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 Center of a stroke ...

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 ...

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 ...

UPDATE: The wife of prominent entertainment attorney John Frankenheimer, she worked on such shows and films as "Max Headroom," "Carnivale," "Star Trek: Voyager" and "Blade Runner." By Mike Barnes ...

I grew up knowing his name. As a child I used to regularly sneak downstairs to watch "Playhouse 90" on the tube. While not the only director credited, there was something consistent with a John ...

John Frankenheimer was a master of the thinking man’s thriller, a filmmaker who loved to uncover the twisted machinations behind a political conspiracy but also thrived on a good, old-fashioned, smash ...

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.

Veteran filmmaker John Frankenheimer, who directed such Hollywood classics as “The Manchurian Candidate” in the 1960s and made a cable-TV comeback in the ’90s, died yesterday. He was 72. Frankenheimer ...

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 ...

John Frankenheimer, who died on Saturday aged 72, was one of the most gifted directors to have emerged from the golden age of American television in the 1950s. He made a smooth transition to Hollywood ...