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