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Known For

Acting

Known Credits

4

Gender

Male

Birthday

1930-05-28 (95 years old)

Place of Birth

Chicago, Illinois

Also Known As

Frank Drake

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.

Known For

Acting

Target... Earth?

1980

Target... Earth?

as

Self (as Dr. Frank Drake)

The Girl Who Talked to Dolphins

2014

The Girl Who Talked to Dolphins

as

Self - Astronomer

The Farthest

2018

The Farthest

as

Self

Production

Crew

Directing