Frank Tarloff (February 4, 1916 – June 25, 1999) was a blacklisted American screenwriter who won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Father Goose.

[1] A child of Polish immigrant parents, Tarloff grew up in Brooklyn, New York, where he attended Abraham Lincoln High School and Brooklyn College.

[2] He began writing for stage and radio in the 1940s, and his first major film credit was Behave Yourself!.

He was called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1953, was categorized as a hostile witness, and was blacklisted.

He received a WGA Award nomination for best comedy writing for A Guide for the Married Man, which he wrote on his own.