Arthur Lubin
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Arthur Lubin (July 25, 1898 - May 12, 1995) was a 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 called '"Lubin Studios" in the 1920s, where he started acting in silent films from 1925 - 1929. Lubin directed the "Abbott & Costello" movies Buck Privates (1941), In the Navy (1941), Hold That Ghost (1941), Keep 'Em Flying (1942) and Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942). His most famous work was Phantom of the Opera (1943). His other may be considered Rhubarb (1951) about a cat that inherets a baseball team by proxy . Lubin also directed Francis the talking mule series and brought the idea to TV as the series Mr. Ed. 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 stopped film directing in the late 1970s, and lived the rest of his life with his life partner Frank Burford and died in Glendale, California of an unspecified death on May 12, 1995 at age 96.
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