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.

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

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 began his directing career in live television at CBS.

Most of his 1980s films were less than successful, both critically and financially, but Frankenheimer was able to make a comeback in the 1990s by returning to his roots in television.

* 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.

John Frankenheimer directed John Gielgud in a 1959 television version for CBS.

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 ).

As well as appearing in ten episodes of her father's half-hour television programme, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Hitchcock worked on a few others, including Playhouse 90, which was live, directed by John Frankenheimer.

At the age of 18, he played Hal Ditmar in the television play, Deal a Blow, directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Macdonald Carey, Phyllis Thaxter and Edward Arnold.

Frankenheimer gave Senator Kennedy theatrical makeup to hide the bruise while appearing on television hours later.

He appeared extensively in television, including the 1957 live 90-minute broadcast on Playhouse 90 of The Comedian, a drama written by Rod Serling and directed by John Frankenheimer in which Mickey Rooney portrays a television comedian while O ' Brien plays a writer driven to the brink of insanity.

During the making of the film both Frankenheimer and Garner were interviewed by Alan Whicker for the BBC television series Whicker's World.

Between 1954 and 1960, John Frankenheimer directed 152 live television dramas, an average of one every two weeks.

As Playhouse 90 moved into 1957, Frankenheimer directed a science fiction drama, The Ninth Day ( January 10, 1957 ), by Howard and Dorothy Baker, about a small group of World War III survivors and a Serling original, The Comedian ( February 14, 1957 ), featuring Mickey Rooney as an abrasive, manipulative television comedian.

The Rainmaker play was remade as for American television in 1982, directed by John Frankenheimer and starring James Cromwell, Tommy Lee Jones, William Katt and Tuesday Weld.

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.

Ironically, Lancaster and Frankenheimer became close friends during the filming, while Douglas and the director had a falling out.

In " Eligible Bachelors ", it is revealed that during World War II, Granny / Emma was a member of the WAC and along with Tweety she stopped Nazi Colonel Frankenheimer from stealing the Eiffel Tower and various paintings from the The Louvre.

Next, depending on his / her standing, the director may be granted an extra, prominent credit ( as in " A Ridley Scott Film "); this practice began with directors such as Otto Preminger and John Frankenheimer in the late 1960s.

Although producer David Susskind, in a 1960s roundtable discussion with leading 1950s TV dramatists, defined TV's Golden Age as 1938 to 1954, the final shows of Playhouse 90 in 1961 and the departure of leading director John Frankenheimer brought the era to an end.

Kirk Douglas and director John Frankenheimer were the moving forces behind the filming of Seven Days in May ; the film was produced through Douglas's Joel Productions.

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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.

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

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

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.

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.

The film failed to find an audience, but Frankenheimer always called it one of his personal favorites.

With Hackman reprising his role as New York cop Popeye Doyle, the film was a success and got Frankenheimer his next job, Black Sunday in 1976.

The film tested very highly, and Paramount and Frankenheimer had high expectations for it.

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 an interview, Frankenheimer refused to discuss the film, saying only that he had a miserable time making it.

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** John Frankenheimer, American film director ( b. 1930 )

His girlfriend Velma Davis was played by Evans Evans, who was the wife of film director John Frankenheimer.

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.

This was adapted by Guy Trosper for the 1962 film of the same name, directed by John Frankenheimer.

The game is the core and subject of a novel by French novelist Joseph Kessel titled Les Cavaliers ( aka Horsemen ) as well as of the film The Horseman ( 1971 ), which was directed by John Frankenheimer with Omar Sharif in the lead role.

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