Biography
Frederick Timmins de Cordova (27 October 1910 – 15 September 2001) was an American stage, film and television director and producer. Born in New York City, he studied at Northwestern University and Harvard Law School before working for the Shubert Organisation on Broadway. He moved to Hollywood in the mid-1940s as a dialogue director and later directed features including To Have and Have Not (1945) and Frankie and Johnny (1966).
De Cordova directed numerous television series, among them over one hundred episodes of My Three Sons (1960–1972) and episodes of The Jack Benny Program and December Bride. From 1970 he served as producer, and later executive producer, of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson until 1992. In Martin Scorsese’s The King of Comedy (1982) he appeared as the character Bert Thomas.
