Who created the detective 'Jack Frost'?
"an armed stand-off at a remote farmhouse. A Killing Frost A Killing Frost is the sixth and final novel in the series created by R.D. Wingfield. It sees the slovenly, disorganised Detective Inspector Frost once again put under pressure to solve multiple complex cases in a short period of time, whilst attempting to avoid being sacked by his superior officers. Amongst his many enemies within the Denton Police is the newly transferred Detective Chief Inspector Skinner, who will stop at nothing to get Frost out of the job. Unlike all of the previous Frost novels, A Killing Frost was not"
"R. D. Wingfield Rodney David Wingfield (6 June 1928 – 31 July 2007) was an English author and radio dramatist. He is best remembered for creating the character of Detective Inspector Jack Frost, who was later played by Sir David Jason in ""A Touch of Frost"". Rodney David Wingfield was born in Hackney, east London in 1928. He was educated at the Coopers' Company School and during the Second World War was evacuated to Frome, Somerset. Wingfield was exempted from National Service due to poor eyesight and had various office jobs in the East End before joining the Petrofina oil"
"Jack Frost (1997 film) Jack Frost is a 1997 American horror comedy film written and directed by Michael Cooney. The movie takes place in the fictional town of Snowmonton, where (on the week before Christmas) a truck carrying serial killer Jack Frost (Scott MacDonald) to his execution crashes into a genetics truck. The genetic material causes Jack's body to mutate and fuse together with the snow on the ground. Jack is presumed dead and his body melts away. However, he comes back as a killer snowman and takes revenge on the man who finally caught him, Sheriff Sam Tiler (Christopher"
"Mark Frost Mark Frost (born November 25, 1953) is an American novelist, screenwriter, director and film producer, best known as a writer for the television series ""Hill Street Blues"" and as the co-creator of the television series ""Twin Peaks"". Frost was a writer for the NBC television series ""Hill Street Blues"". He co-created the ABC television series ""Twin Peaks"" and ""On the Air"" with David Lynch. He co-wrote and directed the film ""Storyville"", co-wrote ""Fantastic Four"" and wrote ""The Greatest Game Ever Played"", based on his book of the same name. His other books on golf are ""The Match: The"
"Jack Frost (1964 film) Jack Frost (, Morózko) is a 1964 Soviet romantic fantasy film made by Gorky Film Studio. It was based on a traditional Russian fairy tale ""Morozko"". A version with an English dub was released in 1966 in the U.S. It was directed by Aleksandr Rou, and starred Eduard Izotov as Ivan, Natalya Sedykh as Nastenka, and Alexander Khvylya as Father Frost. The script was written by Nikolai Erdman. The soundtrack was composed by Nikolai Budashkin, who was inspired by the works of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The lovely, humble Nastya is despised by her stepmother who favors her"
"Jack Frost (1979 film) Jack Frost is a 1979 Christmas stop motion animated television special produced by Rankin/Bass Productions. It was directed by Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin, Jr., written by Romeo Muller and premiered on NBC on December 13, 1979. The special tells the tale of Jack Frost, the winter sprite, and his adventures as a human. It airs annually on Freeform as a part of its ""25 Days of Christmas"" programming block. The story is narrated by a groundhog named Pardon-Me-Pete (voiced by Buddy Hackett), who has a deal with Jack Frost to extend winter by six weeks,"
"He graduated from the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama in 1975 with a BFA. Frost lives in Ventura County, California with his wife and son. Mark Frost Mark Frost (born November 25, 1953) is an American novelist, screenwriter, director and film producer, best known as a writer for the television series ""Hill Street Blues"" and as the co-creator of the television series ""Twin Peaks"". Frost was a writer for the NBC television series ""Hill Street Blues"". He co-created the ABC television series ""Twin Peaks"" and ""On the Air"" with David Lynch. He co-wrote and directed the film ""Storyville"", co-wrote ""Fantastic"
"Jack Frost (1998 film) Jack Frost is a 1998 American Christmas fantasy comedy-drama film, starring Michael Keaton and Kelly Preston. Keaton stars as the title character, a man who dies in a car accident and comes back to life as a snowman. Three of Frank Zappa's four children, Dweezil Zappa, Ahmet Zappa, and Moon Unit Zappa, appear in the film. The costume for Jack Frost's snowman form was created by Jim Henson's Creature Shop. The film was released in Australia on December 10, 1998 before the United States' release. Jack Frost is the lead singer in a rock band simply"
"Jack Frost due to his love of playing in the snow. Little used the pseudonym extensively, even signing his checks ""Frosty Little"". Little served in the US Navy during World War II, and was wounded. He learned juggling from a fellow patient while convalescing, a skill that would later help him land his first clowning jobs. In 1971, he married his wife, Patricia, a photographer and former schoolteacher, with whom he had two daughters. He had an additional daughter by a prior marriage. Prior to joining the Ringling outfit, Little worked as a postal employee and land surveyor in Colorado."
