Sidney Lanfield

Sidney Lanfield was born on Apr 20, 1898 in USA. Sidney Lanfield's big-screen debut came with A Girl in Every Port directed by Howard Hawks in 1928. Sidney Lanfield is known for Standing Room Only directed by Sidney Lanfield, Paulette Goddard stars as Jane Rogers and Fred MacMurray as Lee Stevens. Sidney Lanfield has got 1 awards and 1 nominations so far. The most recent award Sidney Lanfield achieved is Walk of Fame. The upcoming new movie Sidney Lanfield plays is Skirts Ahoy! which will be released on Aug 08, 1952.

After a stint as a jazz musician and a vaudeville entertainer, Sidney Lanfield was hired by Fox Film Corp. in 1926 as a gag writer and brought to Hollywood. Making his debut as a director in 1930, he specialized in romances and light comedies, directing many of Bob Hope's films in the 1930s and 1940s. One of his most successful films, however, was also one of his most atypical: Le chien des Baskerville (1939), a brooding, atmospheric thriller that introduced Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes. Lanfield divided the rest of his career between 20th Century-Fox and Paramount; while none of his films were particularly memorable, they were well-crafted, solid entertainment. In the early 1950s he was one of the first major directors to turn to series television, and he ended his career there in the mid-'60s, directing episodes of, among others, Sur le pont la marine (1962) and La famille Addams (1964).