--- title: 'Onionhead (1958)' type: 'film' director: 'Norman Taurog' released: '1958-01-01' runtime_minutes: 111 genres: - 'Comedy' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/onionhead-1958' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052030/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Onionhead (1958) 1958 · 111 min · Comedy · United States ## Synopsis Onionhead is a 1958 American comedy drama film set on a U.S. Coast Guard ship during World War II, starring Andy Griffith and featuring Felicia Farr, Walter Matthau, Erin O'Brien, James Gregory, Joey Bishop and Claude Akins. It is directed by Norman Taurog and is written by Nelson Gidding and Weldon Hill from Hill's novel. Weldon Hill is the pseudonym of William R. Scott, a native Oklahoman who based the novel on his own World War II service in the Coast Guard. ## Credits - **Director:** [Norman Taurog](https://cinepixo.com/people/norman-taurog) - **Screenplay:** [Nelson Gidding](https://cinepixo.com/people/nelson-gidding) - **Original Music Composer:** [David Buttolph](https://cinepixo.com/people/david-buttolph) - **Director of Photography:** [Harold Rosson](https://cinepixo.com/people/harold-rosson) ## Cast - [Ray Danton](https://cinepixo.com/people/ray-danton) - [Erin O'Brien](https://cinepixo.com/people/erin-o-brien) - [Lester Dorr](https://cinepixo.com/people/lester-dorr) - [Myron Healey](https://cinepixo.com/people/myron-healey) - [Ainslie Pryor](https://cinepixo.com/people/ainslie-pryor) - [Joey Bishop](https://cinepixo.com/people/joey-bishop) - [Felicia Farr](https://cinepixo.com/people/felicia-farr) - [Charles Sullivan](https://cinepixo.com/people/charles-sullivan) - [James Gregory](https://cinepixo.com/people/james-gregory) - [Joe Mantell](https://cinepixo.com/people/joe-mantell) - [Frances Morris](https://cinepixo.com/people/frances-morris) - [Claude Akins](https://cinepixo.com/people/claude-akins) - [Paul Mantee](https://cinepixo.com/people/paul-mantee) - [Walter Matthau](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-matthau) - [Karl Lukas](https://cinepixo.com/people/karl-lukas) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/onionhead-1958 Film facts: Wikidata (Q7093936); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.