Frank Doubleday

Frank Doubleday

Thin, intense, antsy, and often unnerving character actor Frank Doubleday usually portrayed creepy villains in both movies and TV shows alike from the mid-1970's up until the early 1990's. Frank was born on January 28, 1945 in Norwich, Connecticut and came with his family to Los Angeles, California at age six. Doubleday made his film debut as an aggressive switchblade-wielding punk thug in the hilariously raunchy comedy The First Nudie Musical (1976). Doubleday's lean, hollow-eyed, sunken-cheeked face, closely cropped light blonde hair, skinny limbs, and slim build gave him a striking and potent screen presence that was put to especially effective use in two pictures for director John Carpenter: He's genuinely scary as the vicious street gang leader who kills little girl Kim Richards in cold blood in the terrific urban action classic Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) and was likewise memorably freaky as Isaac Hayes' ghoulish flunky "Romero" in the excellent futuristic science fiction cult favorite Escape from New York (1981). Doubleday's other noteworthy parts are a mob kingpin's conceited jerk son in Avenging Angel (1985), a fidgety prison inmate in the nifty science fiction item Space Rage (1985), a ferocious member of a roving murderous band of supernatural Eskimo spirits in the spooky Nomads (1986), a mercenary in Broadcast News (1987), and a sweaty, twitchy hoodlum who holds a bunch of fat ladies hostage in a laundromat in the funky urban science fiction hoot Dollman (1991). Among the TV shows Doubleday did guest appearances on are Amazing Stories (1985), Sledge Hammer! (1986), Stingray (1985), T.J. Hooker (1982), Hill Street Blues (1981), CHiPs (1977), The Incredible Hulk (1978), Charlie's Angels (1976), Wonder Woman (1975) and Starsky and Hutch (1975). Outside of acting, Frank also directed stage plays and taught acting at the Hollywood Court Theater. Doubleday died at age 73 from esophageal cancer on March 3, 2018 in Los Angeles, California.

  • Title: Frank Doubleday
  • Popularity: 2.08
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1945-01-28
  • Place of Birth: Norwich, Connecticut, USA
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Frank Doubleday Movies

  • 1981
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    Escape from New York

    Escape from New York

    7.069 1981 HD

    In a world ravaged by crime, the entire island of Manhattan has been converted into a walled prison where brutal prisoners roam. After the US...

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  • 1986
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    Nomads

    Nomads

    4.879 1986 HD

    One night, in a Los Angeles hospital, Dr. Flax attends to a seriously injured man who, apparently crazed, whispers mysterious and disconcerting words...

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  • 1976
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    Assault on Precinct 13

    Assault on Precinct 13

    7.279 1976 HD

    The lone inhabitants of an abandoned police station are under attack by the overwhelming numbers of a seemingly unstoppable street gang.

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  • 1991
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    Dollman

    Dollman

    4.9 1991 HD

    Brick Bardo is a traveller from outer space who is forced to land on Earth. Though regular sized on his home planet, he is doll-sized here on Earth,...

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  • 1985
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    Space Rage

    Space Rage

    3.5 1985 HD

    In this sci-fi/western film set two hundred years from now, a bank robber, Grange is captured and sentenced to the penal colony on the mining planet...

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  • 1989
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    L.A. Bounty

    L.A. Bounty

    4.4 1989 HD

    Mayor candidate Mike Rhodes is kidnapped in his own home outside of Los Angeles by unknown, masked terrorists. His wife Kelly barely survives the...

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  • 1988
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    Longarm

    Longarm

    4 1988 HD

    A showdown is staged between a U.S. deputy marshal and the outlaw gang that raised him in the New Mexico Territory of 1887.

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  • 1976
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    The First Nudie Musical

    The First Nudie Musical

    4.9 1976 HD

    The son of famous studio owner is forced to make porno films to keep the bankrupt studio from being made into a shopping center. In an attempt to get...

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  • 1976
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    Alex & the Gypsy

    Alex & the Gypsy

    4 1976 HD

    A bail bondsman falls in love with one of his "customers" — a gypsy girl, who's been accused of attempted murder.

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  • 1977
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    Abar, the First Black Superman

    Abar, the First Black Superman

    4.2 1977 HD

    Upon moving into a bigoted neighborhood, the scientist father of a persecuted black family gives a superpower elixir to a tough bodyguard, who thus...

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  • 1987
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    Broadcast News

    Broadcast News

    6.724 1987 HD

    Basket-case network news producer Jane Craig falls for new reporter Tom Grunnick, a pretty boy who represents the trend towards entertainment news...

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  • 1996
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    Shakespeare's Plan 12 from Outer Space

    Shakespeare's Plan 12 from Outer Space

    1 1996 HD

    William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night", re-imagined in a child's vision of Hell. "Shakespeare's Plan 12 from Outer Space" is a festive yarn, comprised...

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  • 1979
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    Butch and Sundance: The Early Days

    Butch and Sundance: The Early Days

    4.8 1979 HD

    Before the adventures that made them legends, they were charming mastermind Robert Leroy Parker, alias Butch Cassidy, and crack-shot outlaw Harry...

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  • 1985
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    Avenging Angel

    Avenging Angel

    5.1 1985 HD

    Molly Stewart, now a law student at UCLA, is determined to leave her prostitute past behind. After learning that the detective who helped save her...

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  • 1977
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    A Killing Affair

    A Killing Affair

    5.2 1977 HD

    A white female detective is partnered with a black male detective to find the person who is committing a series of particularly vicious murders....

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  • 1978
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    The Big Fix

    The Big Fix

    5.6 1978 HD

    Private detective Moses Wine is hired by his former college girlfriend to investigate a political smear campaign and he sets out to find out who is...

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  • 1997
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    Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

    Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction

    7.2 1997 HD

    Can you tell the difference between fact and fiction? Several stories of strange, mysterious and incredible occurrences are chronicled during each...

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  • 1986
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    Sledge Hammer!

    Sledge Hammer!

    7.94 1986 HD

    Sledge Hammer! is an American satirical police sitcom produced by New World Television that ran for two seasons on ABC from 1986 to 1988. The series...

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  • 1985
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    Amazing Stories

    Amazing Stories

    7.454 1985 HD

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

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  • 1977
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    CHiPs

    CHiPs

    6.8 1977 HD

    Lighthearted look at the adventures of two Highway Patrol officers in Los Angeles. The main characters are Jon Baker and Frank Poncherello, two...

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  • 1982
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    T. J. Hooker

    T. J. Hooker

    6.3 1982 HD

    Sergeant Thomas Jefferson Hooker is a tough-as-nails veteran police officer with the LCPD who turns his back on a gold badge and goes back to...

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