Frank Deford

个人简介

Frank Deford was born on December 16, 1938 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA as Benjamin Franklin Deford III. He was a writer and actor, known for 爱到最高点 (1988), Trading Hearts (1988) and Alex: The Life of a Child (1986). He was married to Carol Ruth Penner. He died on May 28, 2017 in Key West, Florida, USA.

早年经历

Former editor-in-chief of "The National" sports weekly.

Columnist for "Sports Illustrated" magazine.

Narrator of the documentary "Visions of New York City"

He grew up near Baltimore, MD, and attended the Gilman School in Baltimore. He is a graduate of Princeton University and resides in Westport, CT, with his wife, Carol.

Chairman emeritus of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. He became an advocate for children with cystic fibrosis after his daughter Alexandra was diagnosed with the illness when she was a few months old. She died on January 19, 1980, at age eight.

In 1983 he published a memoir that chronicled his daughter Alex's short life. The book was adapted into the TV film Alex: The Life of a Child (1986), which starred 格雷格 as Deford and 邦妮·比蒂丽娅 as his wife, Carol. Deford updated his memoir in 1998 to include an epilogue on how his family and Alex's childhood friends progressed following her death.

He and his wife Carol have had three children: Christian (b. 1969), Alexandra (b. 1972 - d. 1980), and Scarlet (b. 1980). Scarlet is the daughter they adopted a few months following the death of their daughter Alex, who died of cystic fibrosis at age eight.

Father-in-law of Adam Douglas Winner (born 1980).

Adoptive father of Scarlet Faith Deford Winner.