Frank Darabont
Directing
Biography
Frank Árpád Darabont (born Ferenc Árpád Darabont, January 28, 1959) is an American screenwriter, director, and producer, who has been nominated for three Academy Awards and a Golden Globe. He was born in France to 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.
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The Walking Dead
2010
Entourage
2004
King Kong
2005
The Shining
1997
Vampires
1998
One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5
2026
The Director's Chair
2014
Nightmare Factory
2011
The Making of The Walking Dead
2010
King on Screen
2023
Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner
2007
Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile
2000
Walking the Mile
2014
The Thing Expanded
2026
Drew: The Man Behind the Poster
2013
Clint Eastwood's West
2011
Ray Harryhausen: The Early Years Collection
2005
Fantastic Flesh: The Art of Make-Up EFX
2008
Irreverent Imagination: The Golden Age of the Looney Tunes
2003
Tales from the Script
2009
Recreating the Eighth Wonder: The Making of 'King Kong'
2006
Monsters Among Us: The Creature FX of 'The Mist'
2008
Fear Himself: The Life and Crimes of Freddy Krueger
2012
Stephen King: Shining in the Dark
1999
Artifact from the Future: The Making of 'THX 1138'
2004
Stephen King's World of Horror
1989
Shawshank: The Redeeming Feature
2001
The Mist: Taming the Beast - The Making of Scene 35
2008
Stephen King's World of Horror
1986
When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'
2008
RKO Production 601: The Making of “Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World”
2008
Made Men: The 'GoodFellas' Legacy
2004
The United Monster Talent Agency
2010
The Horror of It All: The Visual F/X of The Mist
2008
Drew Struzan: An Appreciation of An Artist
2008
Light in the Darkness: The Impact of Night of The Living Dead
2018
On the crew 37
The Walking Dead
2010
Stranger Things
2016
The Shawshank Redemption
1994
The Shield
2002
The Green Mile
1999
Tales from the Crypt
1989
The Mist
2007
Collateral
2004
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
1992
The Blob
1988
The Fly II
1989
The Majestic
2001
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994
Buried Alive
1990
Trancers
1984
The Salton Sea
2002
Mob City
2013
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
1987
Raines
2007
Crimes of Passion
1984
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Travels with Father
1996
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
1999
Hell Night
1981
The Seduction
1982
Black Cat Run
1998
Two-Fisted Tales
1992
Walking the Mile: The Making of The Green Mile
2000
Walking the Mile
2014
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Phantom Train of Doom
1999
Nightshift Collection
1994
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert
1999
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Oganga, the Giver and Taker of Life
1999
Monsters Among Us: The Creature FX of 'The Mist'
2008
When Darkness Came: The Making of 'The Mist'
2008
Drew Struzan: An Appreciation of An Artist
2008
The Woman in the Room
1983
Light in the Darkness: The Impact of Night of The Living Dead
2018