John Frankenheimer

John Frankenheimer, born February 19 1930 in New York, is an American film director. After directing documentaries for the Air Force and then directing live television (152 shows from 1954-1960), Frankenheimer directed one of the greatest of American films, "The Manchurian Candidate."

A film that draws on both left-wing and right-wing paranoia, "The Manchurian Candidate" features great performances from Angela Lansbury, Frank Sinatra and even Lawrence Harvey, a mediocre actor in most of his other films.

Frankenheimer failed to live up to the promise of his debut films. Glossy production values and busy camera work came to dominate flimsy material. Frankenheimer's later films are precise and accomplished but lacking.

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 Convenant(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).