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Steve Franks is a Scriptwriter American born on 21 september 1965 at Orange County (USA)

Steve Franks

Steve Franks
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Nationality USA
Birth 21 september 1965 (58 years) at Orange County (USA)

Steve Franks is an American screenwriter and musician based in Orange County, California. He devised the story for the 1999 comedy Big Daddy and wrote the screenplay with Tim Herlihy and Adam Sandler.

Franks graduated from the University of California, Irvine in 1991 with a Bachelor of Art degree in English. He also attended a graduate program at Loyola Marymount University.

Franks also created the USA Network original series Psych, and created the band The Friendly Indians who made the theme song. He wrote several episodes:


The extended "Pilot"
"Spellingg Bee"
"Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Piece" (with Berman)
"Woman Seeking Dead Husband — Smokers Okay, No Pets"
"From the Earth to the Starbucks"
"Scary Sherry: Bianca's Toast" (With James Roday)
"American Duos" (With James Roday)
"65 Million Years Off"
"Shawn (and Gus) of the Dead" (With James Roday)(directed)
"Ghosts"
"Six Feet Under the Sea"
"Tuesday the 17th"
"Extradition: British Columbia" (directed)
"Bollywood Homicide"
"A Very Juliet Episode"
"Think Tank"
"Romeo and Juliet and Juliet" (directed)
"Extradition ll: The Actual Extradition Part" (directed)
"Shawn Rescues Darth Vader" (directed)
"Indiana Shawn and the Temple of the Kinda Crappy, Rusty Old Dagger" (directed)

Best films

Big Daddy (1999)
(Scriptwriter)

Usually with

Adam Sandler
Adam Sandler
(1 films)
Dennis Dugan
Dennis Dugan
(1 films)
Tim Herlihy
Tim Herlihy
(1 films)
Leslie Mann
Leslie Mann
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Steve Franks (1 films)

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Scriptwriter

Big Daddy
Big Daddy (1999)
, 1h33
Directed by Dennis Dugan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about adoption, Films about children, Films about families
Actors Adam Sandler, Dylan Sprouse, Joey Lauren Adams, Jon Stewart, Rob Schneider, Cole Sprouse
Rating64% 3.2004253.2004253.2004253.2004253.200425
Sonny Koufax (Adam Sandler) is an unreliable, unmotivated bachelor who lives in New York City and has declined to take on adult responsibility. He has a degree in law but has chosen not to take the bar exam since he was awarded $200,000 in a vehicle accident compensation 2 years prior, and lives off his restitution. He works one day a week as a tollbooth attendant.