--- name: "Mark Frost" canonical: "https://film.one/person/mark-frost" fi1m_id: "mark-frost" imdb_id: "nm0004111" tmdb_id: 58837 wikidata_id: "Q778585" roles: ["Writer","Director"] born: "25 November 1953" reviewed_on_fi1m: 4 average_fi1m_score: 50 average_as: "writer" average_over: 2 updated: "2026-10-05T05:11:30.946174+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." --- # Mark Frost ## Identity Mark Frost - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mark-frost - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** mark-frost - **IMDb ID:** nm0004111 - **TMDB ID:** 58837 - **Wikidata ID:** Q778585 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Frost, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q778585, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004111/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/58837 Writer and director. Born 25 November 1953 in Brooklyn, New York City, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Writer, Director - **Born:** 25 November 1953, Brooklyn, New York City, USA - **Active:** 1981–2007 - **Also known as:** Eric Bowman - **Titles on Fi1m:** 4: 2 directing, 2 writing - **Frequently works with:** [Avi Arad](https://film.one/person/avi-arad.md), [Bernd Eichinger](https://film.one/person/bernd-eichinger.md), [Chris Evans](https://film.one/person/chris-evans.md), [Ioan Gruffudd](https://film.one/person/ioan-gruffudd.md), [Jessica Alba](https://film.one/person/jessica-alba.md), [Julian McMahon](https://film.one/person/julian-mcmahon.md), [Michael Chiklis](https://film.one/person/michael-chiklis.md), [Ralph Winter](https://film.one/person/ralph-winter.md) - **Average Fi1m score:** 50, as writer, over 2 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 86 (1), 1990s 86 (1), 2000s 50 (2) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Frost, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q778585, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004111/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/58837 ## Streaming the US now - **Disney+:** [*Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer*](https://film.one/film/fantastic-four-rise-of-the-silver-surfer.md) (52), [*Fantastic Four*](https://film.one/film/fantastic-four-2005.md) (48) - **Apple TV:** [*Twin Peaks*](https://film.one/tv/twin-peaks.md) (86) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Mark Frost > Mark Frost makes crowded television stories worth following by taking their characters seriously. His work with David Lynch earns our warm recommendation, with some patience required; *Fantastic Four* is a reminder that his dialogue can also be disappointingly ordinary. In *Twin Peaks* (1990), jealousy can be funny without ceasing to hurt. David Lynch and Mark Frost fill their rural soap with people whose strange behaviour makes it harder to dismiss their familiar wants. We were moved more than we expected by the care it takes with people it also invites us to laugh at. The writing gives us reasons to stay beyond waiting for answers. The crowded police drama *Hill Street Blues* (1981) was an important preparation, with Frost on its writing staff from 1982 to 1985. We recommend it for its compassion as much as its police work, while recognising that some of the characterisation has dated. Its overlapping stories helped shape his approach to ensemble writing. That is a useful connection to remember when considering *Twin Peaks*. Frost was its first-season showrunner, and wrote and directed that season's finale. The partnership with Lynch drew on Frost's work with structure, dialogue and character. Those contributions help explain why *Twin Peaks* can move between soap, mystery and the supernatural without losing our interest in the people. The discipline is not infallible: we would willingly shorten the stretches where the programme's patience becomes drift. Those strengths are much less apparent in *Fantastic Four* (2005). Frost and Michael France's screenplay leaves too many exchanges at the first obvious response. Chris Evans and Michael Chiklis provide welcome warmth, but the relationships need surprises that the writing rarely supplies. Reed Richards and Sue Storm are particularly poorly served, with too little in their exchanges to make either character memorable. We would not recommend it simply because Frost's name is on the screenplay. Writing and directing *Storyville* (1992), then turning increasingly towards books from the mid-1990s, widened his work beyond ensemble television. The collaboration with Lynch continued: they co-wrote all 18 episodes of *Twin Peaks: The Return* (2017). For a first encounter, choose the original *Twin Peaks*. It rewards patience, though there is no shame in wishing they had occasionally got on with it. ## Biography Mark Frost is an American novelist, screenwriter, television producer and director. He is best known as the co-creator, with David Lynch, of the television series *Twin Peaks* (1990–1991, 2017), on which he also served as writer, director, teleplay writer and story contributor. He previously worked as a writer and executive story editor on the police drama *Hill Street Blues* (1982–1985) and wrote episodes of *The Six Million Dollar Man* (1974). Frost was born in Brooklyn, New York, and studied at Carnegie Mellon University. He began collaborating with Lynch in the mid-1980s. Their partnership produced the series *Twin Peaks* and the feature film *Storyville* (1992), which Frost co-wrote and directed. He later wrote the screenplays for *Fantastic Four* (2005) and *Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer* (2007), and adapted his own non-fiction book as the film *The Greatest Game Ever Played* (2005). Frost has also published several novels, some under the pen name Eric Bowman. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (4) ### Directed (2) - *Twin Peaks* (1990), Fi1m 86, Teleplay, Creator, Director, Executive Producer, Writer, Story — [page](https://film.one/tv/twin-peaks.md) - *Hill Street Blues* (1981), Fi1m 86, Story, Writer, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/hill-street-blues.md) ### Wrote (2) — the average rests on these - *Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer* (2007), Fi1m 52, Screenplay, Story — [page](https://film.one/film/fantastic-four-rise-of-the-silver-surfer.md) - *Fantastic Four* (2005), Fi1m 48, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/fantastic-four-2005.md) ## Complete filmography (23) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces* (2014), Characters - *Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer* (2007), Screenplay, Story — Fi1m 52, [page](https://film.one/film/fantastic-four-rise-of-the-silver-surfer.md) - *The Greatest Game Ever Played* (2005), Producer, Writer, Novel - *Fantastic Four* (2005), Writer — Fi1m 48, [page](https://film.one/film/fantastic-four-2005.md) - *All Souls* (2001), series, Producer - *The Deadly Look of Love* (2000), Co-Executive Producer, Story, Teleplay - *Buddy Faro* (1998), series, Producer, Creator - *The Repair Shop* (1998), Writer, Executive Producer - *Silent Witness* (1996), series, Actor - *Storyville* (1992), Director, Screenplay - *On the Air* (1992), series, Writer, Executive Producer, Creator - *Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me* (1992), Original Series Creator, Executive Producer, Characters - *Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time* (1992), Producer - *Inside Twin Peaks* (1990), Actor - *American Chronicles* (1990), series, Executive Producer, Producer, Director, Writer, Creator - *Twin Peaks* (1990), series, as TV Newscaster, Cyril Pons · Writer, Director, Executive Producer, Story, Teleplay, Creator — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/twin-peaks.md) - *Twin Peaks* (1989), Writer, Executive Producer - *Scared Stiff* (1987), Screenplay - *The Believers* (1987), Screenplay, Associate Producer - *Casualty* (1986), series, as Saul Doubleday — Fi1m 68, [page](https://film.one/tv/casualty.md) - *The Equalizer* (1985), series, Writer - *Hill Street Blues* (1981), series, Writer, Director, Story — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/hill-street-blues.md) - *The Six Million Dollar Man* (1974), series, Teleplay, Writer --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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