William Frankfather
Popularity:1.3906
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1944-08-04
Place of Birth:Kermit, Texas, USA
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The Women of Brewster Place (1989)
A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.

Defense Play (1988)
Professor Vandemeer works on a secret project for the US-Air-Force called DART: a very small helicopter for scouting and defense. When he gets...

MouseHunt (1997)
Down-on-their luck brothers, Lars and Ernie Smuntz, aren't happy with the crumbling old mansion they inherit... until they discover the estate is...

Cool World (1992)
A bizarre accident lands Frank Harris in Cool World, a realm of cartoons. Years later, cartoonist Jack Deebs, who's been drawing Cool World, crosses...

Trading Favors (1997)
A seductive woman with a violent lover steals a car and entices a teenage boy to join her on a crime spree.

Flashpoint (1984)
Two Texas border guards find a jeep buried in the desert, with a skeleton, a scoped rifle, and a box with $800,000 in cash. Before they decide...

Pennies from Heaven (1981)
During the Great Depression, a sheet music salesman seeks to escape his dreary life through popular music and a love affair with an innocent school...

War Party (1988)
One hundred years after the Battle of Milk River, both sides agree to reenact it. The cavalry are supposed to shoot blanks & the Indians weren't...

Alien Nation (1989)
A bigoted human policeman in the L.A. of the future and his alien partner learn to live with each other's differences while attempting to solve a...

The Nightmare Begins Again (1993)
When Fred Krueger is set free on a technicality, the parents of the children he murdered take matters into their own hands, while a high school track...

Why Me? (1984)
An Air Force nurse about to leave the service is badly disfigured about her face in a car accident in which she also loses her baby.

Little Sister (1992)
Bobby is a college freshman and as part of a fraternity prank, he poses as Roberta and becomes pledged into a sorority. There he falls madly in love...

The Rocketeer (1991)
A stunt pilot comes across a prototype jetpack that gives him the ability to fly. However, evil forces of the world also want this jetpack at any...

Where Are My Children? (1994)
Based upon a true story, Marg Helgenberger stars as a single mother mysteriously arrested by the FBI and separated from her children, thus beginning...

Baby Boom (1987)
J.C. Wiatt is a talented and ambitious New York City career woman who is married to her job and working towards partner at her firm. She has a...

Blue De Ville (1986)
Two girls cruise the country in a 1959 blue Cadillac DeVille. They originally had set out to find the missing father of one of the girls (he is a...

When a Man Loves a Woman (1994)
An airline pilot and his wife are forced to face the consequences of her alcoholism when her addictions threaten her life and their daughter's...

Inside Moves (1980)
After a failed suicide attempt leaves him partially crippled, Rory begins spending a lot of time at a neighborhood bar full of interesting misfits....

Death Becomes Her (1992)
Madeline is married to Ernest, who was once arch-rival Helen's fiance. After recovering from a mental breakdown, Helen vows to kill Madeline and...

Invaders from Mars (1986)
In this remake of the classic 1950s sci-fi tale, a boy tries to stop an invasion of his town by aliens who take over the the minds of his parents,...

Amazing Stories (1986)
A feature film edited from three episodes of Amazing Stories (1985): The Mission, Mummy Daddy and Go to the Head of the Class.

Born Yesterday (1993)
A rich millionaire hires a sophisticated journalist to bring his somewhat dim-witted girlfriend up to the level of his peers. He fears that the...

Foul Play (1978)
A shy San Francisco librarian and a bumbling cop fall in love as they solve a crime involving albinos, dwarves, and the Catholic Church.

Alamo Bay (1985)
A despondent Vietnam veteran in danger of losing his livelihood is pushed to the edge when he sees Vietnamese immigrants moving into the fishing...

Harry and the Hendersons (1987)
Returning from a hunting trip in the forest, the Henderson family's car hits an animal in the road. At first they fear it was a man, but when they...

This Year's Blonde (1980)
First he seduced her. Then he made her a star. He was Johnny Hyde, 52-year-old agent, friend, lover. She was an unemployed starlet — destined...

