E. Max Frye, is an American screenwriter and film director from Oregon. His mother was Helen J. Frye, a federal judge.

Frye was born in Oregon and raised in Eugene. Frye directed and wrote the film Amos & Andrew. He attended Lewis & Clark College in Portland for one year before moving to Europe where he lived in Paris and worked as a male model in Austria. After returning to the United States, Frye settled in New York City where he attended New York University Film School. He wrote the script to Something Wild, and was one of the writers for the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers.

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