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==Work== ===Stage=== Source: ''Playbill'' <ref name=vault>[http://www.playbill.com/person/george-abbott-vault-0000001217# "George Abbott Broadway"] ''Playbill'' (vault), accessed August 5, 2019</ref> {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * 1913: ''[[The Misleading Lady (play)|The Misleading Lady]]'' (actor)<ref name="nyt112613">{{cite news |title=Crazy Quilt Of Fun, Surprise, Thrill |work=The New York Times |date=November 26, 1913 |location=New York, New York |page=11 |via = [[NYTimes.com]]}}</ref> * 1915: ''[[The Yeomen of the Guard]]'' (actor) * 1918: ''Daddies'' (actor) * 1920: ''[[The Broken Wing (play)|The Broken Wing]]'' (actor)<ref name="nyt113020">{{cite news |title="Broken Wing" Romantic |work=The New York Times |date=November 30, 1920 |location=New York, New York |page=21 |via = [[NYTimes.com]]}}</ref> * 1923: ''Zander the Great'' (actor) * 1924: ''Hell-Bent Fer Heaven'' (actor) * 1925: ''The Fall Guy'' (playwright) * 1926: ''Love 'em and Leave 'em '' (playwright, director) * 1926: ''[[Chicago (play)|Chicago]]'' (director) * 1926: ''[[Broadway (play)|Broadway]]'' (playwright, director) * 1928: ''Gentlemen of the Press'' (director) * 1932: ''Lilly Turner'' (playwright, director, producer) * 1932: ''[[Twentieth Century (play)|Twentieth Century]]'' (director, producer) * 1934: ''[[Small Miracle]]'' (director) * 1935: ''[[Three Men on a Horse]]'' (playwright, director) * 1935: ''[[Jumbo (musical)|Jumbo]]'' (director) * 1936: ''[[On Your Toes]]'' (book) * 1937: ''[[Room Service (play)|Room Service]]'' (director, producer) * 1937: ''Brown Sugar'' (director, producer) * 1938: ''[[The Boys from Syracuse]]'' (book, director, producer) * 1939: ''[[Too Many Girls (musical)|Too Many Girls]]'' (director, producer) * 1940: ''[[Pal Joey (musical)|Pal Joey]]'' (director, producer) * 1940: ''[[The Unconquered (1940 play)|The Unconquered]]'' (producer, director) * 1941: ''[[Best Foot Forward (musical)|Best Foot Forward]]'' (producer, director) * 1943: ''[[Kiss and Tell (play)]] (producer, director) * 1944: ''A Highland Fling'' (play) (producer, director) * 1944: ''[[On the Town (musical)|On the Town]]'' (director) * 1945: ''[[Billion Dollar Baby]]'' (musical) (director) * 1947: ''[[High Button Shoes]]'' (director) * 1948: ''[[Where's Charley?]]'' (book, director) * 1949: ''[[Mrs. Gibbons' Boys]]'' (producer, director) * 1950: ''[[Call Me Madam]]'' (director) * 1951: ''[[A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (musical)|A Tree Grows in Brooklyn]]'' (book, director, producer) * 1953: ''[[Wonderful Town]]'' (director) ''[[Me and Juliet]]'' (director) * 1954: ''[[The Pajama Game]]'' (book, director) * 1955: ''[[Damn Yankees]]'' (book, director) * 1957: ''[[New Girl in Town]]'' (book, director) * 1959: ''[[Once Upon a Mattress]]'' (director) * 1959: ''[[Fiorello!]]'' (book, director) * 1960: ''[[Tenderloin (musical)|Tenderloin]]'' (book, director) * 1961: ''[[Take Her, She's Mine]]'' (director) * 1962: ''[[A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum]]'' (director) * 1962: ''[[Never Too Late (play)|Never Too Late]]'' (director)<ref>[https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/never-too-late-2967 ''Never Too Late''] ibdb.com, accessed August 5, 2019</ref> * 1964: ''[[Fade Out – Fade In]]'' (director) * 1965: ''[[Flora, The Red Menace]]'' (book, director) * 1965: ''[[Anya (musical)|Anya]]'' (book, director) * 1967: ''[[How Now, Dow Jones]]'' (director) * 1968: ''[[The Education of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N]]'' (director) * 1969: ''[[The Fig Leaves Are Falling]]'' (director) * 1970: ''[[Norman, Is That You?]]'' (director) * 1976: ''[[Music Is]]'' (book, director) * 1987: ''[[Broadway (play)|Broadway]]'' (revival, book, director) * 1994: ''[[Damn Yankees]]'' (revival, book, consultant, script revisions) {{div col end}} ===Filmography=== {| class="wikitable" ! Year !! Title !! Credit |- | 1918 ||''[[The Impostor (1918 film)|The Imposter]]'' ||Writer, actor (Lem) |- | 1926 ||''[[Love 'Em and Leave 'Em (film)|Love 'Em and Leave 'Em]]'' ||Writer |- | 1927 ||''Hills of Peril'' || Playwright, ''A Holy Terror'' |- | 1928 ||''[[Four Walls (film)|Four Walls]]'' || Playwright, writer |- | 1929 ||''[[Coquette (film)|Coquette]]'' ||Playwright |- | 1929 ||''[[The Carnival Man]]'' ||Director |- | 1929 ||''[[Broadway (1929 film)|Broadway]]'' ||Playwright, writer |- | 1929 ||''The Bishop's Candlesticks'' ||Director |- | 1929 ||''[[Why Bring That Up?]]'' ||Director, writer |- | 1929 ||''[[The Saturday Night Kid]]'' ||Playwright, ''Love 'Em and Leave 'Em'' |- | 1929 ||''Night Parade'' ||Playwright, ''Ringside'' |- | 1929 ||''[[Half Way to Heaven (1929 film)|Half Way to Heaven]]'' ||Director, writer |- | 1930 ||''El Dios del mar'' ||Writer |- | 1930 ||''[[All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 film)|All Quiet on the Western Front]]'' ||Writer |- | 1930 ||''[[The Fall Guy (1930 film)|The Fall Guy]]'' ||Playwright |- | 1930 ||''[[Manslaughter (1930 film)|Manslaughter]]'' ||Director, writer |- | 1930 ||''[[The Sea God]]'' ||Director, writer |- | 1931 ||''[[The Leap into the Void]]'' ||Writer |- | 1931 ||''[[Stolen Heaven (1931 film)|Stolen Heaven]]'' ||Director; writer |- | 1931 || ''[[The Incorrigible (film)|The Incorrigible]]''||Playwright, ''Manslaughter'' |- | 1931 ||''Sombras del circo'' ||Playwright, ''Halfway to Heaven'' |- | 1931 ||''À mi-chemin du ciel'' ||Playwright, ''Halfway to Heaven'' |- | 1931 ||''[[Secrets of a Secretary]]'' ||Director, writer |- | 1931 ||''[[My Sin]]'' ||Director; writer |- | 1931 ||''[[The Cheat (1931 film)|The Cheat]]'' ||Director |- | 1932 ||''Halvvägs till himlen'' ||Writer |- | 1932 ||''[[Those We Love]]'' ||Playwright |- | 1933 ||''[[Lilly Turner]]'' ||Playwright |- | 1934 ||''[[Heat Lightning (film)|Heat Lightning]]'' ||Playwright |- | 1934 ||''Straight Is the Way'' ||Playwright, ''Four Walls'' |- | 1936 ||''[[Three Men on a Horse (film)|Three Men on a Horse]]'' ||Playwright |- | 1938 ||''Broadway'' ||Writer |- | 1939 ||''[[On Your Toes#Film adaptation|On Your Toes]]'' ||Playwright |- | 1940 ||''[[Too Many Girls (musical)#Film version|Too Many Girls]]'' ||Director |- | 1940 ||''[[The Boys from Syracuse (film)|The Boys from Syracuse]]'' ||Playwright, director |- | 1941 ||''Highway West'' ||Playwright, ''Heat Lightning'' |- | 1942 ||''[[Broadway (1942 film)|Broadway]]'' ||Playwright |- | 1947 ||''Beat the Band'' ||Playwright |- | 1957 || ''[[The Pajama Game (film)|The Pajama Game]]'' ||Writer, director, producer<ref name=EB/> |- | 1958 || ''[[Damn Yankees (film)|Damn Yankees]]'' ||Writer, director, producer |}
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