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name: "John Frick"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/john-frick"
fi1m_id: "john-frick"
imdb_id: "nm0004205"
tmdb_id: 59475
roles: ["Production designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-17T21:56:50.728261+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."
---

# John Frick

## Identity

John Frick

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/john-frick
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** john-frick
- **IMDb ID:** nm0004205
- **TMDB ID:** 59475
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004205/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/59475

Production designer.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Active:** 1993–2006
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 74 (2), 2000s 68 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 72 to 69 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 2, Drama 2, Thriller 2, Adventure 1, Crime 1, Science Fiction 1
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $9m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004205/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/59475

## Biography

John Frick is a production designer and art director whose credits span feature films and television. He served as production designer on *Dazed and Confused* (1993), directed by Richard Linklater.

Frick has worked as production designer on films including *The Whole Wide World* (1996), *The Only Thrill* (1997), *Fool's Gold* (1999), *American Outlaws* (2001) and *Passionada* (2002). He has also held art director and assistant art director roles on titles such as *Empire Records* (1995), *The Faculty* (1998), *Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams* (2002), *Idiocracy* (2006), *The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning* (2006), *Friday the 13th* (2009) and *Bandslam* (2009).

*Sources: imdb.com, castfacts.com, moviefone.com, criterion.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Idiocracy* (2006), Fi1m 68, Assistant Art Director — [page](https://film.one/film/idiocracy.md)
- *The Underneath* (1995), Fi1m 62, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/the-underneath.md)
- *Dazed and Confused* (1993), Fi1m 86, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/dazed-and-confused.md)

## Complete filmography (34)

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

- *Bandslam* (2009), as Art Direction
- *Friday the 13th* (2009), as Art Direction
- *Comanche Moon* (2008), series, as Art Direction
- *The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning* (2006), as Art Direction
- *Idiocracy* (2006), Assistant Art Director — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/film/idiocracy.md)
- *The Quiet* (2006), Production Design
- *How to Eat Fried Worms* (2006), as Art Direction
- *The Ringer* (2005), as Art Direction
- *Passionada* (2003), Production Design
- *Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams* (2002), as Art Direction
- *American Outlaws* (2001), Production Design
- *Where the Heart Is* (2000), as Art Direction
- *Universal Soldier: The Return* (1999), as Art Direction
- *A Slipping Down Life* (1999), as Art Direction
- *The Faculty* (1998), Assistant Art Director
- *Little Boy Blue* (1998), Production Design
- *The Newton Boys* (1998), as Art Direction
- *Fool's Gold* (1998), Production Design
- *Waiting for Guffman* (1997), as Art Direction
- *The Only Thrill* (1997), Production Design
- *The Whole Wide World* (1996), Production Design
- *The Siege at Ruby Ridge* (1996), as Art Direction
- *The Siege at Ruby Ridge* (1996), series, as Art Direction
- *Deadly Family Secrets* (1995), Production Design
- *Empire Records* (1995), Assistant Art Director
- *The Underneath* (1995), as Art Direction — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/the-underneath.md)
- *8 Seconds* (1994), as Art Direction
- *Witness to the Execution* (1994), Production Design
- *Silent Tongue* (1994), as Art Direction
- *Dazed and Confused* (1993), Production Design — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/dazed-and-confused.md)
- *My Boyfriend's Back* (1993), Set Designer
- *The Hot Spot* (1990), as Art Direction
- *The Outing* (1987), as Set Decoration
- *Confessions of a Serial Killer* (1985), as Set Decoration

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