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  • BIRTH 21/04/1914
  • DEATH 13/01/2003
  • Country United States
  • DIRECTOR 5
  • SCRIPT 13
  • PRODUCTION 8

Norman Panama

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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.

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Norman Panama

Director (5)

Knock on Wood
Knock on Wood
Callaway Went Thataway
Callaway Went Thataway
The Court Jester
The Court Jester
I Will, I Will...For Now
I Will, I Will...For Now
That Certain Feeling
That Certain Feeling

Script (13)

White Christmas
White Christmas
Knock on Wood
Knock on Wood
Callaway Went Thataway
Callaway Went Thataway
It Had to Be You
It Had to Be You
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
The Court Jester
The Court Jester
The Return of October
The Return of October
I Will, I Will...For Now
I Will, I Will...For Now
Li'l Abner
Li'l Abner
The Facts of Life
The Facts of Life
A Talent for Murder
A Talent for Murder
That Certain Feeling
That Certain Feeling
The Princess and the Pirate
The Princess and the Pirate

Production (8)

The Jayhawkers!
The Jayhawkers!
Knock on Wood
Knock on Wood
Callaway Went Thataway
Callaway Went Thataway
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
The Court Jester
The Court Jester
Li'l Abner
Li'l Abner
The Facts of Life
The Facts of Life
That Certain Feeling
That Certain Feeling