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Norman Foster was an American actor, film director and screenwriter. He directed many Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto films as well as projects for Orson Welles and Walt Disney. As an actor he was a leading man in early talkies and also appeared in Welles’ final film The Other Side of the Wind.
Birth Name
Norman Foster Hoeffer
Born
Sunday, 13 December 1903
Died
Wednesday, 07 July 1976
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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They'll Love Me When I'm Dead | Himself (archive footage) / Self | 2018 |
The Other Side of the Wind | Billy Boyle | 2018 |
The Disney Family Album | Self | 1984 |
Woman in the Rain | Assistant Director for HighShine Commercial | 1976 |
Arena | Rodney Martin (clip from It Pays to Advertise (1931)) | 1975 |
Double Solitaire | Ernest / Ernest Potter | 1974 |
The ABC Afternoon Playbreak | Dr. Leon Lesser | 1972 |
Play It As It Lays | Abortionist | 1972 |
Cannon | Christopher Machen / Mr. Bloom | 1971 |
The Love Goddesses | Self / (archive footage) | 1965 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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They'll Love Me When I'm Dead | Himself (archive footage) / Self | 2018 |
The Other Side of the Wind | Billy Boyle | 2018 |
The Disney Family Album | Self | 1984 |
Woman in the Rain | Assistant Director for HighShine Commercial | 1976 |
Arena | Rodney Martin (clip from It Pays to Advertise (1931)) | 1975 |
Double Solitaire | Ernest / Ernest Potter | 1974 |
The ABC Afternoon Playbreak | Dr. Leon Lesser | 1972 |
Play It As It Lays | Abortionist | 1972 |
Cannon | Christopher Machen / Mr. Bloom | 1971 |
The Love Goddesses | Self / (archive footage) | 1965 |
The Magical World of Disney | Himself | 1954 |
Mysterious Mr. Moto | Hoodlum in Tavern | 1938 |
Sunday Night at the Trocadero | Norman Foster | 1937 |
I Cover Chinatown | Eddie Barton | 1936 |
High Tension | Eddie Mitchell | 1936 |
Fatal Lady | Phillip Roberts | 1936 |
Everybody's Old Man | Ronald Franklin | 1936 |
The Leavenworth Case | Detective Bob Grice | 1936 |
Suicide Squad | Larry Barker / Larry Parker | 1935 |
Super-Speed | Randy Rogers | 1935 |
The Fire-Trap | Bill Farnsworth | 1935 |
Escape from Devil's Island | Andre Dion | 1935 |
The Bishop Misbehaves | Donald / Donald Meadows | 1935 |
Ladies Crave Excitement | Don Phelan | 1935 |
The Hoosier Schoolmaster | Ralph Hartsook | 1935 |
Behind the Green Lights | Detective Lt. Dave Britten | 1935 |
Behind the Evidence | Tony Sheridan | 1935 |
Elinor Norton | Bill Carroll / Bill Foster | 1934 |
Strictly Dynamite | Nick Montgomery / Fleming | 1934 |
Hollywood on Parade No. B-1 | Self | 1934 |
Orient Express | Carlton Myatt | 1934 |
Walls of Gold | Barnes Ritchie | 1933 |
Rafter Romance | Jack / Jack Bacon | 1933 |
Pilgrimage | Jim 'Jimmy' Jessop / Jim 'Jimmy' Jessop (Hannah's son) | 1933 |
Professional Sweetheart | Jim Davey | 1933 |
State Fair | Wayne Frake | 1933 |
Prosperity | John Warren | 1932 |
Strange Justice | Wally Baker | 1932 |
Skyscraper Souls | Tom / Tom Shepherd | 1932 |
Week-End Marriage | Ken Hayes | 1932 |
The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood | Maurice Cohen | 1932 |
Steady Company | Jim | 1932 |
Play Girl | Wallace 'Wally' Dennis | 1932 |
Alias the Doctor | Stephan Brenner | 1932 |
Girl of the Rio | Johnny Powell | 1932 |
Confessions of a Co-Ed | Hal Evans | 1931 |
City Streets | Shooting Gallery Patron | 1931 |
Men Call It Love | Jack / Jack Mills | 1931 |
It Pays to Advertise | Rodney Martin | 1931 |
No Limit | Douglas Thayer | 1931 |
Under Eighteen | Alf | 1931 |
Young Man of Manhattan | Toby McLean | 1930 |
Love at First Sight | Richard Norton | 1930 |
Gentlemen of the Press | Ted Hanley | 1929 |
Director Filmography
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Producer Filmography
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