Rough Draft (1998)
A struggling freelance writer, while investigating the transvestite night life, stumbles across a serial killer in action. The two then strike up a...

Freddy's Nightmares: No More Mr. Nice Guy (1988)
Freddy Kruger explains how he became the bon vivant and fashion plate who we know and hate so well. Freddy's ramblings lead to the evening's drama,...

St. Elsewhere (1982)
St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May 25, 1988. The series starred Ed...

Dark Skies (1996)
Dark Skies is an American UFO conspiracy theory-based sci-fi television series that aired from the 1996 to 1997 season for 18 episodes, plus a...

Remington Steele (1982)
Laura Holt, a licensed private detective, opens a detective agency but finds that potential clients refuse to hire a woman, however qualified. To...

The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. (1993)
A tough-as-rawhide cowpoke, debonair ladies' man and Harvard-educated smarty-britches roams from Frisco to Jalisco in pursuit of outlaws who killed...

The A-Team (1983)
A fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel work as soldiers of fortune while on the run from the Army after being branded as...

The Twilight Zone (1985)
This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two...

Tales from the Crypt (1989)
Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in...

Wings (1990)
Brothers Brian and Joe Hackett attempt to run an airline on the New England island of Nantucket while surrounded by their various wacky friends and...

Murphy Brown (1988)
Murphy Brown (Candice Bergen) is a recovering alcoholic who returns to the fictional newsmagazine FYI for the first time following a stay at the...

Hill Street Blues (1981)
A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.

MacGyver (1985)
He's everyone's favorite action hero... but he's a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a secret agent whose wits are his deadliest weapon....

Freddy's Nightmares (1988)
The evil, sinister killer of the "Nightmare On Elm Street" movies, Freddy Krueger, hosts this show, where each week, he shows us a tale of evil and...

Melrose Place (1992)
Follow the lives of a group of young adults living in a brownstone apartment complex on Melrose Place, in Los Angeles, California.

Alien Nation (1989)
Detective Matthew Sikes, a Los Angeles police officer reluctantly works with "Newcomer" alien George Francisco. Sikes also has an 'on again off...

Hunter (1984)
Hunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt....

Angel Falls (1993)
Angel Falls is a drama series that aired from August 26, 1993 to September 30, 1993. The premise of the series is Rae Dawn Snow and her teenage son...

I Know My First Name Is Steven (1989)
In 1973, 7-year-old Steven Stayner is kidnapped by pedophile Kenneth Parnell. Under the belief that Parnell has been given legal custody of him, and...

J.J. Starbuck (1987)
J.J. Starbuck is an American crime drama series that aired on NBC from September 1987 to June 1988. The series follows cornpone-spouting Jerome...

Bodies of Evidence (1992)
Bodies of Evidence is a police drama that aired on CBS from June 1992 to May 1993. It stars Lee Horsley and George Clooney as Los Angeles homicide...

Amazing Stories (1985)
A truly amazing, fantastical, science fiction, funny and odd, and sometimes scary, sad and endearing anthology series presented by Steven Spielberg...

Beverly Hills Buntz (1987)
Beverly Hills Buntz is a spinoff from Hill Street Blues. It aired on NBC during the 1987–88 season.

Hunter (1984)
Hunter is an American police drama television series created by Frank Lupo, and starring Fred Dryer as Sgt. Rick Hunter and Stepfanie Kramer as Sgt....

Night Court (1984)
An eccentric fun-loving judge presides over an urban night court and all the silliness going on there.

Family of Spies (1990)
In the late 1960s, a US Navy petty officer, with access to major state secrets and large debts, begins selling information to the Soviets.

The A-Team (1983)
A fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel work as soldiers of fortune while on the run from the Army after being branded as...

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993)
At Deep Space Nine, a space station located next to a wormhole in the vicinity of the liberated planet of Bajor, Commander Sisko and crew welcome...

Arliss (1996)
A behind-the-scenes look at the glitzy, big-money world of professional sports following the eternally optimistic and endlessly resourceful L.A....

Renegade (1992)
Framed for murder, Detective Reno Raines becomes a fugitive bounty hunter who fights crime while trying to clear his name. His troubles began after...