Frances Doel
Frances Doel is a writer and story editor, notable for her long association with Roger Corman. Doel was head of the script department at New World Pictures; Jon Davison said that at one stage Doel "wrote just about every first draft of every picture" at New World.[1]
Joe Dante said there was a theory that the two people most responsible for Corman's success were Charles B. Griffith and Doel. Filmink magazine stated "Doel’s actual script credits don’t do justice to her career – she surpasses Griffith as the most influential writer in Corman’s career."[2]
Corman met Doel when looking for an assistant in the mid-1960s. He contacted a tutor at Oxford University and asked him who his finest student was; the tutor suggested Doel.[3] Corman liked to recruit writers from the world of novels and short stories rather than movies and TV, and relied on Doel to make recommendations. She helped discover John Sayles.[4][5]
In the early 1980s, Doel worked at Orion Pictures as an executive.
Select credits[edit]
- Big Bad Mama (1974)
- Crazy Mama (1975)
- Deathsport (1978)
- Avalanche (1978)
- Raptor (2001)
- Dinocroc (2004)
- Supergator (2007)
- Dinoshark (2010)
References[edit]
- ^ Chris Nashawaty, Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen and Candy Stripe Nurses - Roger Corman: King of the B Movie, Abrams, 2013 p 130
- ^ Vagg, Sephen (13 May 2024). "Top Ten Corman – Part Two: Top Ten Screenwriters". Filmink.
- ^ Roger Corman & Jim Jerome, How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never lost a Dime, Muller, 1990 p 124
- ^ Interview with John Sayles at The Hollywood Interview.com 2 March 2008 accessed 11 June 2012
- ^ 'Interview with Frances Doel' at Derek Castle's 1982 Screenplay Sales Directory reproduced in Temple of Schlock 11 August 2001 accessed 11 June 2012
External links[edit]
- Frances Doel at IMDb