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Joseph M. Newman (August 17, 1909 – January 23, 2006) was an American film director most famous for his 1955 film This Island Earth. His credits include episodes of The Twilight Zone and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the now defunct category of Assistant Director, for David Copperfield and San Francisco.
After directing his first full-length motion picture, Northwest Rangers (1942), Newman served in the war, rising to the rank of major, making documentaries and newsreels for the Signal Corps. The sense of realism and attention to detail he gained during this time served him in later years.
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- Logan, Utah, USA
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- Simi Valley, California, USA
Joseph M. Newman worked his way up from office boy and clerk to writer and assistant director under George Cukor, Ernst Lubitsch and others. In 1937 he was briefly assigned to MGM's British section as a second unit director, but returned home within the year to direct short features.
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Joseph M. Newman was an American film director. His films often deal with science and technology, including: Crime thrillers, in which cops or crooks use technology, such as 711 Ocean Drive, Death in Small Doses, and many Crime Does Not Pay shorts;
Few stories are as tragic, shocking, and disheartening as the fight and plight of inventor Joseph Newman - an American inventor who spent hundreds of thousands of dollars inventing an energy devise that harnessed huge amounts of power from an electro-magnetic field that could have revolutionized the way we heat our homes, power our automobiles ...
Jan 23, 2006 · Joseph M. Newman was an American film director most famous for his 1955 film This Island Earth. He was nominated for two Academy Awards in the now defunct category of Assistant Director, for David Copperfield (1935) and San Francisco (1936).
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Fort Massacre: Directed by Joseph M. Newman. With Joel McCrea, Forrest Tucker, John Russell, Susan Cabot. A cavalry troop finds itself under constant attack by Indians.
