Frank Cromer was hatched in Wiesbaden, Germany. His Air Force family arrived in San Antonio, Texas where he burned down the family home at age five playing "campfire" in a closet with his younger brothers.

Transplanted to Ohio, Cromer made his first movie (a Romeo and Juliet parody) at age 14 for an English class and was hooked when he (a skinny, bespectacled goof) became famous at his junior high school.

He and the 3 other boys who made the first film also created the first Junior Achievement film production company in America while in tenth grade. They named it “Titanico” because the suburb Westerville gang were sure the inner city Columbus kids would sink it. (They did but not before Cromer produced his next super 8mm classic called Dr. Jekyll, Mr. Hyde and Herbie.)

After six short years at the Ohio State University, Cromer earned his B.A. in Photography and Cinema.  Inspired by Steve Martin, he took to the comedy stage in 1979 and later worked as a double act with a deranged pal (who hates being called deranged) as The Kamikazee Brothers.

In 1991 Cromer completed his first unpublished (as yet) comic novel TAKE A BULLET after spending two years as a private detective in Houston, Texas.  He shot the comedy pilot of his soap opera satire Living for Today at Otterbein College. In 1996 he wrote and directed the comedy short Dead Girls Are Easy (still unreleased).

From 1997-2000, Cromer wrote comedy bits for national radio’s American Comedy Network and "The Gary Burbank Show" (later producing a documentary about Burbank called INSIDE THE BBC).  He also completed the script for PIGS in 1999 and was left at the altar twice: once by a Japanese studio and then in 2005 by a millionaire friend.

He landed in Los Angeles in July 2001 and produced WHAT’S YOUR BEEF? a live Hollywood show on cable access TV to no great response. He made national news when he and two friends commandeered a 1957 stretch muscle-car limousine past hundreds of police and the FBI to ride up to the Oscar’s red carpet with a fake limo pass.

By 2006 Cromer wrote a buddy pic for Jonathan Winters and Robin Williams called Saving the Coot. Winters approved the script but Williams was in rehab and by the time he got out, JW backed out because of his frail health. On January 6, 2007 the Ohio Historical Society premiered Cromer's first feature film TV CLOWN: the True Story of Flippo, King of Clowns.

In December 2008 Cromer optioned the book "Fouled Away: the Baseball Tragedy of Hack Wilson" and wrote the screenplay The Slugger.