Melville Shyer
Born: 1895-09-28 in Memphis - Tennessee - USA
Died: 1968-09-14
Known For: Directing
Biography
From Wikipedia Melville Jacob Shyer (September 28, 1895 – September 14, 1968) was an American film director, screenwriter and producer and one of the founders of the Directors Guild of America. His career spanned over 50 years, during which he worked with Mack Sennett and D. W. Griffith. Shyer was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the son of Hattie (Schwarzenberg) and Charles Richard Shyer. His family was of German Jewish background. His son is writer and director Charles Shyer.
Filmography
1957
- Beginning of the End ... (Assistant Director)
1955
- The Night Holds Terror ... (Assistant Director)
1952
- The Maverick ... (Assistant Director)
- Man from the Black Hills ... (Assistant Director)
- Montana Incident ... (Assistant Director)
1951
- Man from Sonora ... (Assistant Director)
- The Longhorn ... (Assistant Director)
1950
- Arizona Territory ... (Assistant Director)
- I Shot Billy the Kid ... (Assistant Director)
- Cherokee Uprising ... (Assistant Director)
1949
- Arson, Inc. ... (Assistant Director)
1948
- Smart Woman ... (Assistant Director)
- Jungle Goddess ... (Assistant Director)
- Smart Politics ... (Assistant Director)
1946
- Terror by Night ... (Assistant Director)
- The Killers ... (Assistant Director)
- The Cat Creeps ... (Assistant Director)
1945
- Scarlet Street ... (Assistant Director)
- The Woman in Green ... (Assistant Director)
- Gun Smoke ... (Assistant Director)
1944
- Gypsy Wildcat ... (Assistant Director)
- Jungle Woman ... (Assistant Director)
1943
- Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man ... (Assistant Director)
- It Comes Up Love ... (Assistant Director)
- Captive Wild Woman ... (Assistant Director)
- All by Myself ... (Assistant Director)
- Confessions of a Vice Baron ... (Director)
- Son of Dracula ... (Assistant Director)
1942
- Bombay Clipper ... (Assistant Director)
1941
- South of Panama ... (Associate Producer)
1940
- Mad Youth ... (Director)
- Souls in Pawn ... (Director)
1938
- Slander House ... (Associate Producer)
1937
- Smashing the Vice Trust ... (Director)
1936
- Tango ... (Assistant Director)
- Below the Deadline ... (Assistant Director)
- It Couldn't Have Happened (But It Did) ... (Assistant Director)
- Murder at Glen Athol ... (Assistant Director)
- The Bridge of Sighs ... (Assistant Director)
- The Dark Hour ... (Assistant Director)
1935
- Gun Smoke ... (Assistant Director)
- False Pretenses ... (Assistant Director)
- Circumstantial Evidence ... (Assistant Director)
- Condemned to Live ... (Assistant Director)
- Happiness C.O.D. ... (Assistant Director)
- A Shot in the Dark ... (Assistant Director)
- The Lady in Scarlet ... (Assistant Director)
- Death from a Distance ... (Assistant Director)
- Symphony of Living ... (Assistant Director)
- The Girl Who Came Back ... (Assistant Director)
1934
- Fugitive Road ... (Assistant Director)
- Fifteen Wives ... (Assistant Director)
- Green Eyes ... (Assistant Director)
- Stolen Sweets ... (Assistant Director)
- The Ghost Walks ... (Assistant Director)
- The Road to Ruin ... (Director)
- In Love with Life ... (Assistant Director)
- The Man from Hell ... (Screenplay)
- The Murder in the Museum ... (Director)
- Sons of Steel ... (Assistant Director)
- Port of Lost Dreams ... (Assistant Director)
- City Park ... (Assistant Director)
1933
- Sucker Money ... (Director)
- Twin Husbands ... (Assistant Director)
- By Appointment Only ... (Assistant Director)
- Dance, Girl, Dance ... (Assistant Director)
- A Man of Sentiment ... (Assistant Director)
- In the Money ... (Assistant Director)
- I Have Lived ... (Assistant Director)
- Forgotten ... (Assistant Director)
- Murder on the Campus ... (Assistant Director)
- Notorious But Nice ... (Assistant Director)
1932
- The Drifter ... (Second Unit)
- Cross-Examination ... (Assistant Director)
- A Scarlet Week-End ... (Assistant Director)
- Women Won't Tell ... (Assistant Director)
- The Midnight Lady ... (Assistant Director)
- The Wyoming Whirlwind ... (Assistant Director)
- The King Murder ... (Assistant Director)
- Probation ... (Assistant Director)
- The Secrets of Wu Sin ... (Assistant Director)
1931
- Grief Street ... (Assistant Director)
- The Hurricane Horseman ... (Assistant Director)
- The Lady from Nowhere ... (Assistant Director)
1930
- Today ... (Assistant Director)
- Ladies in Love ... (Assistant Director)