Frank Stallone Jr. (born July 30, 1950)[1] is an American actor and musician. He is the younger brother of actor Sylvester Stallone[citation needed] and has written music for Sylvester's movies.[citation needed] His song "Far from Over" appeared in the 1983 film Staying Alive[citation needed] and was included in the film's soundtrack album.[citation needed] The song reached number ten on the US Billboard Hot 100[citation needed] and received a Golden Globe nomination for Stallone[citation needed], while the album itself, consisting of Stallone and various other artists, received a Grammy nomination.[citation needed]
Stallone was born in Maryland and grew up in Philadelphia.[2] He is the younger son of Jacqueline Stallone[citation needed] (née Labofish; 1921–2020[3]), an astrologer[citation needed], former dancer[citation needed], and promoter of women's professional wrestling[citation needed], and Frank Stallone Sr. (1919–2011),[citation needed] a hairdresser.[citation needed] His father was an Italian immigrant[citation needed], and his mother's family was French from Brittany[citation needed] and also of Eastern European descent.[citation needed] Stallone's brother is actor Sylvester Stallone.[citation needed] In his teen years, he went to Lincoln High School in Northeast Philadelphia.[4]
Stallone has worked as a singer. He wrote and performed "Far from Over" for the 1983 film Staying Alive, which was written and directed by his older brother.[5] The song peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100[citation needed], becoming his only major pop hit[citation needed], and it was nominated for a Golden Globe award for Best Original Song from a Motion Picture.[citation needed] The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Album of Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Special.[citation needed] Stallone also had a minor acting role in "Staying Alive".[citation needed]
Stallone also played himself in a recurring role on the short-lived sitcom Movie Stars[citation needed], alongside fellow celebrity siblings Don Swayze and Joey Travolta.[citation needed]
Stallone was the subject of repeated non-sequitur punchlines delivered by comedian Norm Macdonald during the Weekend Update segment of the television show Saturday Night Live[6]. On Instagram, Stallone said he enjoyed the jokes and expressed regret that they were never able to work together before Macdonald’s death from leukemia.[6]
Stallone appeared as a boxing consultant on the NBC reality television series The Contender in 2005. He appeared on the Howard Stern radio show on several occasions. During one 1992 appearance on The Howard Stern Show, Stallone had a boxing match with television reporter Geraldo Rivera; Stallone won the bout. He was a contestant on Hulk Hogan's Celebrity Championship Wrestling, a reality competition series on CMT that followed ten celebrity contestants as they trained to be professional wrestlers. He also appeared on an episode of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!.
On August 17, 2010, the Australian comedy duo Hamish & Andy flew Stallone, then aged 60, to Australia for a one-night-only gig called "Hamish & Andy present: Frank Stallone “Let me be Frank with you” The Fully Franked Tour'". Following a parade in Melbourne, Stallone performed "Far from Over" to an audience of over 2,000 people. Hamish & Andy were big fans of the song, claiming it always pumped them up, and they dubbed the phenomenon "The Frank Effect". Stallone said of the night, "This is seriously one of the best, best times I've ever had."[7]
A documentary directed and produced by Derek Wayne Johnson entitled STALLONE: Frank, That Is about the life, career, and survival of Frank Stallone was released in 2021. The documentary features interviews with Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Billy Zane, Geraldo Rivera, Joe Mantegna and many others.[8]