Biography
Richard Whorf (4 June 1906 – 14 December 1966) was an American actor and director. Born in Winthrop, Massachusetts, he began his career on the Boston stage as a teenager and moved to Broadway at the age of 21. He appeared in several films in the early 1940s, including as Sam Harris opposite James Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942).
Whorf began directing feature films in the mid-1940s, with credits including Blonde Fever (1945). He later directed extensively for television in the 1950s and 1960s, including episodes of Gunsmoke, Perry Mason, Rawhide, Have Gun – Will Travel, The Wild Wild West, the entire second season of My Three Sons and 67 episodes of The Beverly Hillbillies. He was also active as a stage director and designer, winning a Tony Award for costume design for the 1954 Broadway production of Ondine.
