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Frank Fontaine (April 19, 1920 – August 4, 1978) was an American stage, radio, film and television comedian, singer, and actor. Early years and personal life. Born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fontaine came from a family of entertainers.
- History
- Bioshock
- Burial at Sea - Episode 1
- Burial at Sea - Episode 2
- Personality
- Audio Diaries
- Quotes
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- Behind The Scenes
Life on the Surface
Frank lived in an orphanage at an early age, but he eventually ran away and found a job as a stage boy in a vaudeville theater. His three years of work in the theater gave him a lasting impression of how to influence an audience through acting and costumes. Frank was his real first name, but he used many different last names throughout his life, including Gorland, Barris, Wiston, Moskowitz and Wang. Only a few people knew Frank's real last name, one of them being a bruiser from the Bronx name...
Life in Rapture
Fontaine arrived in Rapture sometime in 1948. He soon expanded his income by creating a smuggling ring to bring high demand, contraband items into Rapture. Fontaine loved nothing more than the power of a good grift. He regularly disguised himself with various false identities to carry out crimes which would otherwise fail. One disguise he mentions to Jack after Ryan is killed: "Hell, once I was even a Chinaman for six months." Although he never spliced before the events of BioShock, he admits...
Main article: BioShock“It's time to end this little masquerade. There ain't no Atlas, kid. Never was. Fella in my line a work takes on a variety of aliases. Hell, once I was even a Chinaman for six months. But, you've b...― Atlas revealing his true identityIn the BioShock Infinite downloadable content, Burial at Sea - Episode 1, Frank Fontaine is a subject of heated discussion among the citizens of Rapture even as they ring in the New Year. He is the focus of the Need to Know Theater film "Taking the Taint Out of Fontaine", which condemns his criminal business practices, explains his recent death, an...
Not until Burial at Sea - Episode 2 is it learned that Fontaine, disguised as Atlas, was incarcerated in his Department Store with many of his former employees captured after the Neptune's Bounty shootout. The inmates there find Elizabeth unconscious and capture Sally. Atlas orders his men to kill Elizabeth, but she convinces him she can get them a...
Through audio logs, Fontaine is shown to be an intelligent and resourceful criminal, operating a band of smugglers within Rapture, repeatedly managing to be "where the evidence isn't", and taking advantage of Rapture's virtually nonexistent police force and Laissez-faire environment. He is a ruthless, exploitative, and manipulative sociopath, who m...
BioShock
1. Smuggler's Hideout 1.1. Kraut Scientist 1. Olympus Heights 1.1. Sad Saps 1. Apollo Square 1.1. The Longest Con
BioShock 2
1. Siren Alley 1.1. An Empty Niche 1. Dionysus Park 1.1. Falling Into Place 1. Fontaine Futuristics 1.1. Goodbye to Fontaine
Burial at Sea - Episode 2
1. Housewares 1.1. You Stupid Bastard 2. Dr. Suchong's Free Clinic 2.1. Product Recall
The following are phrases that Frank Fontaine says in BioShock. The name of the source audio file is listed when known.
Hitting Fontaine with the Wrenchcauses a dull "thwack" sound (like when hitting a couch) instead of the normal "squish" sound when hitting fleshy targets.
Fontaine, like several of the main characters, exhibits influences from Ayn Rand. The alias Atlas is clearly a reference to Rand's magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged. Similarly, the name "Fontaine" is mos...Frank Fontaine's role in BioShock mirrors that of SHODAN's in System Shock 2. Just like Fontaine used an alias, Atlas, to guide the player for his personal gains until no longer needed, SHODAN used...In his final form, Fontaine bears resemblance to Atlas, whose namesake is also used in Rand's novel as well as Fontaine's alias.Ken Levine has stated that the character of Frank Fontaine was partly inspired by Keyser Söze from the film The Usual Suspects. In the film, Keyser Söze is a crime lord whom every criminal is afrai...Aug 6, 1978 · SPOKANE, Wash. (UPI)‐Frank Fontaine, a veteran vaudevillian who won national fame as television's cheerful. drunk “Crazy Guggenheim,” died of an apparent heart attack Friday night at the age of...
Frank Fontaine was a news reporter in Quebec City for CFCM (Tele 4) and CKMI 5 in the 1970's and 1980's. He is also a writer. His television and stage plays The Great Bergen, The Monster, The Great Symphonic Adventure, The Inquest and Others, have been produced by the CBC.
- Actor, Additional Crew
- November 28, 1936
- 3 min
Aug 22, 2022 · The man leading you around Rapture, influencing you with the phrase "would you kindly," was actually Frank Fontaine, one of the worst men to ever set foot in Rapture. Considering who else lived in this doomed city, that's definitely saying something.
- Daniel Trock
Frank Fontaine is a Canadian actor and writer born in Montreal, Quebec, and raised in New York State and England. He began his college education at Georgetown University in Washington D.C. but that came to an abrupt halt when he left for London and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
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Frank Fontaine was a news reporter in Quebec City for CFCM (Tele 4) and CKMI 5 in the 1970's and 1980's. He is also a writer. His television and stage plays The Great Bergen, The Monster, The Great Symphonic Adventure, The Inquest and Others, have been produced by the CBC.
