Mark Frechette

Acting

Mark Frechette

Born 1947-12-04 · Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Mark Frechette was an American-Canadian film actor. He is best known for playing the lead role in Michelangelo Antonioni's Zabriskie Point.

Acting credits

Zabriskie Point poster
7.0

Anthropology student Daria, who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert, and dropout Mark, who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot, accidentally encounter each other in Death Valley and soon begin an unrestrained romance.

Zabriskie Point

1970

Many Wars Ago poster
7.3

Time after time, soldiers of the Italian Army are forced to leave their mountain trenches in attempts to storm an enemy fortress, always with the same disastrous results. As casualties mount, indignation spreads among the rank and file. Disturbed by his superiors' decisions, Lieutenant Sassu is led to question the purpose of war and reconsider where his real duties lie.

Many Wars Ago

1970

The Big Black Sow poster
7.0

Enrico struggles with his dysfunctional family and cheating wife, and eventually makes plans to kill them all.

The Big Black Sow

1971

Death Valley Superstar poster
NR

A short documentary about cult actor and criminal Mark Frechette.

Death Valley Superstar

2008

It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point poster
NR

Worlds collide in this unconventional essay film, when filmmaker, film historian, and archivist Daniel Kremer seamlessly edits Michelangelo Antonioni's legendary but controversial counterculture art film Zabriskie Point (1970) into the same narrative universe as Stanley Kramer's madcap epic comedy extravaganza It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963). In creating these new sequences, Kremer comes to recognize that the exercise effortlessly draws cultural and historical parallels in twentieth-century American life that echo in present-day America. The editorial mashups weave a tangled web of social and cinematic history that root our notions of Americana in the mythology of the desert. As Kremer expounds in his narration on these often astonishing and sometimes shocking associations, his very personal ties to the subject matter become manifest.

It's a Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie, Zabriskie Point

2023