| Frank Tuttle | |
| Birth Name: | Frank Wright Tuttle |
| Birth Date: | 6 August 1892 |
| Birth Place: | New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Hollywood, California, U.S. |
| Known For: | This Gun for Hire (1942) I Stole a Million (1939) College Holiday (1936) The Glass Key (1935) Roman Scandals (1933) This Is the Night (1932) Paramount on Parade (1930) The Untamed Lady (1926) Kid Boots (1926) |
| Education: | Yale University |
| Employer: | Paramount Pictures |
| Occupation: | Hollywood film director and screenwriter |
| Children: | 3 |
Frank Wright Tuttle (August 6, 1892 – January 6, 1963) was a Hollywood film director and writer who directed films from 1922 (The Cradle Buster) to 1959 (Island of Lost Women).
Frank Tuttle was educated at Yale University, where he edited campus humor magazine The Yale Record.[1]
After graduation, he worked in New York City in the advertising department of the Metropolitan Music Bureau.[1] He later moved to Hollywood, where he became a film director for Paramount. His films are largely in the comedy and film noir genres.
In 1947, his career ground to a temporary halt with the onset of the first of the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings on Communist infiltration of the movie industry. Tuttle had joined the American Communist Party in 1937 in reaction to Hitler's rise to power. Unable to find work in the United States, he moved to France, where he made Gunman in the Streets (1950) starring Simone Signoret and Dane Clark. In 1951, after a decade as a member of the Communist Party, Tuttle gave 36 names to the HUAC.[2] [3]
Tuttle died in Hollywood, California, on January 6, 1963, aged 70. He was survived by his three daughters.