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Full Name:	Jonathan Frakes
Birth Name:	Jonathan Scott Frakes
Famous As:	Actor, director, producer
Date of Birth:	August 19, 1952
Place of Birth:	Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA
Height:	6' 4
Nationality:	American

• Jonathan Frakes Hopes to Play Riker Again in a Future Next ...

  Trekweb - Found Apr. 18, 2009 TV Squad posted an interview with Star Trek The Next Generation actor/director Jonathan Frakes (posted February 2009) and here are few excerpts.

• Futurama Returns!

  About - Found Jun. 16, 2009 ... up with Bender and Fry in the year 3000.' And hopefully by then our heads will all be in jars next to Jonathan Frakes's, so we can still be... Matt Groening's 'Futurama' show is in the future - Canada.com Matt Groening's 'Futurama' show is in the future - Ottawa Citizen Explore All

• Jonathan Frakesandnbsp;on the Making ofandnbsp;Star Trek First ...

  Trekweb - Found Jun. 17, 2009 ... actor/director Jonathan Frakes and here are few excerpts. First Contact is one of the top Trek movies. Was there something that Jonathan Frakes...

• Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection ? Blu-ray Review

  Seattle Post Intelligencer - Found Jun. 10, 2009 ... an hour-long roundtable discussion moderated by Whoopi Goldberg with William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Patrick Stewart and Jonathan Frakes.

• Summer blockbusters

  Louisville Courier-Journal - Found Jun. 6, 2009 ... a bonus disc featuring a roundtable discussion with William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes and host Whoopi Goldberg.

• The Best Of Star Trek: The Next Generation

  Real Movie News - Found May. 12, 2009 Pillar, Ronald D. Moore The Best Of Star Trek: The Next Generation Cast: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, Levar Burton, Michael... How to have a 'Star Trek' garden - Christian Science Monitor For Leonard Nimoy, one last trek as Spock - Chicago Tribune The Original Star Trek Cast: Where Are They Now? - People Star Trek takes box office top spot - Reuters Explore All

• Reviews: 'Star Trek' movies, Eastwood, more Bond lead Blu-ray ...

  San Jose Mercury News - Found May. 12, 2009 The latter is a 70-minute piece that features William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes and Whoopi Goldberg sharing... Shatner almost had part in new ?Star Trek? - MSNBC Kirk and Spock are tip of the bromance iceberg - San Francisco Chronicle Capt. Kirk, American icon? New Frontier renewed - Boston Globe STAR TREK: THE EXHIBITION Opens at The Franklin Saturday May 16 - Reuters Explore All

• Star Trek Original Motion Picture Collection Blu-ray Review

  DailyGame.net - Found May. 30, 2009 ... with William Shatner (James Kirk), Leonard Nimoy (Spock), Patrick Stewart (Jean-Luc Picard) and Jonathan Frakes (Will Riker), hosted by Whoopi... New on DVD: 'Revolutionary Road' - Los Angeles Times Dragonball, Michael Scott and a Handful of Heroes - DVDFile.com Girls Next Door - Season Five, The - IGN.com Explore All

• "Star Trek: First Contact" the one with the Borg Queen is a Friday ...

  Seattle Times - Found May. 8, 2009 It's the one with Picard (Patrick Stewart) and the creepy Borg Queen (Alice Krige), and was directed by Number One himself (Jonathan Frakes).

• The DVD Dissection - The Best of Star Trek: The Next Generation

  411mania.com - Found May. 13, 2009 Patrick Stewart: Captain Jean-Luc Picard Jonathan Frakes: Commander William T. Riker LeVar Burton: Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge Marina Sirtis...

