Person Details

Birthday: 1930-05-28 21:12:10

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Chicago, Illinois

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Movie Involvements: 3

TV Involvements: 0


Most Famous Work

Biography

Frank Donald Drake (born May 28, 1930) is an American astronomer and astrophysicist. He is involved in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, including the founding of SETI, mounting the first observational attempts at detecting extraterrestrial communications in 1960 in Project Ozma, developing the Drake equation, and as the creator of the Arecibo Message, a digital encoding of an astronomical and biological description of the Earth and its lifeforms for transmission into the cosmos.

Most Famous Work

The Farthest
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8

The Farthest

(2018) Self
The Girl Who Talked to Dolphins
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6

The Girl Who Talked to Dolphins

(2014) Self - Astronomer
Target... Earth?
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4

Target... Earth?

(1980) Self (as Dr. Frank Drake)

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2018 Self
2014 Self - Astronomer
1980 Self (as Dr. Frank Drake)
Year Character Movie/Tv

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