Frank Wright Tuttle (August 6, 1892 – January 6, 1963) was a Hollywood film director and writer who directed films from 1922 (The Cradle Buster) to 1959 (Island of Lost Women). Biography Frank Tuttle was educated at Yale University, where he edited campus humor magazine The Yale Record. After graduation, he worked in New York City in the advertising department of the Metropolitan Music Bureau. He later moved to Hollywood, where he became a film director for Paramount. His films are largely in the comedy and film noir genres. In 1947, his career ground to a temporary halt with the onset of the first of the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings on Communist infiltration of the movie industry. Tuttle had joined the American Communist Party in 1937 in reaction to Hitler's rise to power. Unable to find work in the United States, he moved to France, where he made Gunman in the Streets (1950) starring Simone Signoret and Dane Clark. In 1951, after a decade as a member of the Communist Party, Tuttle gave 36 names to the HUAC. Death Tuttle died in Hollywood, California, on January 6, 1963, aged 70. He was survived by his three daughters. Selected filmography The Cradle Buster (1922) Puritan Passions (1923) starring Mary Astor Second Fiddle (1923) starring Mary Astor Youthful Cheaters (1923) Grit (1924) Dangerous Money (1924) The Manicure Girl (1925) The Lucky Devil (1925) Lovers in Quarantine (1925) starring Bebe Daniels and the other Harrison Ford Kid Boots (1926) starring Eddie Cantor and Clara Bow Love 'Em and Leave 'Em (1926) starring Evelyn Brent and Louise Brooks The American Venus (1926) with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. The Untamed Lady (1926) starring Gloria Swanson Blind Alleys (1927) starring Evelyn Brent and Thomas Meighan Time to Love (1927) One Woman to Another (1927) Something Always Happens (1928) Varsity (1928) starring Charles "Buddy" Rogers and Mary Brian The Canary Murder Case (additional sound footage; 1929) starring William Powell as Philo Vance The Green Murder Case starring William Powell as Philo Vance Sweetie (1929) starring Nancy Carroll Paramount on Parade (1930), Paramount's all-star revue with a screenplay by Joseph L. Mankiewicz The Benson Murder Case (1930) starring William Powell as Philo Vance True to the Navy (1930) starring Clara Bow and Fredric March It Pays to Advertise (1931) starring Carole Lombard No Limit (1931) starring Clara Bow and Thelma Todd This Reckless Age starring Charles "Buddy" Rogers