Jonathan Frakes
Actor | Director | Producer
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Jonathan Scott Frakes (born August 19, 1952) is an American actor, author and director. Frakes is best known for his portrayal of Commander William T. Riker in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and subsequent films. Frakes also hosted the television series Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, challenging viewers to discern his stories of fact-based phenomena and fabricated tales. In June 2011, Frakes narrated the History Channel documentary Lee and Grant. He was also the voice actor of David Xanatos in the Disney television series Gargoyles.
Frakes directed and also starred in Star Trek: First Contact as well as Star Trek: Insurrection. He is also the author of a book called The Abductors: Conspiracy.
Filmography - Acting
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Devil's Gate (2017)
As: Sheriff Gruenwell
Set in the small town of Devil's Gate, North Dakota, the film examines the disappearance of a local woman and her young son. Schull plays an FBI agent who helps the local sheriff search for answers. Partnering with a deputy , they track down the missing woman's husband and find that nothing is as it seems.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Clay Staub
Stars: Shawn Ashmore | Milo Ventimiglia | Bridget Regan | Javier Botet | Amanda Schull
50 Years of Star Trek (2016)
As: himself
Over the last fifty years, America has been fascinated by Star Trek since it first aired in September of 1966. This 2-hour documentary celebrates the 50th anniversary through interviews with cast and crew members from every television series and the original films.
Runtime: 84 min.
Directed by: Ian Roumain
Stars: Michael McKean | Kevin Pollak | Leonard Nimoy | Nichelle Nichols | Jeri Ryan
William Shatner Presents: Chaos on the Bridge (2015)
As: Himself
Canadian acting legend William Shatner takes viewers inside the creation of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the bold attempt in 1986 to recreate the success of the original television series, in which Shatner played Captain James T. Kirk.
Runtime: 59 min.
Directed by: William Shatner
Stars: John de Lancie | Jonathan Frakes | Denise Crosby | Gates McFadden | Diana Muldaur
Megaquake 10.0 (2012)
As: Narátor
Film from John Ealer
Directed by: John Ealer
Stars: Jonathan Frakes
The Captain's Summit (2009)
As: Himself
The Captain's Summit documents the first time in Star Trek history that four stars who at some point have played Captains in Star Trek (William Shatner, Patrick Stewart, Leonard Nimoy, Jonathan Frakes) have been brought together for a 70-minute rare and unprecedented round table event. Whoopi Goldberg, star of Star Trek: The Next Generation, hosts the event.
Runtime: 70 min.
Directed by: Tim King
Stars: William Shatner | Whoopi Goldberg | Jonathan Frakes | Leonard Nimoy | Patrick Stewart
The Librarian: The Curse of the Judas Chalice (2008)
As: Trombone Player in Marching Band (uncredited)
While on a dangerous mission to recover the historic Judas Chalice, Flynn is saved by Simone. But when double-crossed by a respected professor and ambushed by a ruthless gang, Flynn realizes Simone's secret, his true mission and a shocking discovery are all lying within a decaying New Orleans crypt.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Jonathan Frakes
Stars: Noah Wyle | Stana Katic | Bruce Davison | Jane Curtin | Bob Newhart
Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier (2007)
As: Himself
From the conventions in Europe and Las Vegas to the billionaire collector who scours the world for memorabilia, we look at the impact that Star Trek has had on fans around the world and try to find out just what it is about this supposedly "silly" series that has meant so much to so many.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: John Logsdon
Stars: Kate Mulgrew | George Takei | Leonard Nimoy | Patrick Stewart | Nichelle Nichols
The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines (2006)
As: Debra's Husband
After retrieving the Crystal Skull in Utah, Flynn Carsen receives a map in the mail with the secret location of King Solomon's Mines. When the scroll is stolen, Judson explains the power of the Key of Solomon's book and assigns Flynn to retrieve the map. The map is useless without the legend piece to decipher it, which is located in Volubilis near the Roman ruins in Morocco. Flynn heads to Casablanca ...
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Jonathan Frakes
Stars: Noah Wyle | Olympia Dukakis | Gabrielle Anwar | Jane Curtin | Bob Newhart
Alien Autopsy (2006)
As: Himself
Humouristic reconstruction of the 1995 scandal when two British lads were accused of having faked a documentary from the Roswell incident in 1947.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Jonny Campbell
Stars: Bill Pullman | Götz Otto | Morwenna Banks | Declan Donnelly | Anthony McPartlin
How William Shatner Changed The World (2005)
As: Himself
William Shatner presents a light-hearted look at how the "Star Trek" TV series have influenced and inspired today's technologies, including: cell phones, medical imaging, computers and software, SETI, MP3 players and iPods, virtual reality, and spaceship propulsion.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Julian Jones
Stars: William Shatner | George Takei | Jonathan Frakes | Walter Koenig | Bruce Damer
Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)
As: Commander William T. Riker
En route to the honeymoon of William Riker to Deanna Troi on her home planet of Betazed, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise receives word from Starfleet that a coup has resulted in the installation of a new Romulan political leader, Shinzon, who claims to seek peace with the human-backed United Federation of Planets. Once in enemy territory, the captain and his crew ...
Runtime: 116 min.
