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Norman Abbott

Norman Abbott

Director · Born 1922-07-11 · New York City, New York, USA

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Biography

Norman Abbott (July 11, 1922 – July 9, 2016) was an American vaudevillian, actor, producer and television director. Abbott was born in New York City, where his uncle, comedian Bud Abbott, and his mother raised him. His early experience in entertainment was as a vaudeville performer, including summers working the 'borscht circuit" in resorts in the Catskill Mountains of New York. In the early 1940s, he and Pat Costello (brother of Lou Costello) worked as stand-ins for the better-known act during filming of Who Done It? (1942).[3] During World War II, Abbott served as a member of the original United States Navy SEALs team. After the war, Abbott became a dialog director on the Abbott and Costello films and was mentored by the team's director, Charles T. Barton. Abbott later directed episodes of The Jack Benny Program, Leave It to Beaver, Get Smart, The Munsters, Welcome Back, Kotter, Dennis the Menace, and Sanford and Son. Abbott's obituary in The Hollywood Reporter described him as "the brainchild behind the Broadway sensation Sugar Babies, the comeback vehicle for Mickey Rooney in the late 1970s". He conceived the idea of a Broadway musical based on burlesque after inheriting h…

Directed

  1. The Munsters (1964) — Director
  2. Get Smart (1965) — Director
  3. The Brady Bunch (1969) — Director
  4. Sanford and Son (1972) — Director
  5. Leave It to Beaver (1957) — Director
  6. Charles in Charge (1984) — Director
  7. Alice (1976) — Director
  8. Welcome Back, Kotter (1975) — Director
  9. Adam-12 (1968) — Director
  10. Dennis the Menace (1959) — Director
  11. McHale's Navy (1962) — Director
  12. Love, American Style (1969) — Director
  13. Room 222 (1969) — Director
  14. When Things Were Rotten (1975) — Director
  15. Nanny and the Professor (1970) — Director
  16. That's My Mama (1974) — Director
  17. Fish (1977) — Director
  18. Bachelor Father (1957) — Director
  19. The Last of the Secret Agents? (1966) — Director
  20. Angie (1979) — Director
  21. I'm Dickens, He's Fenster (1962) — Director
  22. Father Knows Best: Home for Christmas (1977) — Director
  23. Karen (1964) — Director
  24. California Fever (1979) — Director
  25. Working Stiffs (1979) — Director
  26. Nobody's Perfect (1980) — Director
  27. The All-Star Christmas Show (1958) — Director
  28. Blondie (1968) — Director
  29. Jack Benny's Bag (1968) — Director
  30. A Love Letter to Jack Benny (1981) — Director
  31. Once Upon a Tour (1972) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Who Done It? (1942) — 'Murder at Midnight' Organist
  2. Grand Central Murder (1942) — Whistling Messenger (uncredited)
  3. Rio Rita (1942) — Hotel Laundry Boy (uncredited)
  4. The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950) — Self
  5. The Affairs of Martha (1942) — Newsboy (uncredited)
  6. Film '72 (1971) — Self
  7. Keep 'Em Slugging (1943) — Ape
  8. Anything Goes (1954) — Radio Announcer
  9. Empire of the Censors (1995) — Self
  10. Walking My Baby Back Home (1953) — Doc