Nationality American Role Film director | Name Frank Tuttle | |
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Full Name Frank Wright Tuttle Known for This Gun for Hire (1942)I Stole a Million (1939)College Holiday (1936)The Glass Key (1935)Roman Scandals (1933)This Is the Night (1932)Paramount on Parade (1930)The Untamed Lady (1926)Kid Boots (1926) Children Barbara Tuttle, Helen Tuttle, Frederica Tuttle Books The Markhat Files, All the Paths of Shadow Movies This Gun for Hire, Gunman in the Streets, Roman Scandals, A Cry in the Night, Hell on Frisco Bay Similar People Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Laird Cregar, Eugene Pallette, Roland Young | ||
Kid Boots 1926 Directed by Frank Tuttle Starring Eddie Cantor Clara Bow
Frank Wright Tuttle (August 6, 1892 – January 6, 1963) was a Hollywood film director and writer who directed films from 1922 (The Cradle Buster) to 1959 (Island of Lost Women).
Contents
- Kid Boots 1926 Directed by Frank Tuttle Starring Eddie Cantor Clara Bow
- Biography
- Death
- Selected filmography
- References
Biography
Frank Tuttle was educated at Yale University, where he edited campus humor magazine The Yale Record.
After graduation, he worked in New York City in the advertising department of the Metropolitan Music Bureau. He later moved to Hollywood, where he became a film director for Paramount. His films are largely in the comedy and film noir genres.
In 1947, Tuttle's career ground to a temporary halt with the onset of the first of the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings on Communist infiltration of the movie industry. Tuttle had joined the Communist Party in 1937 in reaction to Hitler's rise to power.
Unable to find work in the United States, he moved to France, where he made Gunman in the Streets (1950) starring Simone Signoret and Dane Clark.
After a decade as a member of the Communist Party, in 1951 Tuttle gave 36 names to the HUAC.
Death
Tuttle died in Hollywood, California on January 6, 1963, aged 70. He was survived by his three children.