"Frank Darabont has to have one of the most consistent career arcs of any living film director," wrote Tom Shone in the New York Times. Darabont first made it into the top rank of Hollywood directors with his 1994 adaptation of the Stephen King prison st...

University Wire 12-10-1999 (Daily Californian) (U-WIRE) BERKELEY, Calif. -- It's only fitting that a film called The Green Mile would stretch across an epic time frame of three hours, but it's a well-warranted three hours of cinematic splendor, crowded with Oscar-worthy performances and a...

University Wire 01-05-2000 (The California Aggie) (U-WIRE) DAVIS, Calif. -- A story about a gentle, 8-foot tall, simple-minded, wrongly-accused prisoner on death row could have been interesting enough, but Stephen King and director/producer Frank Darabont had to drag in the cosmic forces of good...

Dabbs Greer, a veteran character actor who played the Rev. Robert Alden in the TV show "Little House on the Prairie," has died. He was 90.Greer, a Missouri native, died Saturday at Huntington Hospital after a battle with kidney and heart disease, his neighbor, Bill...

Filmmaker Frank Darabont of "The Shawshank Redemption" fame has been dazzled by "The Shield" since it began in 2002. He finally took action _ or more specifically, he shouted "Action!"Invited by series creator Shawn Ryan to direct an episode of the dark and wrenching police...

In the film "The Green Mile" directed by Frank Darabont, an important idea raised is the responsibility of authority. The film is set in a prison on death row during the Great Depression and deals with Capital Punishment. In thus film, some characters use their authority wisely, in a respectful and responsible way, while others abuse it.