John Frankenheimer
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"John Michael Frankenheimer" was an American film and television director known for social dramas and action/suspense films. Among his credits were Birdman of Alcatraz (film)/Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film)/The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Seven Days in May (1964), The Train (1964 film)/The Train (1964), Seconds (film)/Seconds (1966), Grand Prix (1966 film)/Grand Prix (1966), French Connection II (1975), Black Sunday (1977 film)/Black Sunday (1977), and Ronin (film)/Ronin (1998).

Frankenheimer won four consecutive Emmy Awards in the 1990s for the television movies Against the Wall (1994 film)/Against the Wall, The Burning Season (1994 film)/The Burning Season, Andersonville (film)/Andersonville, and George Wallace (film)/George Wallace, which also received a Golden Globe award. He was considered one of the last remaining directors who insisted on having complete control over all elements of production, making his style unique in Hollywood.

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There are two things I will never do in my life. I will never climb Mount Everest, and I will never work with Val Kilmer again. There isn't enough money in the world.

It's very eclectic, the way one chooses subjects in the movie business, especially in the commercial movie business. You need to develop material yourself or material is presented to you as an assignment to direct.

I became kind of like the village blacksmith after the invention of the automobile, ... There just was nowhere to go. Obviously, the next thing for me was directing movies.