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Frakes received a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Theater Arts at Penn State University in the early 1970s, where he was a member of the Thespians.
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Frakes works with the Workshops, the Waterfall Arts Center and the Saltwater Film Society, all located in Maine, where he teaches classes on film direction.
Frakes and Theater
Frakes moved to New York City and became a member of " The Impossible Ragtime Theater ".
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Frakes said he did not have much difficulty directing and acting at the same time, having done so on the television series.
During a conversation at a barbecue Woodard said she would become Frakes ' godmother, as he did not have one.
It is not known when Yiddish came to be written down, but the oldest surviving literary document in Yiddish is a blessing in the Worms mahzor, a Hebrew prayer book from 1272 ( with a scalable image online at the indicated reference ; described extensively in Frakes, 2004 and Baumgarten / Frakes, 2005 ):
For a time in the 1970s, Frakes worked for Marvel Comics, appearing at conventions in costume as Captain America.
Frakes hosted Paranormal Borderline, a television series at Fox, which dealt with the paranormal and mysterious happenings and creatures.
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" Jonathan Frakes has stated that " it ’ s better to be type-cast than not to be cast at all.
Crary Mountains () is a group of ice-covered Antarctic mountains, long, rising to 3, 655 m at Mount Frakes and including Mount Rees, Mount Steere and Boyd Ridge.
Frakes and 1970s
When his character was dismissed from the soap, Frakes moved to Los Angeles, California and played guest spots in many of the top television series of the 1970s and 1980s, including The Waltons, The Dukes of Hazzard, Matlock, and Steven Bochco's Hill Street Blues.
Frakes and where
In one episode, Frakes presented an interview of reporter Yolanda Gaskins with veteran astronaut Gordon Cooper, where they discussed the possibility of aliens having visited the Earth in the past.
Frakes and was
* I had originally not wanted to see Galaxy Quest because I heard that it was making fun of Star Trek, and then Jonathan Frakes rang me up and said " You must not miss this movie!
After two better known directors turned down the job, cast member Jonathan Frakes was chosen to direct to make sure the task fell to someone who understood Star Trek.
It was Frakes ' first theatrical film.
When Frakes first moved to Los Angeles, Woodard was one of the very first people he met.
Through this relationship, Frakes was able to cast Woodard in the film ; he considered it a coup to land an Academy Award-nominated actress.
He said: " When I got married my best man was Brent ( Spiner, who portrayed the ST: TNG character Lieutenant Commander Data ) and my groomsmen were Michael ( Dorn, Lieutenant Worf ) and Jonathan ( Frakes, Commander Riker ) and Patrick ( Stewart, Captain Picard ).
Frakes appeared in dual roles in " Second Chances ", a TNG episode in which it was established that Riker had a " twin " created years earlier by a transporter malfunction.
Frakes was born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, the son of Doris J.
Additionally, Frakes was an executive producer for the WB series Roswell, directed several episodes and guest-starred in three episodes.
In 1992 she appeared alongside fellow cast members Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, and Colm Meaney in a production of Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, which was performed in four cities.
This was affectionately parodied in the 2004 live-action feature film Thunderbirds, in which director Jonathan Frakes included a brief shot of a puppet hand, suspended by wires, operating the controls of Thunderbird 2.
Coincidentally that same year, a live-action Thunderbirds movie, directed by Jonathan Frakes, with computer effects was made, attempting to mimic the popular children's movie Spy Kids.
Roddenberry's favourite for Riker was Jonathan Frakes, who went through seven auditions before claiming the role.
He was the second choice actor overall, but after the first choice failed to impress in both his auditions, Frakes claimed the role.
Tom Shales of The Washington Post thought that DeForest Kelly's cameo was " touching ", but thought that Patrick Stewart was a " grim bald crank who would make a better villain ", and Jonathan Frakes " verges on namby-pamby ".
He is a duplicate of William Riker, a regular character on Star Trek: The Next Generation, also played by Frakes, who was created by a transporter accident when Riker served as second officer aboard the USS Potemkin.
During the filming of " All Good Things ...," a behind-the-scenes retrospective documentary called Journey's End: The Saga of Star Trek: The Next Generation, hosted by Jonathan Frakes, was also filmed.
Campbell was the second choice of the producers of Star Trek: The Next Generation to play the role of William Riker, but lost the role to Jonathan Frakes.
Imzadi was read by Jonathan Frakes ( the actor who played Riker ), and Imzadi II by Robert O ' Reilly ( whose recurring onscreen role was the Klingon Gowron ).
It was written by Hilary Bader, directed by Jonathan Frakes, and featured music by Gregory Smith.
It was directed by Jonathan Frakes, produced by Gale Anne Hurd and Julia Pistor, and written by Rob Hedden, Andy Hedden, J. David Stem, and David N. Weiss.
Frakes and member
Frakes appeared as the twin, Thomas Riker, in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode " Defiant ", in which he impersonates the other Riker to commandeer the starship Defiant as a member of the Maquis.
In 1992, the episode titled " The Outcast " is a story in which Commander William Riker ( Jonathan Frakes ) falls in love with Soren, a member of the J ' naii androgynous humanoid race that views the expression of gender, especially sexual liaisons, as a sexual perversion.
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* DiMaio, Michael ; Frakes, Robert, Constans I ( 337 – 350 A. D .), in De Imperatoribus Romanis ( D. I. R.
* DiMaio, Michael, and Robert Frakes, " Constantine II ( 337 – 340 A. D .)", D. I. R.
The episode featured guest appearances by Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis as their Star Trek: The Next Generation characters William Riker and Deanna Troi.
* Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker
Other Enterprise crewmembers include the ship's first officer William Riker, played by director Jonathan Frakes.
Frakes commented that it would have been a mistake to cast Hanks as Cochrane due to his being so well known.
" actually came in and read for the part ", Frakes said.
Frakes cast Krige after finding that she had all of the mentioned qualities, and being impressed by her performance in Ghost Story ; the director considers her the sexiest Star Trek villain of all time.
Captains: Jean-Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ), William T. Riker ( Jonathan Frakes ), Edward Jellico ( Ronny Cox )
Captain: Admiral William T. Riker ( Jonathan Frakes )
Captain William Thomas Riker, played by Jonathan Frakes, is a fictional character in the Star Trek universe appearing primarily as a main character in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Frakes went to seven auditions over six weeks before being cast as Riker.
Frakes stated: " I started with the cattle call, then the casting director, the producer, then other directors, to Gene Roddenberry, and then through the Paramount execs, including the vice-president himself and the heads of television.
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