Birthday:
12-05-1942
Deathday:
11-20-1993 (50 years)
Birthplace:
Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
Biography
Christopher Frank (5 December 1942, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, UK – 19 November 1993, Paris, France) was a British-born French writer, screenwriter, and film director. He won the 1972 Prix Renaudot for his novel La Nuit américaine that served the basis for Andrzej Zulawski's film That Most Important Thing: Love.
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Apostrophes
Act like Self (1 ep.)
event1975 star_border 8.5
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Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.
That Most Important Thing: Love
Novel (1 ep.)
event1975 star_border 7.1
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Servais Mont, a freelance photographer who works taking compromising photos, gets fascinated by Nadine Chevalier, a tormented low-budget movie actress married to an eccentric film photo collector.
Strange Affair
Screenplay (1 ep.)
event1981 star_border 6.1
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A young Parisian advertising executive becomes so captivated by the unsettling charm of his mysterious new employer that he eventually abandons his family and friends, viewing it a privilege to let the ubiquitous employer take over his home, his life, his desire. Only his wife remains suspicious, recognizing both the pathos and the evil in the man’s soul-stealing power.
Year of the Jellyfish
Director (1 ep.)
event1984 star_border 5.8
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Chris, a sexy teenager who appears mostly bare-breasted on the French Riviera, has a crush on Romain, her mother's lover. In reaction to her inability to attract his attention, she experiments with other risque affairs.
Malone
Screenplay (1 ep.)
event1987 star_border 6
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Erstwhile C.I.A. assassin Richard Malone hopes for a tranquil retirement in the placid Pacific Northwest, but what he gets is a rumble with a right-wing extremist plotting a secret revolution.
Josepha
Novel (1 ep.)
event1982 star_border 5.1
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An acting couple is forced to assess their life together when the wife falls for a wealthy horse-breeder while shooting a film.
Twisted Obsession
Novel (1 ep.)
event1989 star_border 5.4
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An American writer in Paris is hired to do a script for an edgy young director he can't stand. When he falls in love with the director's cold and manipulative pretty sister, his life starts to unravel and he realizes that he's been used.
Love in the Strangest Way
Director (1 ep.)
event1994 star_border 5.7
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Successful Julien sees his family off on holiday and at once becomes drawn into a risky relationship with Angela, whom he spies outside the cafe opposite his office. When he later finds she is to become his son's new nanny he rightly starts to worry there is more to the relationship than he bargained for.
The Other Woman
Director (1 ep.)
event1990
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In The Other Woman, Farou (Jean Rochetfort) is an author whose success is matched only by his lechery. During the rehearsal of his newest play, a scandal unfolds. Farou's wife Fanny (Anne Duperey) knows that during his "creative periods," Farou gets a particular itch that he can't resist scratching, but her own jealousy has finally reached the boiling point. It starts when Jane (Caroline Sihol), the deliciously sexy secretary that Farou has brought on as a live in assistant, falls in love with the artist.
The Hurried Man
Writer (1 ep.)
event1977 star_border 5.8
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Art collector Pierre Niox rushes through life, lives a frantic life, does everything in full speed -- searching for and acquiring works of art or real estate, marrying or even dying -- and in total disregard for any kind of morality. His misdeeds finally turn on him and destroy him.
Spiral
Writer (1 ep.)
event1987 star_border 2
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Whilst spending a few days on the Côte d’Azur with his friends, Jérôme meets Simorre, a strange young woman who will have a profound impact on him. Jérôme allows Simorre to take her into her world, and he soon finds himself caught in a terrible trap...
Love at the Top
Writer (1 ep.)
event1974 star_border 6.2
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A shy bank employee unexpectedly invites a young woman to a café, leading to a one-night stand. When he shares this with his disillusioned friend, the writer helps him navigate a dazzling social ascent.
Memoirs of a French Whore
Dialogue (1 ep.)
event1979 star_border 6.3
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Marie is nineteen and bored in her little suburban life with no future. In a café, she meets the charismatic and beautiful Gerard. Blinded by adoration, Mary decides to leave her parents and her clerk job to live with the man she considers as the love of her life. But Gerard is a pimp, who soon forces her into prostitution. From within homes to out on the streets, the young woman gradually discovers a world of decay and violence.
The Passengers
Writer (1 ep.)
event1977 star_border 6.1
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A man and his stepson driving across Europe are terrorized by a man following them in a pickup truck.
Femmes de personne
Writer (1 ep.)
event1984 star_border 3.8
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Cécile, a single mother, contrives to meet Gilquin, the married father of a classmate of her nearly-adolescent son. An affair ensues. Isabelle, approaching middle age with two children, discovers she's pregnant, goes into a funk, and arranges for a younger woman to seduce her husband. Adeline is distraught at her ex-lover's plan to leave France. The three women are colleagues at a radiology clinic. They come to each other's aid, but each must decide on her own what course to take: Cécile with Gilquin, Isabelle with her husband, and Adeline with her solitude.
A Friend of Vincent
Writer (1 ep.)
event1983 star_border 5.9
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Vincent is the victim of an assassination attempt carried out by a young woman who wants to avenge her sister. Albert, the childhood friend of Vincent, wants to help and begins to investigate the woman, but he realizes that Vincent is perhaps not the person he seems to be.
The Fighter
Writer (1 ep.)
event1983 star_border 5.8
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Jacques Darnay has served 8 years for robbing a jeweller. Now he is out of prison and looking for his loot worth 6 million francs.
L'Atlantide
Writer (1 ep.)
event1992 star_border 5
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A mythical land who must be discover. Or invented. In an impressive library, two old men. One is a great Polish archaeologist at the end of his work. The second- his best friend. They are masters of a substantial slice of human history: legendary Atlantis. It is refuge and masterpiece, propriety and treasure.
Private Tuition
Writer (1 ep.)
event1986 star_border 5.4
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Jeanne Kern is a pretty, somewhat repressed schoolteacher who suffers a smear campaign at work. Someone has been sending her director letters accusing her of lewd and immoral conduct. Matters take a turn for the worse when a photograph of an orgy is sent to all the faculty with one face cut out; presumably, the face is hers.
On the Edge of the Horizon
Screenplay (1 ep.)
event1993 star_border 5.6
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Spino, a pathologist, receives an unidentified body which looks familiar to him... himself, 30 years younger.
Attention, the Kids Are Watching
Writer (1 ep.)
event1978 star_border 6.5
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In a seaside villa, under the care of a nanny, a group of children spend most of their days watching violent television shows.
Deep Water
Screenplay (1 ep.)
event1981 star_border 6.2
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On the island of Jersey, off the French coast, Mélanie, a beautiful woman gifted with a captivating personality, enjoys having unimportant love affairs that her husband Victor, a perfumer older than her, seems to endure with total indifference.
For a Cop's Hide
Writer (1 ep.)
event1981 star_border 5.9
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Victim of manipulation, Cop Choucas is wanted for two murders and searched for by every cop in town.
Three Men to Destroy
Writer (1 ep.)
event1980 star_border 6.2
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A man helps the victim of an auto accident, not realizing that the man has actually been shot. The men who shot him are now after the man who helped him, in order to eliminate him as a potential witness. Soon they are killing everyone he even comes in contact with in order to get him.
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