Frankenheimer followed this with his most iconic film, The Manchurian Candidate.

Frankenheimer followed with another successful political thriller, Seven Days in May ( 1964 ).

Frankenheimer followed this with I Walk the Line in 1970.

The leading director was John Frankenheimer ( 27 episodes ), followed by Franklin Schaffner ( 19 episodes ).

After The Last Tycoon ( March 14, 1957 ), adapted from the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel about a film studio head, Frankenheimer followed with Tad Mosel's If You Knew Elizabeth ( April 11, 1957 ) about an ambitious college professor ; another Fitzgerald adaptation, Winter Dreams ( May 23, 1957 ), dramatizing a romantic triangle ; Clash by Night ( June 13, 1957 ), with Kim Stanley in an adaptation of the Clifford Odets play ; and The Fabulous Irishman ( June 27, 1957 ), a biographical drama tracing events in the life of Robert Briscoe.

Frankenheimer kicked off 1958 with The Last Man ( January 9, 1958 ), an Aaron Spelling revenge drama, followed by The Violent Heart ( February 6, 1958 ) from Daphne du Maurier story of romance on the French Riviera, Rumors of Evening ( May 1, 1958 ) about a World War II pilot obsessed with USO entertainer and Serling's Bomber's Moon ( May 22, 1958 ) about a World War II pilot accused of cowardice.

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film two and a half out of four stars and said that " if Frankenheimer and his screenplay don't do justice to the character ( of Jimmy " Popeye " Doyle ), they at least do justice to the genre, and this is better than most of the many cop movies that followed The French Connection into release.

* Seconds ( film ), a 1966 film directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Rock Hudson

Randolph was the last blacklisted actor to regain employment in Hollywood films when director John Frankenheimer cast him in the lead role in Seconds in 1966.

She also appeared in the 1966 film Seconds by John Frankenheimer, in a 1963 episode of The Outer Limits, " Corpus Earthling ", and in 1981's Harry's War.

In addition, John Frankenheimer directed five films with Lancaster: The Young Savages ( 1961 ), Birdman of Alcatraz ( 1962 ), Seven Days in May ( 1964 ), The Train ( 1964 ), and The Gypsy Moths ( 1969 ).

Movie critic Leonard Maltin writes that " in his time ... Frankenheimer worked with the top writers, producers and actors in a series of films that dealt with issues that were just on top of the moment — things that were facing us all.

In May 2001, amid rumors that he was the biological father of film director Michael Bay, Frankenheimer stated he had a brief relationship with Bay's birth mother.

Frankenheimer returned to television during the late 1950s, moving to film permanently in 1961 with The Young Savages, in which he worked for the first time with Burt Lancaster in a story of a young boy murdered by a New York gang.

Frankenheimer had to fight to cast Lansbury, who had worked with him on All Fall Down, and was just two years older than Harvey.

Again saddled with an unfilmably long script, Frankenheimer threw it out and took the locations and actors left from the previous film and began filming, with writers working in Paris as the production shot in Normandy.

Due to their contract with the German Nürburgring, Frankenheimer had to turn over 27 reels shot there to Sturges.

The celebration of Americana starred Frankenheimer regular Lancaster, reuniting him with From Here to Eternity co-star Deborah Kerr, and it also featured Gene Hackman.

When it failed to become the hit that was expected, Frankenheimer admitted he developed a serious problem with alcohol.

In 1981, Frankenheimer travelled to Japan to shoot the cult martial-arts action film The Challenge, with Scott Glenn and legendary Japanese star, Toshiro Mifune.

In 1990, he returned to the Cold War political thriller genre with The Fourth War with Roy Scheider ( with whom Frankenheimer had worked previously on 52 Pick-Up ) as a loose cannon Army colonel drawn into a dangerous personal war with a Russian officer.

John Frankenheimer: A Conversation with Charles Champlin ( Riverwood Press ).

* Interview with John Frankenheimer video TV Legends, 28 minutes

* A television adaptation, directed by John Frankenheimer, was broadcast in two parts on CBS's Playhouse 90 in 1956, starring Jason Robards and Maria Schell as Robert Jordan and Maria, with Nehemiah Persoff as Pablo, Maureen Stapleton as Pilar, and Eli Wallach as the gypsy Rafael.

Frankenheimer was unable to meet with McQueen to offer him the role and instead sent Edward Lewis, his business partner and the producer of Grand Prix.

Starting from the late 1940s until the 1950s and 1960s, he also appeared on American television, making guest appearances in drama programs, most notably in The Fifth Column for Buick Electra Playhouse / CBS in 1960, playing an almost-deaf Nazi officer in a group of fifth columnists operating behind the lines in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s ( the program was adapted from a story by Ernest Hemingway and directed by John Frankenheimer ).

