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name: "Jack Arnold"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jack-arnold"
fi1m_id: "jack-arnold"
imdb_id: "nm0000791"
tmdb_id: 33883
wikidata_id: "Q1351968"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "14 October 1912"
died: "17 March 1992"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T08:05:26.849115+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."
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# Jack Arnold

## Identity

Jack Arnold

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jack-arnold
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jack-arnold
- **IMDb ID:** nm0000791
- **TMDB ID:** 33883
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1351968
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Arnold_(director), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1351968, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000791/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/33883

Director. Born 14 October 1912 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Died 17 March 1992.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 14 October 1912, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- **Died:** 17 March 1992
- **Active:** 1957–1959
- **Also known as:** Jack Arnold Waks, John Arnold Waks
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Arnold_(director), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1351968, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000791/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/33883

## Biography

Jack Arnold (born John Arnold Waks) was an American film and television director. He began his career making documentaries and industrial films before moving into feature films at Universal Studios in the early 1950s.

He is known for directing several science fiction films of the 1950s, including *It Came from Outer Space* (1953), *Creature from the Black Lagoon* (1954), *Tarantula* (1955) and *The Incredible Shrinking Man* (1957). He also directed episodes of the television series *Rawhide* (1959) and later worked on numerous other television shows.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Incredible Shrinking Man* (1957), Fi1m 86, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/the-incredible-shrinking-man.md)

## Complete filmography (72)

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

- *Jack Arnold Remembers The Incredible Shrinking Man* (2021), Actor
- *Into the Night* (1985), as Man with Dog
- *The Fall Guy* (1981), series, Director
- *Marilyn: The Untold Story* (1980), Director
- *The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo* (1979), series, Director
- *Buck Rogers in the 25th Century* (1979), series, Director
- *The Love Boat* (1977), series, Director
- *The San Pedro Beach Bums* (1977), series, Director
- *Sex and the Married Woman* (1977), Director, Producer
- *The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries* (1977), series, Director
- *The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West* (1976), Director
- *The Swiss Conspiracy* (1976), Director
- *The Bionic Woman* (1976), series, Director
- *Wonder Woman* (1975), series, Director
- *Ellery Queen* (1975), series, Director
- *Boss Nigger* (1975), Producer, Director
- *Archer* (1975), series, Director
- *Sex Play* (1974), Director
- *Movin' On* (1974), series, Director
- *Black Eye* (1974), Director
- *The Magician* (1973), series, Director
- *Dusty's Trail* (1973), series, Director
- *Alias Smith and Jones* (1971), series, Director
- *Make Room for Granddaddy* (1970), series, Director
- *McCloud* (1970), series, Director
- *Nanny and the Professor* (1970), series, Director
- *Love, American Style* (1969), series, Director
- *The Brady Bunch* (1969), series, Director
- *Hello Down There* (1969), Director
- *The Mod Squad* (1968), series, Director
- *It Takes a Thief* (1968), series, Director
- *Rowan & Martin at the Movies* (1968), Director
- *The Guns of Will Sonnett* (1967), series, Director
- *Mr. Terrific* (1967), series, Director, Producer
- *It's About Time* (1966), series, Director
- *The Lively Set* (1964), Director
- *Gilligan's Island* (1964), series, Director
- *A Global Affair* (1964), Director
- *Kraft Suspense Theatre* (1963), series, Director
- *The Eleventh Hour* (1962), series, Director
- *The Virginian* (1962), series, Director
- *Bachelor in Paradise* (1961), Director, Story
- *Dr. Kildare* (1961), series, Director
- *Mr. Lucky* (1959), series, Director, Producer
- *World of Giants* (1959), series, Director
- *The Mouse That Roared* (1959), Director
- *No Name on the Bullet* (1959), Director, Producer
- *Rawhide* (1959), series, Director
- *Bold Venture* (1959), series, Director
- *Monster on the Campus* (1958), Director
- *Peter Gunn* (1958), series, Director
- *The Space Children* (1958), Director
- *High School Confidential!* (1958), Director
- *The Lady Takes a Flyer* (1958), Director
- *Man in the Shadow* (1957), Director
- *The Monolith Monsters* (1957), Story
- *Perry Mason* (1957), series, Director
- *The Tattered Dress* (1957), Director
- *The Incredible Shrinking Man* (1957), Director — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/the-incredible-shrinking-man.md)
- *Outside the Law* (1956), Director
- *Red Sundown* (1956), Director
- *Tarantula* (1955), Director
- *This Island Earth* (1955), Director
- *The Man from Bitter Ridge* (1955), Director
- *Science Fiction Theatre* (1955), series, Director
- *Revenge of the Creature* (1955), Director
- *Creature from the Black Lagoon* (1954), Director
- *The Glass Web* (1953), Director
- *It Came from Outer Space* (1953), Director
- *Girls in the Night* (1953), Director
- *With These Hands* (1950), as Communist Agitator (uncredited) · Producer, Director
- *The Chicken of Tomorrow* (1948), Director

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1951: Best Documentary Feature Film (nominated), for *With These Hands*

### Other awards — 2 won

- The President's Memorial Award 1985: The President's Memorial Award (won)
- Hugo Awards 1958: Best Dramatic Presentation (won), for *The Incredible Shrinking Man*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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