Joshua Logan Overview:

Director, Joshua Logan, was born Joshua Lockwood Logan III on Oct 5, 1908 in Texarkana, TX. Logan died at the age of 79 on Jul 12, 1988 in New York City, NY .

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Although Logan was nominated for two Oscars, he never won a competitive Academy Award.

Academy Awards

YearAwardFilm nameRoleResult
1955Best DirectorPicnic (1955)N/ANominated
1957Best DirectorSayonara (1957)N/ANominated
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He was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Motion Pictures.

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Won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for the musical "South Pacific" collaborating with Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.

A PhD dissertation written on him by Phil Boroff focused on his use of stage technique on film, and film technique on stage.

Directed José Ferrer in his first major role, the title role in Charley's Aunt. He was subsequently called on by Ferrer to act as a "play doctor" in his first production of Cyrano de Bergerac in 1946. Mel Ferrer was directing, but so openly despised the play that he had inserted several absurd bits of staging in order to downplay the more sentimental aspects. Logan removed all of these, and the result was Ferrer's best-known role.

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