Frank Sinatra filmography
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| Frank Sinatra | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | Francis Albert Sinatra December 12, 1915 Hoboken, New Jersey |
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| Died | May 14, 1998 (aged 82) Los Angeles, California |
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| Years active | 1941 - 1996 | ||||||||||||||
| Spouse(s) | Nancy Barbato (1939-1951) Ava Gardner (1951-1957) Mia Farrow (1966-1968) Barbara Marx (1976-1998) |
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This a list of Frank Sinatra's appearances in motion pictures, as an actor, in a cameo role and as himself, and a list of his television specials.
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[edit] Motion Pictures/Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Other notes |
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| 1980 | The First Deadly Sin | Sgt. Edward Delaney | Executive producer Frank Sinatra's final starring role. Was originally a project undertaken by Roman Polanski who abandoned the film when he fled America after statutory rape charges. |
| 1970 | Dirty Dingus Magee | Dingus Billy Magee | Sinatra's last big screen appearance for a decade. |
| 1968 | The Detective | Det. Sgt. Joe Leland | Hailed at the time as ground-breaking for its depiction of police life and the tackling of hitherto taboo subjects. The film was a tremendous box office success. |
| Lady In Cement | Tony Rome | Second appearance as detective Tony Rome | |
| 1967 | Tony Rome | Tony Rome | Daughter Nancy Sinatra sang the title song. |
| The Naked Runner | Sam Laker | Filmed on location in war-torn Berlin | |
| 1966 | Assault on a Queen | Mark Brittain | Soundtrack provided by Duke Ellington |
| Cast a Giant Shadow | Vince Talmadge | Shot on location in the Middle East, Sinatra appears in a small role as a fighter pilot. | |
| 1965 | Marriage on the Rocks | Dan Edwards | Last film with Dean Martin before final cameo appearance alongside in Cannonbal Run 2 in 1984. |
| Von Ryan's Express | Colonel Joseph L. Ryan | Academy Award nominated for Best Special Effects. Sinatra's highest grossing film of the 1960s and one of 1965's most successful releases grossing over $17 million U.S. | |
| None But the Brave | Chief Pharmacist Mate | Directorial debut - also produced. Was the first co-production between an American and Japanese movie studio, Warner Bros. and Toho Studios respectively. | |
| 1964 | Robin and the 7 Hoods | Robbo | Third Rat Pack movie - also produced. Academy Award nominated for Best Song, My Kind of Town, and Best Music. Grammy nominated Best Original Score and WGA nominated for Best Written American Musical. Second, and final, film with Bing Crosby |
| 1963 | 4 for Texas | Frances Andros | Features guest appearances by The Three Stoogies |
| Come Blow Your Horn | Zack Thomas | Academy Award nominated Best Set Direction. Nominated for 4 Golden Globe awards including Best Actor in a musical or comedy for Frank Sinatra. A major box office success, Come Blow Your Horn grossed over $12 million U.S. | |
| 1962 | The Manchurian Candidate | Capt./Maj. Bennett Marco | Withdrawn from distribution and broadcast following the John F. Kennedy assassination. Nominated for 2 Academy Awards, 2 Golden Globes, DGA for Outstanding Directorial Achievement and BAFTA for Best Film. |
| Sergeants 3 | First-Sergeant Mike Merry | Second Rat Pack movie, produced by Frank Sinatra. Remake of Gunga Din | |
| 1961 | The Devil at 4 O'Clock | Harry | Co-starred with Spencer Tracy |
| 1960 | Ocean's Eleven | Danny Ocean | Generally considered as being the first of the Rat Pack movies. Features several star cameos including Shirley MacLaine. |
| Can-Can | François Durnais | Nominated for 2 Academy Awards, Golden Globe nominated for Best Motion Picture Musical, Grammy nominated for Best Soundtrack, WGA nominated Best Written American Musical. | |
| 1959 | Never So Few | Capt. Tom Reynolds | Generally credited as the film in which Steve McQueen came to prominence. |
| A Hole In The Head | Tony Manetta | Executive producer, High Hopes won the Academy Award for Best Original Song Director Frank Capra nominated by the DGA for Outstanding Directorial Achievement. WGA nominated for Best Written American Comedy. | |
| 1958 | Some Came Running | Dave Hirsh | First film with Dean Martin. Film nominated for 5 Academy Awards and 1 Golden Globe. |
| Kings Go Forth | 1st Lt. Sam Loggins | One of the few films based around the so-called Champagne Campaign in France during the clean-up at the close of World War II | |
| 1957 | Pal Joey | Joey Evans | Won Golden Globe Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy. Also nominated for Best Film Musical or Comedy along with 4 Academy Award nominations. |
| The Joker Is Wild | Joe E. Lewis | "All the Way" won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. WGA nominated Best Written American Musical | |
| The Pride and the Passion | Miguel | Director Stanley Kramer nominated by DGA for Outstanding Directorial Achievement | |
| 1956 | High Society | Mike Connor | First film with Bing Crosby. Film nominated for 2 Academy Awards. WGA nominated Best Written American Musical. |
| Johnny Concho | Johnny Concho (aka Johnny Collins) | First film as producer | |
| Around the World in Eighty Days | Pianist playing in a bar | Cameo | |
