Frank Marshall

Frank Wilton Marshall (born September 13, 1946) is an American film producer and director. He often collaborated with his wife, film producer Kathleen Kennedy, with whom he founded the production company Amblin Entertainment, along with Steven Spielberg. In 1991, he founded, with Kennedy, The Kennedy/Marshall Company, a film production company. Since May 2012, with Kennedy taking on the role of President of Lucasfilm, Marshall has been Kennedy/Marshall's sole principal.

Marshall has worked with directors such as Spielberg, Paul Greengrass, Peter Bogdanovich, David Fincher, M. Night Shyamalan, Gary Ross, and Robert Zemeckis. He has also directed the films Arachnophobia (1990), Alive (1993), Congo (1995), Eight Below (2006), and the documentaries The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart (2020), Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story (2022) and The Beach Boys (2024).

Marshall has produced various successful film franchises, including Indiana Jones, Back to the Future, Bourne and Jurassic Park, and has received five nominations for the Academy Award for Best Picture. His other accolades include the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, bestowed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to "creative producers, whose bodies of work reflect a consistently high quality of motion picture production", the David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures, two Grammy Awards, a Sports Emmy Award and a Tony Award. Marshall is one of the few people to have received an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony (EGOT), with one of the awards being non-competitive.

Early life and education Marshall was born on September 13, 1946, in Glendale, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. He is the son of guitarist, conductor and composer Jack Marshall. His early years were spent in Van Nuys, California. In 1961, his family moved to Newport Beach, where he attended Newport Harbor High School, and was active in music, drama, cross country and track. He entered UCLA in 1964 as an engineering major, and graduated in 1968 with a degree in political science. While at UCLA, he was initiated into Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, helped create its first NCAA soccer team, and played collegiate soccer there in 1966, 1967 and 1968.

Career In 1966, he met film director Peter Bogdanovich at a birthday party for the daughter of director John Ford, a friend of his father. Marshall volunteered to work on Bogdanovich's first film, Targets (1968), which became his apprenticeship in film production, as he assumed various productions roles, even appearing in a bit part. Following graduation from UCLA, Marshall spent the next two years working in Aspen and Marina del Rey, as a waiter/guitar player at "The Randy Tar," a steak and lobster restaurant. While traveling through Europe in March 1970, he received another call from Bogdanovich, offering him a position on The Last Picture Show (1971). Three days later he arrived in Archer City, Texas, doubling as location manager and actor in this seminal film. Under Bogdanovich's guidance, Marshall would work his way up from producer's assistant to associate producer on five more films. He branched out to work with Martin Scorsese as a line producer on the music documentary The Last Waltz (1978) and as an associate producer on director Walter Hill's gritty crime thriller, The Driver (1978). The following year, Marshall earned his first executive producer credit on Hill's cult classic street gang movie, The Warriors (1979) and first producer credit on George Lucas and Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). He continued to collaborate with Bogdanovich, completing their tenth film together, Orson Welles' unfinished The Other Side of the Wind in 2018.

In 1981, together with his future wife Kathleen Kennedy and Steven Spielberg, he co-founded Amblin Entertainment, one of the industry's most productive and profitable production companies. As a producer, Marshall has received five Oscar nominations for Best Picture for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008), Seabiscuit (2003), The Sixth Sense (1999), The Color Purple (1985) and Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). During the 1980s and 1990s, Marshall served on the advisory board of the National Student Film Institute.

His feature film directing debut was the thriller Arachnophobia (1990), starring Jeff Daniels. In 1991, he and Kennedy created The Kennedy/Marshall Company and began producing their own films. Marshall directed the company's first film, Alive (1993), about a rugby team struggling to survive in the snow after their plane crashes in the Andes. Next, he directed Congo (1995), based on Michael Crichton's novel, followed by Eight Below (2006), Marshall stated that the documentary, broadcast in 2012, sought to capture not only Koss' sporting career and the ideals behind his nonprofit organization, but also his "drive and how it has changed the world."

Currently, he serves on the board of Athletes for Hope, the UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television Executive Board and as Board Co-Chair of The Archer School for Girls. He is a recipient of the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement presented alongside Kathleen Kennedy by Awards Council member George Lucas, the UCLA Alumni Professional Achievement Award and the California Mentor Initiative's Leadership Award. In June 2004, Marshall gave the Commencement Address at the UCLA College of Letters and Science graduation ceremony in Pauley Pavilion.

Marshall enjoys magic and music and has performed under the moniker of "Dr. Fantasy" or "DJ Master Frank". A devoted long-distance runner, Marshall and American premiere miler Steve Scott founded the Rock 'n' Roll Marathon Series, which debuted in 1998 in San Diego as the largest first-time marathon in history.

Filmography Director Film Year Title Director Executiveproducer 1990 Arachnophobia 1993 Alive 1995 Congo 2006 Eight Below 2011 Back for the Future (short film)

Documentary films Year Title Director Executiveproducer 2020 The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart 2022 Carole King & James Taylor: Just Call Out My Name Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story 2023 Rather 2024 The Beach Boys

Television Year Title Director Executiveproducer Notes 1993 Johnny Bago Episode: "Johnny's Manly Act" 1998 From the Earth to the Moon Episode: "Mare Tranquilitatis" 2012 ESPN Films Presents Episode: "Right to Play" 2014 The Man vs. The Machine 2022 Picabo

