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Frank Marshall

Frank Marshall

Production·b. 1946·Los Angeles, California, USA

15 horror credits

Frank Wilton Marshall (born September 13, 1946) is an American film producer and director. He often collaborates with his wife, film producer Kathleen Kennedy, with whom he founded the production company Amblin Entertainment, along with Steven Spielberg. In 1991, he founded, with Kennedy, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, a film production company. Since May 2012, with Kennedy taking on the role of President of Lucasfilm, Marshall has been Kennedy/Marshall's sole principal.

Marshall has worked with directors such as Spielberg, Paul Greengrass, Peter Bogdanovich, David Fincher, M. Night Shyamalan, and Robert Zemeckis. He has also directed the films Arachnophobia (1990), Alive (1993), Congo (1995), Eight Below (2006), and the documentaries The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart (2020), Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story (2022) and The Beach Boys (2024).

Marshall has produced various successful film franchises, including Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, Bourne, and Jurassic Park, and has received five  Academy Award nominations for Best Picture. His other accolades include the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, bestowed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to "creative producers, whose bodies of work reflect a consistently high quality of motion picture production", the David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures, a Grammy Award, a Sports Emmy Award, and a Tony Award. Marshall is one of the few people to have received an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT), with one of the awards being non-competitive.

Director1 film

Arachnophobia

Arachnophobia

Director

1990 3.5

Producer12 films

Battle at Big Rock

Battle at Big Rock

Producer

2019
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

Producer

2018 2.0
Signs

Signs

Producer

2002 3.8
The Sixth Sense

The Sixth Sense

Producer

1999 3.9
Cape Fear

Cape Fear

Executive Producer

1991 3.3
Arachnophobia

Arachnophobia

Executive Producer

1990 3.5
Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Executive Producer

1990 3.5
Young Sherlock Holmes

Young Sherlock Holmes

Executive Producer

1985
Gremlins

Gremlins

Executive Producer

1984 3.9
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Executive Producer

1984 3.2
Twilight Zone: The Movie

Twilight Zone: The Movie

Executive Producer

1983 3.1
Poltergeist

Poltergeist

Producer

1982 4.1

Actor3 films

They Are Here: The Real World of the Poltergeists

They Are Here: The Real World of the Poltergeists

Himself

2007
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Tourist at Airport (uncredited)

1984 3.2
Targets

Targets

Ticket Boy

1968 4.3

Other Crew2 films

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Second Assistant Director

1984 3.2
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

Production Supervisor

1982 3.7