Norman Tokar
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Norman Tokar | |
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Hollywood, California, U.S. | |
Occupation | Film director |
Years active | 1956–1979 |
Spouse(s) | Phyllis Coates (1955–19??; divorced) Grace Tokar (1941–1949; divorced) |
Children | 1 |
Norman Tokar (November 25, 1919 – April 6, 1979) was an American
Career
On Broadway, Tokar acted in Delicate Story (1940), The Life of Reilly (1942), See My Lawyer (1939) and The Magic Touch (1947).[3] After that, Tokar moved into radio, most notably The Aldrich Family, where he played Henry Aldrich's friend Willie[4] and wrote several episodes as well. Tokar then went into television direction on such sitcoms as The Bob Cummings Show and The Donna Reed Show, and the drama Naked City.
In the early 1960s, Tokar's success working with the juvenile actors on 93 episodes of the TV sitcom
Tokar followed Millionaire with more examples of the high-concept comedies that became the mainstay of the studio in the 1960s and 1970s: The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit (1968), The Boatniks (1970), and Snowball Express (1972). After directing his only non-Disney feature Where the Red Fern Grows (1974), Tokar made his most commercially successful film; the comedy western The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975). Following Candleshoe (1977), on Tokar's final film before his death, The Cat from Outer Space (1978), he gained a co-producer credit.
Death
On April 6, 1979, Tokar died of a
Filmography
Year | Title |
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1962 | Big Red |
1963 | Savage Sam |
1964 | A Tiger Walks |
1965 | Those Calloways |
1966 | The Ugly Dachshund |
1966 | Follow Me, Boys! |
1967 | The Happiest Millionaire |
1968 | The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit |
1969 | Rascal |
1970 | The Boatniks |
1972 | Snowball Express |
1974 | Where the Red Fern Grows |
1975 | The Apple Dumpling Gang |
1976 | No Deposit, No Return |
1977 | Candleshoe |
1978 | The Cat from Outer Space |
References
- All Movie Guide. Archived from the originalon 2013-02-16.
- ^ Ted Johnson; Sarah M. Brown (September 7, 1989). "Belmont Shore Video Store a Movie Family's Affair". Los Angeles Times.
- ^ "Norman Tokar". Internet Broadway Database. The Broadway League. Archived from the original on February 6, 2020. Retrieved February 6, 2020.
- ISBN 978-0-7864-4513-4.
External links
- Norman Tokar at IMDb