Frank Perry

Directing

Frank Perry

Born 1930-08-21 · New York City

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

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Mommie Dearest poster
6.4

Renowned film star Joan Crawford's abuse towards Christina, her adopted daughter, intensifies as her professional and romantic relationships turn sour.

Mommie Dearest

1981

Mommie Dearest poster
6.4

Renowned film star Joan Crawford's abuse towards Christina, her adopted daughter, intensifies as her professional and romantic relationships turn sour.

Mommie Dearest

1981

Man on a Swing poster
5.9

When a young schoolteacher is found dead in her car in a parking lot in broad daylight, police chief Lee Tucker can find no clues pointing to her killer. Flamboyant self-proclaimed psychic Franklin Wills offers his help to the skeptical policeman, and, when his supposed visions about the case begin to reveal clues and information that only the killer could possibly have known, he becomes a suspect himself.

Man on a Swing

1974

Hello Again poster
5.7

A suburban housewife chokes to death and is brought back to life by a spell cast by her wacky sister.

Hello Again

1987

Hello Again poster
5.7

A suburban housewife chokes to death and is brought back to life by a spell cast by her wacky sister.

Hello Again

1987

The Swimmer poster
7.4

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

The Swimmer

1968

The Swimmer poster
7.4

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

The Swimmer

1968

Last Summer poster
6.2

During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people become very close. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot that has violent results.

Last Summer

1969

Diary of a Mad Housewife poster
6.2

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.

Diary of a Mad Housewife

1970

Diary of a Mad Housewife poster
6.2

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.

Diary of a Mad Housewife

1970

Doc poster
6.1

Doc Holliday travels to Tombstone, Ariz., with prostitute Katie Elder. Although the trip is difficult because Doc is ill with tuberculosis, they eventually reach their destination, where Holliday is reunited with his old friend Marshal Wyatt Earp, who has been clashing with the Clanton gang. Tensions between Earp and the Clantons rise until their infamous final showdown brings it to a head.

Doc

1971

Doc poster
6.1

Doc Holliday travels to Tombstone, Ariz., with prostitute Katie Elder. Although the trip is difficult because Doc is ill with tuberculosis, they eventually reach their destination, where Holliday is reunited with his old friend Marshal Wyatt Earp, who has been clashing with the Clanton gang. Tensions between Earp and the Clantons rise until their infamous final showdown brings it to a head.

Doc

1971

David and Lisa poster
7.2

Teenager David Clemens develops a hysterical fear that he will die if he comes into physical contact with another person. Perturbed, David's overbearing mother places him in a home for mentally disturbed young people, but David remains withdrawn from the other patients and his psychiatrist. Over time, however, David grows interested in 15-year-old Lisa, who suffers from multiple personalities – one who can only speak in rhyme, and the other, a mute.

David and Lisa

1962

Skag poster
NR

Pete "Skag" Skagska is a 56-year-old union foreman of a Pittsburgh steel mill until a crippling stroke forces him to stay home and try to put his life back together and deal with family problems.

Skag

1980

Compromising Positions poster
5.3

An ex-newspaper woman, who is now a suburban housewife, can't resist getting involved in an investigation of the murder of a philandering dentist who had been having affairs with several of her neighbors.

Compromising Positions

1985

Compromising Positions poster
5.3

An ex-newspaper woman, who is now a suburban housewife, can't resist getting involved in an investigation of the murder of a philandering dentist who had been having affairs with several of her neighbors.

Compromising Positions

1985

Monsignor poster
4.5

The vows of an ambitious young American priest are tested during World War II. Not only does Father John Flaherty get involved with the black market to raise money for the Vatican, he also falls in love with a young French nun.

Monsignor

1982

Rancho Deluxe poster
5.3

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

Rancho Deluxe

1975

Dummy poster
8.8

The real-life account of an illiterate, deaf-and-mute, black youth who was accused of murdering a prostitute, and the relationship that developed between him and his court-appointed attorney, who also was deaf, and the events leading up to his precedent-setting trial.

Dummy

1979

Ladybug Ladybug poster
6.9

The teachers and students of a countryside elementary school are thrown into a panic when an air raid siren goes off, warning them of a imminent nuclear attack.

Ladybug Ladybug

1963

Ladybug Ladybug poster
6.9

The teachers and students of a countryside elementary school are thrown into a panic when an air raid siren goes off, warning them of a imminent nuclear attack.

Ladybug Ladybug

1963

Trilogy poster
6.2

Trilogy is an anthology film of three adaptations of Truman Capote short stories: Miriam, Among the Paths to Eden and A Christmas Memory. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France.

Trilogy

1969

Trilogy poster
6.2

Trilogy is an anthology film of three adaptations of Truman Capote short stories: Miriam, Among the Paths to Eden and A Christmas Memory. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the events of May 1968 in France.

Trilogy

1969

No artwork available
8.0

Dramatization of the career of John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

J.F.K.: A One-Man Show

1984