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Jonathan Scott Frakes (born August 19, 1952) is an American actor and director. He is best known for his portrayal of Commander William Riker in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and subsequent films and series. Frakes also hosted the anthology series Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, and was the voice for David Xanatos in the Disney television series Gargoyles. In June 2011, he narrated the History Channel documentary, Lee and Grant.

Jonathan Frakes
Frakes in 2018
Born	Jonathan Scott Frakes (1952-08-19) August 19, 1952 (age 70) Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Alma mater	Pennsylvania State University (BFA) Harvard University (MA)
Occupation	Actor, director
Years active	1978–present
Spouse	Genie Francis ​ (m. 1988)​
Children	2

Frakes directed while starring in Star Trek: First Contact as well as Star Trek: Insurrection. He has directed more than 70 television episodes, including episodes of several Star Trek television series and The Orville. He is the author of the novel The Abductors: Conspiracy.[1]

Early life

Frakes was born in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, the son of Doris J. (née Yingling; 1926–2020) and Dr. James R. Frakes (1924–2002). His father was a professor of English literature at Lehigh University from 1958 to 2001, where he was the Edmund W. Fairchild Professor in American Studies and was a critic for New York Times Book Review and a book editor until his death in 2002.[2] Frakes had a younger brother, Daniel, who died in 1997[2] from pancreatic cancer.[3]

Frakes was raised in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. He attended Liberty High School in Bethlehem, where he ran track and played with the Liberty High School Grenadier Band. He graduated from Liberty High School in 1970.[4]

Frakes attended Pennsylvania State University, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater Arts in 1974. He was a member of the Thespians. In 1976, he received his Master of Arts from Harvard University and was active in Harvard's acting company, the Loeb Drama Center.[5]

Career

Early work

For a time in the 1970s, Frakes worked for Marvel Comics, appearing at conventions in costume as Captain America.[6] Frakes moved to New York City and became a member of the Impossible Ragtime Theater. In that company, Frakes did his first off-Broadway acting in Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape directed by George Ferencz. His first Broadway appearance was in Shenandoah. At the same time, he landed a role in the NBC soap opera The Doctors.[7] When his character was dismissed from the show, Frakes moved to Los Angeles and had guest spots in many of the top television series of the 1970s and 1980s, including The Waltons in the episodes "The Legacy" and "The Lost Sheep"; Eight Is Enough; Hart to Hart; The Dukes of Hazzard; Matlock; Quincy, M.E. in "The Face of Fear"; and Hill Street Blues.

He played the part of Charles Lindbergh in a 1983 episode of Voyagers! titled "An Arrow Pointing East". In 1983, he had a role in the short-lived NBC prime time soap opera Bare Essence (which also starred his future wife Genie Francis), and a supporting role in the equally short-lived primetime soap Paper Dolls in 1984.[7] He also had recurring roles in Falcon Crest[7] and the miniseries North and South. Frakes appeared in the 1986 miniseries Dream West.

Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

In 1987, Frakes was cast in the role of Commander William T. Riker on Star Trek: The Next Generation.[8] He was one of only two actors to appear in every episode (the other being Patrick Stewart). While appearing on the show, Frakes was allowed to sit in on casting sessions, concept meetings, production design, editing, and post-production, which gave him the preparation he needed to become a director.[9] He directed eight episodes of the show[10] and a total of 21 episodes across the Star Trek franchise.[11] After the TV series ended in 1994, Frakes reprised his role in the Star Trek: The Next Generation movies, two of which (Star Trek: First Contact and Star Trek: Insurrection) he also directed.[12]

As well as Star Trek: The Next Generation, Frakes has made appearances in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek: Picard, and Star Trek: Lower Decks, making him the only Star Trek regular to appear on six different Star Trek series. He has also directed episodes in five of the series (TNG, DS9, VOY, DIS, and PIC).[11]

Frakes is also one of six Star Trek actors (the other actors being Kate Mulgrew, Michael Dorn, George Takei, Avery Brooks and Majel Barrett) to lend their voices to the video game Star Trek: Captain's Chair, reprising his role as Riker when users visit the Enterprise-E bridge featured in the game.

