Frank Darabont
- Highest Rated: Saving Private Ryan (1998)
- Lowest Rated: Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
- Birthday: Jan 28, 1959
- Birthplace: Montbéliard, Doubs, France
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A director who has all but put his trademark on the humane prison drama, director, screenwriter, and producer Frank Darabont made his triumphant feature film directorial debut with The Shawshank Redemption (1994). Starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman as two inmates imprisoned for life, the film earned wide acclaim and a number of honors, including Best (Adapted) Screenplay Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for Darabont. Darabont, who spent his early years in Hollywood as a set decorator and production assistant, got his first break as a production aide on the 1981 horror film Hell Night. His work on the film introduced him to filmmaker Chuck Russell, with whom he would write the screenplays for A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), the 1988 update of The Blob, and The Fly 2, the 1989 sequel to David Cronenberg's 1986 classic.Darabont made his directorial debut with the 1990 made-for-cable Buried Alive, a thriller starring Tim Matheson and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Following the success of The Shawshank Redemption in 1994, Darabont took a five-year hiatus from directing, making a triumphant return with the 1999 prison drama The Green Mile. Starring Tom Hanks as a kind prison guard and Michael Clarke Duncan in an Oscar-nominated performance as a saintly death row inmate, the film garnered a slew of awards in addition to Duncan's nomination; they included a Directors Guild of America Best Director Award nomination, as well as three more Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and a second Best Adapted Screenplay nomination for Darabont.His next project was the ill-received Jim Carrey drama The Majestic. He attempted to right himself by adapting Stephen King yet again, this time with the horror film The Mist. He began taking on small-screen projects, developing a hit when he was the show runner on The Walking Dead for that program's first two seasons.
Highest Rated Movies
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Collateral
86%
Filmography
Movies
Rating |
Title |
Credit |
Box
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Year |
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Nyckeln till frihet - Klassiker | Director | — | 2020 | |
75% | Godzilla | Screenwriter | $173M | 2014 |
50% | Drew: The Man Behind The Poster | Actor | $3.6K | 2013 |
100 Porsches And Me | Actor | — | 2012 | |
75% | Tales From the Script | Actor | — | 2010 |
26% | Law Abiding Citizen | Screenwriter | $73.4M | 2009 |
Fantastic Flesh | Actor | — | 2008 | |
72% | The Mist | Producer Screenwriter Director | $25.5M | 2007 |
Hope Springs Eternal: A Look Back at 'The Shawshank Redemption' | Actor | — | 2004 | |
86% | Collateral | Executive Producer | $100.1M | 2004 |
64% | The Salton Sea | Producer | $0.7M | 2002 |
42% | The Majestic | Producer Director | — | 2001 |
Shawshank: The Redeeming Feature | Actor | — | 2001 | |
78% | The Green Mile | Producer Screenwriter Director | — | 1999 |
40% | John Carpenter's Vampires | Buick Man | — | 1998 |
Black Cat Run | Screenwriter Executive Producer | — | 1998 | |
93% | Saving Private Ryan | Screenwriter | — | 1998 |
38% | Mary Shelley's Frankenstein | Screenwriter | — | 1994 |
90% | The Shawshank Redemption | Director Screenwriter | — | 1994 |
Buried Alive | Director | — | 1990 | |
27% | The Fly II | Screenwriter | — | 1989 |
60% | The Blob | Screenwriter | — | 1988 |
74% | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors | Screenwriter | — | 1987 |
The Woman in the Room (Stephen King's The Woman in the Room) | Director | — | 1983 |
TV
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Credit |
Year |
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81% |
The Walking Dead
2010
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Executive Producer Producer Screenwriter Creator Director |
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The Director's Chair
2014-2015
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66% |
Mob City
2013
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Executive Producer Producer Screenwriter Creator Director |
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Hollywood Treasure
2010-2012
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Last Call With Carson Daly
2007
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Guest |
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66% |
Entourage
2004-2011
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Himself |
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65% |
Raines
2007
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Executive Producer Director |
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90% |
The Shield
2002-2008
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Director |
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Charlie Rose
2013-2017
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