R.G. Springsteen
Born: 1904-09-08 in Tacoma, Washington, USA
Died: 1989-12-09
Known For: Directing
Biography
Robert G. Springsteen (September 8, 1904 – December 9, 1989) was an American director of Hollywood B movies and television shows. He was most often credited on screen as R. G. Springsteen. Born in Tacoma, Washington, in 1904, Springsteen started working in Hollywood during the 1920s. He was hired by Fox Studios as a wardrobe assistant. In 1936 he moved to directing and worked as a Second unit, or assistant, director on numerous low budget B movies. During this time film credits often listed him by the nickname of Bud Springsteen. By 1945 Springsteen became a lead director and established himself as a filmmaker with his first B Western, Marshal of Laredo. From 1945 through 1968, Springsteen was a prolific director of Hollywood B Westerns and television episodes initially with Republic Pictures and later with A.C. Lyles's series of Westerns for Paramount Pictures. His last directing job came in 1968 with an episode of the television series Gentle Ben.
Filmography
1970
- Tiger by the Tail ... (Director)
1967
- Hostile Guns ... (Director)
- Red Tomahawk ... (Director)
- Gentle Ben ... (Director)
1966
- Tarzan ... (Director)
- Johnny Reno ... (Director)
- Waco ... (Director)
- The Monroes ... (Director)
1965
- Laredo ... (Director)
- Black Spurs ... (Director)
- Taggart ... (Director)
- Apache Uprising ... (Director)
1964
- Daniel Boone ... (Director)
- Bullet for a Badman ... (Director)
- He Rides Tall ... (Director)
1963
- Showdown ... (Director)
1961
- Operation Eichmann ... (Director)
- Gunfight at Black Horses Canyon ... (Director)
1959
- Rawhide ... (Director)
- Johnny Ringo ... (Director)
- Riverboat ... (Director)
- Battle Flame ... (Director)
- King of the Wild Stallions ... (Director)
- Wichita Town ... (Director)
1958
- Wanted: Dead or Alive ... (Director)
- Revolt in the Big House ... (Director)
- Cole Younger, Gunfighter ... (Director)
1957
- Wagon Train ... (Director)
- Richard Diamond, Private Detective ... (Director)
- Trackdown ... (Director)
- Whirlybirds ... (Director)
- Affair in Reno ... (Director)
- The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of the Ghost Farm ... (Director)
1956
- Come Next Spring ... (Director)
- When Gangland Strikes ... (Director)
- The Hardy Boys ... (Director)
1955
- Gunsmoke ... (Director)
- The Millionaire ... (Director)
- Secret Venture ... (Director)
- Double Jeopardy ... (Director)
- Track the Man Down ... (Director)
- I Cover the Underworld ... (Director)
- Cross Channel ... (Director)
1954
- Lassie ... (Director)
1953
- Geraldine ... (Director)
- A Perilous Journey ... (Director)
1952
- Oklahoma Annie ... (Director)
- The Fabulous Senorita ... (Director)
- Tropical Heat Wave ... (Director)
- Toughest Man in Arizona ... (Director)
- Gobs and Gals ... (Director)
1951
- Honeychile ... (Director)
- Street Bandits ... (Director)
- Million Dollar Pursuit ... (Director)
1950
- Singing Guns ... (Director)
- Covered Wagon Raid ... (Director)
- Harbor of Missing Men ... (Director)
- Belle of Old Mexico ... (Director)
- The Arizona Cowboy ... (Director)
- Frisco Tornado ... (Director)
- Hills of Oklahoma ... (Director)
1949
- Hellfire ... (Director)
- The Red Menace ... (Director)
- Flame of Youth ... (Director)
- Death Valley Gunfighter ... (Director)
- Navajo Trail Raiders ... (Director)
- Sheriff of Wichita ... (Director)
1948
- The Main Street Kid ... (Director)
- Secret Service Investigator ... (Director)
- Heart of Virginia ... (Director)
- Sundown in Santa Fe ... (Director)
- Son of God’s Country ... (Director)
- Out of the Storm ... (Director)
- Renegades of Sonora ... (Director)
1947
- Homesteaders of Paradise Valley ... (Director)
- Rustlers of Devil's Canyon ... (Director)
- Marshal of Cripple Creek ... (Director)
- Under Colorado Skies ... (Director)
- Vigilantes of Boomtown ... (Director)
- Oregon Trail Scouts ... (Director)
- Along the Oregon Trail ... (Director)
1946
- Santa Fe Uprising ... (Director)
- Stagecoach to Denver ... (Director)
- Sun Valley Cyclone ... (Director)
- California Gold Rush ... (Director)
- Sheriff of Redwood Valley ... (Director)
- Man from Rainbow Valley ... (Director)
- Home on the Range ... (Director)
- Conquest of Cheyenne ... (Director)
1945
- Colorado Pioneers ... (Director)
- Wagon Wheels Westward ... (Director)
- Manhunt of Mystery Island ... (Unit Manager)
- Marshal of Laredo ... (Director)
1944
- The Lady and the Monster ... (Assistant Director)
1936
- Pinto Rustlers ... (Assistant Director)
- Fast Bullets ... (Assistant Director)
- Step on It ... (Assistant Director)
- Caryl of the Mountains ... (Assistant Director)