Chris Frantz

Career Overview

Chris Frantz has 24 screen credits in a career dating back to 1976. Signature works include Stop Making Sense, Talking Heads: The Name of this Programme is Once In A Lifetime, Talking Heads: Live in Rome. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For

Acting

Gender

male

Known Credits

24

Birth Date

1951-05-08

Birth Place

Fort Campbell, Kentucky, USA

Known For

• 

  Stop Making Sense
• 

  Talking Heads: The Name of this Programme is Once In A Lifetime
• 

  Talking Heads: Live in Rome
• 

  Talking Heads: 77
• 

  Heaven Stood Still: The Incarnations of Willy DeVille
• 

  Finster

Frequent Collaborators

• David Byrne (4 collaborations)
• Jerry Harrison (4 collaborations)
• Tina Weymouth (4 collaborations)
• Ednah Holt (1 collaborations)
• Lynn Mabry (1 collaborations)
• Steven Scales (1 collaborations)
• Alex Weir (1 collaborations)
• Bernie Worrell (1 collaborations)
• Adrian Belew (1 collaborations)
• Willy DeVille (1 collaborations)

Credits

• actors (22 credits)

  • Talking Heads: 77

    actor

    actors
    2026
  • Talking Heads: More Songs About Buildings and Food

    actor

    actors
    2026
  • Heaven Stood Still: The Incarnations of Willy DeVille

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2024
  • Finster

    actor

    actors
    2022
  • The Greatest Radio Station In The World

    actor

    actors
    2022
  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

    - 10/25/23 (Talking Heads, Mae Martin) (2023) ... Self actor actors
    2015
  • Paradise Garden: Howard Finster's Legacy

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2014
  • Talking Heads - Chronology

    actor

    actors
    2011
  • I Need That Record!

    Himself

    actor

    actors
    2008
  • Stranger: Bernie Worrell on Earth

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2005
  • 25 Years of Punk

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2001
  • Dancing Barefoot

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1995
  • Talking Heads: Storytelling Giant

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1988
  • True Stories

    Lip-Syncher

    actor

    actors
    1986
  • Stop Making Sense

    Self - Drums, Vocals

    actor

    actors
    1984
  • Talking Heads: The Name of this Programme is Once In A Lifetime

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1984
  • Talking Heads: Live at Montreux Jazz Festival

    actor

    actors
    1982
  • Talking Heads: Rock Pop in Concert

    actor

    actors
    1981
  • Talking Heads: Live in Rome

    Self - Drums, vocals

    actor

    actors
    1980
  • Talking Heads: Capitol Theatre

    Self - Drums, Vocals

    actor

    actors
    1980
  • Never Mind the Sex Pistols, Here's the Bollocks

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1978
  • The Blank Generation

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1976

• sound (2 credits)

  • True Stories

    songs

    sound
    1986
  • Stop Making Sense

    original music composer

    sound
    1984