John Frankenheimer, the director best known for the classic political thriller “The Manchurian Candidate” but who was equally successful in television’s Golden Age and, more recently, making films for ...

LOS ANGELES (CNN) --John Frankenheimer, a legendary director of movies and television, died Saturday after suffering a massive stroke due to complications following spinal surgery, his business ...

In 1969, a critic and biographer of director John Frankenheimer, who has died of a stroke aged 72, wrote: "In the comparatively brief span of 10 years, [he] has become probably the most important ...

John Frankenheimer’s great 1962 political thriller, “The Manchurian Candidate”–now getting a deluxe 40th anniversary re-release at the Music Box–is perhaps the strangest, most provocative and ...

GOOD MORNING: It was titled “A Special Memorial Tribute to an Extraordinary Director,” and the Directors Guild/HBO program saluting John Frankenheimer on Monday night at the DGA was indeed special.

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 ...

Welcome to The B-Side! Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. Additionally, Frankenheimer made his bones ...

Frankenheimer, whose career in both films and television spanned nearly five decades, was nominated for 14 Emmy Awards and was perhaps best known as a master of films about dark government ...