Charles Lamont was an American filmmaker, known for directing over 200 titles and producing and writing many others.
12 Facts About Charles Lamont
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Charles Lamont directed nine Abbott and Costello comedies and many Ma and Pa Kettle films.
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Charles Lamont appeared onstage while a teenager and started appearing in films from 1919.
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Charles Lamont worked as a prop man before becoming assistant director.
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Charles Lamont started directing comedy shorts in 1922, including for Mack Sennett and Al Christie.
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Charles Lamont directed some of these films, as well as some of the competing "Buster Brown" comedies for Universal Pictures release.
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Charles Lamont then freelanced at various studios before joining Universal Pictures in 1942.
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Charles Lamont always had a tremendous rapport with juvenile performers, and Universal entrusted him with a series of musical-comedy vehicles for the studio's teenage singing star Gloria Jean.
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Charles Lamont emphasized the comic elements of the films, with Donald O'Connor and Peggy Ryan contributing their talents, and the teen musicals were very popular with wartime audiences.
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Charles Lamont directed a couple of 1945 films starring Yvonne de Carlo and Rod Cameron, Salome Where She Danced and Frontier Gal, which were not well known in the US but were popular with some French critics.
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Charles Lamont directed Universal's successful Ma and Pa Kettle comedies; his last film was the final Francis the Talking Mule comedy, Francis in the Haunted House.
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Charles Lamont died of pneumonia in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles in 1993 at age 98.