Norman Foster

Known for DirectingBorn 1903-12-13Died 1976-07-07Richmond, Indiana, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Norman Foster (December 13, 1903 - July 7, 1976) was an American film director and actor. Born John Hoeffer in Richmond, Indiana, Foster originally became a cub reporter on a local newspaper in Indiana before going to New York in the hopes of getting a better newspaper job but there were no vacancies. He tried a number of theatrical agencies before getting stage work and later appeared on Broadway in the George S. Kaufman / Ring Lardner play June Moon in 1929. He has also acted in London, England. He started working in crowd scenes in films before moving to bigger parts. His film acting credits include Prosperity (1932), Pilgrimage (1933), Rafter Romance (1933) with Ginger Rogers and State Fair (1933). He has written several plays. He gave up acting in the late 1930s to pursue directing, although he occasionally appeared in movies and television programs. Some of Foster's directorial efforts include The Sign of Zorro (1958), and the stylish films noir Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948), Woman on the Run (1950) and Journey into Fear (1943). Foster directed Rachel and the Stranger and the Davy Crockett segments of Disneyland that were edited into feature films Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier and Davy Crockett and the River Pirates where he did not accept any interference from Walt Disney. In 1967, he directed Brighty of the Grand Canyon, based on a children's novel by Marguerite Henry about a burro in the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. The film starred Joseph Cotten, Karl Swenson, Dick Foran, and Pat Conway. It was rumored that Orson Welles took over direction of Journey Into Fear, which Welles later denied. Foster was the director of the "My Friend Bonito" segment of Orson Welles' Pan-American anthology film It's All True until RKO aborted the project. Foster directed a number of Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto mysteries, including Charlie Chan in Panama (1940), Charlie Chan at Treasure Island (1939), Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation (1939), Charlie Chan in Reno (1939), Mr. Moto's Last Warning (1939), Mysterious Mr. Moto (1938), Mr. Moto Takes a Chance (1938), Thank You, Mr. Moto (1937), and Think Fast, Mr. Moto (1937). Foster was married to Claudette Colbert from 1928 until their divorce in 1935. In 1937, he wed actress Sally Blane, an older sister of Loretta Young. The couple remained married until his death in 1976 from cancer in Santa Monica at the age of 75. They had two children, Robert and Gretchen. He is buried in Culver City's Holy Cross Cemetery. Description above from the Wikipedia article Norman Foster, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Double Solitaire

Davy Crockett Goes to Congress

Fatal Lady

Steady Company

Orient Express

Walls of Gold

Love at First Sight

Crazy Horse and Custer: The Untold Story

Woman in the Rain

The Wonderful World of Disney

It's All True

The Disneyland Story

The Wonderful World of Disney

Ride, Kelly, Ride

Hans Brinker, or the Silver Skates

Everybody's Old Man

Behind the Green Lights

They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

The New Loretta Young Show

Suicide Squad

Zorro

The Sign of Zorro

The Green Hornet

Batman

Father Is a Bachelor

The Other Side of the Wind

Fair Warning

The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca

Davy Crockett's Keelboat Race

Pilgrimage

The Green Hornet

Scotland Yard

The Monroes

Tombstone Territory

Cannon

I Cover Chinatown

The Leavenworth Case

Escape from Devil's Island

Super Speed

Brighty of the Grand Canyon

The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood

Woman on the Run

Charlie Chan in Panama

Rafter Romance

Walking Down Broadway

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island

Tell It to the Judge

Letter to Loretta