- John Frazier was born on September 23, 1944 in Richmond, California. As a child his family moved to Southern California, USA, where he was raised. He attended Canoga Park High School and attended college at Los Angeles Trade Tech, where he studied high-rise construction and freeway design. In 1963 he began designing special effects props at the Haunted House nightclub in Hollywood, California. The owner recognized him and got him a job on NBC. In 1970 he joined Local 44 and started working special effects for motion pictures. He has been the special effects coordinator on dozens of films, and has been honored with Academy Award nominations for "Twister", "Armageddon", "The Perfect Storm", "Pearl Harbor", "Spider-Man" before finally winning in 2005 for "Spider-Man 2". He has won two CLIO awards and a British Academy Award. He currently resides in Southern California, USA.- IMDb mini biography by: Matt Dicker
- Known for his collaborations with producer Jerry Bruckheimer, directors Michael Bay, Clint Eastwood & Sam Raimi and his work on the first five live action Spider-Man films.
- John Frazier in collaboration with Chuck Gaspar invented the "car flipper" that is the standard of the motion picture industry for flipping static cars on movie sets.
- While attending Canoga Park High School, Martin Luther King Jr spoke to the students.
- John Frazier developed the industry standard and invented the technique of "rubber glass" for the movie "In the Line of Fire" making it safe to use tempered glass pebbles on set without injuring any actors.
- John Frazier in collaboration with Mark Noel invented the four wire rig for flying heavy objects on the movie sets.
- Howard Jensen and John Frazier came up with the rain bar concept for motion picture effects.
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