---
name: "Frank Beddor"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/frank-beddor"
fi1m_id: "frank-beddor"
imdb_id: "nm0065980"
tmdb_id: 7405
wikidata_id: "Q452963"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "31 July 1958"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T22:21:29.771005+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Frank Beddor

## Identity

Frank Beddor

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/frank-beddor
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** frank-beddor
- **IMDb ID:** nm0065980
- **TMDB ID:** 7405
- **Wikidata ID:** Q452963
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Beddor, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q452963, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0065980/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/7405

Producer. Born 31 July 1958 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 31 July 1958, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Beddor, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q452963, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0065980/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/7405

## Biography

Frank Beddor is an American film producer, author, actor and former freestyle skier. Born on 31 July 1958 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he achieved success as a two-time world champion in freestyle skiing before transitioning to the entertainment industry.

Beddor worked as a producer on the 1998 films *There's Something About Mary*, which grossed over $360 million worldwide, and *Wicked*. He later founded Automatic Pictures and wrote the *The Looking Glass Wars* trilogy of novels, which became a New York Times bestseller.

*Sources: variety.com, imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, frankbeddor.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *There's Something About Mary* (1998), Fi1m 78, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/theres-something-about-mary.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *There's Something About Mary* (1998), Producer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/theres-something-about-mary.md)
- *Wicked* (1998), Producer
- *Nightbreaker* (1989), as Major Frank Brady
- *Remote Control* (1988), as Victor
- *Made in U.S.A.* (1987), as Bud
- *Amazon Women on the Moon* (1987), as Ken (segment "Reckless Youth")
- *L.A. Law* (1986), series, as Thomas Young
- *Better Off Dead...* (1985), Stunts

## Gallery

- ![Young Adult Literature Authors Frank Beddor and Eric Laster discuss story creation, craft, and publishing with English Education students. (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/88020/gallery-f8a638051e03.jpg) Young Adult Literature Authors Frank Beddor and Eric Laster discuss story creation, craft, and publishing with English Education students. (2016) — ASU Department of English, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Beddor-laster-matsunaga-2016-01_%2827841682875%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Young Adult Literature Authors Frank Beddor and Eric Laster discuss story creation, craft, and publishing with English Education students. (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/88020/gallery-4c86ee6a6d52.jpg) Young Adult Literature Authors Frank Beddor and Eric Laster discuss story creation, craft, and publishing with English Education students. (2016) — ASU Department of English, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Beddor-laster-matsunaga-2016-2376_%2827229587233%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Frank Beddor](https://film.one/media/person/88020/gallery-ce2c581ead81.jpg) Frank Beddor — ASU Department of English, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Beddor-laster-matsunaga-2016-2406_%2827765629421%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Young Adult Literature Authors Frank Beddor and Eric Laster discuss story creation, craft, and publishing with English Education students. (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/88020/gallery-d0e5c352e2e6.jpg) Young Adult Literature Authors Frank Beddor and Eric Laster discuss story creation, craft, and publishing with English Education students. (2016) — ASU Department of English, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Beddor-laster-matsunaga-2016-2414_%2827841683075%29.jpg/1280px-Beddor-laster-matsunaga-2016-2414_%2827841683075%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Young Adult Literature Authors Frank Beddor and Eric Laster discuss story creation, craft, and publishing with English Education students. (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/88020/gallery-5e55dd86596b.jpg) Young Adult Literature Authors Frank Beddor and Eric Laster discuss story creation, craft, and publishing with English Education students. (2016) — ASU Department of English, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Beddor-laster-matsunaga-2016-2430_%2827765629311%29.jpg/1280px-Beddor-laster-matsunaga-2016-2430_%2827765629311%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/frank-beddor