Known for Sound
David Michael Frank is an American music composer and Broadway conductor born and raised in Baltimore. He studied piano and composition at the Peabody Conservatory of Music and was a soloist with the Peabody Orchestra at age 16. He further his studies in Paris and earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Northwestern University. He conducted The Me Nobody Knows at the Helen Hayes Theater in New York City at twenty-two, becoming the youngest conductor on Broadway at the time. In 1978, he relocated to California to pursue a career in film composition.
Born
December 21, 1948 (age 77)
Birthplace
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Filmography
67 films, 5 shows


Playdate
2013 · 1h 24m
country: Unknown
New Mom, Amy, is not only new to the suburban life, (having left her high powered job in the city to focus her attention on raising her daughter) she's also new to the mommy politics that come with it. Lonely and struggling to navigate the dog eat dog world of pre-school, playdates and playgrounds Amy is thrilled to meet fellow mommy Grace- the new next-door neighbor - who seems to be the answer to her prayers. Falling into fast friendship the two women and their little girls are inseparable - doing everything together from carpool to baby yoga.


Slap Her... She's French
2002 · 1h 29m
country: Germany
Welcome to Splendona High School, Texas, where football players, cheerleaders and beauty queens rule the hallways. And Starla Grady, the most popular girl in school, is on top of it all. That is, at least until Genevieve LePlouff, a French foreign exchange student arrives and turns her life upside down.


The Last Patrol
2000 · 1h 35m
country: Israel
After a massive earthquake destroys Los Angeles, a new order is formed. But disagreement among the ranks leads to more war and disruption, and The Last Patrol must bring order if there's to be any hope for the future.


Up, Up, and Away
2000 · 1h 17m
country: United States
A boy is the only member of his family without superpowers, yet the world depends on him saving his family from computerized brainwashers. Will he realize that it doesn't take superpowers to be a hero in time to help them defeat the villains?


You Lucky Dog
1998 · 1h 28m
country: United States
Jack Morgan is a dog therapist, once famous for being able to read his dog's mind. Although Jack cannot read the minds of other dogs, he still operates a canine mind-reading business, without divulging his inability to customers. Mr. Mooney and his wife bring their dog to see Jack. Dissatisfied with Jack's inability to read his dog's mind, Mr. Mooney, who is a friend of the city mayor, threatens to have his business closed down. After the Mooneys leave, a wealthy man named Clyde Windsor brings his dog, Lucky, to see Jack, who is stunned by his ability to read the dog's mind. He seems worried by this fact and ends the session early. Before Windsor leaves, Jack informs him that Lucky is bothered by three individuals that live with him.


The Staircase
1998 · 1h 34m
country: Unknown
A mysterious carpenter appears just as a church is in need of repair.


Rhapsody in Bloom
1998 · 1h 32m
country: Unknown
Artist Lilah Bloom's life is upended when her widowed brother decides to remarry a strong-willed business woman. Humor and self-awareness emerge as she ventures out to start a new life with a charming musician.


A Thousand Men and a Baby
1997 · 1h 36m
country: United States
An American soldier finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster. The aircraft's crew welcomed him enthusiastically to provide necessary medical care, but the Korean authorities want to avoid calling the commander to let him in an orphanage. Telefilm based on a true story that occurred in 1953.


Toothless
1997 · 1h 32m
country: United States
A female dentist is cast into limbo after her death in an accident and is given the assignment to act as the Tooth Fairy as her action to be admitted into heaven.


Cosmic Voyage
1996 · 36m
country: United States
The Academy Award® nominee Cosmic Voyage combines live action with state-of-the-art computer-generated imagery to pinpoint where humans fit in our ever-expanding universe. Highlighting this journey is a "cosmic zoom" based on the powers of 10, extending from the Earth to the largest observable structures in the universe, and then back to the subnuclear realm.


Annie: A Royal Adventure
1995 · 1h 32m
country: United States
Annie is back! Along with her friends Molly, Hannah, her dog Sandy, and her wealthy father Oliver Warbucks. They take a trip to England where Warbucks is going to be Knighted by the King. Annie and the gang stumbles onto a wicked scheme led by an evil noblewoman who plans to blow up Buckingham Palace so she can become Queen and claim the throne for herself! And now it is up to Annie and her friends to stop her!


The Baby-Sitters Club
1995 · 1h 34m
country: United States
Seven junior-high-school girls organize a daycare camp for children while at the same time experiencing classic adolescent growing pains.


Problem Child 3
1995 · 1h 27m
country: United States
Now a pre-teen, Junior has fallen head over heels for a classmate who doesn't even notice him, but does notice three other boys – a child star, a hockey player and a Boy Scout – who are rivals to Junior. This means war!


Tails You Live, Heads You're Dead
1995 · 1h 27m
country: United States
An ordinary man's life takes an extraordinary turn for the worst after he finds himself caught in the tangled web of a manipulative mass murderer.


Bitter Vengeance
1994 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Annie marries Jack Westford, a cop when they met. Six years later, Jack is now working as a security guard in a bank and feels that he was unfairly fired from the force. He also appears to be no longer interested in Annie and has an affair with another bank employee. Among his duties is delivering old money for disposal. He comes up with a plan to steal the money and run away. Part of his plan is to fake his death and frame Annie. While the police suspect that she killed Jack and knows where the money is, there's also an insurance investigator on her back.


Dancing with Danger
1994 · 1h 40m
country: United States
A Portland taxi dancer is a suspect in a series of murders involving her former customers.


A Life in the Theatre
1993 · 1h 18m
country: United States
A veteran actor and a young up-and-comer join for a season of reparatory theatre.


