Frank Darabont Biography (1959-)

Born January 28, 1959, in Montbeliard, Doubs, France. Addresses: Agent: William Morris Agency, 151 El Camino Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90212; CreativeArtists Agency, 9830 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90212.

Nationality: French
Gender: Male
Occupation: Director, producer, writer
Birth Details: January 28, 1959; Montbeliard, Doubs, France

Famous Works

CREDITS
Film Director
The Woman in the Room (also known as Stephen King's Night ShiftCollection and Stephen King's Nightshift Collection Volume One: The Woman in the Room), 1983
The Shawshank Redemption, Columbia, 1994
The Green Mile (also known as Stephen King's The Green Mile), Warner Bros., 1999
The Majestic, Warner Bros., 2001
Fahrenheit 451, Castle Rock, 2005
Film Executive Producer
Collateral, DreamWorks SKG, 2004
Back Roads, DreamWorks SKG, 2005
Film Producer
The Green Mile (also known as Stephen King's The Green Mile), Warner Bros., 1999
The Majestic, Warner Bros., 2001
The Salton Sea, Warner Bros., 2002
Film Script Consultant
The Majestic, Warner Bros., 2001
Minority Report, Twentieth Century-Fox, 2002
Collateral, DreamWorks SKG, 2004
Film Work
Other
Production assistant, Hell Night, 1981
Transportation captain, The Seduction, 1982
Set dresser, Crimes of Passion, New World, 1984
Art department assistant, Trancers (also known as Future Cop), 1985
Film Appearances
Man with Buick, Vampires (also known as John Carpenter's Vampires and Vampire$), Sony Pictures Entertainment, 1998
Television Executive Producer
Miniseries
The Thing, Sci-Fi Channel, 2005
Television Director
Movies
Buried Alive, USA Network, 1990
Till Death Do Us Part, 1990
Television Executive Producer
Movies
Black Cat Run, HBO, 1998

Television Appearances
Miniseries
Dr. Daniel Edwards, The Shining (also known as Stephen King's The Shining), NBC, 1997
Specials
The Miracle of "The Green Mile" (documentary), 1999
Stephen King: Master of Macabre, The Learning Channel, 1999
Stephen King: Shining in the Dark (documentary), BBC, 1999
The Inside Reel: Digital Filmmaking (documentary), PBS, 2001
Shawshank: The Redeeming Feature (documentary), Channel 4, 2001
Episodic
Featured in an episode of The Directors, Encore.
RECORDINGS
Video Work
Executive producer, Walking the Mile (also known as Walking theMile: The Making of "The Green Mile"), Warner Bros., 2000
Video Appearances
Himself, Walking the Mile (also known as Walking the Mile: TheMaking of "The Green Mile"), Warner Bros., 2000
Himself, Artifact from the Future: The Making of "THX 1138," Warner Home Video, 2004
Himself, Made Men: The "GoodFellas" Legacy, Warner Home Video, 2004
WRITINGS
Screenplays
The Woman in the Room (also known as Stephen King's Night ShiftCollection and Stephen King's Nightshift Collection Volume One: The Woman in the Room; based on the work of Stephen King), 1983
(With others) A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (also known as A Nightmare on Elm Street Part III), New Line Cinema, 1987
(With Chuck Russell) The Blob (based on the earlier film of the same name), TriStar, 1988
(With others) The Fly II (based on characters by others), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1989
(With others; uncredited) The Rocketeer, Buena Vista, 1991
(With Steph Lady) Frankenstein (also known as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; based on the novel by Mary Shelley), TriStar, 1994
The Shawshank Redemption (based on the novella Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King), Columbia, 1994
(With others; uncredited) Copycat, Warner Bros., 1995
(With others; uncredited) Eraser, Warner Bros., 1996
(With others; uncredited) The Fan, TriStar, 1996
(With Robert Rodat; uncredited) Saving Private Ryan, DreamWorks SKG, 1998
The Green Mile (also known as Stephen King's The Green Mile; based on the serial novel by Stephen King), Warner Bros., 1999
(With others) Fahrenheit 451 (based the novel by Ray Bradbury), Castle Rock, 2005
Teleplays
Movies
Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father, The Family Channel, 1996
Black Cat Run, HBO, 1998
Episodic
"The Ventriloquist's Dummy," Tales from the Crypt (also known as HBO's Tales from the Crypt), HBO, 1990
"Austria, March 1917," The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, ABC, 1992
"Congo, January 1917," The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, ABC, 1992
"German East Africa, December 1916," The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, ABC, 1992
"Showdown," Tales from the Crypt (also known as HBO's Tales from the Crypt), HBO, 1992
Author of "Palestine, October 1917," an unaired episode of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, ABC.
Pilots
"Showdown," Two-Fisted Tales, Fox, 1992
Video Scripts
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert, 1992
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service, 1999
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Oganga, the Giver and Taker ofLife, 1999
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Phantom Train of Doom,1999
Novellas
Walpuski's Typewriter, Cemetery Dance, 2004

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Books

Emery, Robert J., The Directors: Take Four, Allworth Press, 2003

Periodicals

Entertainment Weekly, November 16, 2001, p. 95
Movieline, November, 2000, pp. 72-75, 105
Premiere, October, 1994
Starlog, May, 1992

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