Known for Directing
Frank Joseph Perry, Jr. (August 21, 1930 – August 29, 1995) was an American director.
Born
August 21, 1930
Died
August 29, 1995 (age 65)
Birthplace
New York City
Filmography
39 films, 5 shows


On The Bridge
1993 · 1h 33m
country: Unknown
A documentary of director Frank Perry's own fight with cancer, which he ultimately lost in 1995.


Hello Again
1987 · 1h 36m
country: United States
A suburban housewife chokes to death and is brought back to life by a spell cast by her wacky sister.


Compromising Positions
1985 · 1h 39m
country: United States
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.
J.F.K.: A One-Man Show
J.F.K.: A One-Man Show
1984 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Dramatization of the career of John Fitzgerald Kennedy.


Monsignor
1982 · 2h 1m
country: United States
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.


Mommie Dearest
1981 · 2h 9m
country: United States
Renowned film star Joan Crawford's abuse towards Christina, her adopted daughter, intensifies as her professional and romantic relationships turn sour.


Skag
1980 · 2h 18m
country: United States
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.


Dummy
1979 · 1h 36m
country: United States
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.


Rancho Deluxe
1975 · 1h 33m
country: United States
Two drifters, of widely varying backgrounds, rustle cattle and try to avoid being caught in contemporary Montana.


Man on a Swing
1974 · 1h 50m
country: United States
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.


Play It as It Lays
1972 · 1h 39m
country: United States
Burned-out B-movie actress Maria, depressed and frustrated with her loveless marriage to an ambitious film director, Carter Lang, who would rather work on his career than on his relationship with her, numbs herself with drugs and sex with strangers. Only her friendship with a sensitive gay movie producer, B.Z., offers a semblance of solace. But even that relationship proves to be fleeting amidst the empty decadence of Hollywood.


Doc
1971 · 1h 36m
country: United States
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.


Diary of a Mad Housewife
1970 · 1h 35m
country: United States
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.


Last Summer
1969 · 1h 35m
country: United States
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.


Trilogy
1969 · 1h 50m
country: United States
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.


The Thanksgiving Visitor
1968 · 44m
country: United States
In this sequel to Truman Capote's "A Christmas Memory," a boy recalls his life with an elderly cousin in rural Alabama in the 1930s and the lesson she taught him one Thanksgiving Day about dealing with a bully from school.


The Swimmer
1968 · 1h 35m
country: United Kingdom
A man spends a summer day swimming home via all the pools in his quiet suburban neighborhood.


A Christmas Memory
1966 · 50m
country: United States
As Christmastime approaches in rural, Depression-era Alabama, a young boy and his best friend, an elderly woman distantly related to him, prepare for the impending holiday by gathering ingredients for their annual batch of fruitcakes for "people who've struck our fancy." On Christmas Eve, they talk with great anticipation of the next day, but underneath is the sad, almost unspoken knowledge that the boy is growing up and his cousin is getting older and frailer. Based on Truman Capote's autobiographical short story.


Ladybug Ladybug
1963 · 1h 22m
country: United States
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.


David and Lisa
1962 · 1h 35m
country: United States
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.