Directed by: Stuart Baird
Stars: Brent Spiner | Jonathan Frakes | Patrick Stewart | LeVar Burton | Michael Dorn
Dying to Live (1999)
As: Will
A guardian angel escorts a dead teenager to her eternal reward and launches a revenge attack on the rival teen who caused her death.
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Rob Hedden
Stars: Gabriel Mann | Linda Cardellini | Jonathan Frakes | Shannon Elizabeth | Hayley DuMond
Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
As: Commander William T. Riker
When an alien race and factions within Starfleet attempt to take over a planet that has "regenerative" properties, it falls upon Captain Picard and the crew of the Enterprise to defend the planet's people as well as the very ideals upon which the Federation itself was founded.
Runtime: 103 min.
Directed by: Jonathan Frakes
Stars: Brent Spiner | Jonathan Frakes | Patrick Stewart | LeVar Burton | Michael Dorn
Trekkies (1997)
As: Himself
A hilarious look at the universe's most fervent fans.
Runtime: 86 min.
Directed by: Roger Nygard
Stars: Denise Crosby | James Doohan | Majel Barrett | DeForest Kelley | Barbara Adams
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
As: Commander William T. Riker
The Borg, a relentless race of cyborgs, are on a direct course for Earth. Violating orders to stay away from the battle, Captain Picard and the crew of the newly-commissioned USS Enterprise E pursue the Borg back in time to prevent the invaders from changing Federation history and assimilating the galaxy.
Runtime: 111 min.
Directed by: Jonathan Frakes
Stars: Brent Spiner | Jonathan Frakes | Patrick Stewart | LeVar Burton | Michael Dorn
Brothers of the Frontier (1996)
As: Ben Frye
Three brothers (Joey Lawrence, Matthew Lawrence, Andrew Lawrence) are separated from their parents after a land baron drives them from their homestead in late 1700s Allegheny.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Mark Sobel
Stars: Michael Cram | Don S. Davis | Matthew Lawrence | Andrew Lawrence | Joey Lawrence
Alien Autopsy: (Fact or Fiction?) (1995)
As: Himself - Host
This provacative FOX Network "prime time" television special investigates the purported "Alien Autopsy" footage that was allegedly filmed by the United States military after the legendary UFO crash near Roswell, New Mexico in 1947.
Runtime: 48 min.
Directed by: Tom McGough
Stars: Jonathan Frakes | Stan Winston | Allen Daviau
Star Trek: Generations (1994)
As: Commander William T. Riker
Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Enterprise-D find themselves at odds with the renegade scientist Soran who is destroying entire star systems. Only one man can help Picard stop Soran's scheme...and he's been dead for seventy-eight years.
Runtime: 118 min.
Directed by: David Carson
Stars: Brent Spiner | Jonathan Frakes | Patrick Stewart | LeVar Burton | Michael Dorn
Camp Nowhere (1994)
As: Bob Spiegel
Morris "Mud" Himmel has a problem. His parents desperately want to send him away to summer camp. He hates going to summer camp, and would do anything to get out of it. Talking to his friends, he realizes that they are all facing the same sentence: a boring summer camp. Together with his friends, he hatches a plan to trick all the parents into sending them to a camp of their own design.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Jonathan Prince
Stars: Christopher Lloyd | Andrew Keegan | Jonathan Jackson | Marnette Patterson | Melody Kay
Journey's End: The Saga of Star Trek - The Next Generation (1994)
As: Himself
Your destination: the 24th century. Your mission: to voyage where few have gone before--behind the scenes of Star Trek: The Next Generation! Join Jonathan Frakes, Next Generation's Commander William Riker, for this fascinating chronicle of Gene Roddenberry's beloved, Emmy Award-winning series.
Runtime: 45 min.
Directed by: Donald R. Beck
Stars: Jonathan Frakes | Denise Crosby | Patrick Stewart | LeVar Burton | Rick Berman
Star Trek 25th Anniversary Special (1991)
As: Self
This documentary is hosted by William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy and they take us through the history of Trek. We also get to see bloopers from the original series and the current space program and how progression has been in reality, hosted by LeVar Burton.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Donald R. Beck
Stars: William Shatner | Leonard Nimoy | Patrick Stewart | Nichelle Nichols | DeForest Kelley
The Cover Girl and the Cop (1989)
As: Joshua Boyleston
Julia Duffy is the cover girl and Dinah Manoff the cop in this made-for-TV contrivance.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Neal Israel
Stars: Jonathan Frakes | Julia Duffy | Blair Underwood | John Karlen | Dinah Manoff
Bare Essence (1982)
As: Marcus Marshall
A T.V. show along the lines of a soap opera which centers on one young woman, Tiger Hayes, as she starts up a perfume company. The usual soap plots of adultery, romance, corruption, and greed abound.
Runtime: 212 min.
Directed by: Walter Grauman
Stars: Bruce Boxleitner | Genie Francis | Lee Grant | Linda Evans | Joel Higgins
The Night the City Screamed (1980)
As: Richard Hawkins
A massive blackout plunges an American city into a night of terror.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Harry Falk
Stars: Clifton Davis | Robert Culp | Raymond Burr | Georg Stanford Brown | David Cassidy