Frank Tuttle (director)

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Frank Wright Tuttle (born August 6, 1892 in New York City , † January 6, 1963 in Hollywood ) was an American film director who was at the height of his career one of the highest paid film directors in Hollywood. He was considered one of the few directors who successfully made the transition from silent films to early sound films, and was later celebrated as an important representative of " film noir ".

Life

While studying at Yale University, Tuttle took part in student theater performances as an actor and later as a director, but then decided to work as a journalist after graduating . In this capacity he also worked as an editor for Vanity Fair magazine , and later as a screenwriter , so that he came to Hollywood in 1921. As early as 1922 he began filming his scripts as a director himself. Until 1945 he was a busy director who made over 70 films in total.

During the McCarthy period , he testified before the HUAC in 1951 and identified colleagues as communists in order to avoid being banned from the profession himself.

He died on January 6, 1963 and was buried in the Westwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, in the immediate vicinity of the grave of the singer Roy Orbison .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1926: Love 'Em and Leave' Em
  • 1929: The Greene Murder Case
  • 1930: The Benson Murder Case
  • 1930: Paramount Parade (Paramount on Parade)
  • 1930: True to the Navy
  • 1932: This Is the Night
  • 1932: The Big Broadcast
  • 1933: Roman Scandals
  • 1934: All the King's Horses
  • 1934: Ladies, listen! (Ladies Should Lists)
  • 1935: The Glass Key
  • 1936: College Holiday
  • 1937: Waikiki Wedding
  • 1939: Charlie McCarthy, detective
  • 1942: Die Scarhand (This Gun for Hire)
  • 1942: Gangster trap (Lucky Jordan)
  • 1945: Love in the Ring (The Great John L.)
  • 1945: Don Juan Quilligan
  • 1946: The tire of death (Suspense)
  • 1950: Underworld of Paris (Gunman in the Streets / Le traque)
  • 1951: The Magic Face
  • 1955: Bloody Road (Hell on Frisco Bay)
  • 1956: A Cry in the Night
  • 1959: Island of Lost Women

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