"with Superintendent Mullet being the victim. The second ending was the one officially used (with David Jason's support). The ending in which Frost dies was screened during a tribute to the show on ITV1 on April 6, 2010. Frost is a recipient of the George Cross, which sometimes serves as a plot element in allowing him to get away with actions that would otherwise have landed him in trouble. He tends to experience survivor guilt whenever his George Cross is brought to mind. Jack Frost (detective) Detective Inspector William Edward ""Jack"" Frost, GC, is a fictional detective created by R."
"by distributor Dutch Film Works. Mister Frost Mister Frost is a 1990 supernatural thriller film starring Jeff Goldblum and directed by French filmmaker Philippe Setbon, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Derry Hall, Brad Lynch and Louise Vincent. It co-starred Kathy Baker and Alan Bates. A police detective named Felix Detweiler visits the palatial French estate of Mister Frost, whose first name is never given, to investigate a report of a dead body. Frost, with very little prompting, cheerfully admits that he has many bodies buried in his yard. Frost is arrested and ultimately placed in an asylum, where he"
"John Carver Meadows Frost John Carver Meadows Frost known as ""Jack"" (1915 in Walton-on-Thames, England – 9 October 1979 in Auckland, New Zealand) was a British aircraft designer. His primary contributions centred on pioneering supersonic British experimental aircraft and as the chief designer who shepherded Canada's first jet fighter project, the Avro Canada CF-100, to completion. He was also the major force behind the Avro Canada VTOL aircraft projects, particularly as the unheralded creator of the Avro Canada flying saucer projects. Frost's introduction to aviation had begun when he was a teenager. At school in the early 1930s his Latin"
"Mister Frost Mister Frost is a 1990 supernatural thriller film starring Jeff Goldblum and directed by French filmmaker Philippe Setbon, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Derry Hall, Brad Lynch and Louise Vincent. It co-starred Kathy Baker and Alan Bates. A police detective named Felix Detweiler visits the palatial French estate of Mister Frost, whose first name is never given, to investigate a report of a dead body. Frost, with very little prompting, cheerfully admits that he has many bodies buried in his yard. Frost is arrested and ultimately placed in an asylum, where he does not speak another word"
"Jack Frost (manhwa) Jack Frost (잭 프로스트) is a complete manwha series by Jinho Ko (고진호). In May 2009, the first volume of Jack Frost was released by Yen Press in English. ""Jack Frost"" follows the story of Noh-A Joo, the new student at Amityville High School. Things start off rather poorly for Noh-A as she quickly comes to realize that the school is not as it appears. Caught in an interschool war between vampires, monsters, and other creatures, she must quickly learn what her new role is as the ""mirror image,"" and how to handle the mysterious Jack Frost."
"Jack Frost Jack Frost is a personification of frost, ice, snow, sleet, winter, and freezing cold. He is a variant of Old Man Winter who is held responsible for frosty weather, nipping the fingers and toes in such weather, coloring the foliage in autumn, and leaving fern-like patterns on cold windows in winter. Starting in late 19th century literature, more developed characterizations of Jack Frost depict him as a sprite-like character, sometimes appearing as a sinister mischief-maker or as a hero. Jack Frost is traditionally said to leave the frosty, fern-like patterns on windows on cold winter mornings (window frost"
"Randy Macklin version of Blizzard first appeared in the ""Marvel Holiday Special"" #2 (January 1993) and was created by Sholly Fisch and Tom Morgan. Gregor Shapanka is a Hungarian scientist obsessed with immortality, and decides that the study of cryonics is the first step towards his goal. Shapanka takes a job at Stark Industries to fund his research and attempts to steal directly from Tony Stark. After being caught and fired by Tony Stark for trying to steal from Tony Stark's secret vault, Gregor creates a suit containing cold-generating devices and is dubbed by the papers as ""Jack Frost."" He"
"John K. Frost John Kingsbury Frost (c. 1922 - 1990) was an American physician specializing in the field of cytopathology - the microscopic study of individual body cells to detect cancer and other diseases. The first area of the body to be studied in this way was the female genital tract, using the Pap smear invented by Georgios Papanikolaou. Frost and other physicians expanded the field to allow for cytopathologic evaluation of the lung, bladder, and many other body sites. Frost was best known as a teacher of cytopathology. He organized and directed a school of cytotechnology and created and"
"Warren Frost Warren Frost (June 5, 1925 – February 17, 2017) was an American actor. His work was mainly in theater, but he worked in films and television sporadically from 1958. He is known for television roles on ""Matlock"", and ""Seinfeld"", and particularly as Doctor Hayward on ""Twin Peaks"", a series co-created by his son Mark Frost. He has also appeared in TV movies, such as """" (1990) and ""The Stand"" (1994). Frost was born in 1925 in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and was raised in the Bronx and Essex Junction, Vermont. At the age of 17, he enlisted in the United"
"UK. Nick Frost Nicholas John Frost (born 28 March 1972) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, and author. He is best known for his work in the ""Three Flavours Cornetto"" trilogy of films, consisting of ""Shaun of the Dead"" (2004), ""Hot Fuzz"" (2007), and ""The World's End"" (2013), and the television comedy ""Spaced"" (1999–2001). He also appeared in Joe Cornish's film ""Attack the Block"" (2011). He co-starred in the 2011 film ""Paul"", which he co-wrote with frequent collaborator and best friend Simon Pegg. He is also well known for his various roles in the sketch show ""Man Stroke Woman""."