| Carousel | Billy Bigelow | Recorded two songs, walked off set when he discovered each scene was to be filmed twice, and was replaced by Gordon MacRae | |
| 1955 | The Man With The Golden Arm | Frankie Machine | Nominated-Academy Award, BAFTA and by the New York Film Critics for best actor. Film garnered 3 Academy Award nominations and 2 BAFTA nominations. |
| Guys and Dolls | Nathan Detroit | Top-grossing film of 1956. Nominated for 4 Academy Awards. | |
| The Tender Trap | Charlie Y. Reader | Academy Award nominated for Best Music. First film since On the Town with M.G.M.. | |
| Not As a Stranger | Alfred Boone | Academy Award Nominated for Best Sound Recording. BAFTA nominated Best Foreign Actor, Frank Sinatra. National Board of Review nominated, Best Supporting Actor, Charlie Bickford. | |
| Finian's Rainbow | Unfinished | Animated musical, recorded songs with Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald, film never completed | |
| 1954 | Suddenly | John Baron | Withdrawn from distribution and broadcast following the John F. Kennedy assassination |
| Young at Heart | Barney Sloan | Sinatra's only film alongside Doris Day. Film title was changed to Young at Heart after immense popularity of the track that would become the title-song. Remake of Four Daughters | |
| 1953 | From Here to Eternity | Pvt. Angelo Maggio | Won the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor. Film Nominated for 13 Oscars, won 8 inc. Best Picture. Grand Prize Nominated at Cannes Film Festival, won Special Award at Cannes, won WGA award for Best Written American Drama, Won NYFCC Awards for Best Actor, Director and Film. BAFTA Nominated Best Film from Any Source. |
| 1952 | Meet Danny Wilson | Danny Wilson | |
| 1951 | Double Dynamite | Johnny Dalton | |
| 1949 | On the Town | Chip | Academy Award winner Best Music, BAFTA nominated Best Film, Golden Globe nominated Best Cinematography, WGA Nominated Best Written American Musical |
| Take Me Out To The Ball Game | Dennis Ryan | WGA nominated Best Written American Musical | |
| 1948 | The Miracle of the Bells | Father Paul | |
| The Kissing Bandit | Ricardo | ||
| 1947 | It Happened in Brooklyn | Danny Webson Miller | Piano music provided by an unseen Andre Previn |
| 1945 | Anchors Aweigh | Clarence “Brooklyn” Doolittle | First film for MGM, "I Fall in Love too Easily" nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song Nominated for 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture |
| 1944 | Step Lively | Glen Russell | Academy Award nominated Best Art Direction/Interior Decoration |
[edit] Cameos
- Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956)
- Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
- Pepe (1960)
- The Road to Hong Kong (1962)
- The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
- Cast a Giant Shadow (1966)
- The Oscar (1966)
- Cannonball Run II (1984)
[edit] Documentaries, appearances as himself
- Major Bowes Amateur Theatre of the Air (1935) (short subject)
- Las Vegas Nights (1941)
- Ship Ahoy (1942)
- Reveille with Beverly (1943)
- Show Business at War (1943) (short subject)
- Upbeat in Music (1943) (short subject) (scenes deleted)
- Road to Victory (1944) (short subject)
- Higher and Higher (1944)
- A Thousand and One Nights (1945) (voice)
- The All-Star Bond Rally (1945) (short subject)
- MGM Christmas Trailer (1945) (short subject)
- The House I Live In (1946) (short subject)
- Screen Snapshots: Out-of-This-World Series (1947) (short subject)
- Lucky Strike Salesman's Movie 48-A (1948) (short subject)
- Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Night Life (1952) (short subject)
- Person to Person
- Three Coins in the Fountain (1954) (voice)
- Screen Snapshots: Playtime in Hollywood (1956) (short subject)
- Invitation to Monte Carlo (1959)
- Premier Khrushchev in the USA (1959) (documentary)
- Sinatra in Israel (1962) (short documentary)
- Advise and Consent (1962) (voice)
- Paris When it Sizzles (1964) (voice)
- A Tribute to the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital (1965) (short subject)
- That's Entertainment! (1974)
- Rene Simard in Japan (1974)
- The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Frank Sinatra
- Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones (1990) (documentary)
- In Person (1993) (voice) (short subject)
- Sinatra: Duets 1994
- Sinatra: 80 Years My Way
- Sinatra: Vegas 2006
[edit] Television cameos
- Burke's Law (1963)
- Make Room for Granddady (1970)
- Magnum P.I. (1987)
[edit] Television series
- The Frank Sinatra Show (CBS) (1950-52)
- The Frank Sinatra Show (ABC) (1957-58)
- The Frank Sinatra Timex Show (ABC) (1959)
- The Frank Sinatra Timex Show: An Afternoon With Frank Sinatra (ABC) (1959)
- The Frank Sinatra Timex Show: Here's To The Ladies (ABC) (1960)
- The Frank Sinatra Timex Show: Welcome Home Elvis (ABC) (1960)
[edit] Television specials
- A Man and His Music (1965)
- A Man and His Music - Part II (1966)
- A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim (1967)
- Francis Albert Sinatra Does His Thing (1968)
- Sinatra (1969)
- Sinatra in Concert at the Royal Festival Hall (1971)
- Ol' Blue Eyes is Back (1973)
- The Main Event - Live (1974)
- John Denver and Friend (1976)
- Sinatra and Friends (1977)
- The First Forty Years (1980)
- The Man and His Music (1981)
- Concert for the Americas (1982)
- Portrait of an Album (1985)
- Sinatra in Japan (1985)
[edit] Television films
- Our Town (1955)
- Contract on Cherry Street (1977)
- Young at Heart 1995