After Star Trek

Wanting to branch out from the Star Trek franchise, Frakes turned down the opportunity to direct Star Trek: Nemesis to direct the family film Clockstoppers.[9] However, his next film, Thunderbirds, was a box office bomb which he has said single-handedly almost destroyed what had been a successful directing career: "[My] name was taken off the lists ... I went from 60 to zero. It was a wake-up for me. I had been so positive, and so blessed, and so fortunate."[9] It was several years before Frakes was given another opportunity to direct for television, and Thunderbirds remains his last theatrical directorial credit.

Much of Frakes' acting work after Star Trek has been animation voice acting, most notably voicing the recurring role of David Xanatos in the animated series Gargoyles, and he provided the voice of his own head in a jar in the Futurama episode "Where No Fan Has Gone Before". He had a small, uncredited role in the 1994 movie Camp Nowhere. Frakes also voiced Finn the Human's adult version in the episodes "Puhoy" and "Dungeon Train" on Adventure Time.

Frakes was an executive producer for the WB series Roswell, directed several episodes, and guest-starred in three episodes. His relationship with Star Trek is downplayed in the season 3 episode "Secrets and Lies", in which the alien character Max auditions for a guest role as an alien for Star Trek: Enterprise.

Frakes appeared on the 1994 Phish album Hoist, playing trombone on the track titled "Riker's Mailbox". Frakes would occasionally perform on the trombone during his tenure as Commander Riker, drawing on his college marching band experience. He was also a member of "The Sunspots", a vocal backup group of Star Trek cast members that appeared on Brent Spiner's 1991 album Ol' Yellow Eyes Is Back.

Frakes hosted The Paranormal Borderline, a short-lived television series on UPN, which dealt with the paranormal and mysterious happenings and creatures.[13] In one episode, Frakes presented an interview of reporter Yolanda Gaskins with veteran astronaut Gordon Cooper, where they discussed the possibility of aliens having visited Earth in the past.[14][15] He hosted seasons 2 through 4 of Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, which also dealt with the paranormal world.

Frakes and Francis appeared together in Lois & Clark in the episode "Don't Tug on Superman's Cape" as a creepily too-good-to-be-true couple. He narrated the History Channel's That's Impossible.

In addition to Roswell, Frakes has directed episodes of Leverage,[16] Castle, NCIS: Los Angeles, Burn Notice, Falling Skies and most recently Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Switched at Birth, Hit the Floor, The Librarians, and The Orville.

Frakes works with the Workshops, the Waterfall Arts Center, and the Saltwater Film Society, all located in Maine, where he teaches classes on film direction. He has also previously taught directing and filmmaking courses at Rockport College, now called Maine Media College.[17][18][19][20] He and Francis owned a home furnishings store in Belfast, Maine, called The Cherished Home, which closed in August 2012 due to her being too busy with her acting to spend adequate time at the store.[21]

Personal life

Frakes first met actress Genie Francis on the set of the television soap opera Bare Essence, and again while filming the mini-series North and South. They began dating in 1985, became engaged in 1986, and married on May 28, 1988. The couple have two children, Jameson Ivor Frakes, born in 1994, and Elizabeth Frances Frakes, born in 1997. They moved from Belfast, Maine, to Beverly Hills, California,[2] in 2008 and later moved to Calabasas, California.[22]

