Randall Frakes

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Randall Frakes is a film and science fiction writer primarily known for his work with long-time friends Bill Wisher and James Cameron on The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day.

While Frakes was in the U.S. Army, he was stationed in Europe, where he edited the newspaper for the 16th Signal Battalion. While editor, he won a Stars and Stripes award for investigative journalism.

After the Army, he earned a degree in Film Writing and Production from

His first film work was as a special effects cameraman for Roger Corman, and a number of unproduced screenplays, before his collaborations with Wisher and Cameron, kicked off his professional film-writing career.

Filmography

• Xenogenesis (1978 short), writer, director, and producer (with James Cameron)
• Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), additional photographer
• Escape from New York (1981), photographic effects
• Galaxy of Terror (1981), photographic effects
• Last Thirty Days of Liberty, unproduced screenplay
• Deathlok, unproduced screenplay
• ISBN 0-553-25317-4
  ), novelization
• Roller Blade (1986), screenplay
• Aliens (1986), synthesizer effects
• Hell Comes to Frogtown (1987), story, screenplay, and producer
• Roller Blade Warriors: Taken by Force (1989), screenplay (as Lloyd Strathern) and lyrics
• Diplomatic Immunity
  (1991), screenplay
• ISBN 0-553-29169-6
  ), novelization
• The Divine Enforcer (1992), ghostwriter
• Twisted Fate (1993/II), writer and producer
• The Force (1994), writer
• ISBN 0-06-095307-1
  ) author
• Blowback (2000), screenplay
• Sacrifice (2000), written by
• Devil's Prey (2001), writer
• Instinct to Kill (2001), writer
• Stealing Candy (2002), screenplay
• Bad Karma (2002), writer
• Empires of the Deep (unreleased), screenplay