Ron Frank Pro

Ron Frank has earned a Peabody award and Emmy nomination, and has worked as director, writer, editor and producer.  He was producer and editor for “MLK: The Assassination Tapes” for Smithsonian Channel for which he received the George Foster Peabody Award. One of Ron’s earlier television documentaries was "The Hunt for Adolf Eichmann", narrated by Gregory Peck for A&E. He was director and writer for his own personal documentary family story “The Eternal Road” on PBS; which also chronicled the story of a lost opera by Kurt Weill that foreshadowed the fate of German Jewry.  Ron produced and edited “The Lost JFK Tapes” for National Geographic Channel, a two hour special on the JFK assassination for which he received an Emmy nomination.  He is director, producer and editor of his theatrical documentary film, “When Comedy Went to School” about the birthplace of standup comedy in the Catskill Mountains.  He produced and directed two films with Deepak Chopra; "The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success" and "How to Know God" for 20th Century Fox Entertainment. Ron has taught documentary filmmaking at UCLA.  He has lived in Jerusalem, Israel and worked for CNN, ABC News where he produced and edited numerous film and television productions.  He lives in Los Angeles and Connecticut.