Career
Squillace entered the animation industry in the early 1990s, working in multiple capacities: storyboard artist, layout designer, prop and model designer, and eventually director. His earliest significant credit was on Captain Planet and the Planeteers, the Ted Turner-produced environmental action series. He subsequently took on directing and storyboard work on Street Fighter: The Animated Series and Double Dragon.1
His most consequential early credit came with X-Men: The Animated Series (Fox Kids, 1992-1997), the influential Marvel adaptation that introduced a generation of viewers to the X-Men. Squillace worked throughout the series alongside supervising director Larry Houston, directing multiple episodes and contributing to layout design and storyboard work across the run, and it became one of the defining superhero cartoons of the decade.3
Through the mid-to-late 1990s, Squillace directed episodes of Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series, Godzilla: The Series, and took on his role with Extreme Ghostbusters in 1997 (see below). He also served as a producer on Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot (Fox Kids, 1999), the animated adaptation of the Frank Miller and Geof Darrow comic.1
In the early 2000s, Squillace became a prolific director on Jackie Chan Adventures (Kids WB, 2000-2005), the martial arts action-adventure series produced by Sony Pictures Television, directing a large number of episodes over its run. He also directed episodes of Max Steel during this period.1
His most extensive single credit came with The Life and Times of Juniper Lee (Cartoon Network, 2005-2007), where he served as both supervising director and producer across dozens of episodes of the supernatural action-comedy series.1
In subsequent years, Squillace contributed storyboard work to The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes (Disney XD, 2010-2012) and DreamWorks Dragons (Cartoon Network), reflecting a versatile role across different production tiers. As a director, he helmed Turok: Son of Stone (2008), a direct-to-video animated film based on the classic Gold Key/Valiant comic character.1 He directed many episodes of Kaijudo: Rise of the Duel Masters (The Hub, 2012-2013) and then served as a director and storyboard revision supervisor on Transformers: Rescue Bots (The Hub/Discovery Family, 2012-2016), contributing to one of the franchise's longest-running series.5 He also worked on Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015) in a storyboard revision supervisor capacity.5
More recently, Squillace has worked as a director and producer on Cleopatra in Space (Peacock Kids), the sci-fi animated series based on Mike Maihack's graphic novel series.1
Ghostbusters
Extreme Ghostbusters (1997)
Squillace contributed to Extreme Ghostbusters in a dual capacity, serving as Supervising Director on seven episodes and as Director on three others during the series' 1997 run.4 The show, which revived the Ghostbusters animated universe with a new team of college-student ghost hunters operating out of the original firehouse, was produced by Adelaide Productions and Columbia TriStar Television.6
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Director:
Signed Frank Squillace production art from Extreme Ghostbusters has surfaced among collectors, including hand-drawn storyboard pages and model cels from the 1997 production. These items, signed by Squillace, represent a rare primary-source window into the animation pipeline of the series.
References
Some content on this page was researched using the Ghostbusters Wiki on Fandom.
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IMDb, "Frank Squillace," accessed 2026-06-13, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0820065/
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The Movie Database (TMDB), "Frank Squillace," accessed 2026-06-13, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/189091-frank-squillace
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IMDb, "X-Men," accessed 2026-06-13, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103584/ . Squillace is credited across the run (1993-1997) as layout designer, storyboard artist, and director; the series is credited as "Developed by" Mark Edward Edens, Sidney Iwanter, and Eric Lewald, with Larry Houston serving as supervising director on all 76 episodes.
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IMDb, "Extreme Ghostbusters," accessed 2026-06-13, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0121932/
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Transformers Wiki, "Frank Squillace," accessed 2026-06-13, https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Frank_Squillace
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"Extreme Ghostbusters," Wikipedia, accessed 2026-06-13, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_Ghostbusters . Production companies: Adelaide Productions and Columbia TriStar Television. No Nelvana involvement is listed.
