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Black Sunday John Frankenheimer (right) with producer Robert Evans during the filming of Black Sunday (1977).

John Frankenheimer

American director
Also known as: John Michael Frankenheimer
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John Frankenheimer (born February 19, 1930, Queens, New York, U.S.β€”died July 6, 2002, Los Angeles, California) was an American television and film director who was considered one of the most important and creatively gifted directors of the 1950s and ’60s. He was especially noted for such classic movies as The Manchurian Candidate (1962) and Birdman of Alcatraz (1962). He enjoyed a second surge of success in the 1990s when he produced a number of outstanding...

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