Name
Frank Darabont
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1959-01-28 (67 years old)
Place of Birth
Montbéliard, Doubs, France
Biography
Frank Árpád Darabont (born Ferenc Árpád Darabont, January 28, 1959) is an American screenwriter, director, and producer, who has been nominated for three Academy Awards and a Golden Globe. He was born in France to Hungarian parents who fled Budapest during the 1956 uprising, but the family moved to Los Angeles while he was still an infant.
He has directed the films The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, and The Mist, all based on stories by Stephen King. In 2010 he developed and executive produced the first season of the AMC network television series The Walking Dead.
Known For
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Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker...
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A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey ...
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Cab driver Max picks up a man who offers him $600 to drive him around. But the promise of ...
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An inside look at the years of effort and craft that went into the final installment of th...
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Set in 1951, a blacklisted Hollywood writer gets into a car accident, loses his memory and...
- 2009 Tales from the Script as Self
- 2007 Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner as Self
- 2023 King on Screen as Self
- 2006 Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong' as Self
- 1999 Stephen King: Shining in the Dark as Self
- 2013 Drew: The Man Behind the Poster as Self
- 2011 Nightmare Factory as Self
- 2010 The United Monster Talent Agency as Director #1
- 2004 Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138' as Self
- 2018 Light in the Darkness: The Impact of Night of The Living Dead as Self
- 2014 Walking the Mile as Self
- 1998 Vampires as Man with Buick
- 2004 Made Men: The 'GoodFellas' Legacy as Self
- 1989 Stephen King's World of Horror as Self
- 1986 Stephen King's World of Horror as Self
- 2008 Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX as Self
- 2012 Fear Himself: The Life and Crimes of Freddy Krueger as Self
- 2011 Clint Eastwood's West as Self
- 2008 When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist' as Self
- 2000 Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile as Self - Writer / Director
- 2008 Drew Struzan: An Appreciation of An Artist as Self
- 2008 The Horror of It All: The Visual F/X of The Mist as Self
- 2008 Monsters Among Us: The Creature FX of 'The Mist' as Self
- 2008 The Mist: Taming the Beast - The Making of Scene 35 as Himself
- 2003 Irreverent Imagination: The Golden Age of the Looney Tunes as Himself
- 2010 The Making of The Walking Dead as Self
- 2001 Shawshank: The Redeeming Feature as Self
- 2005 King Kong as Biplane Gunner (uncredited)
- 2008 RKO Production 601: The Making of “Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World” as Self
- 2026 The Thing Expanded as Self
- 2005 Ray Harryhausen: The Early Years Collection as Self
- 2026 One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5 as Self - Guest Director Chapter 3 And 5
- 2004 Entourage ( 2 episodes ) as Frank Darabont
- 2014 The Director's Chair ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2010 The Walking Dead ( 1 episode ) as (uncredited)
- 1997 The Shining ( 1 episode ) as Living Room Ghost
