Norman Panama, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Norman Panama

American film director and screenwriter

Date of Birth: 21-Apr-1914

Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Date of Death: 13-Jan-2003

Profession: screenwriter, writer, film producer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Norman Kaye Panama (April 21, 1914 – January 13, 2003) was an American screenwriter and film director born in Chicago, Illinois.
He collaborated with a former schoolfriend, 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 he directed were Li'l Abner (1959), the Danny Kaye film The Court Jester (1956), and the Bob Hope film 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. 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, aged 88, from complications of Parkinson's disease.