LOS ANGELES -- John Frankenheimer, director of such Hollywood classics as "The Manchurian Candidate" and "Birdman of Alcatraz," died Saturday. He was 72. Frankenheimer died at Cedars-Sinai Medical ...

John Michael Frankenheimer (February 19, 1930 – July 6, 2002) was an American film and television director known for social dramas. He won four consecutive Emmy Awards in the 1990s for the television ...

Student Director Vanita Shastry of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), is the recipient of this year’s John Frankenheimer Memorial Fellowship. The Fellowship is named in honor of the ...

The terrifically tense movie “The Train” (1964), directed by John Frankenheimer, needs no special pleading. Memorably shot in black-and-white and spanning several genres (war, heist, action), the film ...

The 1998 John Frankenheimer classic Ronin served up no shortage of questions, even aside from the obvious ones: What was in the case, and what color was the boathouse at Hereford? The plot was already ...

It’s been months since I’ve recommended a movie, so this weekend let me, well, recommend a movie. The director John Frankenheimer was best known for two movies: “The Manchurian Candidate,” his 1962 ...

World famous filmmaker and Disney sellout billionaire George Lucas came of age mixed into the street racing scene of Modesto, California in the speed-addled 1960s. Shortly after he graduated high ...

John Frankenheimer was a hero. An amateur racer in his twenties, the director crossed a Kurtzian line of sanity with his 1966 racing film, Grand Prix, placing art above safety. Franken­heimer shot ...

John Frankenheimer is probably best know among car enthusiasts as the director of "Grand Prix," but he and his wife also owned—and cherished—a 1965 Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III for decades. That car ...

John Frankenheimer, 72, the much-honored director who helped create television's golden age of live drama and then brought the edge and excitement of political intrigue to the big screen with two film ...