Elliott Nugent

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Elliott Nugent (September 20, 1896, Dover, Ohio - August 9, 1980, New York City) was an American actor, writer, and film director. He successfully made the transition from silent film to sound. He directed The Cat and the Canary (1939), starring Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard. He also directed the Hope films Never Say Die (1939) and My Favorite Brunette (1947). Nugent was a college classmate (and lifelong friend) of fellow Ohioan James Thurber. Together, they wrote the Broadway play The Male Animal (1940) in which Nugent starred with Gene Tierney. He also directed the 1942 Warner Bros. film version of The Male Animal, starring Henry Fonda and Olivia de Havilland. Nugent's autobiography Events Leading Up to the Comedy (1965) skips over large portions of Nugent's life and work, but deals honestly with the alcoholism that largely ended his career. Nugent was the son of veteran actor J.C. Nugent who sometimes wrote or acted with Elliott. Description above from the Wikipedia article Elliott Nugent, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Virtuous Husband

as Daniel Curtis

My Girl Tisa

Romance

as Harry

Stage Door Canteen

as Elliott Nugent

Wise Girls

as Kempy

Strictly Dynamite

as Program Director (uncredited)

The Single Standard

as Party Boy (uncredited)

The Unholy Three

as Hector McDonald

The Last Flight

as Francis

So This Is College

as Eddie

Not So Dumb

as Gordon

Three Cornered Moon

as Mr. Stokes (uncredited)

The Sins of the Children

as Johnnie

So This is Eden

as Jim

For the Love o' Lil

as Sandy Jenkins