Sandy Frank(I)
- Producer
Sandy Frank is an American television producer and film distributor. He
is best known for importing the many Gamera films, as well as the hit
Japanese anime series Gatchaman, to the United States. He later made
Gatchaman into the Battle of the Planets animated series, which has
been telecast in the U.S. and worldwide in most countries.
He began working for Paramount Pictures and NBC-TV in Network sales, working his way up the ladder in the television industry. He subsequently struck out on his own, starting Sandy Frank Program Sales, Inc, a television program syndication company. In 1975 he expanded his company's operations and renamed it Sandy Frank Entertainment when the company went into TV production. He is best known for importing and redubbing 1960s and 1970s Japanese films and television series, such as Gamera and Battle of the Planets, for distribution in the American and international market. In addition to Japanese imports, Sandy Frank is known in game show circles for producing and distributing two music game shows in the 80s - Name That Tune and Face The Music - and the reality series "You Asked For It", which was on the NBC TV Network in prime time in 2000.
Five of the Gamera films, as well as Fugitive Alien, Star Force: Fugitive Alien II, Time of the Apes, Mighty Jack, and Humanoid Woman (KTMA season), were featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Mr. Frank lives in Manhattan.
He began working for Paramount Pictures and NBC-TV in Network sales, working his way up the ladder in the television industry. He subsequently struck out on his own, starting Sandy Frank Program Sales, Inc, a television program syndication company. In 1975 he expanded his company's operations and renamed it Sandy Frank Entertainment when the company went into TV production. He is best known for importing and redubbing 1960s and 1970s Japanese films and television series, such as Gamera and Battle of the Planets, for distribution in the American and international market. In addition to Japanese imports, Sandy Frank is known in game show circles for producing and distributing two music game shows in the 80s - Name That Tune and Face The Music - and the reality series "You Asked For It", which was on the NBC TV Network in prime time in 2000.
Five of the Gamera films, as well as Fugitive Alien, Star Force: Fugitive Alien II, Time of the Apes, Mighty Jack, and Humanoid Woman (KTMA season), were featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Mr. Frank lives in Manhattan.
