Frank Marshall (filmmaker)

Early life and education

Born in Glendale, California, Marshall is the son of guitarist, conductor and composer Jack Marshall. His early years were spent in Van Nuys, California. In 1961, his family moved to Newport Beach, where he attended Newport Harbor High School, and was active in music, drama, cross country and track. He entered UCLA in 1964 as an engineering major, and graduated in 1968 with a degree in political science. While at UCLA, he was initiated into Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, helped create its first NCAA soccer team, and played collegiate soccer there in 1966, 1967 and 1968.

Career

In 1966, he met film director Peter Bogdanovich at a birthday party for the daughter of director John Ford, a friend of his father. Marshall volunteered to work on Bogdanovich's first film, Targets (1968), which became his apprenticeship in film production, as he assumed various productions roles, even appearing in a bit part. Following graduation from UCLA, Marshall spent the next two years working in Aspen and Marina del Rey, as a waiter/guitar player at "The Randy Tar," a steak and lobster restaurant. While traveling through Europe in March 1970, he received another call from Bogdanovich, offering him a position on The Last Picture Show (1971). Three days later he arrived in Archer City, Texas, doubling as location manager and actor in this seminal film. Under Bogdanovich's guidance, Marshall would work his way up from producer's assistant to associate producer on five more films. He branched out to work with Martin Scorsese as a line producer on the music documentary The Last Waltz (1978) and as an associate producer on director Walter Hill's gritty crime thriller, The Driver (1978). The following year, Marshall earned his first executive producer credit on Hill's cult classic street gang movie, The Warriors (1979) and first producer credit on George Lucas and Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). He continued to collaborate with Bogdanovich, completing their tenth film together, Orson Welles' unfinished The Other Side of the Wind in 2018.

In 1981, together with his future wife Kathleen Kennedy and Steven Spielberg, he co-founded Amblin Entertainment, one of the industry's most productive and profitable production companies. As a producer, Marshall has received five Oscar nominations for Best Picture for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Seabiscuit (2003), The Sixth Sense (1999), The Color Purple (1985) and Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). During the 1980s and 1990s, Marshall served on the advisory board of the National Student Film Institute.

His feature film directing debut was the thriller Arachnophobia (1990), starring Jeff Daniels. In 1991, he and Kennedy created The Kennedy/Marshall Company and began producing their own films. Marshall directed the company's first film, Alive (1993), about a rugby team struggling to survive in the snow after their plane crashes in the Andes. Next, he directed Congo (1995), based on Michael Crichton's novel, followed by Eight Below (2006), Marshall stated that the documentary, broadcast in 2012, sought to capture not only Koss' sporting career and the ideals behind his nonprofit organization, but also his "drive and how it has changed the world."

From 1991 to 2012, The Kennedy/Marshall Company produced many films, including The Sixth Sense, Signs, Seabiscuit, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, War Horse, Lincoln, Sully, the Bourne series and the feature documentary The Armstrong Lie (2013). Since taking over as sole principal of the company, Marshall has broadened its slate beyond feature films to include television, documentaries and Broadway musicals. Those include the summer blockbuster series Jurassic World, Orson Welles's final film, The Other Side of the Wind, and the Emmy Award-nominated documentaries Sinatra: All or Nothing at All, Laurel Canyon and McCartney 3,2,1. In 2020, he directed the Hélder Guimarães virtual magic shows The Present and The Future for the Geffen Stayhouse, both which had sold-out runs and The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, which was nominated for six Emmys. In 2022, he produced the Tony Award-winning musical A Strange Loop and co-directed the Grammy-winning documentary Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story. His 2023 productions included Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny and Good Night, Oscar, starring Tony Winner Sean Hayes. In 2024, Marshall directed The Hope Theory at Geffen Playhouse with Hélder Guimarães, The Beach Boys documentary for Disney+ and produced Twisters for Universal Pictures.

Personal life

Marshall is a former VP, member of the board of directors and member of the Executive Committee of the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC). He was awarded the Olympic Shield in 2005, and inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame class of 2008 for his years of service to the USOPC.

Currently, he serves on the board of Athletes for Hope, the UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television Executive Board, the BAFTA North America Board, and as Board Chair of The Archer School for Girls. He is a recipient of the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement presented alongside Kathleen Kennedy by Awards Council member George Lucas, the UCLA Alumni Professional Achievement Award and the California Mentor Initiative's Leadership Award. In June 2004, Marshall gave the Commencement Address at the UCLA College of Letters and Science graduation ceremony in Pauley Pavilion.

Marshall enjoys magic and music and has performed under the moniker of "Dr. Fantasy" or "DJ Master Frank". Marshall, a long-distance runner, and American premiere miler Steve Scott (runner) founded the Rock 'n' Roll Marathon Series, which debuted in 1998 in San Diego as the largest first-time marathon in history.

