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Jack Frost
Jack Frost
Jack Frost is a sprite-like character with roots in Viking lore. There, he is known as Jokul Frosti . In Britain and United States, Jack is a variant of Old Man Winter and is held responsible for frosty weather, for nipping the nose and toes in such weather, coloring the foliage in autumn, and...

is the character from English folklore who personifies winter.

Jack Frost may also refer to:

People

  • Jack Frost (born 1941), pseudonym of Bob Dylan as producer in 2000s
  • Jack Frost (musician)
    Jack Frost (musician)
    Jack Frost is the guitarist/founder of the heavy metal band Seven Witches and also a part of The Bronx Casket Company. Frost is also known for playing guitar on Savatage's tour in support of Poets and Madmen in 2001 and 2002 before being dismissed from the band for unspecified reasons...

     (born 1968), American musician
  • Jack Frost (politician)
    Jack Frost (politician)
    Stewart Charles Hilton "Jack" Frost was an Australian politician. The son of federal MP Charles Frost, he was born in Margate, Tasmania. After contesting the federal seat of Franklin unsuccessfully for the Australian Labor Party in 1949, 1951 and 1954, he was elected to the Tasmanian House of...

     (1911–1995), Australian politician
  • Jack Frost (band)
    Jack Frost (band)
    Jack Frost was an Australian rock band, a side project of The Go-Betweens' Grant McLennan and The Church's Steve Kilbey.Jack Frost released two albums, Jack Frost in 1991 and Snow Job in 1996 ....

    , Australian rock band
  • Jack Frost (dark metal band), Austrian metal band
  • John Carver Meadows Frost
    John Carver Meadows Frost
    John Carver Meadows Frost known as "Jack" was a British aircraft designer. His primary contributions centred on pioneering supersonic British experimental aircraft and as the chief designer who shepherded Canada's first jet fighter project, the Avro Canada CF-100, to completion...

     (1915-1979), aka Jack Frost, British aircraft designer for Avro Canada

Titled works

  • Jack Frost (1964 film)
    Jack Frost (1964 film)
    Jack Frost is a traditional Russian Fairy tale which served as the basis for a Soviet production that was originally released in 1964. A version with a new soundtrack was released in 1966 in the U.S. It was directed by Aleksandr Rou, and starred Eduard Izotov as Ivan, Natalya Sedykh as Nastenka,...

    , a 1964 Russian film (which was 'featured' on the thirteenth episode of season 8 of Mystery Science Theater 3000)
  • Jack Frost (1966 film), the English version of the 1964 Russian film Morozko
  • Jack Frost (TV special)
    Jack Frost (TV special)
    Jack Frost was an animated television special, directed by Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin, Jr. and written by Romeo Muller; it premiered on NBC on December 13, 1979. This stop motion animated special tells the tale of Jack Frost, the winter sprite, and his adventures as a human...

    , a 1979 Rankin-Bass television special
  • Jack Frost (1996 film)
    Jack Frost (1996 film)
    Jack Frost is an American horror comedy film written and directed by Michael Cooney and released in 1996. The movie takes place in the fictional town of Snowmonton, where a truck carrying serial killer Jack Frost to his execution is involved in a freak accident with a truck carrying genetic...

    , a 1996 horror film
    • Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman
      Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman
      Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman is the 2000 sequel to the 1996 horror/comedy film Jack Frost.-Plot:Sam Tiler has been struggling to recover from the encounter with the Mutated Snowman known as Jack Frost , ever since he rampaged through his hometown last Christmas...

      , the sequel to the above horror film
  • Jack Frost (1998 film)
    Jack Frost (1998 film)
    Jack Frost is a 1998 Christmas film, starring Michael Keaton and Kelly Preston. Keaton stars as the title character, a man who dies in a car accident and comes back to life as a snowman...

    , a 1998 family film
  • Jack Frost (manhwa)
    Jack Frost (manhwa)
    Jack Frost is an ongoing manhwa series by Jinho Ko . In May 2009, the first volume of Jack Frost was released by Yen Press in English.-Plot:...

    , a 2009 manhwa series by Go Jin Ho
  • Jack Frost (album), the first album from Australian band Jack Frost
    Jack Frost (band)
    Jack Frost was an Australian rock band, a side project of The Go-Betweens' Grant McLennan and The Church's Steve Kilbey.Jack Frost released two albums, Jack Frost in 1991 and Snow Job in 1996 ....


Characters in modern fiction

  • Jack Frost (Marvel Comics), pair of characters
  • Jack Frost, a character in the Vertigo Comics series The Invisibles
    The Invisibles
    The Invisibles is a comic book series that was published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics from 1994 to 2000. It was created and scripted by Scottish writer Grant Morrison, and drawn by various artists throughout its publication....

  • Jack Frost, an Avon Comics character based on the folkloric figure
  • Jack Frost (detective)
    Jack Frost (detective)
    Detective Chief Inspector William Edward "Jack" Frost, GC is a fictional detective created by R. D. Wingfield - characterised as sloppy, untidy, hopeless with paperwork - but unmatched at solving mysteries...

    , the central character in two radio plays and six novels written by R.D. Wingfield and the television series A Touch of Frost
  • Jack Frost (mascot), the unofficial mascot of Atlus, a Japanese computer and video game company
  • Jack Frost (StarCraft), a character in the StarCraft expansion Insurrection
  • Jack Frost, a character played by Martin Short in The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
    The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
    The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause is a 2006 American film, the sequel to The Santa Clause and The Santa Clause 2. This is the third and final film in the trilogy. This film was also scheduled as a Disney Channel Original Movie....

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