Mike Frankovich Jr.
Born this day in 1942
Assistant Director for Diamonds Are Forever
Mike Frankovich Jr. got his start in show business in 1965
when he was hired as a production coordinator (uncredited) for the comedy film Winter
A-Go-Go. A year later, he was being hired
to be production manager for films. He became an assistant director in Doctors’
Wives (1971), the same year that he worked
on Diamonds Are Forever.
Some of Frankovich’s notable projects include working on the
television series Kojak as assistant
director for eight episodes during 1973-1974. However, from 1974-1978, he was
the unit director for 42 episodes. He also worked on tv series The
Incredible Hulk starring Bill Bixby and Lou
Ferrigno as well as the tv series Project U.F.O. (1978-1979) .
During the 1980s, Frankovich was going to make a film called
Black Diamond, but it didn’t get off the
ground. Because of legal reasons, Frankovich created Dawn Hunter as a
replacement series for the comic book format. He also created Rayda and both
were developed and released through AC Comics.
In an interview with AC Comics, Frankovich mentioned that as
an aficionado of the spy genre, he read all of the James Bond books and that he
had given Albert Broccoli a copy of a Bond novel. The rest is history.
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