"Frost first appeared in ""Tales of Suspense"" #98 (February 1968), and was created by Stan Lee and Gene Colan. She first appeared as Madame Masque in ""Iron Man"" #17 (September 1969). Madame Masque was born as Giulietta Nefaria, the daughter of the master criminal Count Luchino Nefaria, in Rome, Italy. Her mother died when giving birth and Luchino wanted his daughter to lead a respectable life, so he gave the child to Byron Frost, a wealthy financier and an employee of Nefaria, and Loretta Frost to be raised. Frost called the child Whitney and raised her as his own. As"
"script for the mystery/thriller TV movie ""Past Tense"" with Miguel Tejada-Flores. He again worked with his brother on the 2001 series ""All Souls"". Frost's first novel, ""The Autobiography of FBI Agent Dale Cooper"", was based on the Twin Peaks character played by Kyle MacLachlan. More recently, he has been working on a mystery/thriller series based on a character named Alex Delillo, a Pasadena homicide detective and single mother. There are currently five novels in the series. Scott Frost (writer) Scott Frost is an American screenwriter and novelist. He is the son of actor Warren Frost and the brother of Mark"
"Hercule Poirot Hercule Poirot (, ; ) is a fictional Belgian detective, created by Agatha Christie. Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-lived characters, appearing in 42 novels, one play (""Black Coffee""), and more than 50 short stories published between 1920 and 1975. Poirot has been portrayed on radio, in film and on television by various actors, including Austin Trevor, John Moffatt, Albert Finney, Peter Ustinov, Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina, Orson Welles, David Suchet, Kenneth Branagh and John Malkovich. Poirot's name was derived from two other fictional detectives of the time: Marie Belloc Lowndes' Hercule Popeau"
"of ""The List of Seven"" are included in the 2013 book ""Guillermo del Toro Cabinet of Curiosities"". Two pages with sketches are included, one featuring a zombie-type character, and the other a large doomsday machine. In the text del Toro comments that the characterization of Jack Sparks he envisioned is similar to Robert Downey, Jr.'s ""Sherlock Holmes"". The List of Seven The List of Seven is a 1993 novel by Mark Frost. Though initially an occult murder mystery, the story brings in conspiracy theory, vendetta, horror, history, and Theosophy. The main character is a real historical person (albeit engaging in"
"many awards. His crime drama, ""A Touch of Frost"", has also won and been nominated numerous times. ""Porterhouse Blue"", ""The Second Quest"", ""All the King's Men"" and ""A Bit of a Do"" have won David Jason one award each. David Jason Sir David John White, (born 2 February 1940), known professionally by his stage name David Jason, is an English actor. He is best known for his roles as Derek ""Del Boy"" Trotter in ""Only Fools and Horses"" and Detective Inspector Jack Frost in the ITV crime drama ""A Touch of Frost"". Other high-profile television roles were as Granville in"
"the BBC dramatisation of the John le Carre novel ""The Honourable Schoolboy"". Alexander is the president of the Haddenham Museum in Haddenham, Buckinghamshire. Bruce Alexander (actor) Bruce John Alexander (born 28 May 1946 in Watford, Hertfordshire) is an English actor, best known for his portrayal of Superintendent Norman Mullett in the ITV television series ""A Touch of Frost"", where he plays the superior of the main character Jack Frost, played by David Jason. He has appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He played Ferdinand in the 1989 production of John Webster's ""The Duchess of Malfi"". In November 2016, he was"
"planned to kill Frost in the first book, but he was persuaded instead to leave it as an open ending. Following this, two more Frost books were written: ""A Touch of Frost"" and ""Night Frost"". In 1977 Frost appeared in a radio play called ""Three Days of Frost"", in which Frost was played by Leslie Sands, a friend of Wingfield's. The books were first published in the United Kingdom in early 1989, and in 1992 Frost first appeared on television in ""A Touch of Frost"", played by David Jason. Wingfield was never enthusiastic about the TV adaptation of his detective,"
