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)
1968
- Speedway ... (Director)
- Live a Little, Love a Little ... (Director)
1967
- Double Trouble ... (Director)
1966
- Spinout ... (Director)
1965
- Tickle Me ... (Director)
- Sergeant Deadhead ... (Director)
- Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine ... (Director)
1963
- It Happened at the World's Fair ... (Director)
- Palm Springs Weekend ... (Director)
1962
- Girls! Girls! Girls! ... (Director)
- 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
- Jumping Jacks ... (Director)
- Room for One More ... (Director)
1951
- The Stooge ... (Director)
- Rich, Young and Pretty ... (Director)
1950
- The Toast of New Orleans ... (Director)
- Please Believe Me ... (Director)
- Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone ... (Director)
1949
- That Midnight Kiss ... (Director)
1948
- Big City ... (Director)
- Words and Music ... (Director)
- The Bride Goes Wild ... (Director)
1947
- The Beginning or the End ... (Director)
1946
- The Hoodlum Saint ... (Director)
1943
- Girl Crazy ... (Director)
- Presenting Lily Mars ... (Director)
1942
- Are Husbands Necessary? ... (Director)
- A Yank at Eton ... (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
- Fifty Roads to Town ... (Director)
- You Can't Have Everything ... (Director)
1936
- Reunion ... (Director)
- Strike Me Pink ... (Director)
- Rhythm on the Range ... (Director)
1935
- The Big Broadcast of 1936 ... (Director)
1934
- College Rhythm ... (Director)
- We're Not Dressing ... (Director)
- Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch ... (Director)
- Hollywood Rhythm
1933
- A Bedtime Story ... (Director)
- The Way to Love ... (Director)
1932
- If I Had a Million ... (Director)
- The Phantom President ... (Director)
- Hold 'Em Jail ... (Director)
1931
- Skippy ... (Director)
- Newly Rich ... (Director)
- Sooky ... (Director)
- Finn and Hattie ... (Director)
- Cab Waiting ... (Director)
- It Might Be Worse ... (Director)
- Huckleberry Finn ... (Director)
1930
- Sunny Skies ... (Director)
- Hot Curves ... (Director)
- Follow the Leader ... (Director)
- Song Service ... (Director)
- Meet the Boy Friend ... (Director)
- Plastered ... (Director)
- Troopers Three ... (Director)
1929
- Lucky Boy ... (Director)
- In Holland ... (Director)
1928
- Blazing Away ... (Director)
- A Home Made Man ... (Director)
1927
- Breezing Along ... (Director)
- The Draw-Back ... (Director)
- Papa's Boy ... (Director)
- Somebody's Fault ... (Director)
- Drama Deluxe ... (Director)
- Howdy Duke ... (Director)
1926
- Movieland ... (Director)
- Honest Injun ... (Director)
- Creeps ... (Director)
- Move Along ... (Director)
- Careful Please ... (Director)
- Who's My Wife? ... (Story)
- Nobody's Business ... (Director)
1925
- The Cloudhopper ... (Director)
- Cheap Skates ... (Director)
- Below Zero ... (Director)
1924
- Motor Mad ... (Director)
- Flying Finance ... (Director)
- Fast and Furious ... (Director)
- Andy's Stump Speech ... (Director)
- What a Night! ... (Director)
1923
- Oh! What a Day! ... (Director)
- The Yankee Spirit ... (Director)
1922
- The Show ... (Director)
- The Sawmill ... (Director)
- Aladdin ... (Director)
- A Pair of Kings ... (Writer)
1921
- The Bakery ... (Director)
- The Rent Collector ... (Director)
- The Fall Guy ... (Director)
- The Hick ... (Director)
- The Sportsman ... (Director)
- The Bell Hop ... (Director)
1920
- The Suitor ... (Director)
- The Stage Hand ... (Director)
- The Fly-Cop as Bit Part (uncredited)
- School Days ... (Director)