LOS ANGELES (CNN) --John Frankenheimer, a legendary director of movies and television, died Saturday after suffering a massive stroke due to complications following spinal surgery, his business ...

The American film director John Frankenheimer died in Los Angeles of a stroke July 6 after complications from surgery. He was 72. Frankenheimer is best known for works he directed in the 1960s, The ...

In 1969, a critic and biographer of director John Frankenheimer, who has died of a stroke aged 72, wrote: "In the comparatively brief span of 10 years, [he] has become probably the most important ...

GOOD MORNING: It was titled “A Special Memorial Tribute to an Extraordinary Director,” and the Directors Guild/HBO program saluting John Frankenheimer on Monday night at the DGA was indeed special.

John Frankenheimer's 1966 Formula 1 epic film "Grand Prix" kicks so much ass. This movie shredded the rulebook of filmmaking when it was created, and film became all the better for it. It's three ...

John Frankenheimer, the director best known for the classic political thriller “The Manchurian Candidate” but who was equally successful in television’s Golden Age and, more recently, making films for ...

John Frankenheimer, 72, the much-honored director who helped create television's golden age of live drama and then brought the edge and excitement of political intrigue to the big screen with two film ...

Frankenheimer, whose career in both films and television spanned nearly five decades, was nominated for 14 Emmy Awards and was perhaps best known as a master of films about dark government ...

John Frankenheimer, one of the foremost directors of the 1960s with such classic films as “The Manchurian Candidate,” “Seven Days in May,” “Birdman of Alcatraz” and “The Train,” died of a stroke ...