Norton S. Parker

Norton S. Parker (also known as Norton S. Good)^[1] was an American screenwriter and director known for penning exploitation films and Westerns during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.

Biography[]

Norton was raised in Montana, and he attended Billings Polytechnic; afterward began a career as a journalist, working at The Stillwater County Democrat and The Columbus News.^[2] He later moved to Hollywood and began writing screenplays and directing films.

His marriage to his first wife, Viola, ended in 1940; a year later, he married writer Kallie Foutz in Yuma, Arizona.^[3] The pair had a daughter, Patricia, who became a model.^[4] Later in his career, he became chief of the writing division at the Army Pictoral Center; he was decorated by the Army in 1966 for his work on the television series The Army in Action.^[5][6][7]

Selected filmography[]

As director:

• The Pace That Kills (1928)
• The Road to Ruin (1928)
• (1927)

As writer:

• Devil's Canyon (1953)
• Arctic Fury (1949)
• South of Santa Fe (1949)
• Rio Grande Raiders (1946)
• Fighting Frontier (1943)
• Come on Danger (1942)
• The Bandit Trail (1941)
• Six-Gun Gold (1941)
• Cyclone on Horseback (1941)
• In Old Colorado (1941)
• Three Men from Texas (1940)
• Young Bill Hickok (1940)
• Stage to Chino (1940)
• Sky Patrol (1939)
• Prison Break (1938)
• Outlaw Express (1938)
• Western Trails (1938)
• The Last Stand (1938)
• Border Wolves (1938)
• Courage of the West (1937)
• (1936)
• Sinister Hands (1932)
• Hell's Headquarters (1932)
• Ten Nights in a Bar-Room (1931)
• Hellship Bronson (1928)
• The Road to Ruin (1928)
• Roarin' Broncs (1927)
• The Earth Woman (1926)
• The Lady from Hell (1926)

References[]