František "Frank" Daniel (April 14, 1926 – February 29, 1996) was a Czech-American screenwriter, film director and teacher.
In 1959 he had to leave Barrandov after the movies he worked on were criticised for having "liberal tendencies" by František Kahuda.
In 1956, Daniel and Miloš Kratochvíl published the screenwriting textbook Cesta za filmovým dramatem.
In 1965, he produced The Shop on Main Street, which won an Oscar for the best foreign language film.
In 1968 he served as dean of the Faculty of Film and Television – FAMU, part of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.
Daniel subsequently immigrated to the United States in 1969 after the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia.
[3] Daniel left the Institute in 1976 to become Henry Luce Professor at Carleton College in Minnesota.