Black Widow Murders: The Blanche Taylor Moore Story
1993 · 1h 32m
country: United States
Elizabeth Montgomery plays serial killer, churchgoer, and grandmother Blanch Taylor Moore in this, one of her last films before her untimely passing. Childhood memories of her womanizing and abusive father fill Moore with a hidden rage towards all men. Her former boyfriend, first husband and father all died of arsenic poisoning. Now her fiancé, the town's minister, is stricken the same way. Based on the true crime book Preacher's Girl: The Life and Crimes of Blanche Taylor Moore, the film is buoyed by Montgomery's startling performance, and keeps you on the edge of your seat until its final moments.


Street Knight
1993 · 1h 31m
country: United States
A former cop returns to challenge a plot to escalate gang violence in the streets of Los Angeles.


Best of the Best 2
1993 · 1h 41m
country: United States
In an underground fight club, blackbelt Travis Brickley is killed after losing to the evil martial arts master Brakus. Travis' death is witnessed by Walter Grady, the son of his best friend Alex Grady. Alex and his partner, Tommy Lee, vow to avenge their friend's death by defeating Brakus and shutting down the fight club.


Casualties of Love: The Long Island Lolita Story
1993 · 1h 35m
country: United States
A young girl falls in love with a married auto body shop worker, leading to dramatic consequences.


The Disappearance of Christina
1993 · 1h 33m
country: United States
Joe and Christina's marriage is in trouble when they take a sailing trip with their married best friends. On the trip, Christina vanishes and is presumed dead. Joe is suspected of her murder, but he believes Christina isn't dead at all when strange things begin to happen. Joe isn't sure whom he can trust as he discovers disturbing information about his missing wife.


Exclusive
1992 · 1h 27m
country: United States
The famous TV journalist Marcy Singer receives an anonymous phone call that orders her to the Blue Moon bar. When she arrives, she finds 6 corpses. Urged by her new boss, she investigates the case, and soon learns about evidence against her own husband Reed.


Poison Ivy
1992 · 1h 32m
country: United States
A seductive teen befriends an introverted high school student and schemes her way into the lives of her wealthy family.


Suburban Commando
1991 · 1h 28m
country: United States
Shep Ramsey is an interstellar hero, righting wrongs, etc. His ship is damaged after a fight with an interstellar nasty and he must hide out on Earth until it can recharge. He leaves his power suit at home, but still finds himself unable to allow wrongs to go unrighted and so mixes it up with bad drivers, offensive paperboys, muggers and the like.


Showdown in Little Tokyo
1991 · 1h 19m
country: United States
An American with a Japanese upbringing, Chris Kenner is a police officer assigned to the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles. Kenner is partnered with Johnny Murata, a Japanese-American who isn't in touch with his roots. Despite their differences, both men excel at martial arts, and utilize their formidable skills when they go up against Yoshida, a vicious yakuza drug dealer with ties to Kenner's past.


Out for Justice
1991 · 1h 31m
country: United States
Gino Felino is an NYPD detective from Brooklyn who knows everyone and everything in his neighborhood. Killing his partner was someone's big mistake... because he's now out for justice.


Chips, the War Dog
1990 · 1h 32m
country: United States
In this made-for-tv movie, misfits Danny Stauffer and Chips (a chicken-chasing German shepherd) are teamed up in the Army's "Dogs for Defense" program during WWII.


Hard to Kill
1990 · 1h 35m
country: United States
Mason Storm, a 'go it alone' cop, is gunned down at home. The intruders kill his wife, and think they've killed both Mason and his son too. Mason is secretly taken to a hospital where he spends several years in a coma. His son meanwhile is growing up thinking his father is dead. When Mason wakes up, everyone is in danger - himself, his son, his best friend, his nurse - but most of all those who arranged for his death


I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
1988 · 1h 28m
country: United States
Jack Spade returns from the army in his old ghetto neighbourhood when his brother, June Bug, dies. Jack declares war on Mr. Big, powerful local crimelord. His army is led by John Slade, his childhood idol who used to fight bad guys in the 70s.


Hero and the Terror
1988 · 1h 36m
country: United States
Danny O'Brien is back in action fighting the notorious Simon Moon, also known as The Terror. Three years earlier O'Brien had single-handedly captured The Terror and was called Hero by the people of L.A. Now Simon has escaped and has started killing women again, and O'Brien is the only man who can stop him.


Call Me
1988 · 1h 36m
country: United States
After agreeing to meet an obscene caller at a bar, a young New York reporter witnesses a murder and becomes an unwilling player in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse.


Above the Law
1988 · 1h 39m
country: United States
Nico Toscani is an Italian immigrant, American patriot, ex-CIA agent, aikido specialist and unorthodox Chicago policeman. He is as committed to his job as he is to his personalized brand of justice—expert and thorough bone-crushing.


The Check is in the Mail...
1986 · 1h 23m
country: United States
Meet Richard Jackson - a man fed up with the insanity of "plastic" suburban living. Rallying his befuddled family around him, Richard mounts an outrageously comic assault on credit card craziness, "Yuppie" status symbols and "the system" in general!


Code of Silence
1985 · 1h 41m
country: United States
A Chicago cop is caught in the middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.


The Invisible Woman
1983 · 1h 40m
country: United States
In a research lab, a scientist's pet chimpanzee mixes up an invisibility formula. A young woman accidentally drinks the solution and becomes invisible.


A Christmas for Boomer
1979 · 48m
country: United States
A sacked maid and butler kidnap a pampered dog and want $20,000 ransom from the rich owner, Lila Manchester. A shaggy dog named Boomer helps save it and becomes a member of the family who originally found him.


A Different Story
1978 · 1h 48m
country: United States
A gay man and a lesbian enter into a marriage of convenience in order to prevent his deportation, and then gradually fall in love with one another.