Frank Perry

Frank Perry

Nascimento : 1930-08-21, New York City

Morte : 1995-08-29

História

Frank Joseph Perry, Jr. (August 21, 1930 – August 29, 1995) was an American director.

Perfil

Frank Perry
Frank Perry

Filmes

The Story of the Swimmer
Self (archive footage)
A documentary about the making of the cult film The Swimmer (1968).
Federico Fellini's Autobiography
Self (archive footage)
Federico Fellini was one of the most individual and thought provoking directors who based most of his films upon his own reflections, dreams, life events and fantasies, who did not convey any special message for humanity but regarded cinema simply as entertainment. Is there an answer to everything? Can it possibly be? If yes, then life can no longer be so curious, so dynamic, so creative...
On The Bridge
Himself
A documentary of director Frank Perry's own fight with cancer, which he ultimately lost in 1995.
On The Bridge
Producer
A documentary of director Frank Perry's own fight with cancer, which he ultimately lost in 1995.
On The Bridge
Director
A documentary of director Frank Perry's own fight with cancer, which he ultimately lost in 1995.
Está Sobrando Uma Mulher
Director
Comédia que vale mesmo pela presença da talentosa Shelley Long de "Um Dia a Casa Cai". Faz uma perfeita dona de casa que um dia morre em um trágico acidente, deixando seu marido livre. Mas através de bruxarias de sua irmã, volta à vida e encontra seu marido com uma ex-amiga.
Está Sobrando Uma Mulher
Producer
Comédia que vale mesmo pela presença da talentosa Shelley Long de "Um Dia a Casa Cai". Faz uma perfeita dona de casa que um dia morre em um trágico acidente, deixando seu marido livre. Mas através de bruxarias de sua irmã, volta à vida e encontra seu marido com uma ex-amiga.
Posições Comprometedoras
Producer
An ex-newspaper woman who is now a suburban housewife can't resist getting involved in an investigation of the murder of a philandering dentist who had been having affairs with several of her neighbors.
Posições Comprometedoras
Director
An ex-newspaper woman who is now a suburban housewife can't resist getting involved in an investigation of the murder of a philandering dentist who had been having affairs with several of her neighbors.
Monsignor
Director
The vows of an ambitious young American priest are tested during World War II. Not only does Father John Flaherty get involved with the black market to raise money for the Vatican, he also falls in love with a young French nun.
Mamãezinha Querida
Screenplay
Renowned actress Joan Crawford, at the height of her career, adopts two orphans — Christina and Christopher — to fill the lonely gap in her personal life. However, as her professional and romantic relationships sour, Joan's already callous and abusive behavior towards Christina intensifies. Christina leaves home to pursue an acting path of her own, only to find her mother's presence still overshadowing her.
Mamãezinha Querida
Director
Renowned actress Joan Crawford, at the height of her career, adopts two orphans — Christina and Christopher — to fill the lonely gap in her personal life. However, as her professional and romantic relationships sour, Joan's already callous and abusive behavior towards Christina intensifies. Christina leaves home to pursue an acting path of her own, only to find her mother's presence still overshadowing her.
Skag
Director
Pete "Skag" Skagska is a 56-year-old union foreman of a Pittsburgh steel mill until a crippling stroke forces him to stay home and try to put his life back together and deal with family problems.
O Surdo-Mudo
Director
The real-life account of an illiterate, deaf-and-mute, black youth who was accused of murdering a prostitute, and the relationship that developed between him and his court-appointed attorney, who also was deaf, and the events leading up to his precedent-setting trial.
Amigos e Aventureiros
Director
Jack McKee and Cecil Colson are two bumbling drifters who make a living by rustling cattle from other peoples herds in the wilds of Montana. Jack is from a wealthy background but left his parents as he resented their posh lives, and Cecil is a Native American half-breed seeking his own path in life away from his father. Both hustle and rustle their way in the world by targeting cattle owned by wealthy ranch owner John Brown. Frustrated that someone is killing his cattle, John hires a pair of ranch hands Burt and Curt to find the rustlers. When Brown realizes he cannot trust his two inept ranch hands, he turns to the grizzled former rustler Henry Beige to find the cattle thieves, while Jack and Cecil are always one step ahead of them, not realizing that their luck will eventually run out sometime.
Man on a Swing
Director
A small-town police chief investigating a murder is offered help by a self-described psychic. However, when the chief discovers that the "psychic" is in possession of information known only to the police, he suspects that the man may be more involved in the case than he lets on.
O Destino Que Deus Me Deu
Producer
Burned-out B-movie actress Maria, depressed and frustrated with her loveless marriage to an ambitious film director, Carter Lang, who would rather work on his career than on his relationship with her, numbs herself with drugs and sex with strangers. Only her friendship with a sensitive gay movie producer, B.Z., offers a semblance of solace. But even that relationship proves to be fleeting amidst the empty decadence of Hollywood.
O Destino Que Deus Me Deu
Director
