14 Facts About Frank Muller

Frank Muller was a stage and television actor, but was most famous as an audiobook narrator.

Frank Muller's family immigrated to the United States when he was five.

Frank Muller was a classically trained actor who began his career working on stage and doing commercials.

Frank Muller spent many years on the New York stage, where he became a company member of the Riverside Shakespeare Company, for which he played the title role in King Henry V, Edmund the Bastard in The History of King Lear, and the title role in Cyrano de Bergerac, as well as performing with the Roundabout Theater Company and the New York Shakespeare Festival among others.

Frank Muller began by publishing audiobook recordings of public domain works such as Call of the Wild and A Tale of Two Cities but later expanded into copyrighted works as audiobooks began to grow in popularity.

Frank Muller soon became the narrator of choice for such authors as Stephen King, John le Carre, John Grisham, Elmore Leonard and many others.

Frank Muller won the 2002 and 2003 Audie Award for Best Male Narrator for his readings of Clive Barker's Coldheart Canyon and Elmore Leonard's Tishomingo Blues, respectively.

On November 5,2001, Frank Muller was about to leave on a week-long motorcycle trip with a close relative when his wife Erika surprised him with the news that she was expecting their second child.

Frank Muller was thrown from the bike landing on his head on the concrete.

Frank Muller sustained multiple fractures, lacerations, and abrasions, and was taken to Antelope Valley Hospital Medical Center in Lancaster, California, and went into cardiac arrest three times.

Frank Muller suffered severe head trauma, which was diagnosed as diffuse axonal injury.

Frank Muller remained hospitalized for six and a half years and died on June 4,2008, at Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina.

Frank Muller was married to Erika Frank Muller and had two children.

Frank Muller died on June 4,2008, at Duke University Medical Center.