Directing

Frank P. Donovan

Born — Died

1892-03-10 — 1969-02-01

Place of birth

New York City, New York, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

23 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Silas Marner poster
10.0

After being wrongly accused of robbery and murder, a kind, gregarious weaver becomes a nasty, bitter, lonely old miser.

Silas Marner

1926

Silas Marner poster
10.0

After being wrongly accused of robbery and murder, a kind, gregarious weaver becomes a nasty, bitter, lonely old miser.

Silas Marner

1926

Way Up in Society poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Way Up in Society

1918

A Hash House Romance poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Hash House Romance

1917

Pardon Me poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Pardon Me

1920

Pardon Me poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Pardon Me

1920

Highway Mania poster
1.0

Made in 1937, HIGHWAY MANIA is an early driver safety film narrated by Lowell Thomas. It features stunning images of auto accidents, including some that are doubtless stunts from Hollywood films.

Highway Mania

1937

A Boarding House Battle poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

A Boarding House Battle

1917

No artwork available
10.0

As early as 1919, Russian Communists (then known as Bolsheviks) were convenient movie villains. This heavy-handed comedy uses the Russian revolution as an excuse for a series of slapstick set pieces.

Bullin' the Bullsheviki

1919

Her Ambitious Ambition poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Her Ambitious Ambition

1918

His Watery Waterloo poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

His Watery Waterloo

1917

His Watery Waterloo poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

His Watery Waterloo

1917

The Mad Marriage poster
10.0

Mary Jane is a girl born out of wedlock whose mother, Alice, attempts to offer her respectability by marrying a wealthy old colonel. As a young adult, Mary Jane meets and falls in love with reclusive writer Walter Butler. They are about to marry when he is revealed to be her natural father.

The Mad Marriage

1925

Siege poster
6.1

Siege is a 1940 documentary short about the Siege of Warsaw by the Wehrmacht at the start of World War II. It was shot by Julien Bryan, a Pennsylvanian photographer and cameraman who later established the International Film Foundation. Siege was nominated for an Oscar for Best One-reel Short at the 13th Academy Awards in 1941, and in 2006, it was named to the National Film Registry by the Librarian of Congress as "a unique, horrifying record of the dreadful brutality of war."

Siege

1940

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

His Flying Flivver

1917

Strange Holiday poster
6.8

An American businessman returns from a hunting trip to find fascists have overrun the country in this propaganda film.

Strange Holiday

1945

Five Times Five poster
7.7

Cécile, Annette, Yvonne, Émilie and Marie, the Dionne Quintuplets, turn five years old and have a private birthday party in their garden. Other than the five little French-Canadian princesses-of-the-world, the attendees at the party for the sheltered sisters are their doctor-and-mentor Roy Dafoe; a priest and two nurses; radio's "Town Crier" Alexander Woollcott; and RKO-Newsreel cameraman Harry Smith.

Five Times Five

1939

Stealing a Sweetheart poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Stealing a Sweetheart

1917

His Winning Ways poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

His Winning Ways

1917

His Fatal Fate poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

His Fatal Fate

1918

No artwork available
7.5

1943 film Oscar nominated in the category Best Documentary, Short Subject

Children of Mars

1943

A Harem Romance poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

A Harem Romance

1917

No artwork available
NR

Commissioned by The Committee On International Economic Policy and The Carnegie Endowment For International Peace to help stem the isolationist tide washing across America at the dawn of World War II, to prepare the citizenry for the eventual process of international economic reconstruction.

Made in the USA

1939