Norman Taurog
Born: 1899-02-23 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
Died: 1981-04-07
Known For: Directing
Biography
Norman Rae Taurog (February 23, 1899 - April 7, 1981) was an American film director and screenwriter. Between 1920 and 1968, Taurog directed over 140 films, and directed Elvis Presley in nine films, more movies than any other director. He won the 1931 Academy Award for Best Director for the film Skippy and held the record as the youngest director (32) to win for 86 years. He was later nominated for Best Director for the 1938 film, Boys Town. For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Norman Taurog has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1600 Vine Street.
Filmography
2004
- Judy Garland: By Myself as Self - Director (archive sound)
1981
- This Is Elvis as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1976
- That's Entertainment, Part II ... (Thanks)
1968
- Live a Little, Love a Little ... (Director)
- Speedway ... (Director)
1967
- Double Trouble ... (Director)
1966
- Spinout ... (Director)
1965
- Tickle Me ... (Director)
- Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine ... (Director)
- Sergeant Deadhead ... (Director)
1963
- It Happened at the World's Fair ... (Director)
- Palm Springs Weekend ... (Director)
1962
- Girls! Girls! Girls! ... (Director)
1961
- Blue Hawaii ... (Director)
- All Hands on Deck ... (Director)
1960
- Visit to a Small Planet ... (Director)
- G.I. Blues ... (Director)
1959
- Don't Give Up the Ship ... (Director)
1958
- Onionhead ... (Director)
1957
- The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown ... (Director)
1956
- Pardners ... (Director)
- Bundle of Joy ... (Director)
- The Birds and the Bees ... (Director)
1955
- You're Never Too Young ... (Director)
1954
- Living It Up ... (Director)
1953
- The Caddy ... (Director)
- The Stars Are Singing ... (Director)
1952
- Room for One More ... (Director)
- Jumping Jacks ... (Director)
1951
- Rich, Young and Pretty ... (Director)
- The Stooge ... (Director)
1950
- The Toast of New Orleans ... (Director)
- Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone ... (Director)
- Please Believe Me ... (Director)
1949
- That Midnight Kiss ... (Director)
1948
- Words and Music ... (Director)
- The Bride Goes Wild ... (Director)
- Big City ... (Director)
1947
- The Beginning or the End ... (Director)
1946
- The Hoodlum Saint ... (Director)
1943
- Presenting Lily Mars ... (Director)
- Girl Crazy ... (Director)
1942
- A Yank at Eton ... (Director)
- Are Husbands Necessary? ... (Director)
1941
- Men of Boys Town ... (Director)
- Design for Scandal ... (Director)
1940
- Broadway Melody of 1940 ... (Director)
- Young Tom Edison ... (Director)
- Little Nellie Kelly ... (Director)
1939
- Lucky Night ... (Director)
1938
- Boys Town ... (Director)
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ... (Director)
- The Girl Downstairs ... (Director)
- Mad About Music ... (Director)
1937
- You Can't Have Everything ... (Director)
- Fifty Roads to Town ... (Director)
1936
- Rhythm on the Range ... (Director)
- Strike Me Pink ... (Director)
- Reunion ... (Director)
1935
- The Big Broadcast of 1936 ... (Director)
1934
- Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch ... (Director)
- We're Not Dressing ... (Director)
- Hollywood Rhythm
- College Rhythm ... (Director)
1933
- The Way to Love ... (Director)
- A Bedtime Story ... (Director)
1932
- If I Had a Million ... (Director)
- The Phantom President ... (Director)
- Hold 'Em Jail ... (Director)
1931
- It Might Be Worse ... (Director)
- Huckleberry Finn ... (Director)
- Cab Waiting ... (Director)
- Sooky ... (Director)
- Finn and Hattie ... (Director)
- Newly Rich ... (Director)
- Skippy ... (Director)
1930
- Plastered ... (Director)
- Song Service ... (Director)
- Hot Curves ... (Director)
- Meet the Boy Friend ... (Director)
- Follow the Leader ... (Director)
- Troopers Three ... (Director)
- Sunny Skies ... (Director)
1929
- In Holland ... (Director)
- Lucky Boy ... (Director)
1928
- Blazing Away ... (Director)
- A Home Made Man ... (Director)
1927
- Breezing Along ... (Director)
- Papa's Boy ... (Director)
- The Draw-Back ... (Director)
- Somebody's Fault ... (Director)
- Drama Deluxe ... (Director)
- Howdy Duke ... (Director)
1926
- Move Along ... (Director)
- Who's My Wife? ... (Story)
- Honest Injun ... (Director)
- Careful Please ... (Director)
- Movieland ... (Director)
- Nobody's Business ... (Director)
- Creeps ... (Director)
1925
- Below Zero ... (Director)
- Cheap Skates ... (Director)
- The Cloudhopper ... (Director)
1924
- Flying Finance ... (Director)
- Andy's Stump Speech ... (Director)
- What a Night! ... (Director)
- Fast and Furious ... (Director)
- Motor Mad ... (Director)
1923
- Oh! What a Day! ... (Director)
- The Yankee Spirit ... (Director)
1922
- Aladdin ... (Director)
- A Pair of Kings ... (Writer)
- The Show ... (Director)
- The Sawmill ... (Director)
1921
- The Sportsman ... (Director)
- The Hick ... (Director)
- The Bakery ... (Director)
- The Fall Guy ... (Director)
- The Rent Collector ... (Director)
- The Bell Hop ... (Director)
1920
- The Suitor ... (Director)
- School Days ... (Director)
- The Fly-Cop as Bit Part (uncredited)
- The Stage Hand ... (Director)