Cast & creator
Howard Franklin
Best known for The Name of the Rose, Quick Change, Quick Change
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Howard Franklin is an American screenwriter and film director. He wrote and directed the (now-cult) '90's comedy Quick Change, starring Bill Murray, Geena Davis and Jason Robards and The Public Eye, a thinly-veiled biography of the tabloid photographer, Weegee (starring Joe Pesci). His other screenplays include: Someone to Watch Over Me (directed by Ridley Scott); The Name of the Rose (starring Sean Connery); The Man Who Knew Too Little (with Bill Murray); and Antitrust, featuring Tim Robbins as a Bill Gates-like software billionaire. Description above from the Wikipedia article Howard Franklin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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1986–2022 · acting roles
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Filmography (11)
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The Name of the Rose
Screenplay
1986
Quick Change
Director
1990Quick Change
Screenplay
1990
The Big Year
Screenplay
2011
Someone to Watch Over Me
Screenplay
1987
The Man Who Knew Too Little
Screenplay
1997
Larger Than Life
Director
1996
Antitrust
Writer
2001
The Public Eye
Director
1992The Public Eye
Writer
1992
An Oral History of: The Name of the Rose
Self
2022