Burned-out B-movie actress Maria, depressed and frustrated with her loveless marriage to an ambitious film director, Carter Lang, who would rather work on his career than on his relationship with her, numbs herself with drugs and sex with strangers. Only her friendship with a sensitive gay movie producer, B.Z., offers a semblance of solace. But even that relationship proves to be fleeting amidst the empty decadence of Hollywood.
O Massacre dos Pistoleiros
Producer
Uma noite de 1881, Doc Holliday, um famoso jogador de poker, entra no 'No Name Saloon'. Lá, ele desafia um homem no poker, apostando seu cavalo contra a mulher de seu oponente. Doc vence e de agora em diante, Katie Fisher, também conhecida como Katie Elder, vai segui-lo aonde quer que vá.
O Massacre dos Pistoleiros
Director
Uma noite de 1881, Doc Holliday, um famoso jogador de poker, entra no 'No Name Saloon'. Lá, ele desafia um homem no poker, apostando seu cavalo contra a mulher de seu oponente. Doc vence e de agora em diante, Katie Fisher, também conhecida como Katie Elder, vai segui-lo aonde quer que vá.
Quando Nem um Amante Resolve
Producer
Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizing everything she does or wears. She begins an affair with George Prager, a dashing, successful, and blatantly sadistic writer.
Quando Nem um Amante Resolve
Director
Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizing everything she does or wears. She begins an affair with George Prager, a dashing, successful, and blatantly sadistic writer.
O Último Verão
Co-Producer
During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people become very close. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot that has violent results.
O Último Verão
Director
During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people become very close. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot that has violent results.
Trilogy
Producer
Trilogy is an anthology film of three adaptations of Truman Capote short stories: Miriam, Among the Paths to Eden and A Christmas Memory. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France.
Trilogy
Director
Trilogy is an anthology film of three adaptations of Truman Capote short stories: Miriam, Among the Paths to Eden and A Christmas Memory. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France.
Enigma de uma Vida
Producer
Neddy Merrill tem estado ausente durante a maior parte do verão. Ele reaparece em uma piscina de amigos. Enquanto eles conversam, alguém percebe que há piscinas em todos os vizinhos, abrangendo todo o vale. Ele decide nadar de piscina para piscina por todo o vale. Quando ele para em cada piscina de seu caminho, conta a sua história de vida. Seus amigos estão perplexos com sua determinação em concluir a missão, "nadando em casa", mas foi imediatamente compreendido intuitivamente. Sua paixão é monumental, assim como é monumental o seu esquecimento e décadas de negligência com aqueles que ele tem de mais caro. Sua odisseia o leva de amor e poder a desespero e ruína.
Enigma de uma Vida
Director
Neddy Merrill tem estado ausente durante a maior parte do verão. Ele reaparece em uma piscina de amigos. Enquanto eles conversam, alguém percebe que há piscinas em todos os vizinhos, abrangendo todo o vale. Ele decide nadar de piscina para piscina por todo o vale. Quando ele para em cada piscina de seu caminho, conta a sua história de vida. Seus amigos estão perplexos com sua determinação em concluir a missão, "nadando em casa", mas foi imediatamente compreendido intuitivamente. Sua paixão é monumental, assim como é monumental o seu esquecimento e décadas de negligência com aqueles que ele tem de mais caro. Sua odisseia o leva de amor e poder a desespero e ruína.
The Thanksgiving Visitor
Producer
Adaptation of Truman Capote's short story. A sequel, from the same filmmakers, to the critically acclaimed A Christmas Memory (1966).
The Thanksgiving Visitor
Director
Adaptation of Truman Capote's short story. A sequel, from the same filmmakers, to the critically acclaimed A Christmas Memory (1966).
A Christmas Memory
Producer
Narrated by Truman Capote. Emmy Award winning adaptation of Capote's recollection of his youth in the rural South during the Depression. Later released in the anthology film Trilogy (1969) along with two other Capote adaptations by Frank and Eleanor Perry.
A Christmas Memory
Director
Narrated by Truman Capote. Emmy Award winning adaptation of Capote's recollection of his youth in the rural South during the Depression. Later released in the anthology film Trilogy (1969) along with two other Capote adaptations by Frank and Eleanor Perry.
Ladybug Ladybug
Producer
Staff and students at a rural school react to a warning of an imminent nuclear attack, not knowing whether it is real or mistaken.
Ladybug Ladybug
Director
Staff and students at a rural school react to a warning of an imminent nuclear attack, not knowing whether it is real or mistaken.
David and Lisa
Newsdealer (uncredited)
Teenager David Clemens develops a hysterical fear that he will die if he comes into physical contact with another person. Perturbed, David's overbearing mother places him in a home for mentally disturbed young people, but David remains withdrawn from the other patients and his psychiatrist. Over time, however, David grows interested in 15-year-old Lisa, who suffers from multiple personalities – one who can only speak in rhyme, and the other, a mute.
David and Lisa
Director
Teenager David Clemens develops a hysterical fear that he will die if he comes into physical contact with another person. Perturbed, David's overbearing mother places him in a home for mentally disturbed young people, but David remains withdrawn from the other patients and his psychiatrist. Over time, however, David grows interested in 15-year-old Lisa, who suffers from multiple personalities – one who can only speak in rhyme, and the other, a mute.