Frank Darabont
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1959-01-28
- Works
- 14
Top works
- Reading Stephen King
- Walpuski's typewriter
- The green mile
- The Making of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"
- The shawshank redemption (1994)
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Film & TV
Directing · Montbéliard, Doubs, France
Frank Darabont (born January 28, 1959) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer who has been nominated for three Academy Awards and a Golden Globe. He was born in France by 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,…
Known for
- The Thing Expanded — Self2026
- One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5 — Self - Guest Director Chapter 3 And 52026
- King on Screen — Self2023
- Light in the Darkness: The Impact of Night of The Living Dead — Self2018
- Walking the Mile — Self2014
- The Director's Chair — Self2014
- Drew: The Man Behind the Poster — Self2013
- Fear Himself: The Life and Crimes of Freddy Krueger — Self2012
- Nightmare Factory — Self2011
- Clint Eastwood's West — Self2011
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 593
- Total plays
- 1,343
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools
· 2012 · cited 28,376x
- Intermolecular interactions from a natural bond orbital, donor-acceptor viewpoint
· 1988 · cited 16,575x
- Accurate normalization of real-time quantitative RT-PCR data by geometric averaging of multiple internal control genes
· 2002 · cited 15,917x
- The american rheumatism association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis
· 1988 · cited 15,764x
- NMRPipe: A multidimensional spectral processing system based on UNIX pipes
· 1995 · cited 13,788x
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Key facts
- Born
- Ferenc Árpád Darabont , ( 1959-01-28 ) January 28, 1959 (age 67) , Montbéliard , France
- Other names
- Frank A. Darabont, Ardeth Bey
- Citizenship
- United States
- Education
- Hollywood High School
- Occupations
- Screenwriter director producer
- Years active
- 1981–present
- Spouse
- Sara Rae Darabont
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Key dates
- Born
- 28 January 1959
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Árpád
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Montbéliard
- Occupation
- director
- Educated at
- Hollywood High School
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Frank Darabont at the PaleyFest 2011 - The Walking Dead panel.jpg
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Frank Árpád Darabont (born Ferenc Árpád Darabont, January 28, 1959) is an American screenwriter, director, and producer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. In his early career, he was primarily a screenwriter for such horror films as A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987), The Blob (1988), and The Fly II (1989). As a director, he is known for his film adaptations of Stephen King novellas and novels, such as The Shawshank Redemption (1994), The Green Mile (1999), and The Mist (2007).
Darabont also developed and executive-produced the first season and first half of the second season of the AMC horror drama series The Walking Dead (2010–2011). He directed two episodes of the fifth and final season of the Netflix science fiction horror drama series Stranger Things (2025).
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