Filmography

Acting credits

Film
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1979	Beach Patrol	Marty Green	Made for TV movie originally aired on ABC
1994	Camp Nowhere	Bob Spiegel
	Star Trek Generations	Commander William T. Riker
1995	Time Travel Through the Bible	Himself / Host
1996	Star Trek: First Contact	Commander William T. Riker	Nominated–Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated–Saturn Award for Best Director
1998	Star Trek: Insurrection
1999	Dying to Live	Will	TV movie
2002	Star Trek: Nemesis	Commander/Captain William T. Riker
	Clockstoppers	Janitor	uncredited
2004	Thunderbirds	Policeman	Uncredited
2011	The Captains	Himself/Captain William T. Riker
2017	Devil's Gate	Sheriff Gruenwell
2022	Catwoman: Hunted	King Faraday, Boss Moxie (voice)	Direct-to-DVD film[23]
Television
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1977–78	The Doctors	Tom Carroll
1978	Charlie's Angels	Brad	Episode: "Angel on My Mind"
	Barnaby Jones	David Douglas	Episode: "Stages of Fear"
	Fantasy Island	Kirk Wendover	Episode: "The War Games/Queen of the Boston Bruisers"
1979	The Waltons	Ashley Longworth Jr.	Episodes: "The Lost Sheep" and "The Legacy"
	Eight Is Enough	Chapper	Episode: "Separate Ways"
	The White Shadow	Basketball Player	Episode: "One of the Boys" (uncredited)
1980	Beulah Land	Adam Davis
	The Night the City Screamed	Richard Hawkins
1981	The Dukes of Hazzard	Jamie Lee Hogg	Episode: "Mrs. Daisy Hogg"
	Harper Valley	Clutch Breath	Episode: "Low Noon"
1982	Hart to Hart	Adam Blake	Episode: "Harts and Palms"
	Hill Street Blues	Drug dealer	Episode: "Of Mouse and Man"
	Quincy, M.E.	Leon Bohannon/Surgeon	Episode: "The Face of Fear" and "Ghost of a Chance"
	Voyagers!	Charles Lindbergh	Episode: "An Arrow Pointing East"
1983	Bare Essence	Marcus Marshall	Several episodes.
1984	Highway to Heaven	Arthur Krock, Jr.	Episode: "A Devine Madness"
	Five Mile Creek	Adam Scott	Episode: "Gold Fever"
	The Fall Guy	Connors	Episode: "Always Say Always"
1985	The Twilight Zone	Single Guy	Episode: "But Can She Type?"
	North and South	Stanley Hazard
1986	Dream West	Lt. Archibald Gillespie
	Matlock	D.A. Park	Episode: "The Angel"
1987–1994	Star Trek: The Next Generation	Commander William T. Riker	176 episodes – Also portrayed transporter duplicate Lt. Thomas Riker in Second Chances
1988	Reading Rainbow	Himself	Episode: "The Bionic Bunny Show"
1994	Wings	Gavin Rutledge	Episode: "All's Fare"
	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	Lt. Thomas Riker	Episode: "Defiant"
	Journey's End: The Saga of Star Trek: The Next Generation	Host	Documentary
1994–1996	Gargoyles	David Xanatos, Coyote	Voice
1995	Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman	Tim Lake	Episode: "Don't Tug on Superman's Cape"
Cybill	Himself	Episode: "Starting on the Wrong Foot"
Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction?	Host/Narrator
1996	Star Trek: Voyager	Commander William T. Riker	Episode: "Death Wish"
1998–2002, 2021-present	Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction	Himself	45 episodes
1999	Roswell	Himself	Episode: "The Convention"
2000	3rd Rock from the Sun	Larry McMichael	Episode: "Gwen, Larry, Dick and Mary"
2000	Ghosts: Caught on Tape	Narrator
2002	Futurama	Himself	Voice; Episode: "Where No Fan Has Gone Before"
2005	Star Trek: Enterprise	Commander William T. Riker	Episode: "These Are the Voyages..."
2005, 2009	Family Guy	Commander William T. Riker Himself	Episodes: "Peter's Got Woods" Episode: "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven"
2009	That's Impossible	Himself
2009	Leverage	Patient in Neck Brace	Episode: "The Snow Job" (uncredited)
2010	Criminal Minds	Dr. Arthur Malcolm	Episode: "The Uncanny Valley"
	NCIS: Los Angeles	Navy Commander Dr. Stanfill	Episode: "Disorder"
2011	The Super Hero Squad Show	High Evolutionary	Voice; Episode: "The Devil Dinosaur You Say!"
2012	Leverage	Man at Consumer Products Safety Commission	Episode: "The Toy Job" (uncredited)
	Castle	Richard Castle Fan	Episode "The Final Frontier" (uncredited)
2013	Adventure Time	Adult Finn	Voice; Episodes: "Puhoy" and "Dungeon Train"
2014	Hit the Floor	Hank	Episode: "Blow Out"
2016–2019	Guardians of the Galaxy	J'son	Voice; 14 episodes
2016	Miles from Tomorrowland	Grandpa Vincent	Voice; Episodes: "Galactech: Still Rocketing/Merc's Night Out" & "The Adventures of Jet Retrograde/The Tiny Aliens"
	Future-Worm!	Steak Starbolt	Voice
	Angie Tribeca	USCG Commandant Admiral Donald "Don" Van Zandt	Episode: "The Coast Is Fear"
2018	After Trek	Himself	Aftershow Episode 11
2019	How to Sell Drugs Online (Fast)	Himself	Episode: "Life's Not Fair, Get Used to It"
2020, 2023	Star Trek: Picard	Captain William T. Riker	Episodes: "Nepenthe" & "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2", season 3 TBA [24]
2020–2022	The Ready Room	Himself	Aftershow 6 episodes
2020–present	Star Trek: Lower Decks	Captain William T. Riker	Voice; 3 episodes
2020	The Astronauts	Rex Dowd	Episodes: "Day 21", "Day 34", "Day 73"
2022	Allegedly	Roger	Episode: "Money Supply"
Video games
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Multimedia Celebrity Poker	Himself	[25]
2017	XCOM 2: War of the Chosen	Volk	[26]

