Frank Marshall

Biography

Frank Wilton Marshall (born September 13, 1946) is an American film producer and director. He often collaborates with his wife, film producer Kathleen Kennedy, with whom he founded the production company Amblin Entertainment, along with Steven Spielberg. In 1991, he founded, with Kennedy, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, a film production company. Since May 2012, with Kennedy taking on the role of President of Lucasfilm, Marshall has been Kennedy/Marshall's sole principal. Marshall has worked with directors such as Spielberg, Paul Greengrass, Peter Bogdanovich, David Fincher, M. Night Shyamalan, and Robert Zemeckis. He has also directed the films Arachnophobia (1990), Alive (1993), Congo (1995), Eight Below (2006), and the documentaries The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart (2020), Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story (2022) and The Beach Boys (2024). Marshall has produced various successful film franchises, including Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, Bourne, and Jurassic Park, and has received five  Academy Award nominations for Best Picture. His other accolades include the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, bestowed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to "creative producers, whose bodies of work reflect a consistently high quality of motion picture production", the David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures, a Grammy Award, a Sports Emmy Award, and a Tony Award. Marshall is one of the few people to have received an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT), with one of the awards being non-competitive. Description above from the Wikipedia article Frank Marshall (filmmaker), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

The Oscars

Raiders of the Lost Ark

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

LIGHT & MAGIC

The Last Picture Show

Hoot

Targets

All Movies (43)

• Untold Stories of Back to the Future2025 · as Self
• Jurassic World Rebirth: The Making of a New Era2025 · as Self
• Music by John Williams2024 · as Self - Filmmaker
• Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford2023 · as Self
• The Making of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny2023 · as Self
• The Making of Jurassic World VelociCoaster2021 · as Himself
• The Other Side of the Wind2018 · as Documentary Filmmaker
• Fallen Kingdom: Malcolm's Return2018 · as Self
• A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making2018 · as Self - Producer
• They'll Love Me When I'm Dead2018 · as Self
• Growing Up Wild2016 · as Self
• Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles2014 · as Self - Filmmaker
• From Gizmo to Gremlins: Creating the Creatures2014 · as Self
• Cute. Clever. Mischievous. Intelligent. Dangerous: Making Gremlins2014 · as Self
• One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & the Lost American Film2014 · as Self
• Tales from the Future2010 · as Self
• The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button2009 · as Self
• Looking Back to the Future2009 · as Self (archive footage)
• They Are Here: The Real World of the Poltergeists2007 · as Himself
• Hoot2006 · as Golfer #2
• Searching for Orson2006 · as Self
• George Lucas: Creating an Empire2005 · as Self
• The Making of 'Seabiscuit'2004 · as Self
• Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy2003 · as self
• The Next Picture Show2003 · as Self
• 'Seabiscuit': The Making of a Legend2003 · as Self
• Behind the Ears: The True Story of Roger Rabbit2003 · as Self
• The Making of 'The Color Purple'2003 · as Self
• Making 'Signs'2003 · as Self - Producer
• The Sixth Sense: Rules and Clues2000 · as Self
• The Last Picture Show: A Look Back1999 · as Self
• Hustlers, Hoaxsters, Pranksters, Jokesters and Ricky Jay1996
• Alive: 20 Years Later1993 · as Self - Director
• Picture This1991 · as Self
• Citizen Steve1987 · as Mover
• The Making of 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'1984 · as Self
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom1984 · as Tourist at Airport (uncredited)
• The Making of Poltergeist1982 · as Self
• The Making of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark'1981 · as Self
• Raiders of the Lost Ark1981 · as Pilot
• Nickelodeon1976 · as Dinsdale's Assistant
• The Last Picture Show1971 · as Tommy Logan
• Targets1968 · as Ticket Boy

All TV Shows (4)

• Epic Ride: The Story of Universal Theme Parks2025 · as Himself
• LIGHT & MAGIC2022 · as Self - Producer
• Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter2015 · as Self
• The Oscars1953 · as Self