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James Frawley

Film Director / Actor / Television Producer | * 09/29/1936 († 82, 01/22/2019) | Houston, Texas (United States of America (USA))
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James Joseph Frawley (September 29, 1936 – January 22, 2019) was an American director and actor. He was a member of the Actors Studio since around 1961. He was best known for directing The Muppet Movie (1979), and The Monkees television series. ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | TV Movies

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The ultimate disaster film parody. A nuclear-powered bus is making its maiden non-stop trip from New York to Denver. The journey is plagued by disasters due to the machinations of a mysterious group a ...

The Big Bus

PG

1976 | 2.6/5 | 1h 28min
Action, Comedy
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A Hollywood agent persuades Kermit the Frog to pursue a career in Hollywood. On his way there he meets his future muppet crew while being chased by the desperate owner of a frog-leg restaurant! ...

The Muppet Movie

G

1979 | 3.6/5 | 1h 37min
Comedy, Adventure, Music, Kids & Family
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Ally McBeal is a young lawyer working at the Boston law firm Cage and Fish. Ally's lives and loves are eccentric, humorous, dramatic with an incredibly overactive imagination that's working overtime! ...

Ally McBeal

Certification unknown

1997 | 3.3/5 | 43min per episode
Drama, Comedy
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Micky, Mike, Peter, and Davy are four young men in mid-1960s LA, members of a struggling country-folk-rock band looking for their big break amid madcap encounters with a variety of people straight out ...

The Monkees

TV-G

1966 | 3.3/5 | 30min per episode
Comedy, Kids & Family
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Awards & Nominations for James Frawley

2x Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series
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Movies with James Frawley as Actor(9)

2012 We Love the Monkees
as Man in Airport1994 Another Midnight Run
as Jail Cellmate1987 The Saint in Manhattan
as El Sleezo Cafe Waiter1979 The Muppet Movie
as Train Passenger1976 Tracks
as Stone1966 Wild, Wild Winter
as Sal Kelly / Sol Kelly / Judge Kelly1964 The Troublemaker
as Truck Driver1963 Ladybug Ladybug
as Norman1963 Greenwich Village Story

TV Shows/Series with James Frawley as Actor(16)

as Roark1971 Columbo
1966 Occasional Wife
1966 The Monkees
1966 Blue Light
as Kessler1965 The F.B.I.
1965 Hogan's Heroes
as Inspector Charles Jouet1964 The Rogues
as Lucien Garth1963 Burke's Law
as Pete1963 The Fugitive
1963 The Bill Dana Show
as Robert Renaldo1963 The Outer Limits
as Luther Bernstein1961 Dr. Kildare
1961 The Dick Van Dyke Show
as himself1959 The David Susskind Show
as District Attorney Alvarez1957 Perry Mason
as Furnas1955 Gunsmoke

Movies with James Frawley as Crew(26)

Directing/Director2002 Nancy Drew
Directing/Director2000 The.Three.Stooges
Directing/Director1998 Mr. Headmistress
Directing/Director1997 On the Second Day of Christmas
Directing/Director1997 Sins of the Mind
Directing/Director1996 Harrison: Cry of the City
Directing/Director1995 The Shamrock Conspiracy
Directing/Director1994 Cagney & Lacey: The Return
Directing/Director1994 Another Midnight Run
Directing/Director1990 Runaway Heart
Directing/Director1988 Spies, Lies & Naked Thighs
Directing/Director1987 Warm Hearts, Cold Feet
Directing/Director1987 Assault and Matrimony
Directing/Director1987 The Saint in Manhattan
Directing/Director1985 The Steel Collar Man
Directing/Director1985 Fraternity Vacation
Directing/Director1984 The Outlaws
Directing/Director1983 Wishman
Directing/Director1983 Hansel and Gretel
Directing/Director1980 Gridlock
Directing/Director1979 The Muppet Movie
Directing/Director1976 The Big Bus
Directing/Director1975 Delancey Street: The Crisis Within
Directing/Director1975 The Orphan and the Dude
Directing/Director1973 Kid Blue
Directing/Director1971 The Christian Licorice Store

TV Shows/Series with James Frawley as Crew(51)

Directing/Director2007 Side Order of Life
Directing/Director2007 Private Practice
Directing/Director2007 Dirty Sexy Money
Directing/Director2007 Notes from the Underbelly
Directing/Director2006 In Justice
Directing/Director2006 Three Moons Over Milford
Production/Producer2006 Three Moons Over Milford
Directing/Director2006 The Book of Daniel
Directing/Director2005 Grey's Anatomy
Directing/Director2005 Related
Directing/Director2005 Reunion
Directing/Director2005 Ghost Whisperer
Directing/Director2001 Kate Brasher
Directing/Director2001 The Division
Directing/Director2001 Smallville
Directing/Director2001 Thieves
Directing/Director2000 Ed
Directing/Director2000 That's Life
Directing/Director1999 Jack & Jill
Directing/Director1999 Judging Amy
Directing/Director1998 Vengeance Unlimited
Production/Producer1998 Vengeance Unlimited
Directing/Director1997 The Practice
Directing/Director1997 Spy Game
Directing/Director1997 Ally McBeal
Directing/Director1996 Second Noah
Directing/Director1995 Central Park West
Directing/Director1995 The Client
Directing/Director1995 American Gothic
Directing/Director1994 Earth 2
Directing/Director1994 Chicago Hope
Directing/Director1993 Key West
Directing/Director1992 Melrose Place
Directing/Director1990 The Trials of Rosie O'Neill
Directing/Director1990 Law & Order
Directing/Director1989 Father Dowling Mysteries
Directing/Director1987 Jake and the Fatman
Directing/Director1986 Tough Cookies
Directing/Director1984 Mike Hammer
Directing/Director1983 Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Directing/Director1983 Wizards and Warriors
Directing/Director1982 Tales of the Gold Monkey
Directing/Director1982 Cagney & Lacey
Directing/Director1982 Faerie Tale Theatre
Directing/Director1981 Mr. Merlin
Directing/Director1980 Magnum, P.I.
Directing/Director1974 Paper Moon
Directing/Director1971 Columbo
Directing/Director1968 The Ugliest Girl in Town
Directing/Director1966 That Girl
Directing/Director1966 The Monkees

Full Name: James Frawley
Born: Tuesday, 09/29 1936 (September) in Houston, Texas (United States of America (USA))
Died: Tuesday, 01/22 2019 (January) in Indian Wells (aged: 82)
Zodiac sign: Libra (Chinese zodiac sign: Rat)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Educated at: Actors Studio
Other names for James Frawley (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"James Joseph Frawley"
"James J. Frawley"
"Jim Frawley"
James Frawley frequently works together with these people:
Dabbs Greer (30x, Actor)
Ben Wright (27x, Actor)
Harry Townes (23x, Actor)
Victor French (23x, Actor)
John Anderson (23x, Actor)
Denver Pyle (22x, Actor)
Bill Erwin (22x, Actor)
Vaughn Taylor (21x, Actor)
Jeanette Nolan (20x, Actress)
Robert Karnes (20x, Actor)
John Milford (20x, Actor)
Howard Hesseman (5x, Actor)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:87079, Added: 05/26/2018, Last updated: 03/29/2024