Directing credits

Film
Year	Title	Notes
1996	Star Trek: First Contact
1998	Star Trek: Insurrection
2002	Clockstoppers
2004	Thunderbirds
Television
Year	Title	Notes
1990–1994	Star Trek: The Next Generation	3.16 – "The Offspring" (1990) 4.07 – "Reunion" (1990) 4.21 – "The Drumhead" (1991) 5.18 – "Cause and Effect" (1992) 6.09 – "The Quality of Life" (1992) 6.20 – "The Chase" (1993) 7.08 – "Attached" (1993) 7.14 – "Sub Rosa" (1994)
1994–1995	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	3.02 – "The Search, Part II" (1994) 3.08 – "Meridian" (1994) 3.13 – "Past Tense, Part II" (1995)
1995–1996	Star Trek: Voyager	2.03 – "Projections" (1995) 2.07 – "Parturition" (1995) 2.13 – "Prototype" (1996)
1996	Diagnosis Murder	3.18 – "Left-Handed Murder" (1996)
1999–2001	Roswell	1.07 – "River Dog" (1999) 1.19 – "Four Square" (2000) 1.21 – "The White Room" (2000) 3.04 – "Secrets and Lies" (2001) 3.08 – "Behind the Music" (2001)
2002	The Twilight Zone	"The Lineman" (2002)
2006	The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines	Television film
2007	Masters of Science Fiction	"The Discarded" (2007)
2008	The Librarian: Curse of the Judas Chalice	Television film
2009–2012	Leverage	1.07 – "The Wedding Job" (2009) 1.11 – "The Juror #6 Job" (2009) 2.04 – "The Fairy Godparents Job" (2009) 2.11 – "The Bottle Job" (2010) 3.02 – "The Reunion Job" (2010) 3.06 – "The Studio Job" (2010) 3.13 – "The Morning After Job" (2010) 4.09 – "The Queen's Gambit Job" (2011) 4.12 – "The Office Job" (2011) 4.15 – "The Lonely Hearts Job" (2011) 5.03 – "The First Contact Job" (2012) 5.05 – "The Gimme a K Street Job" (2012) 5.14 – "The Toy Job" (2012)
2009	Dollhouse	2.04 – "Belonging" (2009)
2009–2013	Castle	2.08 – "Kill the Messenger" (2009) 5.06 – "The Final Frontier" (2012) 5.20 – "The Fast and the Furriest" (2013)
2010–2016	NCIS: Los Angeles	1.14 – "LD50" (2010) 2.11 – "Disorder" (2010) 3.16 – "Blye, K." (2012) 4.10 – "Free Ride" (2012) 5.02 – "Impact" (2013) 8.10 – "Sirens" (2016)
2010	V	1.07 – "John May" (2010)
	Persons Unknown	1.05 – "Incoming" (2010) 1.10 – "Seven Sacrifices" (2010) 1.11 – "And Then There Was One" (2010)
	The Good Guys	1.09 – "Don't Taze Me, Bro" (2010) 1.16 – "Silence of the Dan" (2010)
2010–2013	The Glades	1.08 – "Marriage Is Murder" (2010) 2.04 – "Moonlighting" (2011) 4.02 – "4.02 – Shot Girls" (2013)
	Burn Notice	4.14 – "Hot Property" (2010) 5.06 – "Enemy Of My Enemy" (2011) 5.17 – "Acceptable Loss" (2011) 6.09 – "Official Business" (2012) 7.06 – "All or Nothing" (2013)
2011	Bar Karma	1.09 – "Three Times a Lady" (2011)
2013–2015	Falling Skies	3.09 – "Journey to Xilbalba" (2013) 4.06 – "Door Number Three" (2014) 5.06 – "Respite" (2015)
2013	King & Maxwell	1.08 – "Job Security" (2013)
	Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.	1.08 – "The Well" (2013)
2014–2015	Switched at Birth	3.06 – "The Scream" (2014) 4.08 – "Art Like Love is Dedication" (2015)
2014	Hit the Floor	2.03 – "Behind the Back" (2014) 2.04 – "Full-Court Press" (2014)
2014–2017	The Librarians	1.04 – "And Santa's Midnight Run" (2014) 1.06 – "And the Fables of Doom" (2015) 1.10 – "And the Loom of Fate" (2015) 2.06 – "And the Infernal Contract" (2015) 2.08 – "And the Point of Salvation" (2015) 3.05 – "And the Tears of a Clown" (2016) 3.06 – "And the Trial of the Triangle" (2016) 3.09 – "And the Fatal Separation" (2017) 4.04 – "And the Silver Screen" (2017) 4.06 – "And the Graves of Time" (2017)
2017–2019	The Orville	1.05 – "Pria" (2017) 2.12 – "Sanctuary" (2019)
2017–present	Star Trek: Discovery[27]	1.10 – "Despite Yourself" (2018) 2.02 – "New Eden" (2019) 2.09 – "Project Daedalus" (2019) 3.03 – "People of Earth" (2020) 3.08 – "The Sanctuary" (2020) 3.12 – "There Is a Tide..." (2020) 4.06 – "Stormy Weather" (2021)
2018	The Arrangement	2.9 – "Truth" (2018)
2019	The Gifted	2.13 – "teMpted" (2019)
2020–present	Star Trek: Picard	1.04 – "Absolute Candor" (2020) 1.05 – "Stardust City Rag" (2020) 2.05 – "Fly Me to the Moon" (2022) 2.06 – "Two of One" (2022)
2020	The Astronauts	1.03 – "Day 3" (2020) 1.04 – "Day 21" (2020)
2021	Leverage: Redemption	1.07 – "The Double-Edged Sword Job" (2021)
2023	Star Trek: Strange New Worlds	[28][29]
Video games
Year	Title	Notes
1996	Star Trek: Klingon	Interactive film

