Despite the many celebrated films he directed, many of which won Academy Awards in various categories, Frankenheimer was never nominated for a Best Director Oscar.

In that year's Golden Globe Awards, O ' Brien won for " Best Supporting Actor ", while Frederic March, John Frankenheimer and composer Jerry Goldsmith received nominations.

Frankenheimer won a Danish Bodil Award for directing the " Best Non-European Film " and Rod Serling was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for " Best Written American Drama ".

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.

The TNT cable network also produced a movie George Wallace in 1997, which was a John Frankenheimer film starring Gary Sinise, who would win an Emmy for his performance as Wallace the very night of the real Wallace's death.

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.

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 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.

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

In later years, Frankenheimer theorized that the audience may have developed an affinity over the course of the movie for the character played by Bruce Dern and thus felt conflicted when he was defeated at the end.

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.

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

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.

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 ).

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 said that Pierre Salinger conveyed to him President Kennedy's wish that the film be made, " these were the days of General Walker " and, though 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.

In 1960, John Frankenheimer, a friend of Pollack's, asked him to come to Los Angeles in order to work as a dialogue coach for the child actors on Frankenheimer's first big picture, The Young Savages.

In the 1997 TNT film George Wallace, directed by John Frankenheimer, Jim Folsom is played by Joe Don Baker, who was nominated for a CableACE award for his performance.

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

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

Frankenheimer began his directing career in live television at CBS.

* 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

* TCM Remembers 2002: William Warfield, director George Sidney, Signe Hasso, Brad Dexter, producer Lew Wasserman, Ted Ashley, Lawrence Tierney, Leo McKern, Kim Hunter, John Agar, Jeff Corey, Dolores Gray, producer J. Lee Thompson, Eddie Bracken, Katy Jurado, animator Chuck Jones, Harold Russell, Eileen Heckart, Jack Kruschen, Buddy Lester, Adolph Green, director André de Toth, producer Richard Sylbert, Milton Berle, director Billy Wilder, director John Frankenheimer, Dudley Moore, Richard Harris, Rod Steiger and James Coburn.

Frankenheimer calls it in the Champlin book " the only movie I've made which I would say was a total disaster.

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.

In 1956, Frankenheimer directed the movie version of the play, which was renamed The Young Stranger, with MacArthur again in the starring role.

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.

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.

A number of directors also studied with him, among them Sidney Lumet and John Frankenheimer, and writers such as Arthur Miller and David Mamet.

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.