Jean Yarbrough
Jean Yarbrough ( born August 22, 1900 in Marianna, Arkansas, USA, † August 2, 1975 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American film director and television producer.
- 2.1 cinema productions (selection)
- 2.2 TV series ( selection)
Life
A native of Arkansas Yarbrough came to his studies at the University of South Sewanee, Tennessee in 1922 to Hollywood, where in 1926 he stood by first experiences as a prop in the service of the Hal Roach Studios and served as assistant director in numerous short films. In this role he was, inter alia, involved in the first cinematic attempts to walk by Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. After a stopover in Mack Sennett Comedies at the beginning of the 1930s, Yarbrough moved to RKO Pictures in 1934 and took over from 1936 its first ever Director responsible jobs that consisted primarily of comedies and musicals.
Film Director
After he was in 1938 turned to the drama Rebellious Daughters his first feature-length film, gained Yarbrough from 1940 as Director cheapest horror productions such as The Devil Bat, King of the Zombies, House of Horrors, She- Wolf of London and The Brute Man a higher awareness. Another main focus was in cooperation with the comedy duo Abbott and Costello, with whom he made five films to 1952 in the period from 1944.
TV career
As the popularity of the traditional B- movie began to decline at the beginning of the 1950s, Yarbrough moved to the TV division and served from 1952 to 1954 as a producer and director of the 52-part comedy show The Abbott and Costello Show. In the 1960s Yarbrough was primarily worked as a guest director for established series such as Gunsmoke, The Addams Family and Bonanza before the end of his career still a tribe commitment to the Wild West series followed the trail of Jim Sonnett, as well as some rotation orders for In the Wild West.