Francisco "Frankie" Muniz IV (born December 5, 1985) is an American actor, musician, writer, producer, and racecar driver. He is known primarily as the star of the FOX television family sitcom Malcolm in the Middle. In 2003, he was considered "one of Hollywood's most bankable teens". In 2008, he put his acting career on hold to pursue an open wheel racing career. He competed in the Atlantic Championship. In 2012, he joined the band Kingsfoil as the drummer.
Muniz was born on December 5, 1985, in Ridgewood, New Jersey, the son of Denise, a former nurse, and Francisco Muniz III, a restaurant manager, and grew up in Wood-Ridge, New Jersey. His father is Puerto Rican whose ancestral origins descend from Asturias, Spain, and his mother is of Italian and Irish descent. He has an elder sister, Cristina. Muniz was first discovered at the age of eight, at a talent show in Raleigh, North Carolina (shortly after the family moved from New Jersey), where he was cast as Tiny Tim in a local production of A Christmas Carol. His parents divorced shortly after. He subsequently moved to Burbank, California, with his mother. He appeared in commercials and made his film debut in the made-for-television movie To Dance With Olivia (1997), starring Lou Gossett Jr. In that same year, he appeared in the CBS Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation of What the Deaf Man Heard. A small role in the film Lost & Found (1999) led to his breakout role as the title character on Malcolm in the Middle.
Plot
A television actor drinks too much and gets blackballed from the industry, and then he decides to break back in by directing his own movie. Eventually, he gets sober, and then falls off the wagon and goes crazy and turns his film into a musical.
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Danny Roane: When I think of Hell I think of the Devil dancing in licks of flames with lost souls behind cars and in cages. Can you get some of those by the way?::John Imbagliado: Oh yeah, I'll just go out to the prop store and pick up some lost souls.
Deidra Fennigan: [referring to Danny Roane] I haven't seen him since he went into rehab for I think about, DINK, the fourth time.
Nathan West: My mind is made of Hitler.
Leslie: Okay, sure... I'll just do it like this because I'm dyslectic and sideways.
Danny Roane: At least get some flames coming out here.::John Imbagliado: You mean real flames?::Danny Roane: Yeah.::John Imbagliado: No.::Danny Roane: It's just gas, get some tubing it'll be easy.::John Imbagliado: No, the whole thing will go up like a dinner box.::Danny Roane: Well you just make sure the whole thing is flame retarded.::John Imbagliado: Excuse me?::Danny Roane: Get some stuff on here that makes it flame retarded.::John Imbagliado: Retardant.::Danny Roane: What?::John Imbagliado: It's not flame retarded, it's ...::Danny Roane: Well make sure it's flame retarded that's my point.::John Imbagliado: No there's no such word as flame retarded, it's FLAME RETARDANT.::Danny Roane: No.::John Imbagliado: NO.::Danny Roane: No, it's retarded. Like it's slow to the flames. Flame retarded means it's slow to the flames.::John Imbagliado: You know I wish you wouldn't do that. My cousin is retarded, he's forty two years-old and all day long he eats mayonnaise with a spoon. So just stop with those jokes, I'd appreciate it.
Paul Gunderson: Is a line producer important to a film? I don't know, let me ask you a question - are your feet important to you walking?