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Jonathan Frakes
Frakes at a convention in Germany in 2005
Born	Jonathan Scott Frakes August 19, 1952 (1952-08-19) (age 56) Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Spouse(s)	Genie Francis (1988–present)

Jonathan Scott Frakes (born August 19, 1952) is an American actor, author and director, best known for his portrayal of Commander William T. Riker in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Moving on to directing in recent years, Frakes directed and also starred in Star Trek: First Contact as well as Star Trek: Insurrection, which earned him the nickname Two-Takes Frakes for his speed.¹

He is also the author of a book called The Abductors: Conspiracy.²

Contents 1 Personal life 2 Film and television career 3 Acting filmography 3.1 Feature Films 3.2 Television series 4 Directing filmography 4.1 Feature films 5 References 6 External links

Personal life

Frakes was born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania to Doris J. Yingling and James R. Frakes, Ph.D.³ He grew up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of the state. He is a 1970 graduate of Bethlehem's Liberty High School, where he ran track and played with the famous Liberty High School Grenadier Band.⁴ Frakes received a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Theater Arts at Penn State University in the early 1970s, where he was a member of the Thespians. He continued his studies at Harvard and spent several seasons performing at the Loeb Drama Center.

For a time in the 1970s, Frakes worked for Marvel Comics, appearing at conventions in costume as Captain America.⁵

His father, James R. Frakes, was a well-respected book critic for the New York Times Book Review, a book editor, and professor of English literature at Lehigh University from 1958–2001, where he was the Edmund W. Fairchild Professor in American Studies. He died in early 2002.⁶ His mother, Doris, still lives in the Bethlehem area. Frakes had a younger brother, Daniel, who died in 1997 from pancreatic cancer.⁷ He remains close with his niece and goddaughter Julia Frakes, Daniel's daughter. Julia is a fashion contributor to PAPER Magazine. ⁸

Frakes married soap opera actress Genie Francis on May 28, 1988. They live in Maine with their son, Jameson (Jamo) Ivor Frakes, born in 1994, and daughter, Elizabeth (Eliza) Francis-Frakes, born in 1997.

Jonathan works with The Workshops, The Waterfall Arts Center and The Saltwater Film Society, all located in Maine, where he teaches classes on film direction. He co-owns a home furnishings store with his wife in Belfast, Maine called The Cherished Home.⁹ Frakes is one of the best known tall actors at 6 ft 4 in (193 cm).

Film and television career

Frakes moved to New York City and became a member of "The Impossible Ragtime Theater." In that company, Frakes did his first off-Broadway acting in Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape. His first Broadway appearance was in Shenandoah. At the same time, he landed a role in the NBC soap opera The Doctors. When his character was dismissed from the soap, Frakes moved to Los Angeles, California and played guest spots in many of the top television shows of the 1970s and 1980s, including The Waltons, The Dukes of Hazzard, Matlock, and Steven Bochco's Hill Street Blues. He played the part of Charles Lindbergh in a 1983 episode of Voyagers! titled "An Arrow Pointing East". In 1983, he had a role in the short-lived NBC prime time soap opera Bare Essence (which also starred his future wife Genie Francis). He also had recurring roles in Falcon Crest and North & South before signing for the role of Riker on Star Trek: The Next Generation.¹⁰

He has done animation voice acting, most notably voicing the recurring role of David Xanatos in the animated series Gargoyles, and he provided the voice of his own head in a jar in the Futurama episode "Where No Fan Has Gone Before." He had a small, uncredited role in the 1994 movie Camp Nowhere. He also reprised his role of Riker for a Next Generation cutaway on an episode of Family Guy that also featured his co-stars Patrick Stewart and Michael Dorn as their respective roles of Picard and Worf.

Frakes is one of only two Star Trek regulars to appear on four different Star Trek series (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise). (The only other regular to match or exceed that number is Majel Barrett-Roddenberry who appeared in all six television series.) He has also directed episodes in three of them (TNG, DS9 and VOY) and was a popular and innovative director on the Star Trek set, often finding completely new ways to shoot the show's familiar sets. His directing career has included the films Star Trek: First Contact and Star Trek: Insurrection. Additionally, Frakes was an executive producer for the WB show Roswell, directed several episodes and guest-starred in three episodes. His relationship with Star Trek is made light of in the episode "Secrets and Lies", in which the alien character Max ironically auditions for a guest role as an alien for Star Trek: Enterprise.

Outside of acting, Frakes appeared on the Phish album Hoist, playing trombone on the track titled "Riker's Mailbox." Frakes would occasionally perform on the trombone during his tenure as Commander Riker, drawing on his college marching band experience.

