Frances Doel is a writer and story editor, notable for her long association with Roger Corman. Doel was head of the script department at New World Pictures; Jon Davison said that at one stage Doel "wrote just about every first draft of every picture" at New World. [1]
Corman met Doel when looking for an assistant in the mid-'60s. He contacted a tutor at Oxford University and asked him who his finest student was; the tutor suggested Doel. [2] Corman liked to recruit writers from the world of novels and short stories rather than movies and TV, and relied on Doel to make recommendations. She helped discover John Sayles. [3] [4]
In the early '80s, Doel worked at Orion Pictures as an executive.