
Place of Birth:
Montbéliard, Doubs, France
Date of Birth:
1/28/1959
Frank Darabont (born January 28, 1959) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer who has been nominated for three Academy Awards and a Golden Globe. He was born in France by 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.

Tales from the Script

Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner

King on Screen

Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong'

Stephen King: Shining in the Dark

Drew: The Man Behind the Poster

The United Monster Talent Agency

Nightmare Factory
Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'

Light in the Darkness: The Impact of Night of The Living Dead

Walking the Mile

Vampires

Made Men: The 'GoodFellas' Legacy

Stephen King's World of Horror

Stephen King's World of Horror

Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX

Fear Himself: The Life and Crimes of Freddy Krueger
Clint Eastwood's West

When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'

Drew Struzan: An Appreciation of An Artist
The Horror of It All: The Visual F/X of The Mist
Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile

Monsters Among Us: The Creature FX of 'The Mist'
The Mist: Taming the Beast - The Making of Scene 35

Irreverent Imagination: The Golden Age of the Looney Tunes

The Making of The Walking Dead

Shawshank: The Redeeming Feature

King Kong

RKO Production 601: The Making of “Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World”

The Thing Expanded

Ray Harryhausen: The Early Years Collection

One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5