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By Radiator Perlman

Updated 18 March 2023

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Credit	[Portrait of Frank Sinatra and Axel Stordahl, Liederkrantz Hall, New York, N.Y., ca. 1947] (LOC)
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American singer and film actor

Frank Sinatra is ...

Dead

Born	12 December 1915 in Hoboken
Died	14 May 1998 in Los Angeles
Age	82 years, 5 months
Cause	myocardial infarction

Sex or gender	male
Country of citizenship	United States of America
Birth name	Francis Albert Sinatra
Manner of death	natural causes
Father	Anthony Martin Sinatra
Mother	Dolly Sinatra
Spouse	Mia Farrow, Ava Gardner and Barbara Sinatra
Child	Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra, Jr. and Tina Sinatra
Occupation	television actor, film actor, actor, singer, voice actor, jazz musician and songwriter
Nominated for	Academy Award for Best Actor and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Instrument	ukulele
Awards	Emmy Award, Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Austrian Decoration for Science and Art, Peabody Award, Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Grammy Trustees Award, Grammy Legend Award, Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, Congressional Gold Medal, New Jersey Hall of Fame, Gaming Hall of Fame and Kennedy Center Honors
Genre	vocal jazz, big band and traditional pop music
Influenced by	Bing Crosby
Voice type	baritone

About Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra was born on December 12, 1915, in Hoboken, New Jersey. He was the only child of Italian immigrants, and his father was a boxer and firefighter. Sinatra began singing in local nightclubs as a teenager and was discovered by bandleader Harry James in 1939. He joined the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra the following year and became a national sensation.

Sinatra's smooth, crooning voice and charismatic stage presence made him a star in the 1940s. He recorded hits like "I've Got You Under My Skin" and "My Way" and starred in films like "Anchors Aweigh" and "From Here to Eternity," for which he won an Academy Award. Sinatra's career hit a slump in the 1950s, but he made a comeback in the 1960s with the help of his Rat Pack friends, including Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr.

Sinatra continued to perform and record music until his death in 1998. He was known for his impeccable style, his love of women and alcohol, and his connections to organized crime. Despite his flaws, Sinatra remains a beloved icon of American popular culture.

References:

- "Frank Sinatra." Biography.com, A&E Television Networks, 6 Apr. 2021, www.biography.com/musician/frank-sinatra.

- "Frank Sinatra." Rolling Stone, 3 Dec. 2009, www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/frank-sinatra-246491/.

About Death

Sinatra died with his wife at his side at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on May 14, 1998, aged 82, after a heart attack. Sinatra had ill health during the last few years of his life, and was frequently hospitalized for heart and breathing problems, high blood pressure, pneumonia and bladder cancer. He was further diagnosed as having dementia. He had made no public appearances following a heart attack in February 1997. Sinatra's wife encouraged him to "fight" while attempts were made to stabilize him, and his final words were, "I'm losing." Sinatra's daughter, Tina, later wrote that she and her sister, Nancy, had not been notified of their father's final hospitalization, and it was her belief that "the omission was deliberate. Barbara would be the grieving widow alone at her husband's side." The night after Sinatra's death, the lights on the Empire State Building in New York City were turned blue, the lights at the Las Vegas Strip were dimmed in his honor, and the casinos stopped spinning for a minute.

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Around the World in 80 Days

1956 film by Michael Anderson, John Farrow

From Here to Eternity

1953 drama film based on the novel of the same name

The Man with the Golden Arm

1955 film by Otto Preminger

The Manchurian Candidate

1962 film by John Frankenheimer

Robin and the 7 Hoods

1964 film by Gordon Douglas

That's Entertainment!

1974 film by Jack Haley, Jr.

Till the Clouds Roll By

1946 film by Richard Whorf

Guys and Dolls

1955 America musical film

High Society

1956 American musical comedy film

Anchors Aweigh

1945 film by George Sidney

Pal Joey

1957 American musical film

Never So Few

1959 film by John Sturges

On the Town

1949 musical film with music by Leonard Bernstein and Roger Edens

The Road to Hong Kong

1962 film by Norman Panama, Melvin Frank

Ocean's 11

1960 heist film directed by Lewis Milestone

Cannonball Run II

1984 film by Hal Needham

The Pride and the Passion

1957 film by Stanley Kramer

Some Came Running

1958 film by Vincente Minnelli

Suddenly

1954 film by Lewis Allen

A Hole in the Head

1959 film by Frank Capra

The Detective

1968 film by Gordon Douglas

The First Deadly Sin

1980 film by Brian G. Hutton

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

1950 film by Busby Berkeley

The List of Adrian Messenger

1963 film by John Huston

Paris When It Sizzles

1964 film directed by Richard Quine

Kings Go Forth

1958 film by Delmer Daves

Can-Can

1960 film by Walter Lang

Cast a Giant Shadow

1966 film by Melville Shavelson

The Miracle of the Bells

1948 film by Irving Pichel

Tony Rome

1967 film by Gordon Douglas

Not as a Stranger

1955 film by Stanley Kramer

Double Dynamite

1951 film by Irving Cummings

Lady in Cement

1968 film by Gordon Douglas

Sergeants 3

1962 film by John Sturges

The Devil at 4 O'Clock

1961 film by Mervyn LeRoy

4 for Texas

1963 film by Robert Aldrich

The Joker Is Wild

1957 American film

The Tender Trap

1955 film by Charles Walters

Marriage on the Rocks

1965 film by Jack Donohue

It Happened in Brooklyn

1947 film by Richard Whorf

Young at Heart

1954 musical film by Gordon Douglas

The House I Live In

Higher and Higher

1943 film by Tim Whelan

Reveille with Beverly

1943 film by Charles Barton

Assault on a Queen

1966 film by Jack Donohue

Come Blow Your Horn

1963 film by Bud Yorkin

The Naked Runner

1967 film by Sidney J. Furie

Dirty Dingus Magee

1970 film by Burt Kennedy

Johnny Concho

1956 film by Don McGuire

Step Lively

1944 film by Tim Whelan

Meet Danny Wilson

1952 film by Joseph Pevney

The Kissing Bandit

1948 film by László Benedek

Upbeat in Music

The music according to Antonio Carlos Jobim

2012 film by Nelson Pereira dos Santos

Some of the Best: Twenty-Five Years of Motion Picture Leadership

1950 short film

Road to Victory

Discography

The Capitol Years

Sinatra: Vegas

Sinatra: New York

Frank Sinatra Christmas Collection

Sinatra at the Sands

live album by Frank Sinatra

Sleep Warm

album by Dean Martin

This Is Sinatra!

compilation album

This Is Sinatra Volume 2

music album

Sinatra Sings of Love and Things

compilation album

Look to Your Heart

album by American singer Frank Sinatra

Live at the Meadowlands

Best of Vegas

Perfectly Frank

album by Tony Bennett

Frank Sinatra with the Red Norvo Quintet: Live in Australia, 1959

Sinatra 80th: Live in Concert

The Man I Love

album by Peggy Lee

Live from Las Vegas

Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color

album by Frank Sinatra

All the Way

album by Frank Sinatra

Bolton Swings Sinatra

album by Michael Bolton

Sin-Atra

compilation album

A Jazz Portrait of Frank Sinatra

album by Oscar Peterson

Manilow Sings Sinatra

album by Barry Manilow

Frank Sinatra Conducts the Music of Alec Wilder

album by Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra Conducts Music from Pictures and Plays

album by Frank Sinatra

Syms by Sinatra

album by Sylvia Syms

His Way, Our Way

compilation album

Christmas with the Rat Pack

Songs of Sinatra

album by Steve Tyrell