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Norman Taurog. Director: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. A successful child actor (on stage from 1907) and rather less successful romantic lead, baby-faced Norman Taurog found being behind the camera a more rewarding experience. Before becoming a director, he paid his dues as a prop man and editor.

Birthday: Feb 23, 1899. Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA. Archetypal "contract," studio director who entered films as an actor, began making comedy shorts, and moved up to features in 1929 ...

Norman Taurog, the film director who won an Academy Award for ''Skippy,'' died yesterday at Eisenhower Medical Center, near his retirement home in Palm Desert. He was 82 years old. Mr. Taurog...

Norman Taurog was an American film director who became the youngest person ever to win the Academy Award for Best Director. This biography of Norman Taurog provides detailed information about his childhood, life, achievements, works & timeline.

Died April 7, 1981 in Eisenhower Medical Center, Calif. A cademy Award-winning director Norman Taurog built a film reputation on his seemingly effortless affinity for children and animals. Taurog won as Oscar in 1931 for directing "Skippy," which starred his nephew, Jackie Cooper.

Birthday. Feb 23, 1899. Birthplace. Chicago , Illinois. Age. 124 years. Birth Sign. Pisces. Norman Taurog was an American film director and screenwriter who, at the age of 32, became the youngest person to win the Academy Award for Best Director for his picture ‘Skippy.’.

The elusive Norman Taurog Who was Norman Taurog? It is a legitimate question because he remains one of the most elusive characters in Elvis Presley’s remarkable career. Even in Starmaker, the memoirs of Hal B. Wallis, for whom Taurog produced six Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis movies and three Presley flicks, he seems a bit player.

Norman Taurog. Birth. 23 Feb 1899. Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA. Death. 7 Apr 1981 (aged 82) Rancho Mirage, Riverside County, California, USA. Burial. Cremated, Ashes scattered at sea.