Frank Beddor (July 31, 1958) is an American former world champion freestyle skier, film producer, actor, stuntman, and author. He worked as a producer on There's Something About Mary and Wicked,[1] and wrote the book The Looking Glass Wars.[2]

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Life and career

Beddor grew up in Excelsior, Minnesota.^{[citation needed]} His parents often traveled and by age twelve, Beddor already knew how to barefoot-ski.[3] After winning nationals,^{[clarification needed]} Beddor was invited to join the Olympic ski team.^{[citation needed]} He went on tour in Europe for competitive skiing.[3] Beddor was World Champion freestyler skier in 1981 and 1982.[4]

In 1985 Beddor played John Cusack's skiing stunt double in Better Off Dead.[4] Beddor moved to Los Angeles during this period and studied with acting coach Stella Adler.[3] Part of Adler's method was encouraging her students to write the scene the character is in before stepping onstage.

Later, Beddor began to try producing.[3] He worked as a producer on the 1998 film There's Something About Mary starring Cameron Diaz and Ben Stiller.[4]^{[better source needed]}

Beddor then turned to writing, spending five years writing The Looking Glass Wars.[5] The book was rejected by every major publisher in the US, and ultimately published by Egmont Books in the UK.[3]

The Looking Glass Wars became popular and was on The New York Times week list in 2006.[2][5]^{[better source needed]} The books are a re-imagining of Lewis Carroll's novel Alice in Wonderland. The premise of the novel is that the character of Alice in Alice in Wonderland is real, as is the world of Wonderland, but that Carroll misrepresented the events and made Wonderland seem childlike, not reflecting the reality of Wonderland.[5]^{[better source needed]}

Beddor has written two more books in The Looking Glass Wars series, Seeing Redd and ArchEnemy. A spin-off comic book called Hatter Madigan, was written by Beddor and Liz Cavalier, with artwork by Ben Templesmith. The spin-off focuses on Hatter Madigan, a character in The Looking Glass Wars.

Beddor was involved in the development of two video games, Card Soldiers Wars in 2008, a free MMORG and The Looking Glass Wars Card Game in 2009.[6]^{[better source needed]}

References

External links

• Official website
• Frank Beddor at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Frank Beddor at Library of Congress Authorities, with 8 catalog records

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