Arthur Lubin

Born: 1898-07-25

Arthur Lubin (July 25, 1898 – May 12, 1995) was an American film director and producer who directed several Abbott & Costello films and created the TV series Mr. Ed. Arthur Lubin was born Arthur William Lubovsky in Los Angeles, California in 1898. Lubin created his own film and music studio, Lubin Studios, in the 1920s, where he acted in silent films in the later half of the decade. Lubin directed the Abbott and Costello movies Buck Privates (1941), In the Navy (1941), Hold That Ghost (1941), Keep 'Em Flying (1942) and Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942). His most successful film at the box office was probably Phantom of the Opera (1943). Another may be Rhubarb (1951) about a cat that inherits a baseball team by proxy. Lubin also directed the "Francis the Talking Mule" series and brought the idea to TV as the series Mr. Ed. He was the first producer to give a contract to Clint Eastwood. Lubin also directed episodic TV shows like Bronco (1958), Maverick (1959), Bonanza (1960), Mister Ed (1961) and The Addams Family (1965). Lubin's last work was the TV series called Little Lulu (1978). Lubin's career ended in the late 1970s, and he lived the rest of his life with his life partner Frank Burford[citation needed] and died in Glendale, California of an unspecified cause on May 12, 1995 at age 96.


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The Wedding March

as Mountain Guide
Released: 1928-10-06

A young impoverished aristocrat falls in love with an inn-keeper's daughter, but has to marry money.

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Bardelys the Magnificent

as King Louis XIII
Released: 1926-09-30

Rafael Sabatini's story of the swashbuckling era and of Bardeleys, the handsome courtier who...

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Times Square

as uncredited
Released: 1929-09-01

Vivid tale of love in Tin Pan Alley.

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Eyes of the Underworld

as Gang Leader
Released: 1929-04-28

John Hueston, a wealthy newspaper publisher, plans to publish an exposé of a criminal gang but...

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Millionaires

as Lew
Released: 1926-10-01

Meyer Rubens and his wife, Esther, own a pressing-shop in New York's Lower East Side. Esther...

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