Randall Frakes is a film and science fiction writer primarily known for his work with long-time friends Bill Wisher and James Cameron on The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
While Frakes was in the U.S. Army, he was stationed in Europe, where he edited the newspaper for the 16th Signal Battalion. While editor, he won a Stars and Stripes award for investigative journalism.
After the Army, he earned a degree in Film Writing and Production from Columbia College, while also writing for Analog, Fantastic, and Fantasy & Science Fiction.
His first film work was as a special effects cameraman for Roger Corman, and a number of unproduced screenplays, before his collaborations with Wisher and Cameron, kicked off his professional film-writing career.
Filmography
Xenogenesis (1978 short), writer, director, and producer (with James Cameron) Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), additional photographer Escape from New York (1981), photographic effects Galaxy of Terror (1981), photographic effects Last Thirty Days of Liberty, unproduced screenplay Deathlok, unproduced screenplay The Terminator (1984, ), novelization Roller Blade (1986), screenplay Aliens (1986), synthesizer effects Hell Comes to Frogtown (1987), story, screenplay, and producer Roller Blade Warriors: Taken by Force (1989), screenplay (as Lloyd Strathern) and lyrics Diplomatic Immunity (1991), screenplay Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991, ), novelization The Divine Enforcer (1992), ghostwriter Twisted Fate (1993/II), writer and producer The Force (1994), writer Titanic: James Cameron's Illustrated Screenplay (1999, ) author Blowback (2000), screenplay Sacrifice (2000), written by Devil's Prey (2001), writer Instinct to Kill (2001), writer Stealing Candy (2002), screenplay Bad Karma (2002), writer Empires of the Deep (unreleased), screenplay
Books
#obsession Book by Randall Frakes and Seyedeh Tina Sadri
References
External links
American male screenwriters
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)