Frantisek "Frank" Daniel was a Czech-American screenwriter, film director and teacher.
14 Facts About Frank Daniel
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Frank Daniel is known for developing the sequence paradigm of screenwriting, in which a classically constructed movie can be broken down into three acts, and a total of eight specific sequences.
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Frank Daniel served as co-chair of the Columbia University film program, and as a dean of FAMU, the American Film Institute and the USC School of Cinema-Television.
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Frank Daniel was an Artistic Director of the Sundance Institute.
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Frank Daniel earned a master's degree in music before studying film at VGIK in Moscow.
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Frank Daniel gave much to other people, he helped many people.
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Frank Daniel was a noble-minded and non-egoistic man, and no one understood the art of film-making as he did.
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Frank Daniel was open about saying what he didn't like, but he did it in a way that would help you.
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Frank Daniel subsequently immigrated to the United States in 1969 after the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia.
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Frank Daniel left the Institute in 1976 to become Henry Luce Professor at Carleton College in Minnesota.
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When Robert Redford founded Sundance Institute in 1981, Frank Daniel was recruited by Sundance Executive Director Sterling Van Wagenen to be the Institute's first Artistic Director, a guiding post he held for over a decade.
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Frank Daniel lived in Palm Springs, California until his death on February 29,1996.
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Frank Daniel was 69 when he died of a heart attack.
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Frank Daniel is buried at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Cathedral City, California.