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Frank Tashlin
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Director, Screenwriter Born: February 19, 1913 in Weehawken, NJ Death: May 5, 1972 Biography:Few filmmakers have moved as easily between animated and non-animated work as New Jersey-born "Frank Tashlin". A school drop-out at age 13, he drifted into a multitude of jobs before he went to work for producer "Paul Terry" at 17, as a cartoonist on "Terry"'s "Aesop's Film Fables" animated shorts. Three years later he was working as a gagman for "Hal Roach", and soon after began his own comic strip, which ran through 1939. He worked for Disney's story department until the mid '40s, and later joined Warner Bros., where he became a director for "Leon Schlesinger'"s cartoon unit. But from the middle of the decade onward, he moved out of animated work entirely and into comedy screenwriting, adapting "One Touch of Venus" as a film vehicle, and then taking up writing for "Bob Hope" ("The Paleface", etc.) and "Red Skelton" ("The Fuller Brush Man", etc.), and later became a director for "Jerry Lewis"... Full Biography
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