Frank Tuttle

For the set decorator, see Frank Tuttle (set decorator).

Frank Tuttle (6 August 1892 - 6 January 1963) was a Hollywood film director and writer who directed films from 1922 (The Cradle Buster) to 1959 (Island of Lost Women).

His output includes The American Venus (1926), the all-star revue Paramount on Parade (1930), the murder mystery The Benson Murder Case (1930), the comedy film This Is the Night (1932) with Cary Grant, and Roman Scandals (1933) starring Eddie Cantor.

On his death in 1963, at the age of 70, Tuttle was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.

Selected filmography

• The Cradle Buster (1922)
• Puritan Passions (1923)
• Second Fiddle (1923)
• Kid Boots (1926)
• Love 'Em and Leave 'Em (1926)
• The American Venus (1926)
• The Untamed Lady (1926)
• Blind Alleys (1927)
• The Canary Murder Case (additional sound footage; 1929)
• Paramount on Parade (1930)
• The Benson Murder Case (1930)
• True to the Navy (1930)
• No Limit (1931)
• The Big Broadcast (1932)
• This Is the Night (1932)
• Roman Scandals (1933)
• Springtime for Henry (1934)
• Here is My Heart (1934)
• Ladies Should Listen (1934)
• Two for Tonight (1935)
• The Glass Key (1935)
• All the King's Horses (1935)
• College Holiday (1936)
• Waikiki Wedding (1937)
• I Stole a Million (1939)
• Lucky Jordan (1942)
• This Gun for Hire (1942)
• Star Spangled Rhythm (contributing director; 1943)
• The Hour Before the Dawn (1944)
• Suspense (1946)
• Swell Guy (1946)
• Gunman in the Streets (1950)
• Hell on Frisco Bay (1955)
• Island of Lost Women (1959)

Further reading

• Frank Tuttle, They Started Talking (Albany: BearManor Media, 2006) ISBN 1-59393-006-2
• Frank Tuttle Socialists, Socialites, and Sociopaths: Plays and Screenplays (Albany: BearManor Media, 2007) ISBN 1-59393-079-8

External links

• Frank Tuttle at the Internet Movie Database