DARABONT, Frank 1959–

PERSONAL

Born January 28, 1959, in Montbeliard, Doubs, France.

Addresses:

Agent—William Morris Agency, 151 El Camino Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90212; Creative Artists Agency, 9830 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90212.

Career:

Director, producer, and writer.

Awards, Honors:

USC Scripter Award (with Stephen King), Studio Crystal Heart Award, Heartland Film Festival, Humanitas Prize, feature film category, PEN Center USA West Award, best screenplay, Hochi Film Award, best foreign language film, Readers' Choice Award, Kinema Junpo awards, best foreign language film, Mainichi Film Concours, best foreign language film, Academy Award nomination, best screenplay based on material previously produced or published, Golden Globe Award nomination, best screenplay, Directors Guild of America Award nomination, outstanding directorial achievement, Screen Award nomination, Writers Guild of America, best screenplay based on material previously produced or published, all 1995, for The Shawshank Redemption; Broadcast Film Critics Association Award, best screenplay, Academy Award nominations, best picture (with others) and best screenplay based on material previously produced or published, Saturn Award nomination, Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, best director, Bram Stoker Award nomination, screenplay, Directors Guild of America Award nomination, outstanding directorial achievement, Online Film Critics Society Award nomination, best adapted screenplay, USC Scripter Award nomination (with Stephen King), all 2000, and Nebula Award nomination, Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, best script, 2001, all for The Green Mile.

CREDITS

Film Director:

The Woman in the Room (also known as Stephen King's Night Shift Collection 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.

Television Appearances; 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.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

Featured in an episode of The Directors, Encore.

RECORDINGS

Video Work:

Executive producer, Walking the Mile (also known as Walking the Mile: The Making of "The Green Mile"), Warner Bros., 2000.

Video Appearances:

Himself, Walking the Mile (also known as Walking the Mile: The Making 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 Shift Collection 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.

Teleplays; 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.

Teleplays; 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 of Life, 1999.

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: The Phantom Train of Doom, 1999.

Novellas:

Walpuski's Typewriter, Cemetery Dance, 2004.

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.