James Franco
Biography
James Edward Franco (born April 19, 1978) is an American actor and filmmaker. For his role in 127 Hours (2010), he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. Franco is known for appearing in films such as Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy (2002–2007), Milk (2008), Eat, Pray, Love (2010), Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), Spring Breakers (2012), and Oz the Great and Powerful (2013). He frequently collaborates with fellow actor Seth Rogen, including in Pineapple Express (2008), This Is the End (2013), Sausage Party (2016), and The Disaster Artist (2017), for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor.
Franco's first prominent acting role was on television. He starred as Daniel Desario on the short-lived ensemble comedy-drama Freaks and Geeks (1999–2000), which developed a cult following. He portrayed the title character in the television biographical film James Dean (2001), for which he won a Golden Globe Award and received nominations for a Screen Actors Guild Award and Primetime Emmy Award. Franco also had a recurring role on the daytime soap opera General Hospital (2009–2012) and starred in the limited series 11.22.63 (2016). He starred in the David Simon-created HBO drama The Deuce (2017–2019).
Acting (142 movies)
Spider-Man
2002
Spider-Man 3
2007
Spider-Man 2
2004
Milk
2008
James Dean
2001
Pineapple Express
2008
The Wicker Man
2006
Knocked Up
2007
Never Been Kissed
1999
Camille
2008
The Price of Money: A Largo Winch Adventure
2024
In the Valley of Elah
2007
Tristan & Isolde
2006
An American Crime
2007
Annapolis
2006
Flyboys
2006
Sonny
2002
City by the Sea
2002
The Dead Girl
2006
Date Night
2010
The Great Raid
2005
Good Time Max
2008
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
2011
Eat Pray Love
2010
127 Hours
2010
The Ape
2005
Your Highness
2011
Whatever It Takes
2000
Dave Skylark's Very Special VMA Special
2014
Howl
2010
Shadows & Lies
2010
Naya: Legend of the Golden Dolphin
2027
Love and Distrust
2010
Oz the Great and Powerful
2013
The Iceman
2012
The Company
2003
The Broken Tower
2012
The Hills with James Franco and Mila Kunis
2007
Eames: The Architect and the Painter
2011
About Cherry
2012
With Great Power: The Stan Lee Story
2010
Lovelace
2013
Mother Ghost
2002
Nights in Rodanthe
2008
Spring Breakers
2013
The Letter
2012
This Is the End
2013
Child of God
2014
As I Lay Dying
2013
Interior. Leather Bar.
2013
Maladies
2012
Palo Alto
2013
Third Person
2014
Homefront
2013
Erased James Franco
2009
The Color of Time
2012
Sal
2013
Hart Crane: An Exegesis
2012
Sausage Party
2016
Hey Joe
2024
True Story
2015
Every Thing Will Be Fine
2015
The Interview
2014
Veronica Mars
2014
Good People
2014
Alien: Covenant
2017
The Adderall Diaries
2016
The Sound and the Fury
2015
Saturday Night
2010
Queen of the Desert
2015
Zeroville
2019
Memoria
2016
Yosemite
2016
I Am Michael
2015
SNL Presents: A Very Gilly Christmas
2009
Comedy Central Roast of James Franco
2013
Caput
2011
Wild Horses
2015
Fool's Gold
2005
Burn Country
2016
In Dubious Battle
2016
Why Him?
2016
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards
2015
Future Relic 02
2014
The Night Before
2015
Call Me Lucky
2015
The Disaster Artist
2017
The Car Kid
2002
Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha
2015
King Cobra
2016
Mother, May I Sleep with Danger?
2016
Goat
2016
Obituaries
2014
The 4%: Film's Gender Problem
2016
The Green Hornet
2011
The Little Prince
2015
At Any Cost
2000
Actors Anonymous
2017
Richard Peter Johnson
2015
Future World
2018
Directing (36 movies)
Birth of a Poet
2020
Good Time Max
2008
The Ape
2005
The Broken Tower
2012
Francophrenia
2012
Blood Meridian Test Reel
2011
The Feast of Stephen
2009
Child of God
2014
As I Lay Dying
2013
Interior. Leather Bar.
2013
Hart Crane: An Exegesis
2012
Sal
2013
Herbert White
2010
The Sound and the Fury
2015
Zeroville
2019
Bukowski
2013
Saturday Night
2010
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013
Goat Boy
2010
La Passione
2013
In Dubious Battle
2016
Fool's Gold
2005
The Disaster Artist
2017
Future World
2018
The Clerk's Tale
2010
Black Dog, Red Dog
2015
The Institute
2017
Masculinity & Me
2010
Pretenders
2019
DREAM
2013
42 One Dream Rush
2010
My Own Private River
2012
Tenn
2017
I Think You're Totally Wrong: A Quarrel
2014
Oh, Hi Mark: Making a Disaster
2018
Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded, James Franco
2013
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Fool's Gold | 2005 | Writer |
| The Ape | 2005 | Writer |
| The Ape | 2005 | Executive Producer |
| Good Time Max | 2008 | Writer |
| The Feast of Stephen | 2009 | Writer |
| Herbert White | 2010 | Writer |
| The Clerk's Tale | 2010 | Screenplay |
| Masculinity & Me | 2010 | Writer |
| Jeffrey | 2012 | Executive Producer |
| The Broken Tower | 2012 | Producer |
| The Broken Tower | 2012 | Screenplay |
| The Color of Time | 2012 | Producer |
| Kink | 2013 | Producer |
| The Director | 2013 | Producer |
| Bukowski | 2013 | Writer |
| Interior. Leather Bar. | 2013 | Producer |
| As I Lay Dying | 2013 | Screenplay |
| DREAM | 2013 | Producer |
| Child of God | 2014 | Screenplay |
| Guests | 2014 | Executive Producer |
| The Interview | 2014 | Executive Producer |
| Don Quixote: The Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha | 2015 | Executive Producer |
| I Am Michael | 2015 | Producer |
| Miss Famous | 2015 | Executive Producer |
| Black Dog, Red Dog | 2015 | Writer |
| A Walk in Winter | 2015 | Executive Producer |
| Yosemite | 2016 | Executive Producer |
| The Adderall Diaries | 2016 | Producer |
| Mother, May I Sleep with Danger? | 2016 | Executive Producer |
| Goat | 2016 | Producer |
| In Dubious Battle | 2016 | Producer |
| King Cobra | 2016 | Producer |
| Blood Surf | 2016 | Executive Producer |
| The Labyrinth | 2016 | Executive Producer |
| Why Him? | 2016 | Executive Producer |
| Rio | 2017 | Executive Producer |
| High School Lover | 2017 | Executive Producer |
| The Institute | 2017 | Executive Producer |
| Metamorphosis: Junior Year | 2017 | Executive Producer |
| Actors Anonymous | 2017 | Writer |
| The Disaster Artist | 2017 | Producer |
| Mississippi Requiem | 2018 | Writer |
| Mississippi Requiem | 2018 | Executive Producer |
| Future World | 2018 | Producer |
| Don't Come Back from the Moon | 2019 | Producer |
| Birth of a Poet | 2020 | Writer |
| Sleepaway Slasher | 2020 | Executive Producer |