Norman Tokar, the Glossary
Norman Tokar (November 25, 1919 – April 6, 1979) was an American director, actor and occasionally writer and producer of serial television and feature films, who directed many of the early episodes of Leave it to Beaver, and found his greatest success directing over a dozen films for Walt Disney Productions, spanning the 1950s to the 1970s.[1]
Table of Contents
46 relations: A Tiger Walks, AllMovie, Anthology series, Baseline StudioSystems, Big Red (film), California, Candleshoe, Colgate Theatre (1958 TV series), Dean Jones (actor), Film director, Follow Me, Boys!, Fred MacMurray, Greer Garson, Hollywood, Los Angeles, John Davidson (entertainer), Leave It to Beaver, Lesley Ann Warren, Los Angeles Times, Mary Poppins (film), Myocardial infarction, Naked City (TV series), New Comedy Showcase, Newark, New Jersey, No Deposit, No Return, Old Yeller (film), Phyllis Coates, Rascal (film), Savage Sam (film), Sherman Brothers, Sitcom, Snowball Express, Suzanne Pleshette, The Aldrich Family, The Apple Dumpling Gang (film), The Boatniks, The Bob Cummings Show, The Cat from Outer Space, The Donna Reed Show, The Happiest Millionaire, The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit, The New York Times, The Ugly Dachshund, Those Calloways, Tommy Steele, Walt Disney, Where the Red Fern Grows (1974 film).
A Tiger Walks
A Tiger Walks is a 1964 American drama film directed by Norman Tokar and starring Brian Keith and Vera Miles.
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AllMovie
AllMovie (previously All Movie Guide) is an online database with information about films, television programs, television series, and screen actors.
Anthology series
An anthology series is a written series, radio, television, film, or video game series that presents a different story and a different set of characters in each different episode, season, segment, or short.
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Baseline StudioSystems
Studio System by Gracenote, formerly known as Baseline StudioSystems, is an American e-commerce company.
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Big Red (film)
Big Red is a 1962 adventure film from Walt Disney Productions.
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California
California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.
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Candleshoe
Candleshoe is a 1977 American children's adventure comedy film, directed by Norman Tokar in a screenplay by David Swift and Rosemary Anne Sisson, produced by Walt Disney Productions, and distributed by Buena Vista.
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Colgate Theatre (1958 TV series)
Colgate Theatre is a 30-minute dramatic anthology television series broadcast on NBC during the summer and early autumn of 1958.
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Dean Jones (actor)
Dean Carroll Jones (January 25, 1931 – September 1, 2015) was an American actor.
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Film director
A film director is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that vision.
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Follow Me, Boys!
Follow Me, Boys! is a 1966 American drama film produced by Walt Disney Productions.
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Fred MacMurray
Frederick Martin MacMurray (August 30, 1908 – November 5, 1991) was an American actor.
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Greer Garson
Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson (29 September 1904 – 6 April 1996) was a British-American actress and singer.
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Hollywood, Los Angeles
Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles County, California, mostly within the city of Los Angeles.
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John Davidson (entertainer)
John Hamilton Davidson (born December 13, 1941) is an American actor, singer, and game show host known for hosting That's Incredible!, Time Machine, and Hollywood Squares in the 1980s, and a revival of The $100,000 Pyramid in 1991.
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Leave It to Beaver
Leave It to Beaver is an American television sitcom that follows the misadventures of a suburban boy, his family and his friends.
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Lesley Ann Warren
Lesley Ann Warren (born August 16, 1946) is an American actress, singer and dancer.
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Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
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Mary Poppins (film)
Mary Poppins is a 1964 American musical fantasy comedy film directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Walt Disney, with songs written and composed by the Sherman Brothers.
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Myocardial infarction
A myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops in one of the coronary arteries of the heart, causing infarction (tissue death) to the heart muscle.
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Naked City (TV series)
Naked City is an American police procedural television series from Screen Gems that aired on ABC from 1958 to 1963.
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New Comedy Showcase
New Comedy Showcase is an American anthology television series that aired on CBS in the summer of 1960.
