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
- Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine ... (Director)
- Tickle Me ... (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
- G.I. Blues ... (Director)
- Visit to a Small Planet ... (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
- The Stooge ... (Director)
- Rich, Young and Pretty ... (Director)
1950
- Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone ... (Director)
- Please Believe Me ... (Director)
- The Toast of New Orleans ... (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
- Fifty Roads to Town ... (Director)
- You Can't Have Everything ... (Director)
1936
- Reunion ... (Director)
- Rhythm on the Range ... (Director)
- Strike Me Pink ... (Director)
1935
- The Big Broadcast of 1936 ... (Director)
1934
- Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch ... (Director)
- We're Not Dressing ... (Director)
- College Rhythm ... (Director)
- Hollywood Rhythm
1933
- The Way to Love ... (Director)
- A Bedtime Story ... (Director)
1932
- Hold 'Em Jail ... (Director)
- If I Had a Million ... (Director)
- The Phantom President ... (Director)
1931
- Skippy ... (Director)
- Sooky ... (Director)
- Huckleberry Finn ... (Director)
- Newly Rich ... (Director)
- Finn and Hattie ... (Director)
- Cab Waiting ... (Director)
- It Might Be Worse ... (Director)
1930
- Hot Curves ... (Director)
- Sunny Skies ... (Director)
- Meet the Boy Friend ... (Director)
- Troopers Three ... (Director)
- Follow the Leader ... (Director)
- Song Service ... (Director)
- Plastered ... (Director)
1929
- In Holland ... (Director)
- Lucky Boy ... (Director)
1928
- A Home Made Man ... (Director)
- Blazing Away ... (Director)
1927
- The Draw-Back ... (Director)
- Breezing Along ... (Director)
- Somebody's Fault ... (Director)
- Drama Deluxe ... (Director)
- Papa's Boy ... (Director)
- Howdy Duke ... (Director)
1926
- Movieland ... (Director)
- Careful Please ... (Writer)
- Move Along ... (Director)
- Creeps ... (Director)
- Honest Injun ... (Director)
- Who's My Wife? ... (Story)
- Nobody's Business ... (Director)
1925
- The Cloudhopper ... (Director)
- Below Zero ... (Director)
- Cheap Skates ... (Director)
1924
- Motor Mad ... (Director)
- Fast and Furious ... (Director)
- Andy's Stump Speech ... (Director)
- Flying Finance ... (Director)
- What a Night! ... (Director)
1923
- The Yankee Spirit ... (Director)
- Oh! What a Day! ... (Director)
1922
- Aladdin ... (Director)
- The Sawmill ... (Director)
- The Show ... (Director)
- A Pair of Kings ... (Writer)
1921
- The Hick ... (Director)
- The Bakery ... (Director)
- The Fall Guy ... (Director)
- The Rent Collector ... (Director)
- The Bell Hop ... (Director)
- The Sportsman ... (Director)
1920
- School Days ... (Director)
- The Stage Hand ... (Writer)
- The Fly-Cop as Bit Part (uncredited)
- The Suitor ... (Director)