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Darabont in 2004, photo by Starfrenzy /Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Ferenc Árpád Darabont
Place of Birth: Montbéliard, Doubs, France
Date of Birth: 28 January, 1959
Ethnicity: Hungarian
Frank Darabont is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He has directed the films The Shawshank Redemption , The Green Mile , The Majestic , and Stephen King’s The Mist . He wrote the screenplays, adopting Stephen King works, for all but Majestic . He has also co-written the films A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors , The Blob (1988), The Fly II , and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein ; created, executive produced, and directed episodes of, the show The Walking Dead upon its inception; and directed episodes of The Shield and Mob City , the latter of which he also created. He has also been known as Frank A. Darabont and Ardeth Bey.
Frank was born in a refugee camp in Montbéliard, Doubs, France, the son of Hungarian parents, from Budapest, who escaped the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. The family moved to the U.S. when Frank was a child. Frank was raised in Chicago, Illinois and Los Angeles, California. He is married to Sara Rae Darabont.
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