Director

Norman Panama

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Directed movies: 13Directed series: 0All crew credits: 35

TMDB ID: 50577

IMDb ID: nm0659085

Known for: Writing

Born: April 21, 1914

Died: January 13, 2003

Age: 88

Place of birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1942 - 2007

Years active: 66

Average TMDB rating: 6.37

Wikidata: Q544016

Also known as

Norman Kaye Panama

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Director (13)Screenplay (11)Writer (6)Story (2)Original Film Writer (1)Producer (1)Teleplay (1)

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Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Norman Panama (April 21, 1914 – January 13, 2003) was an American screenwriter and film director born in Chicago, Illinois. He collaborated with a former school friend, Melvin Frank, to form a writing partnership which endured for three decades. He also wrote gags for comedians such as Bob Hope's radio program and for Groucho Marx. The most famous films Panama directed were Li'l Abner (1959), the Danny Kaye film The Court Jester (1956), and Bob Hope's How to Commit Marriage (1969). He wrote Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948), Road to Utopia (1946), and The Court Jester, among other movies. He won an Edgar Award for A Talent for Murder (1981), a play he co-wrote with Jerome Chodorov. Panama continued to write and direct through the 1980s. He died in 2003 in Los Angeles, California from complications due to Parkinson's disease. Description above from the Wikipedia article Norman Panama, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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