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William Taylor "Tay" Garnett (June 13, 1894 – October 3, 1977) was an American film director, writer, and producer. He made nearly 50 films in various genres during his 55-year career, The Postman Always Rings Twice and China Seas being two of the most commercially successful.
Tay Garnett. Director: China Seas. Following his service as a naval aviator in WW I, Tay Garnett entered films in 1920 as a screenwriter. After a stint as a gag writer for Mack Sennett and Hal Roach he joined Pathe, then the distributor for both competing comedy producers, and in 1928 began directing for that company.
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Jun 9, 2024 · Tay Garnett (born June 13, 1894, Los Angeles, California, U.S.—died October 3, 1977, Los Angeles) was an American director who, during a career that spanned more than four decades, worked in a variety of genres but was best known for the film-noir classic The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946).
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Tay Garnett was a director and screenwriter who worked in Hollywood and England from the 1920s to the 1970s. He is best known for films such as The Postman Always Rings Twice, China Seas and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
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- October 3, 1977
1. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) Passed | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir. 7.4. Rate. 84 Metascore. A married woman and a drifter fall in love and then plot to murder her husband. Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn. Votes: 22,801 | Gross: $8.33M. 2. One Way Passage (1932)
A prolific, skillful director of adventure films, westerns and other hard-hitting fare, Tay Garnett began in films around 1920 as a writer. Becoming as a director near the end of the silent period, Garnett quickly demonstrated the narrative verve and technical competence typical of his work with...
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Tay was a multi-talented man’s man – a circus acrobat and cartoonist in his early youth, a Naval Air pilot in World War I and skipper of his own yacht, “The Athene,” in which he circled the globe with his second wife, Helga Moray.
