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Frank Perry
Director 1930 - 1995

Frank Perry

New York City

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

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

9 titles
Mommie Dearest

Mommie Dearest

Frank Perry 1981 2h 8m 7.8

Mommie Dearest, best selling memoir, turned motion picture, depicts the abusive and traumatic adoptive upbringing of Christina Crawford at the hands of her mother...screen queen Joan Crawford.

Rancho Deluxe

Rancho Deluxe

Frank Perry 1975 1h 33m

Two drifters, of widely varying backgrounds, rustle cattle and try to avoid being caught in contemporary Montana.

Play It As It Lays

Play It As It Lays

Frank Perry 1972 1h 39m

A Hollywood actress undergoes a psychic breakdown and recalls the traumatic events which led to her stay at a sanitarium.

'Doc'

'Doc'

Frank Perry 1971 1h 36m

A revisionist western, "Doc" is Frank Perry's attempt to accurately portray the lives and persons of Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp, and the now-legendary events that took place in the town of Tombstone, starring Stacy Keach, Faye Dunaway and Harris Yulin.

Diary of a Mad Housewife

Diary of a Mad Housewife

Frank Perry 1970 1h 35m

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.

Last Summer

Last Summer

Frank Perry 1969 1h 35m 7.0

During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people--a girl and two guys--become so close that they form a sort-of threesome. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot that has violent results.

The Swimmer

The Swimmer

Frank Perry 1968 1h 35m 8.4

A man spends a summer day swimming home via all the pools in his quiet suburban neighborhood.

Ladybug Ladybug

Ladybug Ladybug

Frank Perry 1963 1h 22m

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

David and Lisa

Frank Perry 1962 1h 35m 9.0

The emotional story of a young man in a mental institution for teens who begins to understand his psychosis in the environment of others with mental and emotional problems. He finds intimacy with Lisa, a young woman suffering from schizophrenia.

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