Frakes hosted the television series Paranormal Borderline, which dealt with the paranormal and mysterious happenings and creatures. In one episode Frakes presented an interview of reporter Yolanda Gaskins with veteran astronaut Gordon Cooper, where they discussed the possibility of aliens having visited the Earth in the past ¹¹¹². Overall, the show was criticized and pulled off the air after it was found out that footage showing a yeti from the Himalayas was purposely faked by the show and its producers-Fox television. The "Snowwalker" footage, as it is known, purportedly shows a yeti as it is crossing through a valley in the Himalayas, walking in front of a Belgian couple who are traversing the area on skis. The network finally admitted the hoax, and Frakes distanced himself from the show. Similarly, he is also popular in hosting the hit TV series Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction which also dealt in the paranormal world. Frakes would allude to stories based on true events or fictional stories and only reveal the truth at the ending of each episode.

Frakes also appeared in Lois & Clark in the episode "Don't Tug on Superman's Cape" as Tim Lake, a rich collector who tries to add Superman to his and his wife Amber's collection.

Acting filmography

Feature Films

• Star Trek Generations (1994) - Cmdr. William T. Riker
• Star Trek: First Contact (1996) - Cmdr. William T. Riker
• Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) - Cmdr. William T. Riker
• Star Trek Nemesis (2002) - Captain/Cmdr. William T. Riker
• Clockstoppers (2002) - uncredited as 'Janitor'
• Thunderbirds (2004) - uncredited as 'Policeman'
• The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines (2006) - uncredited as 'Carl'
• The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice (2008) - Cameo playing trombone in New Orleans

Television series

• The Fall Guy - Connors in episode "Always Say Always"
• The White Shadow - uncredited as Basketball Player in episode "One of the Boys"
• Cybill - in episode "Staring on the Wrong Foot"
• Eight Is Enough - Chapper in episode "Separate Ways"
• Third Rock From The Sun - Larry McMichael in episode "Gwen, Larry, Dick and Mary"
• Paranormal Borderline - Host
• Wings - Gavin Rutledge in episode "All's Fare"
• Highway to Heaven - Arthur Krock, Jr. in episode "A Devine Madness"
• Search for Alien Planets - (voice)(presenter)
• Five Mile Creek - Adam Scott
• Gargoyles - David Xanatos, Coyote (voice)
• Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction? - Himself (presenter)
• The Waltons - Ashley Longworth Jr. in episodes "The Lost Sheep" and "The Legacy"
• Dukes of Hazzard - Jamie Lee Hogg in episode "Mrs. Daisy Hogg"
• Harper Valley - Clutch Breath in episode "Low Noon"
• Voyagers! -Charles Lindbergh in episode "An Arrow Pointing East"
• Lois & Clark - Tim Lake in episode "Don't Tug on Superman's Cape"
• Beulah Land - Adam Davis
• Bare Essence - Marcus Marshall
• Matlock - D.A. Park
• North and South - Stanley Hazard
• Star Trek: The Next Generation - Cmdr. William T. Riker/Lt. Thomas Riker
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Lt. Thomas Riker
• Star Trek: Voyager - Commander William T. Riker
• Star Trek: Enterprise - Commander William T. Riker
• Futurama - Where No Fan Has Gone Before - Himself (voice)
• Family Guy - Peter's Got Woods - Commander William T. Riker (voice)
• Roswell - Himself
• Leverage - The Snow Job - uncredited as Patient in hospital waiting room
• Family Guy - Not All Dogs Go to Heaven - Commander William T. Riker (voice)

Directing filmography

Feature films

• Star Trek: Klingon (1996) - interactive movie
• Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
• Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
• Clockstoppers (2002)
• Thunderbirds (2004)
• The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines (2006)
• The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice (2008)

References

External links

• Jonathan Frakes at the Internet Movie Database
• Jonathan Frakes profile at NNDB
• Jonathan Frakes at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
• Jonathan Frakes in-depth interview at The SCI FI Channel Australia Blog

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NAME	Frakes, Jonathan
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DATE OF BIRTH	1952-8-19
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, U.S.
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Preceded by David Carson

Star Trek film director 1996-1998

Succeeded by Stuart Baird