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Tashlin began his career directing feature films when he was asked to finish directing the 1951 film The Lemon Drop Kid starring Bob Hope.
Tashlin’s classic period as a director began with Artists and Models (1955), in which Dean Martin played a comic-book creator who uses the espionage-related dreams of his roommate (Jerry Lewis) as inspiration, provoking the interest of real spies.
- Michael Barson
Frank Tashlin, byname of Francis Fredrick von Taschlein, (born February 19, 1913, Weehawken, New Jersey, U.S.—died May 5, 1972, Los Angeles, California), U.S. cartoonist, writer, and film director. He worked for Max Fleischer as an errand boy and assistant in his New York City studios.
Mar 5, 2015 · It’s inaccurate to say that Frank Tashlin’s animation career was a footnote to his work as a feature director, because over the past several decades, scarcely an article has been written about Tashlin without a mention of how he got his start in Hollywood.
Dec 2, 2003 · Tashlin’s film career has three distinct segments: the first is comprised of his animated work; the second, of his career as a screenwriter and gagman; the third, as a feature director (though he did do some writing only work even after becoming a director).
Tashlin’s career spanned the gamut of popular comedy; between 1933 and 1936 alone, he wrote a comic strip (“Van Boring”) for the Los Angeles Times, animated for Ub Iwerks, and wrote gags for Charley Chase at the Hal Roach film studio before being hired as a director at Warner Bros. — at the age of twenty-three.
Frank Tashlin (born Francis Fredrick von Taschlein, February 19, 1913 – May 5, 1972), also known by his nicknames as Tish Tash and Frank Tash, was an American animator and filmmaker known for his work on the the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of theatrical cartoons, and his later career as a director of live-action comedy films.
