Frank Cole
Screenwriter, Film director
1954 – 2000
Who was Frank Cole?
Frank Cole was an award-winning Canadian documentary filmmaker and avid surfer who became the first North American to cross the Sahara alone on camel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, in 1990. This epic odyssey earned Cole a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. His documentary Life Without Death chronicled his experience and won him several prestigious awards as well as being released theatrically in Paris.
Cole was murdered by Tuareg bandits near Timbuktu, Mali, in late October 2000.
Born in Saskatchewan to a New Brunswick father from the diplomatic field, Cole grew up in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland and South Africa. A well-educated traveller, he studied languages at Carleton University and later 16mm film production at Algonquin College with the legendary documentarian Peter Wintonick. His films include A Documentary, The Mountenays, A Life and Life Without Death.
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- Born
- 1954
Saskatchewan - Also known as
- Коул, Франк
- Nationality
- Canada
- Profession
- Education
- Algonquin College
- Carleton University
- Lived in
- Saskatchewan
- Died
- Oct 1, 2000
Mali
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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