David Frankel Biography

Fast Facts

• Along with other directors, writers and producers won a Television and Cable Christopher Award for "Band of Brothers" in 2002
• Attended the Fieldston School in Riverdale, N․Y․, and Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass
• After graduating from college, his first assignment as a professional was to write an article for "Esquire" about John McEnroe, a tennis star he had competed with while they were both in high school
• Much of his best-known work has been in the genre of comedy, both on film and on television sitcoms
• The short film he won an Oscar for was originally a pilot for an ABC sitcom that didn't make it
• Lived in Coconut Grove, the oldest modern continuously-inhabited neighborhood in Miami, Fla․, in 2008
• Considered becoming a political humorist before he started writing for television