Born in Richmond, CA. As a child his family moved to Southern California, where he was raised. He attended Canoga Park High School and attended college at Los Angeles Trade Tech, where he studied high-rise construction and freeway design. In 1963 he began designing special effects props at the Haunted House nightclub in Hollywood. The owner recognized his ability and got him a job at NBC. In 1970 he joined Local 44 and started working special effects for motion pictures. Since 1986, he has been the special effects coordinator on over forty films. Frazier's notable special effects credits include Wes Craven's THE HILLS HAVE EYES (1977), AIRPLANE! (1980), DOCTOR DETROIT (1983), PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE, PRETTY IN PINK and RUTHLESS PEOPLE (all 1986), GARDENS OF STONE, BABY BOOM and THROW MOMMA FROM THE TRAIN (all 1987), THE WAR OF THE ROSES (1989), THE ROOKIE (1990), V.I. WARSHAWSKI (1991), BASIC INSTINCT and UNFORGIVEN (both 1992), HOT SHOTS! PART DEUX and A PERFECT WORLD (both 1993), SPEED (1994), OUTBREAK, THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY, THE STARS FELL ON HENRIETTA and WATERWORLD (all 1995), TWISTER (1996), ABSOLUTE POWER and MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL (both 1997), HARD RAIN and AMAGEDDON (both 1998), TRUE CRIME and THE HAUNTING (both 1999), SPACE COWBOYS, THE PERFECT STORM, ALMOST FAMOUS, CAST AWAY and PRISON LIFE (all 2000), PEARL HARBOR (2001), SPIDER-MAN, WINDTALKERS and XXX (all 2002), TEARS OF THE SUN and BAD BOYS II (both 2003), SPIDER-MAN 2 (2004), xXx: STATE OF THE UNION, STEALTH and DOMINO (all 2005), POSEIDON and DEJA VU (both 2006), and SPIDER-MAN 3, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END, TRANSFORMERS and THE KINGDOM (all 2007). Frazier has won two CLIO® awards, a British Academy Award, and an Oscar®. He currently resides in Southern California.  Nominated for Achievement in Visual Effects 1996: TWISTER (w. Stefen Fangmeier, Habib Zargarpour & Henry La Bounta)  Nominated for Achievement in Visual Effects 1998: ARMAGEDDON (w. Richard R. Hoover & Pat McClung)  Nominated for Achievement in Visual Effects 2000: THE PERFECT STORM (w. Stefen Fangmeier, Habib Zargarpour & Walt Conti)  Nominated for Achievement in Visual Effects 2001: PEARL HARBOR (w. Eric Brevig, Ed Hirsh & Ben Snow)  Nominated for Achievement in Visual Effects 2002: SPIDER-MAN (w. John C. Dykstra, Anthony LaMolinara and Scott Stokdyk)  Best Achievement in Visual Effects 2004: SPIDER-MAN 2 (w. John C. Dykstra, Anthony LaMolinara and Scott Stokdyk)  Nominated for Achievement in Visual Effects 2006: POSEIDON (w. Boyd Shermis, Chaz Jarrett and Ken Libreri)  Nominated for Achievement in Visual Effects 2007: PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: AT WORLD'S END (w. John Knoll, Hal Hickel & Charles Gibson)  Nominated for Achievement in Visual Effects 2007: TRANSFORMERS (w. Scott Farrar, Scott Benza & Russell Earl) 9 nominations, 1 Award