Joshua Lockwood Logan III was an American film and stage director best known for directing some of the most long lasting and renowned plays of ‘Broadway’, many of which were co-authored, produced and co-produced by him. Starting his career in the ‘Broadway’ as an actor with the play ‘Carry Nation’ in the early 1930s he eventually served as an assistant stage manager before endeavouring into stage direction. His first significant success as stage director came with the musical ‘I Married an Angel’ during the late 1930s following which he delivered a series of outstanding plays that became great hits. Classics such as ‘Fanny’, ‘South Pacific’, ‘Annie Get Your Gun’, ‘Mister Roberts’ and ‘Charley’s Aunt’ were brought to ‘Broadway’ by him. In 1948 he jointly received the ‘Tony Award’ for penning down ‘Mister Roberts’ along with Thomas Heggen, the writer of the original novel. In 1950 he co-received the ‘Pulitzer Prize for Drama’ along with Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers and for co-authoring ‘South Pacific’. He was one of those theatre directors who also accomplished to carve out a niche for himself in Hollywood as well with hit and successful films like ‘Picnic’ and ‘Sayonara’. Other notable films of Logan, most of which he delivered during the 1950s and 1960s included ‘Paint Your Wagon’, ‘South Pacific’ and ‘Bus Stop’. His autobiography ‘Josh: My Up-and-Down, In-and-Out Life’ was published in 1976.