On the silver screen, his most acclaimed work is probably 52 Pickup, directed by John Frankenheimer.

According to Frankenheimer in his director's commentary, production of the film received encouragement and assistance from Kennedy through White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger, who conveyed to Frankenheimer Kennedy's wish that the film be produced and that, although the Pentagon did not want the film made, the President would conveniently arrange to visit Hyannis Port for a weekend when the film needed to shoot outside the White House.

Frankenheimer used a fake bull's head jutting into the frame when he staged The Death of Manolete ( September 12, 1957 ), Barnaby Conrad's drama about the death of the legendary bullfighter, a production later ranked by Frankenheimer as one of his worst.

Another production of the Odets play was directed by John Frankenheimer for Playhouse 90 on June 13, 1957 with Kim Stanley in the lead role.

Frankenheimer was ahead in schedule anyway, and the McQueen / Sturges project was called off, while the German race track was only mentioned briefly in Grand Prix.

John Frankenheimer made Grand Prix after his visit to the 1964 New York World's Fair.

According to director John Frankenheimer and actor James Garner in bonus interviews for the DVD of the film Grand Prix, McQueen was Frankenheimer's first choice for the lead role of American Formula One race car driver Pete Aron.

They had a contract with the German Nürburgring, and after John Frankenheimer shot scenes there for Grand Prix, the reels had to be turned over to Sturges.

The cult racing film Grand Prix, directed by John Frankenheimer, left Garner with a fascination for car racing that he often explored by actually racing during the ensuing years.

Frankenheimer was ahead in schedule anyway, and the McQueen / Sturges project was called off, while the German race track was only mentioned briefly in Grand Prix.

Sunday was cool, but dry, and a crowd of 75, 000 included actors James Garner ( Pete Aron ), Toshirō Mifune ( Mr. Yomura ) and Jessica Walter ( Pat Stoddard ), as well as director John Frankenheimer, who were in the final stages of creating the movie Grand Prix.

Jarier introduced himself to a new generation by contributing major stunt work to the film Ronin, directed by John Frankenheimer who also directed the 1966 classic, Grand Prix.

During the making of the movie " Grand Prix " directed by John Frankenheimer, Bandini recommended the location at the harbour chicane for a crash scene in the movie filmed at the Monte Carlo circuit.

In 1966, John Frankenheimer made the film Grand Prix in front of 3000 locals who posed as race spectators watching actors like Yves Montand and Françoise Hardy.

He also mentored directors such as Sydney Pollack and John Frankenheimer and appeared in several television films.

* 1930 – John Frankenheimer, American film director ( d. 2002 )

Banned movies included The Manchurian Candidate, directed by John Frankenheimer in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich 1970 by Finnish director Caspar Wrede and Born American by Finnish director Renny Harlin in 1986.

John Michael Frankenheimer ( February 19, 1930 – July 6, 2002 ) was an American film and television director known for social dramas and action / suspense films.

Frankenheimer won four consecutive Emmy Awards in the 1990s for the television movies Against the Wall, The Burning Season, Andersonville, and George Wallace, which also received a Golden Globe award.

Frankenheimer was born in Queens, New York, the son of Helen Mary ( née Sheedy ) and Walter Martin Frankenheimer, a stockbroker.

Frankenheimer once speculated that he might be related to actress Ally Sheedy.

His father was of German Jewish descent and his mother was Irish Catholic, and Frankenheimer was raised Catholic.

Frankenheimer grew up in New York City and became interested in movies at an early age ; he recalled going to the cinema every weekend.

Frankenheimer began his directing career in live television at CBS.

Burt Lancaster, who was producing as well as starring, asked Frankenheimer to take over the film.

As Frankenheimer describes in Charles Champlin's interview book, he advised Lancaster that the script was too long but was told he had to shoot all that was written.

The first cut of the film was four-and-a-half hours long, the length Frankenheimer had predicted.

Frankenheimer said the film would have to be rewritten and partly reshot.

Lancaster was committed to star in Judgment at Nuremberg, so he made that film while Frankenheimer prepared the reshoots.

Frankenheimer was next hired by producer John Houseman to direct All Fall Down, a family drama starring Eva Marie Saint and Warren Beatty.

Frankenheimer and producer George Axelrod bought Richard Condon's 1959 novel after it had already been turned down by many Hollywood studios.

Urban legend has it that the film was pulled from circulation due to the similarity of its plot to the death of President Kennedy the following year, but Frankenheimer states in the Champlin book that it was pulled because of a legal battle between producer Sinatra and the studio over Sinatra's share of the profits.

The Train had already begun shooting in France when star Lancaster had the original director fired and called in Frankenheimer to save the film.