John Frankenheimer

American film and television director (1930-2002)

2.87body-of-work score · ranked #381 of 2631 directors · 6 films in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born: February 19, 1930 · Queens
Died: July 6, 2002 · Los Angeles
Nationality: United States
Work: film director, film producer, screenwriter, television producer
Reference: Wikipedia · Wikidata

Andre E. King at English Wikipedia · CC BY 3.0

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

1
The Manchurian Candidate
1962 · United States · film-noir, thriller, drama
TIME All-TIME 100 · AFI 100 (1998) #67 · National Film Registry (inducted 1994)
1.428 citations
2
Seconds
1966 · United States · sci-fi, drama
National Film Registry (inducted 2015) · Criterion Collection spine #667 · Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies
0.503 citations
3
The Fixer
1968 · United Kingdom / United States · biography, drama
Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1969 #8
0.321 citation
4
The Train
1964 · United States / Italy / France · thriller, drama, war
NYT Best 1,000 Movies · Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies
0.282 citations
5
The Iceman Cometh
1973 · United States · drama
Ebert's annual top 10 1973 #5
0.191 citation
6
French Connection II
1975 · United States · crime, action, thriller
Sarris's annual top 10 1975 #7
0.171 citation

Complete filmography

All 42 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.

1957The Comedian
1957The Young Stranger
1959For Whom the Bell Tolls
1959The Turn of the Screw
1960The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1961The Young Savages
1962All Fall Down
1962Birdman of Alcatraz
1962The Manchurian Candidate
1964Seven Days in May
1964The Train
1966Grand Prix
1966Seconds
1968The Fixer
1969The Extraordinary Seaman
1969The Gypsy Moths
1970I Walk the Line
1971The Horsemen
1973Eugene O'Neill's: The Iceman Cometh
1973Story of a Love Story
1973The Iceman Cometh
197499 and 44/100% Dead
1975French Connection II
1977Black Sunday
1979Prophecy
1982The Challenge
1982The Rainmaker
1985The Holcroft Covenant
198652 Pick-Up
1989Dead Bang
1990The Fourth War
1991Year of the Gun
1994Against the Wall
1994The Burning Season
1996Andersonville
1996The Island of Dr. Moreau
1997George Wallace
1998Ronin
2000Reindeer Games
2001Ambush
2002Path to War
—Portrait in Celluloid