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Newark, New Jersey
Newark is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, the county seat of Essex County, and a principal city of the New York metropolitan area.
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No Deposit, No Return
No Deposit, No Return is a 1976 American crime comedy film directed by Norman Tokar and produced by Walt Disney Productions.
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Old Yeller (film)
Old Yeller is a 1957 American Western drama film directed by Robert Stevenson and produced by Walt Disney.
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Phyllis Coates
Phyllis Coates (born Gypsie Ann Evarts Stell; January 15, 1927 – October 11, 2023) was an American actress, with a career spanning over fifty years.
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Rascal (film)
Rascal is a 1969 American drama film made by Walt Disney Productions.
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Savage Sam (film)
Savage Sam is a 1963 American Western film sequel to Old Yeller based on the 1962 novel of the same name by Fred Gipson.
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Sherman Brothers
The Sherman Brothers were an American songwriting duo that specialized in musical films, made up of brothers Robert B. Sherman (December 19, 1925 – March 6, 2012) and Richard M. Sherman (June 12, 1928 – May 25, 2024).
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Sitcom
A sitcom (a shortening of situation comedy, or situational comedy) is a genre of comedy centred on a fixed set of characters who mostly carry over from episode to episode.
Snowball Express
Snowball Express is a 1972 American screwball comedy film produced by Ron Miller and Tom Leetch and directed by Norman Tokar.
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Suzanne Pleshette
Suzanne Pleshette (January 31, 1937 – January 19, 2008) was an American actress. Norman Tokar and Suzanne Pleshette are Disney people.
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The Aldrich Family
The Aldrich Family, a popular radio teenage situation comedy (July 2, 1939 – April 19, 1953), was also presented in films, television and comic books.
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The Apple Dumpling Gang (film)
The Apple Dumpling Gang is a 1975 American comedy-Western film directed by Norman Tokar.
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The Boatniks
The Boatniks is a 1970 American comedy film directed by Norman Tokar and starring Robert Morse, Stefanie Powers, Don Ameche and Phil Silvers.
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The Bob Cummings Show
The Bob Cummings Show (also known in reruns as Love That Bob) is an American sitcom starring Bob Cummings, which was broadcast from January 2, 1955, to September 15, 1959.
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The Cat from Outer Space
The Cat from Outer Space is a 1978 American science fiction comedy film directed by Norman Tokar (his final film before his death the following year) starring Ken Berry, Sandy Duncan, Harry Morgan, Ronnie Schell, Roddy McDowall and McLean Stevenson.
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The Donna Reed Show
The Donna Reed Show is an American sitcom starring Donna Reed as the middle-class housewife Donna Stone.
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The Happiest Millionaire
The Happiest Millionaire is a 1967 American musical film starring Fred MacMurray, based upon the true story of Philadelphia millionaire Anthony Drexel Biddle.
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The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit
The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit is a 1968 American comedy film directed by Norman Tokar, with a screenplay by Louis Pelletier, and starring Dean Jones, Diane Baker, Ellen Janov, Kurt Russell, Lurene Tuttle and Fred Clark in his final film role.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Ugly Dachshund
The Ugly Dachshund is a 1966 American comedy film directed by Norman Tokar, written by Albert Aley, and starring Dean Jones and Suzanne Pleshette in a story about a Great Dane who believes he is a dachshund.
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Those Calloways
Those Calloways is a 1964 American family drama film, adapted from the 1950 children's novel Swiftwater by Paul Annixter.
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Tommy Steele
Sir Thomas Hicks (born 17 December 1936), known professionally as Tommy Steele, is an English entertainer, regarded as Britain's first teen idol and rock and roll star.
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Walt Disney
Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901December 15, 1966) was an American animator, film producer, voice actor, and entrepreneur.
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Where the Red Fern Grows (1974 film)
Where the Red Fern Grows is a 1974 drama film directed by Norman Tokar and starring James Whitmore, Beverly Garland, Stewart Petersen and Jack Ging.
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