John Frankenheimer
John Frankenheimer (born
February 19,
1930 in New York, died
July 6,
2002 in
Los Angeles, California) was an
American film director. After directing documentaries for the Air Force and then directing live television (152 shows from 1954-1960), Frankenheimer directed
The Manchurian Candidate, ranked by the
American Film Institute as #67 on its list of 100 greatest American films and #17 on its list of 100 greatest American thrillers.
A film that draws on both left-wing and right-wing paranoia, The Manchurian Candidate stars Angela Lansbury, Frank Sinatra and Lawrence Harvey.
Filmography
- The Young Stranger (1959)
- The Young Savages (1961)
- All Fall Down (1962)
- Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
- The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
- Seven Days in May (1964)
- The Train (1965)
- Seconds (1966)
- Grand Prix (1966)
- The Fixer (1968)
- The Extraordinary Seaman (1969)
- The Gypsy Moths (1969)
- I Walk the Line (1970)
- The Horsemen (1970)
- 99 and 44/100% Dead (1974)
- Impossible Object (1974)
- French Connection II (1975)
- Black Sunday (1977)
- Prophecy (1979)
- The Challenge (1982)
- The Holcroft Covenant (1985)
- 52 Pickup (1986)
- Dead-Bang (1989)
- The Fourth War (1990)
- Year of the Gun (1991)
- The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
- Ronin (1998)
- Reindeer Games (2000)