"mystery. John Dickson Carr was also an admirer of Stewart's and Carr's first novel in 1930 mentioned two of Stewart's earlier novels with admiration. Alfred Walter Stewart Alfred Walter Stewart (5 September 1880 – 1 July 1947) was a British chemist and part-time novelist who wrote seventeen detective novels and a pioneering science fiction work between 1923 and 1947 under the pseudonym of JJ Connington. He created several fictional detectives, including Superintendent Ross and Chief Constable Sir Clinton Driffield. Born in Glasgow in 1880, Stewart was the youngest of three sons of the Reverend Dr. Stewart, Clerk to the University"
"Nick Frost Nicholas John Frost (born 28 March 1972) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, and author. He is best known for his work in the ""Three Flavours Cornetto"" trilogy of films, consisting of ""Shaun of the Dead"" (2004), ""Hot Fuzz"" (2007), and ""The World's End"" (2013), and the television comedy ""Spaced"" (1999–2001). He also appeared in Joe Cornish's film ""Attack the Block"" (2011). He co-starred in the 2011 film ""Paul"", which he co-wrote with frequent collaborator and best friend Simon Pegg. He is also well known for his various roles in the sketch show ""Man Stroke Woman"". Frost"
"Jeaniene Frost Jeaniene Frost (born 1974) is an American fantasy author, known for her work on the ""New York Times"" and ""USA Today"" bestselling ""Night Huntress"" series and the ""Night Huntress World"" novels. Foreign rights for her novels have sold to nineteen different countries. Frost first came up with the idea for the ""Night Huntress"" series after dreaming of a couple arguing. ""In my dream, I saw a man and a woman arguing. Somehow I knew the woman was a half-vampire, the man was a full vampire, and they were arguing because he was angry that she'd left him."" This"
"the same whom we, in the Arctic Regions, used to call “Old Zero,” better known in England as “Jack Frost.” The horrors of the snow-covered wastes probably gave rise to the tradition."" He may originate from Anglo-Saxon and Norse winter customs and has an entire chapter named after him in Kalevala, the Finnish national epic compiled from their ancient oral tradition. In Russia however, he has taken on a different form as Grandfather Frost, and in Germany there is instead a different entity altogether known as Mrs. Holle. There are various other mythological beings who take on a similar role"
"David Jason Sir David John White, (born 2 February 1940), known professionally by his stage name David Jason, is an English actor. He is best known for his roles as Derek ""Del Boy"" Trotter in ""Only Fools and Horses"" and Detective Inspector Jack Frost in the ITV crime drama ""A Touch of Frost"". Other high-profile television roles were as Granville in the sitcom ""Open All Hours"" and ""Still Open All Hours"", and Pop Larkin in the comedy drama ""The Darling Buds of May"", as well as voicing Mr. Toad in ""The Wind in the Willows"" and the titular characters of"
"in me would provide great source material"". Sutton's protagonist in Kids' Stuff (2005), his fifth book, is Mark – a practical man who is reunited with a long lost daughter, and is set in Norwich. His next book, First Frost (2011) was a collaborative effort with James Gurbutt. They co-authored the novel, which is set in Denton, Greater Manchester, in 1981, and illuminates Detective Sergeant Jack Frost's backstory. Actor David Jason, who played Jack Frost (detective) in A Touch of Frost, ""not only a gripping mystery, but an exclusive look at Jack Frost's early years."" His eighth novel, Get Me"
"Bruce Alexander (actor) Bruce John Alexander (born 28 May 1946 in Watford, Hertfordshire) is an English actor, best known for his portrayal of Superintendent Norman Mullett in the ITV television series ""A Touch of Frost"", where he plays the superior of the main character Jack Frost, played by David Jason. He has appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He played Ferdinand in the 1989 production of John Webster's ""The Duchess of Malfi"". In November 2016, he was in a ""Read Not Dead"" performance of Beaumont and Fletcher's The Coxcomb at the Sam Wanamaker theatre on Bankside. In 1990, he appeared"