Frank Beddor (July 31, 1958) is a former American world champion freestyle skier, film producer, actor, stuntman, and author. He worked as a producer on ''

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'' and ''

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'', and wrote the book '' The Looking Glass Wars''.

Life and career

Beddor grew up in

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. In 1985, Beddor played

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's skiing stunt double in '' Better Off Dead''. Beddor also had a career in producing. He worked as a producer on the 1998 film ''

'' starring

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and

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. Beddor then turned to write, writing '' The Looking Glass Wars''. ''The Looking Glass Wars'' made it on ''

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'' weekly children's list in 2006. The books are based on a re-imagination of

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's novel ''

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''. The premise of the novel is that the main character Alice in ''Alice in Wonderland'' is real, as is the world of Wonderland, but that Carroll misrepresented the events and made Wonderland seem childlike instead of reflecting the reality of Wonderland. Beddor has written two more books in ''The Looking Glass Wars'' series: '' Seeing Redd'' and ''

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''. A spin-off comic book of this series called '' Hatter Madigan'' was later written by Beddor and Liz Cavalier, with artwork by

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. The spin-off focuses on Hatter Madigan, a character in ''The Looking Glass Wars''.

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