Frank Darabont
Frank Arpad Darabont is a FrenchHungarianAmerican film director, screenwriter and producer who has been nominated for three Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. In his early career he was primarily a screenwriter for horror films such as A Nightmare on Elm StreetDream Warriors, The Blob and The Fly II. As a director he is known for his film adaptations of Stephen King novels such as The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, and The Mist.
Darabont was born in a refugee camp in 1959 in Montbliard, Doubs, France. His parents fled Hungary after the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. When he was still an infant, his family moved to the United States, settling in Chicago. When Darabont was five the family moved to Los Angeles. Darabont was inspired to pursue a career in film after seeing the George Lucas film THX 1138 in his youth. Darabont graduated from Hollywood High School in 1977 and did not attend college. His first jobs after finishing school included working as a forklift operator and as a busboy. He claims he got his writing skills from endless hours of writing at a desk on a typewriter in his free time, and from his childhood friend Cody Hills, whom he still has brunch with at the local Golden Corral almost daily to discuss new ideas. Frank Darabont is married to costume designer Karyn Wagner.
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