Frank Agrama Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
Frank Agrama
Directing
Biography
Farouk "Frank" Agrama (January 1, 1930 – April 25, 2023) was an Egyptian-born American film director and producer, writer and businessman. He was the founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Harmony Gold USA, Inc. In the 1970s and early 1980s, Agrama made a number of low-budget films which included The Godfather's Friend, Queen Kong and Dawn of the Mummy. He also began selling broadcast rights from Paramount Pictures, which he then sold to his friend, former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, to the latter's Mediaset broadcasting and multimedia company. In 1983, he secured a deal with the South African Broadcasting Corporation ("SABC") to distribute the controversial miniseries Shaka Zulu.[3] In the same year, he founded "Harmony Gold USA, Inc.". Despite Shaka Zulu's massive success worldwide, Agrama's skillful negotiations left SABC to actually lose money, while Harmony Gold kept most of the profit. Harmony Gold would eventually be known for producing films such as Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles, other Robotech animated works and the 1993 miniseries Heidi. According to the Los Angeles Times, prosecutors of Milan, on November 21, 2006, charged Agrama, along with former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and ten others, in a trial over tax fraud, embezzlement and false accounting to Mediaset. In fact, on October 26, 2012, Agrama was convicted after this lengthy trial, where Berlusconi, or his group, had allegedly bought USA film rights by him to the Mediaset media company at inflated prices. As his age was over 70 years, he was exempted from direct imprisonment and served no actual jail time. In 2013, Agrama and several others, including Mediaset Vice President Pier Silvio Berlusconi, son of Silvio, and the Hong Kong–based Wiltshire Group of Companies were under trial for tax evasion and embezzlement with the broadcasting rights firm, Mediatrade. In 2014, all parties were acquitted in the first instance due to expiring statute of limitations. A new appeals hearing took place on January 20, 2016. All charges against Agrama and five others were dropped, while Mediaset CEO Pier Silvio Berlusconi and President Fedele Confalonieri were sentenced to 14 months imprisonment. Agrama died on April 25, 2023, at the age of 93.
Filmography Movies
Acting
The Zen Master
A young man attempts to start a meditation practice but his drummer roommate gets in the way
My One and Only
Singer (Ahmed) loves the horses, and he accidentally drives him to a stable in which he meets a friend he has not seen for years while he is (Adel). Bassima) to agree with Ahmed on acting that he loves her, will acting become reality?
Ayami Al Saaeda
An unemployed musician is called to teach piano lessons to the daughter of a wealthy man, the girl tries to make him fall for her, while the wife tries to use him to make her husband jealous. When he refuses she threatens to fire him.
Maa Al Ayam
Afaf is a young doctor. Her surgeon husband dies, leaving her with two children, the eldest of whom is no more than five years old. Afaf devotes her life to her work and her two children only, until she meets the engineer Adel, who likes her and she reciprocates the same feelings. Will she give herself up to love and marriage or will she sacrifice herself for the sake of her children?
A criminal on leave
A lawyer tries to realize what crime is, and whether it is inherited or as a result of upbringing and the environment, and the lawyer comes up with a criminal and decides to treat him well and prepare him with all the appropriate circumstances.
A Voice from the Past
Hamdi, a young boy meets his mother in a dream. She tells hims three things that are going to happen in the future.
Maa Al Ayam
Afaf is a young doctor. Her surgeon husband dies, leaving her with two children, the eldest of whom is no more than five years old. Afaf devotes her life to her work and her two children only, until she meets the engineer Adel, who likes her and she reciprocates the same feelings. Will she give herself up to love and marriage or will she sacrifice herself for the sake of her children?
Ayami Al Saaeda
An unemployed musician is called to teach piano lessons to the daughter of a wealthy man, the girl tries to make him fall for her, while the wife tries to use him to make her husband jealous. When he refuses she threatens to fire him.
Love at the Circus
The bell pepper and Shata are friends, the latter is orphaned, and he has taken his pepper and he works with him in the circus. His neighbor Pepper loves his mother, Chita, who works on one side, waiting for a better chance in the circus. Despite their love, Hassan is impressed by the stupidity of the circus when she comes, carrying a rose from her husband Hassan, and showing him good to work with him, the wife feels jealous, and advised him to go up together to the mind, on the other hand succeed pepper in his job as a runner, and earn a lot of Money, as he succeed in taming the Tigers, which draws attention to Bahia, and decides to marry him.
Production
The Lost World
Unfazed by ridicule from fellow scientists, professor Challenger (John Rhys-Davies) leads an expedition to investigate rumored sightings of prehistoric life still thriving in the unexplored African jungle. He's joined by a thrill-seeking journalist, his archrival and a beautiful adventurer on a perilous trek through mysterious and uncharted territory, filled with danger and deception. David Warner, Eric McCormack and Tamara Gorski co-star.
Dawn of the Mummy
A group of fashion models disturb the tomb of a mummy and revive an ancient curse. Along with the mummy rising, slaves who were buried in the desert thousands of years before, also rise, with a craving for human flesh.
Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles
In the year 2044 AD, the human race has amped-up its space exploration and reached out to the stars through the miracle of ROBOTECHNOLOGY, but not without bringing intergalactic war upon the Earth itself. Heroes will die and allegiances will shift. But in the midst of combat, perhaps peace will spring up through the charred remains of battered history. One of the greatest science fiction sagas of all time continues...
Queen Kong
A female film crew journeys to Africa where a giant ape, Queen Kong, falls in love with the crew's male star.
Queen Kong
A female film crew journeys to Africa where a giant ape, Queen Kong, falls in love with the crew's male star.
Bitter Grapes
Hashem and Tawfiq are thieves who flee the police and hide in a remote village. As Hashem starts working for Rashed, a feudal lord, he finds himself competing with Rashed's son to win the heart of a local girl called Nadia, which prompts Rashed to start looking into Hashem's past.
Bitter Grapes
Hashem and Tawfiq are thieves who flee the police and hide in a remote village. As Hashem starts working for Rashed, a feudal lord, he finds himself competing with Rashed's son to win the heart of a local girl called Nadia, which prompts Rashed to start looking into Hashem's past.
Dawn of the Mummy
A group of fashion models disturb the tomb of a mummy and revive an ancient curse. Along with the mummy rising, slaves who were buried in the desert thousands of years before, also rise, with a craving for human flesh.
Dawn of the Mummy
A group of fashion models disturb the tomb of a mummy and revive an ancient curse. Along with the mummy rising, slaves who were buried in the desert thousands of years before, also rise, with a craving for human flesh.
The Godfather's Friend
Richard Harrison is the Mob hit man who finds friendships can get you into trouble when he meets an old buddy who turns out to be part of an opposing family!
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