Producer credits Producer

Paper Moon (1973) At Long Last Love (1975) Nickelodeon (1976) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) Poltergeist (1982) The Color Purple (1985) The Money Pit (1986) Empire of the Sun (1987) Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) Always (1989) Hook (1991) Noises Off (1992) Milk Money (1994) The Indian in the Cupboard (1995) Olympic Glory (1998) The Sixth Sense (1999) Snow Falling on Cedars (1999) A Map of the World (1999) Signs (2002) Seabiscuit (2003) The Young Black Stallion (2003) The Bourne Supremacy (2004) Roving Mars (2006) Hoot (2006) The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) Crossing Over (2009) The Last Airbender (2010) The Bourne Legacy (2012) The Armstrong Lie (2013) Running Blind (2013) Jurassic World (2015) The BFG (2016) Jason Bourne (2016) Finding Oscar (2016) Assassin's Creed (2016) Satan & Adam (2018) Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) The Other Side of the Wind (2018) A Final Cut for Orson (2018) The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash (2019) Battle at Big Rock (2019) Jimmy Dennis: How to Survive Death Row (2019) Waiting for Godot (2021) Diana (2021) Mr. A & Mr. M: The Story of A&M Records (2021) McCartney 3,2,1 (2021) I Need Space (2022) Jurassic World Dominion (2022) Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) Jurassic World: Chaos Theory (2024) Twisters (2024) Music by John Williams (2024) Jurassic World Rebirth (2025)

Associate producer

Daisy Miller (1974) The Driver (1978)

Line producer

The Last Waltz (1978)

Executive producer

The Warriors (1979) Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) Gremlins (1984) Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) Back to the Future (1985) The Goonies (1985) Fandango (1985) An American Tail (1986) Batteries Not Included (1987) Back to the Future Part II (1989) Dad (1989) Tummy Trouble (1989) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) Back to the Future Part III (1990) Roller Coaster Rabbit (1990) Joe Versus the Volcano (1990) An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (1991) Cape Fear (1991) A Brief History of Time (1991) (uncredited) Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation (1992) (Direct-to-video) Were Back! A Dinosaurs Story (1993) A Dangerous Woman (1993) Swing Kids (1993) A Far Off Place (1993) The Sports Pages (2001; TV film) The Bourne Identity (2002) Mr. 3000 (2004) Ponyo (2009) (U.S. dub production) The Special Relationship (2010; TV film) Hereafter (2010) War Horse (2011) The Secret World of Arrietty (2012) (U.S. dub) From Up on Poppy Hill (2013) (U.S. dub) The Ordained (2013; TV pilot) The Wind Rises (2014) (U.S. dub) The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2014) (U.S. dub) Transcend (2014) Sinatra: All or Nothing at All (2015) An Equal Playing Field (2015) What the Hell Happened to Jai Alai (2016) Mars Project (2016; TV pilot) Boston: An American Running Story (2017) The China Hustle (2017) What Haunts Us (2018) The People's Fighters: Teofilo Stevens and the Legend of Cuban Boxing (2018) The Nagano Tapes (2018) The Golden Generation (2018; Five Rings film) They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (2018) The Grizzlies (2018) 1983 (2018; TV series) Why We Hate (2019) Jurassic World (Motion Comics) (2019) The Iron Hammer (2020) Laurel Canyon (2020) Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous (2020–2022) The Distance (2021) Rulon Gardner Won't Die (2021) A Brilliant Curling Story (2022) The Redeem Team (2022) The Fourth Wall (2023) The Space Race (2023) SF Sounds (2023) All That is Sacred (2023) Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones and Harrison Ford (2023) Jurassic World: Chaos Theory (2024–2025) Death by Numbers (2024) Tiger Tiger (2024) Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025) Co-executive producer

Innerspace (1987) The Land Before Time (1988)

Other credits Location manager The Last Picture Show (1971) What's Up Doc? (1972) The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973)

Production management E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) The Other Side of the Wind (2018)

2nd unit director Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) (Uncredited) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) (London unit) Back to the Future (1985) The Color Purple (1985) (Kenya) Empire of the Sun (1987) Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) (UK unit) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) Always (1989) (Montana unit) Noises Off (1992) Milk Money (1994) Snow Falling on Cedars (1999) Seabiscuit (2003)

Acting roles Year Title Role Notes 1968 Targets Ticket Boy 1971 The Last Picture Show Tommy Logan 1976 Nickelodeon Dinsdale's assistant 1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark Flying Wing Pilot 1984 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom Tourist at Airport 2006 Hoot Golfer #2 2012 The Secret World of Arrietty Additional voices U.S. dub

Awards and nominations Award Year Nominated work Category Result Academy Awards 1982 Raiders of the Lost Ark Best Picture 1986 2000 2004 Seabiscuit 2009 2019 Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award 2000 2008 Outstanding British Film 2009 Best Film CinemaCon Awards 1982 Inkpot Award Grammy Awards 2023 Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story Best Music Film 2026 Music by John Williams News & Documentary Emmy Awards 2025 Outstanding Science and Technology Documentary Primetime Emmy Awards 2010 Outstanding Television Movie 2015 Sinatra: All or Nothing at All Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special 2018 What Haunts Us Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking 2020 Laurel Canyon: A Place in Time Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special 2021 Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program Producers Guild of America Awards 2004 Seabiscuit Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures 2008 David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion Pictures 2009 Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures 2021 Laurel Canyon: A Place in Time Outstanding Producer of Non-Fiction Television Saturn Awards 1991 Arachnophobia Best Director 1993 George Pal Memorial Award 1996 Congo Best Director Sports Emmy Awards 2023 Outstanding Long Documentary Tony Awards 2022 Best Musical 2024 Water for Elephants 2025 Buena Vista Social Club