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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

• Matlock marathon presented in Peacock Hall Tuesday

  Rossmoor News - Found Nov. 16, 2009 Guest stars include Billy Bob Thornton, Dick Van Dyke, Roddy McDowall, Jonathan Frakes and José Ferrer.

• New CD to benefit Mexican mission

  Advertiser-Tribune - Found Nov. 15, 2009 The album also features Genie Francis' husband, actor Jonathan Frakes, on trombone. Their children Jamo and Eliza Frakes lend their voices...

• Magician/Actor Ballantine Dead At 92

  IMDB - Found Nov. 5, 2009 PST) Slideshow: Hollywood Collectors Show Chicago Portraits of Tia Carrere, Mickey Rooney, Jonathan Frakes, More (From HollywoodChicago.com. Magician/actor Ballantine dead at 92 - Hollywood Actor Carl Ballantine dies at 92 - Variety Carl Ballantine dies at 92; comedy magician was in 'McHale's Navy' ... - Los Angeles Times Legendary Comedian and Actor Carl Ballantine Dies at 92 - Broadway World Explore All

• Brent Spiner Criticizes Insurrection and Defends Nemesis, Stuart ...

  Trekweb - Found Nov. 6, 2009 ... winning out over whom - I guess I'm not too surprised that Jonathan (Frakes) didn't direct Nemesis. SPINER: Right. Jonathan did a perfectly ...

• 'Dollhouse' Episode 2.04: 'Belonging'

  MTV - Found Oct. 24, 2009 "Belonging," which was directed by longtime "Star Trek" actor Jonathan Frakes, focused squarely on Sierra and Topher, with periphery roles for... Dollhouse Recap: Belonging - Cinema Blend Dollhouse: "Belonging" Review - IGN.com Explore All

• Victims and Villains: Belonging on "Dollhouse"

  Televisionary - Found Oct. 24, 2009 ... installment, beautifully scripted by Jed Whedon and Maurissa Tancharoen and flawlessly directed by Jonathan Frakes, showed us the Dollhouse...

• There?s A Storm Coming!! Herc Says DOLLHOUSE Starts Getting Really ...

  Ain't It Cool News - Found Oct. 23, 2009 (And the episode was directed by ?Star Trek? icon Jonathan Frakes (?Leverage?), making his Mutant Enemy debut.) What says the Fox... Joss Whedon Speaks Out Regarding Upcoming 'Dollhouse' Absence - MTV Dichen Lachman brings Sierra to life in 'Dollhouse' - Los Angeles Times Summer Glau comes to Fox's 'Dollhouse' - Chicago Daily Herald Is the "Dollhouse" Set to be Demolished? - TV Fodder Explore All

• For the love of Wil Wheaton

  Detroit News - Found Oct. 16, 2009 ... just as sexy -- if not more so -- than his womanizing second-in-command Will Riker (though I never found Jonathan Frakes all that attractive). The Big-E Bang Theory - Discover Magazine Wootstock! - Discover Magazine Explore All

• TV Recap: Dollhouse, Belonging

  IDS News - Found Oct. 26, 2009 Jonathan Frakes, who has also worked on The Twilight Zone and Roswell, directed. The result is nothing short of glorious.

• Herc Says DOLLHOUSE Starts Getting Really Good Tonight!!">There?s ...

  Aint It Cool News - Found Oct. 23, 2009 (And the episode was directed by ?Star Trek? icon Jonathan Frakes (?Leverage?), making his Mutant Enemy debut.)What says the Fox...

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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 57) 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 and as David Xanatos in the animated television series, Gargoyles.

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 Career 3 Acting filmography 3.1 Feature Films 3.2 Television series 4 Directing filmography 4.1 Feature films 4.2 Television 5 References 6 External links

Personal life

Frakes was born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. 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.³ 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.

His father, James R. Frakes, Ph.D., 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 2002.⁴ His mother, Doris J. (née Yingling), still lives in the Bethlehem area. Frakes had a younger brother, Daniel, who died in 1997 from pancreatic cancer.⁵⁶ He remains close with his niece and goddaughter Julia Frakes, Daniel's daughter. Julia is a fashion contributor to PAPER Magazine.⁷

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.

Career

For a time in the 1970s, Frakes worked for Marvel Comics, appearing at conventions in costume as Captain America.⁸

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), and a supporting role in the equally short-lived primetime soap Paper Dolls in 1984. He also had recurring roles in Falcon Crest and North & South before signing for the role of Riker on Star Trek: The Next Generation.⁹

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.¹⁰¹¹ 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.

Frakes is also currently narrating the History Channel television show "That's Impossible" which is on Tuesdays at 10-11 eastern time.

Frakes has had a relationship with the production of TNT's Leverage as a guest director. Jonathan Frakes is listed as the primary director in some episodes of both season 1 and season 2. It is unclear but likely that he will be directing episodes of Leverage regularly in the future, as Voyager alumna Jeri Ryan is scheduled to have a recurring role on the show.

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.¹² Frakes is one of the best known tall actors at 6 ft 4 in (193 cm).

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 New Twilight Zone - Credited as "Single Guy" in episode "But Can She Type?"
• The White Shadow - uncredited as Basketball Player in episode "One of the Boys"
• Cybill - in episode "Starting 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 - Himself (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)

Television

• Star Trek: The Next Generation
  • "The Offspring"
  • "Reunion"
  • "The Drumhead"
  • "Cause and Effect"
  • "The Quality of Life"
  • "The Chase"
  • "Attached"
  • "Sub Rosa"
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  • "The Search, Part II"
  • "Meridian"
  • "Past Tense, Part II"
• Star Trek: Voyager
  • "Projections"
  • "Parturition"
  • "Prototype"
• Dollhouse, Season 2, Episode 4 "Belonging." (2009)
• Castle, Season 2, Episode 8 "Kill the Messenger." (2009)
• Leverage (2009)
  • "The Wedding Job"
  • "The Juror #6 Job"
  • "The Fairy Godparents Job"

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

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