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
- 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
- Palm Springs Weekend ... (Director)
- It Happened at the World's Fair ... (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
- Bundle of Joy ... (Director)
- Pardners ... (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
- 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)
- Big City ... (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
- A Yank at Eton ... (Director)
- Are Husbands Necessary? ... (Director)
1941
- Men of Boys Town ... (Director)
- Design for Scandal ... (Director)
1940
- Young Tom Edison ... (Director)
- Broadway Melody of 1940 ... (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
- We're Not Dressing ... (Director)
- College Rhythm ... (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
- Huckleberry Finn ... (Director)
- Finn and Hattie ... (Director)
- Skippy ... (Director)
- Cab Waiting ... (Director)
- Newly Rich ... (Director)
- It Might Be Worse ... (Director)
- Sooky ... (Director)
1930
- Hot Curves ... (Director)
- Song Service ... (Director)
- Sunny Skies ... (Director)
- Meet the Boy Friend ... (Director)
- Follow the Leader ... (Director)
- Troopers Three ... (Director)
- Plastered ... (Director)
1929
- In Holland ... (Director)
- Lucky Boy ... (Director)
1928
- Blazing Away ... (Director)
- A Home Made Man ... (Director)
1927
- Breezing Along ... (Director)
- Somebody's Fault ... (Director)
- Papa's Boy ... (Director)
- The Draw-Back ... (Director)
- Howdy Duke ... (Director)
- Drama Deluxe ... (Director)
1926
- Honest Injun ... (Director)
- Careful Please ... (Director)
- Move Along ... (Director)
- Who's My Wife? ... (Story)
- Movieland ... (Director)
- Nobody's Business ... (Director)
- Creeps ... (Director)
1925
- Below Zero ... (Director)
- Cheap Skates ... (Director)
- The Cloudhopper ... (Director)
1924
- Flying Finance ... (Director)
- What a Night! ... (Director)
- Andy's Stump Speech ... (Director)
- Motor Mad ... (Director)
- Fast and Furious ... (Director)
1923
- Oh! What a Day! ... (Director)
- The Yankee Spirit ... (Director)
1922
- The Show ... (Director)
- Aladdin ... (Director)
- The Sawmill ... (Director)
- A Pair of Kings ... (Writer)
1921
- The Hick ... (Director)
- The Bakery ... (Director)
- The Sportsman ... (Director)
- The Bell Hop ... (Director)
- The Rent Collector ... (Director)
- The Fall Guy ... (Director)
1920
- The Suitor ... (Director)
- The Fly-Cop as Bit Part (uncredited)
- School Days ... (Director)
- The Stage Hand ... (Director)