Norman Abbott

Norman Abbott

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 his uncle's "treasure trove of burlesque material, including written gags, props, music and posters".[4] Despite his having originated the concept, Abbott was fired as director of the show after two weeks of rehearsing.

  • Title: Norman Abbott
  • Popularity: 2.891
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1922-07-11
  • Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
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Norman Abbott Movies

  • 1953
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    Walking My Baby Back Home

    Walking My Baby Back Home

    9 1953 HD

    A young man from a wealthy New York family pursues a career as the leader of a dance band.

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  • 1995
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    Empire of the Censors

    Empire of the Censors

    3.5 1995 HD

    The history of film and video censorship in Great Britain.

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  • 1943
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    Keep 'Em Slugging

    Keep 'Em Slugging

    5.5 1943 HD

    A gang of tough street kids decide to go straight and get jobs in order to free draft-age men for the war effort. However, because of their past...

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  • 1942
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    The Affairs of Martha

    The Affairs of Martha

    5.8 1942 HD

    Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.

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  • 1942
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    Grand Central Murder

    Grand Central Murder

    5.9 1942 HD

    Conniving Broadway starlet Mida King has plenty of enemies, so when she's found murdered at Grand Central Station, Inspector Gunther calls together a...

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  • 1942
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    Rio Rita

    Rio Rita

    5.8 1942 HD

    Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.

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  • 1942
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    Who Done It?

    Who Done It?

    6.9 1942 HD

    Two dumb soda jerks dream of writing radio mysteries. When they try to pitch an idea at a radio station, they end up in the middle of a real murder...

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  • 1954
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    Anything Goes

    Anything Goes

    6 1954 HD

    On an ocean liner, a nightclub singer tries to help a fellow American romance an English heiress who is being forced to return home to marry a man...

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  • 1966
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    The Last of the Secret Agents?

    The Last of the Secret Agents?

    3.3 1966 HD

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  • 1966
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    The Last of the Secret Agents?

    The Last of the Secret Agents?

    3.3 1966 HD

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  • 1966
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    The Last of the Secret Agents?

    The Last of the Secret Agents?

    3.3 1966 HD

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  • 1958
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    The All-Star Christmas Show

    The All-Star Christmas Show

    6 1958 HD

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  • 1948
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    Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein

    Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein

    7 1948 HD

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  • 1977
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    Father Knows Best: Home for Christmas

    Father Knows Best: Home for Christmas

    7.3 1977 HD

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  • 1970
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    Jack Benny's Bag

    Jack Benny's Bag

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1950
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    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    7 1950 HD

    The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many...

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  • 1970
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    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    8 1970 HD

    A family of friendly monsters that have misadventures all while never quite understanding why people react to them so strangely.

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  • 1970
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    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    7 1970 HD

    Alice is an American sitcom television series that ran from August 31, 1976 to March 19, 1985 on CBS. The series is based on the 1974 film Alice...

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  • 1970
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    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    6.5 1970 HD

    Angie is an American television sitcom that was originally broadcast by the ABC network from February of 1979 to October of 1980.

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  • 1970
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    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    6.1 1970 HD

    Charles, a 19-year-old student at the fictional Copeland College in New Brunswick, New Jersey, works as a live-in babysitter in exchange for room and...

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  • 1970
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    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    5.8 1970 HD

    An anthology comedy series featuring a line up of different celebrity guest stars appearing in anywhere from one, two, three, and four short stories...

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  • 1970
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    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    1 1970 HD

    Blondie is an American sitcom that aired on CBS during the 1968-1969 television season. The series is an updated version of the 1957 TV series that...

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  • 1970
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    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    7.2 1970 HD

    Welcome Back, Kotter is an American television sitcom starring Gabe Kaplan and featuring a young John Travolta. Videotaped in front of a live studio...

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  • 1970
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    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    7.2 1970 HD

    When Things Were Rotten is an American situation comedy television series created in 1975 by Mel Brooks and aired for half a season by ABC. A parody...

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  • 1970
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    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    7 1970 HD

    Clifton Curtis has got it made—he runs a successful business he inherited from his late father and he's lucky with the the ladies—but he...

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  • 1970
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    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    5.6 1970 HD

    Nanny and the Professor is an American fantasy situation comedy created by AJ Carothers and Thomas L. Miller for 20th Century Fox Television. During...

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  • 1970
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    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    5.7 1970 HD

    Room 222 is an American comedy-drama television series produced by 20th Century Fox Television. The series aired on ABC for 112 episodes from...

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  • 1970
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    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    5.7 1970 HD

    Fish is a spin-off television series of the sitcom Barney Miller. It starred Abe Vigoda as New York Police Department Detective Phil Fish and...

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  • 1970
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    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    6.7 1970 HD

    This 1959-1963 television situation comedy series follows the lives of the Mitchell family, Henry, Alice, and their only child Dennis, an energetic,...

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  • 1970
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    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    6.716 1970 HD

    When widower Mike Brady marries a lovely lady widow Carol Ann, their two families become one. These are the misadventures of this new couple, their...

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  • 1970
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    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    6 1970 HD

    Bachelor Father is an American sitcom starring John Forsythe, Noreen Corcoran, and Sammee Tong. The series first premiered on CBS in September 1957...

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  • 1970
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    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    6.7 1970 HD

    An experienced South Pacific Sea Dog by the name of Quinton McHale, was commissioned as a Lieutenant Commander into the U.S. Navy Reserve at the...

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  • 1970
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    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    7.919 1970 HD

    Get Smart is an American comedy television series that satirizes the secret agent genre. Created by Mel Brooks with Buck Henry, the show stars Don...

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  • 1970
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    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    4 1970 HD

    Karen is one of three NBC sitcoms set in a California apartment complex located at 90 Bristol Court. It stars Debbie Watson in the title role of...

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  • 1970
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    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    7.442 1970 HD

    The misadventures of a cantankerous junk dealer and his frustrated son.

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  • 1970
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    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    5 1970 HD

    California Fever is an American teen drama series that ran on CBS in 1979. The show featured a group of Los Angeles teenagers living an exotic life...

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  • 1970
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    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    7.1 1970 HD

    Adam-12 is a television police drama that followed two police officers of the Los Angeles Police Department, Pete Malloy and Jim Reed, as they...

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  • 1970
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    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    7.028 1970 HD

    Leave It to Beaver is an American television situation comedy about an inquisitive and often naïve boy named Theodore "The Beaver" Cleaver and...

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  • 1970
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    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    3.5 1970 HD

    Working Stiffs is a short-lived 1979 American television series which starred James Belushi and Michael Keaton as brothers Ernie and Mike O'Rourke....

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  • 1970
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    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    6.5 1970 HD

    Nobody's Perfect is an American situation comedy television series, broadcast on ABC, about a bumbling police detective; it aired for two months in...

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  • 1970
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    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    6.7 1970 HD

    I'm Dickens, He's Fenster is an American sitcom that ran on ABC during the 1962-63 season, and was created and produced by Leonard Stern, filmed at...

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