Jean Yarbrough

Jean Yarbrough
Born (1901-08-22)August 22, 1901
Marianna, Arkansas, U.S.
Died August 2, 1975(1975-08-02) (aged 73)
Los Angeles, California
Occupation Film director

Jean Yarbrough (August 22, 1901 – August 2, 1975) was an American film director.

Biography

Jean Yarbrough was born in Marianna, Arkansas on August 22, 1901. He attended the University of the South located in Sewanee, Tennessee. In 1922, Yarbrough entered the film business working in silent pictures. He was only 21 years of age! He began his career working first as a prop-man. But, he steadily rose thru the ranks leaning as much as he could in the business to become an assistant director. By 1936, he was a bona fide director, first doing comedy and musical shorts for RKO which was founded by Joseph P. Kennedy among others. His directorial debut for a feature-length film was ''Rebellious Daughters'' which was made by the low-budget studio, Progressive Pictures in 1938. His greatest success came in the 1940s, when he directed movies that are still fondly remembered to this day, such as The Devil Bat, King of the Zombies, She-Wolf of London, and a number of Abbott and Costello comedies. Yarbrough directed two of The Bowery Boys movies which was the longest running series in American movie history. Angels in Disguise and Master Minds were both directed by Jean Yarbrough in 1949. Yarbrough found little difficulty in transitioning from the traditional B-movies which were on the decline to the new medium of television. He directed many, many episodes for different tv series throughout the 1950's and 1960's which is widely considered to be the Golden Age of Television. In addition to directing, he had a two-year stint working as both producer and director of the very popular Abbott and Costello Show. He directed some episodes of The Silent Service and Navy Log, also during the 1950's, which were military dramas based on true stories of the United States Navy.

He subsequently directed episodes of Walter Brennan's western series The Guns of Will Sonnett. His last theatrical film was 1967's Hillbillys in a Haunted House, a mixture of comedy, horror and country music...starring Basil Rathbone and Lon Chaney, Jr.

Filmography

References

    External links

    Jean Yarbrough at the Internet Movie Database

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