He worked in that capacity on many of Columbia's early hits, including Platinum Blonde, Lady for a Day, So This Is Africa, It Happened One Night, Mr.
Like many of Columbia's employees working as apprentices, Coleman was ultimately promoted to full-fledged director.
In 1941 Buddy Coleman joined the staff of Paramount Pictures, where he worked for more than two decades as an assistant director for many famous films, including Holiday Inn (1942), Five Graves to Cairo (1943), Double Indemnity (1944), The Blue Dahlia (1946), The Heiress (1949), Sunset Boulevard, Ace in the Hole (1951), A Place in the Sun (1951), Stalag 17 (1954), Sabrina (1954), The Spirit of St. Louis (1957), Vertigo (1958), and Hud (1963).
He retired in 1965 after completing one last assignment, released by Columbia: Genghis Khan.
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