Los Angeles area in the late 1980s, and then the Sci Fi Channel in the early '90s. In 2006, He hosted several new episodes of the show on TomGreen.com. Ruehl was rejected on an America's Got Talent audition with an act that encompassed sticking straws into a potato. In 2010, he appeared on several episodes of 1000 Ways to Die, as an expert, portraying a Cryptozoologist, a Conspiracy Expert and a Deathologist/Thanatologist. His show Professor Weird debuted at 9pm on August 18, 2012 on the Science Channel. Ruehl has a series of videos entitled The Realm of Bizarre News, which can be viewed here.


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as Mourner (uncredited)
Released: 2009-04-23

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is recruited by the Vatican to investigate the apparent...

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as Mesero
Released: 2013-07-20

Valentin is Acapulco's resident playboy, until a former fling leaves a baby on his doorstep and...

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L.A. Slasher

as Dinner Guest
Released: 2015-06-12

Incensed by the tabloid culture which celebrates it, the L.A. Slasher publicly abducts a series...

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Second Chances

as Rejected Prospective Room Renter (uncredited)
Released: 2013-05-20

Jenny McLean is a single mom working at a 911-call center struggling to make ends meet and raise...

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Arcadia

as Motel Clerk
Released: 2012-02-13

Greta's dad Tom is moving the family cross-country in a dented station wagon, promising a...

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Jimmy Kimmel Live!

as uncredited
First aired: 2003-01-26

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Friends with Benefits

as Basketball Game Attendee
First aired: 2011-08-05

Revolving around a group of twentysomething singles as they navigate the difficult, sometimes...

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Best Week Ever

as uncredited
First aired: 2004-01-23

Best Week Ever is a weekly television program on the United States cable/satellite network VH1....

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Sons of Tucson

as Bum
First aired: 2010-03-14

Sons of Tucson is a family comedy about three brothers who hire a charming, wayward schemer to...

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