Frank Darabont

Frank Darabont

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Frank Árpád Darabont (born Ferenc Árpád Darabont, January 28, 1959) is a Hungarian-American film director, screenwriter and producer who has been nominated for three Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. In his early career, he was primarily a screenwriter for horror films such as A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), The Blob (1988) and The Fly II (1989). As a director, he is known for his film adaptations of Stephen King novellas and novels such as The Shawshank Redemption (1994), The Green Mile (1999) and The Mist (2007).

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Frank Darabont was born on Wednesday, 28 January 1959 in Montbéliard, Doubs, France. He is best known as a director. Darabont's country of citizenship (nationality) is American. He is 6' (183 cm) tall with an average build. He has bald hair (color). His net worth is reported to be $15,000,000 US dollars. Frank Darabont is 66 years old and his zodiac star sign is Aquarius.

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The Shawshank Redemption
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I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.
  • Wrote a draft of the screenplay for Collateral (2004).
  • Good friends with Stephen King.
  • The D-Day sequence at Normandy in Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan (1998) was an addition that Darabont himself proposed during script revisions.
  • Often casts actors Jeffrey DeMunn and William Sadler in his movies.
  • His first novella "Walpuski's Typewriter" was published in 2005.

Frank Darabont is known for his role in the documentary King on Screen (2022) as Self.

He is also known for his role in the TV series The Walking Dead (2010) as executive producer - 19 episodes.

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