Biography
Sidney Lanfield (April 20, 1898 β June 20, 1972) was an American film director known for directing romances and light comedy films and later television programs.
The one-time jazz musician and vaudevillian star started his first directing job 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 Sherlock Holmes and Dr. 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 Where's Raymond?, McHale's Navy and The Addams Family.
Lanfield was married to film actress Shirley Mason from 1927 until his death in 1972. He is interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. Lanfield was also known as Sidney Landfield.
Filmography
all 64
Director 58
Movies 45
TV Shows 19
Writer 6
Rango (1967)
Pistols 'n' Petticoats (1966)
The Addams Family (1964)
No Time for Sergeants (1964)
Burke's Law (1963)
McHale's Navy (1962)
Little Amy (1962)
87th Precinct (1961)
Checkmate (1960)
The Tall Man (1960)
Riverboat (1959)
The Deputy (1959)
Johnny Staccato (1959)
Cimarron City (1958)
M Squad (1957)
Wagon Train (1957)
Bachelor Father (1957)
The Jane Wyman Show (1955)
General Electric Theater (1953)
Skirts Ahoy! (1952)
Follow the Sun (1951)
The Lemon Drop Kid (1951)
Sorrowful Jones (1949)
Station West (1948)
Where There's Life (1947)
The Trouble with Women (1947)
The Well Groomed Bride (1946)
Bring on the Girls (1945)
The Princess and the Pirate (1944)
Standing Room Only (1944)
Let's Face It (1943)
The Meanest Man in the World (1943)
My Favorite Blonde (1942)
The Lady Has Plans (1942)
You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
Swanee River (1939)
Second Fiddle (1939)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
Always Goodbye (1938)
Love and Hisses (1937)
Thin Ice (1937)
Wake Up and Live (1937)
One in a Million (1937)
Sing, Baby, Sing (1936)
Half Angel (1936)
King of Burlesque (1936)
Red Salute (1935)
Hold 'Em Yale (1935)
The Last Gentleman (1934)
The House of Rothschild (1934)
Moulin Rouge (1934)
Broadway Bad (1933)
Hat Check Girl (1932)
Society Girl (1932)
Dance Team (1932)
Hush Money (1931)
Three Girls Lost (1931)
Cheer Up and Smile (1930)
Happy Days (1929)
Big Time (1929)
Romance of the Underworld (1928)
Don't Marry (1928)
A Girl in Every Port (1928)
Golf Widows (1926)
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1898-04-20
Deathday1972-06-20 (74 years old)
Birth PlaceChicago, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Awardsstar on Hollywood Walk of Fame
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