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Frank Wright 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). He was educated at Yale University, where he edited campus humor magazine The Yale Record.
After graduation, he worked in New York City in the advertising department of the Metropolitan Music Bureau. He later moved to Hollywood, where he became a film director for Paramount. His films are largely in the comedy and film noir genres.
In 1947, Tuttle's career ground to a temporary halt with the onset of the first of the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings on Communist infiltration of the movie industry. Tuttle had joined the Communist Party in 1937 in reaction to Hitler's rise to power. Unable to find work in the United States, he moved to France, where he made Gunman in the Streets (1950) starring Simone Signoret and Dane Clark.
In 1951 he named 36 names to HUAC.
His films include:
Actors: Jack Bennett (actor), Courtney Kimball (actress), Edwin Gendron (director), Edwin Gendron (actor), Edwin Gendron (producer), Edwin Gendron (writer), David Franusich (composer), Will Pearson (actor), Amanda Shumate (actress), James Corne (writer), Joe Germanna (actor), Joe Kelley (actor), Steven D. Smith (actor), Donna Jo Pfeiffer (actress), Donna Wertalik (actress),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Luis Alberni (actor), Lane Chandler (actor), Edward Norris (actor), Dick Rush (actor), Mary Beth Hughes (actress), Isabel La Mal (actress), Kay Linaker (actress), Claire McDowell (actress), Claire Rochelle (actress), Raymond L. Schrock (writer), Wallace Fox (director), Charles Henkel Jr. (editor), Robert F. Hill (actor), Lyle Latell (actor), Pat McKee (actor),
Genres: Drama, Musical,