Frank Darabont Filmography

Born:: January 28, 1959
Occupation:: Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter
Biography:: A director who has all but put his trademark on the humane prison drama, director, screenwriter, and producer Frank Darabont made his triumphant feature film directorial debut with The Shawshank Redemption (1994). Starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman as two inmates imprisoned for life, the film...Read More

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The Illustrated Man

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Zack Snyder brings Ray Bradbury's anthology The Illustrated Man to the big screen with this modern-day retelling of a man whose tattoos foretell the future. The story was originally adapted in 1969 as a Rod Steiger vehicle. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide Read More

1/1/10
Law Abiding Citizen

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx

Synopsis: Gerard Butler stars as an assistant D.A. who finds himself at the fate of a spiteful vigilante (Jamie Foxx) hell bent on avenging the death of his wife and daughter, whose murderers are set free due to legal loopholes. Frank Darabont directs from a script by Kurt Wimmer and himself. ~ Jeremy Read More

1/1/10
Stephen King's The Mist

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden, Laurie Holden, Andre Braugher, Toby Jones

Synopsis: Frequent Stephen King collaborator Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption) teamed with the celebrated horror author once again for this tale of terror concerning a small town engulfed by a malevolent mist, based on a story originally published in King's 1985 horror anthology Skeleton Crew. When Read More

11/21/07
Raines [TV Series]

Crew: Director

Actors: Jeff Goldblum, Matt Craven, Dov Davidoff, Linda Park, Madeleine Stowe

Synopsis: The NBC cop drama Raines starred Jeff Goldblum as the title character, eccentric LAPD homicide detective Michael Raines. Haunted by the death of his former partner Charlie Lincoln (Malik Yoba, Raines found himself in frequent contact and conversation with Raines' ghost (or so he thought). These Read More

2007
Collateral

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith, Mark Ruffalo, Peter Berg

Synopsis: A taxi driver is unexpectedly taken on the ride of his life in this stylish thriller from acclaimed director Michael Mann. Max (Jamie Foxx) is a cab driver who hopes to some day open his own limo company; one night behind the wheel begins promisingly when he picks up Annie (Jada Pinkett Smith), an Read More

8/6/04
The Salton Sea

Crew: Producer

Actors: Val Kilmer

Synopsis: The feature film debut of producer and TV director D.J. Caruso, this pulpy noir mystery is a dark tale of redemption set among southern California crystal methamphetamine "tweakers." Val Kilmer stars as Danny Parker, a former trumpet player who has become a tattooed speed freak living in a Read More

4/26/02
The Majestic

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Jim Carrey, Martin Landau, Bob Balaban, Gerry Black, Brent Briscoe, Karl Bury

Synopsis: Director Frank Darabont created this Frank Capra-inspired drama based on a screenplay by his friend and one-time schoolmate Michael Sloane. Jim Carrey stars as Pete Appleton, a screenwriter in the Hollywood of the 1950s. Pete's on top of the world with his first motion picture "Sand Pirates of the Read More

12/21/01
The Green Mile

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Tom Hanks, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt, Michael Clarke Duncan, James Cromwell, Michael Jeter, Graham Greene, Gary Sinise

Synopsis: Director Frank Darabont, who made an acclaimed feature film debut with The Shawshank Redemption (1994), based on a Stephen King novel set in a prison, returns for a second feature, based on King's 1996 serialized novel set in a prison. In 1935, inmates at the Cold Mountain Correctional Facility Read More

12/10/99
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Robert De Niro, Kenneth Branagh, Tom Hulce, Helena Bonham Carter, Aidan Quinn, John Cleese

Synopsis: Director Kenneth Branagh's interpretation of Mary Shelley's classic horror novel stars Robert DeNiro as a terrifying monster created in an obsessive attempt to defeat death and stretch the limits of medicine in the early 19th century. With the use of flashback, a dying Dr. Viktor Frankenstein Read More

1994
The Shawshank Redemption

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Tim Robbins, Morgan Freeman, Bob Gunton, Bill Sadler, Clancy Brown

Synopsis: In 1946, a banker named Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is convicted of a double murder, even though he stubbornly proclaims his innocence. He's sentenced to a life term at the Shawshank State Prison in Maine, where another lifer, Ellis "Red" Redding (Morgan Freeman), picks him as the new recruit most Read More

1994
Buried Alive

Crew: Director

Actors: Tim Matheson

Synopsis: Produced for cable TV, this pedestrian thriller (also known as Till Death Do Us Part) purports to be a riff on Edgar Allen Poe's "The Premature Burial" but actually bears more of a resemblance to Diabolique. It stars Tim Matheson as a cheated-upon husband who can't stay down after his wife's (Jennifer Jason Leigh Read More

1990
The Fly 2

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Eric Stoltz, Daphne Zuniga, Lee Richardson, John Getz, Frank C. Turner

Synopsis: Chris Walas, the makeup and animatronics director on David Cronenberg's remake of The Fly, takes a stab at directorial duties in this sequel. Before Seth Brundle morphed into scrap metal in the original The Fly, he managed to leave behind the seed of his legacy, and at the start of The Fly 2 his Read More

2/10/89
The Blob

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Beau Billingslea, Kevin Dillon, Shawnee Smith, Donovan Leitch, Jeffrey DeMunn, Candy Clark, Joe Seneca

Synopsis: After the phenomenal box-office and critical success of David Cronenberg's 1986 remake of The Fly, a series of big-budget remakes of '50s horror favorites rode in on its coattails in the late 1980s -- though none managed to rise above mere camp clones of their elders, albeit garnished with modern Read More

8/5/88
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Heather Langenkamp, Patricia Arquette, Laurence Fishburne, Priscilla Pointer, Craig Wasson, Robert Englund

Synopsis: The best of the Elm Street sequels, this creepy, surreal fantasy features terrific effects, a fine young cast, and an air of grim fatalism that sets it apart from its giggly successors. Patricia Arquette stars as Kristen, whose nightmare leads to a slashed wrist which looks suspiciously like a Read More

1987