References

External links

• Jonathan Frakes at IMDb
• Jonathan Frakes at the TCM Movie Database
• Jonathan Frakes at AllMovie
• Jonathan Frakes on Twitter
• Jonathan Frakes in-depth interview at The SCI FI Channel Australia Blog

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[de] Jonathan Frakes

Jonathan Scott Frakes (* 19. August 1952 in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania) ist ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler, Regisseur und Fernsehmoderator. Bekannt wurde er vor allem durch seine Rolle als Cmdr. William T. Riker in der Fernsehserie Raumschiff Enterprise: Das nächste Jahrhundert und seine Moderation der Mystery-Fernsehserie X-Factor: Das Unfassbare.

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- [en] Jonathan Frakes

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[es] Jonathan Frakes

Jonathan Scott Frakes (Bellefonte, Pensilvania; 19 de agosto de 1952) es un actor y director estadounidense. Su papel más recordado es como el comandante William T. Riker en la serie de televisión Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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[ru] Фрейкс, Джонатан

Джонатан Скотт Фрейкс (англ. Jonathan Scott Frakes; род. 19 августа 1952) — американский актёр и кинорежиссёр. Известен своей ролью в телесериале «Звёздный Путь: Следующее поколение». Режиссировал серии ряда телесериалов из франшизы «Звёздный путь» и сериала «Орвилл».

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