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- Birth nameSundel Frank
- 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.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
- Having spent a lot of time in California, the caliber of women you get in the Hollywood community - these are models, actresses - they're airheads, essentially. If you're in the mode for a serious relationship, you have to go beyond the airhead. But it's tough on celebrities because they never know why others are attracted to them. Is it the person? Or is it the celebrity? What is there? That's why a lot of men end up with their secretary.
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