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Sidney Lanfield

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Biography

Sidney Lanfield (right)

Source: findagrave.com

Sidney Lanfield ( known for directing comedy films and later television programs. The one-time musician’s first directing job was for the Fox Film Corporation in 1930; he went on to direct a number of films for 20th Century Fox. In 1941, he directed the Fred Astaire film You’ll Never Get Rich for Columbia Pictures, then moved to Paramount Pictures. There Lanfield worked on a number of film comedies. He is probably best remembered for directing actor Bob Hope in a number of films including My Favorite Blonde (1942), Let’s Face It (1943), Where There’s Life (1947), and The Lemon Drop Kid (1951). Lanfield’s most profitable film, however, was the first teaming of Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce as Holmes and Watson in 1939’s The Hound of the Baskervilles. In the early 1950s the reputedly strict taskmaster-director moved to television where his vaudeville and comic background in films were put to use in television comedies including McHale’s Navy.

Fact file

  • Born: April 20, 1898
  • Died: June 20, 1972
  • Occupation: Director

Read more about Sidney Lanfield at Wikipedia or at the Internet Movie Database

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