Filmography

Director

Film

Documentary films

Television

Producer credits

Producer

• Paper Moon (1973)
• At Long Last Love (1975)
• Nickelodeon (1976)
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
• Poltergeist (1982)
• The Color Purple (1985)
• The Money Pit (1986)
• Empire of the Sun (1987)
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
• Always (1989)
• Hook (1991)
• Noises Off (1992)
• Milk Money (1994)
• The Indian in the Cupboard (1995)
• Olympic Glory (1998)
• The Sixth Sense (1999)
• Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)
• A Map of the World (1999)
• Signs (2002)
• Seabiscuit (2003)
• The Young Black Stallion (2003)
• The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
• Roving Mars (2006)
• Hoot (2006)
• The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
• Crossing Over (2009)
• The Last Airbender (2010)
• The Bourne Legacy (2012)
• The Armstrong Lie (2013)
• Running Blind (2013)
• Jurassic World (2015)
• The BFG (2016)
• Jason Bourne (2016)
• Finding Oscar (2016)
• Assassin's Creed (2016)
• Satan & Adam (2018)
• Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
• The Other Side of the Wind (2018)
• A Final Cut for Orson (2018)
• The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash (2019)
• Battle at Big Rock (2019)
• Jimmy Dennis: How to Survive Death Row (2019)
• Waiting for Godot (2021)
• Diana (2021)
• Mr. A & Mr. M: The Story of A&M Records (2021)
• McCartney 3,2,1 (2021)
• I Need Space (2022)
• Jurassic World Dominion (2022)
• Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
• Jurassic World: Chaos Theory (2024)
• Twisters (2024)
• Music by John Williams (2024)
• Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) Associate producer
• Daisy Miller (1974)
• The Driver (1978) Line producer
• The Last Waltz (1978) Executive producer
• The Warriors (1979)
• Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
• Gremlins (1984)
• Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
• Back to the Future (1985)
• The Goonies (1985)
• Fandango (1985)
• An American Tail (1986)
• Batteries Not Included (1987)
• Back to the Future Part II (1989)
• Dad (1989)
• Tummy Trouble (1989)
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
• Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990)
• Back to the Future Part III (1990)
• Roller Coaster Rabbit (1990)
• Joe Versus the Volcano (1990)
• An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991)
• Cape Fear (1991)
• A Brief History of Time (1991) (uncredited)
• Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation (1992) (Direct-to-video)
• Were Back! A Dinosaurs Story (1993)
• A Dangerous Woman (1993)
• Swing Kids (1993)
• A Far Off Place (1993)
• The Sports Pages (2001; TV film)
• The Bourne Identity (2002)
• Mr. 3000 (2004)
• Ponyo (2009) (U.S. dub production)
• The Special Relationship (2010; TV film)
• Hereafter (2010)
• War Horse (2011)
• The Secret World of Arrietty (2012) (U.S. dub)
• From Up on Poppy Hill (2013) (U.S. dub)
• The Ordained (2013; TV pilot)
• The Wind Rises (2014) (U.S. dub)
• The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2014) (U.S. dub)
• Transcend (2014)
• Sinatra: All or Nothing at All (2015)
• An Equal Playing Field (2015)
• What the Hell Happened to Jai Alai (2016)
• Mars Project (2016; TV pilot)
• Boston: An American Running Story (2017)
• The China Hustle (2017)
• What Haunts Us (2018)
• The People's Fighters: Teofilo Stevens and the Legend of Cuban Boxing (2018)
• The Nagano Tapes (2018)
• The Golden Generation (2018; Five Rings film)
• They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (2018)
• The Grizzlies (2018)
• 1983 (2018; TV series)
• Why We Hate (2019)
• Jurassic World (Motion Comics) (2019)
• The Iron Hammer (2020)
• Laurel Canyon (2020)
• Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous (2020–2022)
• The Distance (2021)
• Rulon Gardner Won't Die (2021)
• A Brilliant Curling Story (2022)
• The Redeem Team (2022)
• The Fourth Wall (2023)
• The Space Race (2023)
• SF Sounds (2023)
• All That is Sacred (2023)
• Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford (2023)
• Jurassic World: Chaos Theory (2024–2025)
• Death by Numbers (2024)
• Tiger Tiger (2024)
• Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025) Co-executive producer
• Innerspace (1987)
• The Land Before Time (1988)

Other credits

Location manager

• The Last Picture Show (1971)
• What's Up Doc? (1972)
• The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973)

Production management

• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
• The Other Side of the Wind (2018)

2nd unit director

• Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) (Uncredited)
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) (London unit)
• Back to the Future (1985)
• The Color Purple (1985) (Kenya)
• Empire of the Sun (1987)
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) (UK unit)
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
• Always (1989) (Montana unit)
• Noises Off (1992)
• Milk Money (1994)
• Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)
• Seabiscuit (2003)

Acting roles

Awards and nominations

References

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