Personal Info
Known For
Writing
Gender
Male
April 21, 1914
Died
January 13, 2003 (88 years old)
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Also Known As
- Norman Kaye Panama
Norman Panama
Biography
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Norman Panama (April 21, 1914 – January 13, 2003) was an American screenwriter and film director born in Chicago, Illinois. He collaborated with a former school friend, Melvin Frank, to form a writing partnership which endured for three decades. He also wrote gags for comedians such as Bob Hope's radio program and for Groucho Marx.
The most famous films Panama directed were Li'l Abner (1959), the Danny Kaye film The Court Jester (1956), and Bob Hope's How to Commit Marriage (1969). He wrote Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948), Road to Utopia (1946), and The Court Jester, among other movies.
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He won an Edgar Award for A Talent for Murder (1981), a play he co-wrote with Jerome Chodorov.
Panama continued to write and direct through the 1980s. He died in 2003 in Los Angeles, California from complications due to Parkinson's disease.
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Known For
Writing
Are We Done Yet?
Original Film Writer
2007
Strange Bedfellows
Producer, Story
1965
The Road to Hong Kong
Writer, Director
1962
The Facts of Life
Screenplay, Producer
1960
Li'l Abner
Writer, Producer
1959
The Jayhawkers!
Producer
1959
The Trap
Writer, Director, Producer
1959
The Court Jester
Screenplay, Director, Producer
1955
White Christmas
Writer
1954
Knock on Wood
Writer, Director, Producer
1954
Above and Beyond
Director, Writer
1953
Callaway Went Thataway
Writer, Director, Producer
1951