Jack Arnold (director)

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name = Jack Arnold

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birthname = Jack Arnold Waks
birthdate = birth date|1916|10|14|mf=y
birthplace = New Haven, Connecticut
deathdate = death date and age|1992|11|19|1916|10|14|mf=y
deathplace = Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California

Jack Arnold (October 14, 1916 – November 19, 1992) was an American television and film director.

Biography

Career

Born Jack Arnold Waks in New Haven, Connecticut, Arnold directed a number of movies starting in 1950. The best known of these, the science fiction films "It Came from Outer Space", "Tarantula", "Creature from the Black Lagoon" and "The Incredible Shrinking Man", are noted for their atmospheric black-and-white cinematography and unusually sophisticated scripts. Later in his career, he went to England to direct the early Peter Sellers film, "The Mouse That Roared", in which Sellers played three roles, one of them in drag.

Arnold began his television career in 1955 with several episodes of "Science Fiction Theater". He went on to direct the long-running television series "Perry Mason" and "Peter Gunn". He also directed episodes of such television shows as "Alias Smith and Jones", "The Fall Guy", "The Brady Bunch", and "Gilligan's Island", as well as the 1980 TV movie "Marilyn: The Untold Story".

Arnold died of arteriosclerosis in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California at the age of 76.

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Persondata
NAME= Arnold, Jack
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Waks, Jack Arnold
SHORT DESCRIPTION= Television & film director, producer
DATE OF BIRTH= October 14, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH= New Haven, Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH= November 19, 1992
PLACE OF DEATH= Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California