---
name: "Frederick de Cordova"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/frederick-de-cordova"
fi1m_id: "frederick-de-cordova"
imdb_id: "nm0208111"
tmdb_id: 43816
wikidata_id: "Q443351"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "27 October 1910"
died: "15 September 2001"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T03:34:04.235770+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Frederick de Cordova

## Identity

Frederick de Cordova

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/frederick-de-cordova
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** frederick-de-cordova
- **IMDb ID:** nm0208111
- **TMDB ID:** 43816
- **Wikidata ID:** Q443351
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_de_Cordova, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q443351, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0208111/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/43816

Actor. Born 27 October 1910 in New York City, New York. Died 15 September 2001.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 27 October 1910, New York City, New York
- **Died:** 15 September 2001
- **Active:** 1945–1982
- **Also known as:**  Fred De Cordova , Fred deCordova 
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 writing
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1940s 84 (1), 1980s 88 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_de_Cordova, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q443351, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0208111/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/43816

## 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.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, variety.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Performed in (1) — the average rests on these

- *The King of Comedy* (1982), Fi1m 88, as Bert Thomas — [page](https://film.one/film/the-king-of-comedy.md)

### Wrote (1)

- *To Have and Have Not* (1945), Fi1m 84, Dialogue — [page](https://film.one/film/to-have-and-have-not.md)

## Complete filmography (41)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Johnny Carson Celebrates Christmas* (2008), Director, Producer
- *Carson Country* (2006), Director
- *E! True Hollywood Story* (1996), series, Actor
- *Mad About You* (1992), series, as Hugh Moss
- *The Larry Sanders Show* (1992), series, as Fred De Cordova, Frederick De Cordova — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-larry-sanders-show.md)
- *ALF* (1986), series, as Frederick de Cordova
- *The King of Comedy* (1982), as Bert Thomas — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/the-king-of-comedy.md)
- *To Rome with Love* (1969), series, Director
- *The Jack Benny Birthday Special* (1969), Director
- *The Doris Day Show* (1968), series, Director
- *Carnival Nights* (1968), Director
- *Frankie and Johnny* (1966), Director
- *I'll Take Sweden* (1965), Director
- *The Farmer's Daughter* (1963), series, Director
- *My Three Sons* (1960), series, Director
- *The Donna Reed Show* (1958), series, Director
- *Blithe Spirit* (1956), Director
- *December Bride* (1954), series, Director
- *The Bing Crosby Show* (1954), Director
- *Column South* (1953), Director
- *Yankee Buccaneer* (1952), Director
- *Bonzo Goes to College* (1952), Director
- *Here Come the Nelsons* (1952), Director
- *Finders Keepers* (1952), Director
- *Little Egypt* (1951), Director
- *Bedtime for Bonzo* (1951), Director
- *Katie Did It* (1950), Director
- *The Desert Hawk* (1950), Director
- *Peggy* (1950), Director
- *Buccaneer's Girl* (1950), Director
- *The Gal Who Took the West* (1949), Director
- *Illegal Entry* (1949), Director
- *The Countess of Monte Cristo* (1948), Director
- *For the Love of Mary* (1948), Director
- *Wallflower* (1948), Director
- *Always Together* (1947), Director
- *Love and Learn* (1947), Director
- *That Way with Women* (1947), Director
- *Her Kind of Man* (1946), Director
- *Too Young to Know* (1945), Director
- *To Have and Have Not* (1945), Dialogue — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/to-have-and-have-not.md)

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