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
- Gentle Ben ... (Director)
- Red Tomahawk ... (Director)
- Hostile Guns ... (Director)
1966
- Tarzan ... (Director)
- The Monroes ... (Director)
- Waco ... (Director)
- Johnny Reno ... (Director)
1965
- Laredo ... (Director)
- Apache Uprising ... (Director)
- Taggart ... (Director)
- Black Spurs ... (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)
- Riverboat ... (Director)
- Johnny Ringo ... (Director)
- Wichita Town ... (Director)
- King of the Wild Stallions ... (Director)
- Battle Flame ... (Director)
1958
- Wanted: Dead or Alive ... (Director)
- Cole Younger, Gunfighter ... (Director)
- Revolt in the Big House ... (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
- The Hardy Boys ... (Director)
- Come Next Spring ... (Director)
- When Gangland Strikes ... (Director)
1955
- Gunsmoke ... (Director)
- The Millionaire ... (Director)
- Cross Channel ... (Director)
- Double Jeopardy ... (Director)
- I Cover the Underworld ... (Director)
- Secret Venture ... (Director)
- Track the Man Down ... (Director)
1954
- Lassie ... (Director)
1953
- A Perilous Journey ... (Director)
- Geraldine ... (Director)
1952
- Toughest Man in Arizona ... (Director)
- Oklahoma Annie ... (Director)
- Tropical Heat Wave ... (Director)
- The Fabulous Senorita ... (Director)
- Gobs and Gals ... (Director)
1951
- Street Bandits ... (Director)
- Million Dollar Pursuit ... (Director)
- Honeychile ... (Director)
1950
- Singing Guns ... (Director)
- Hills of Oklahoma ... (Director)
- Covered Wagon Raid ... (Director)
- Harbor of Missing Men ... (Director)
- The Arizona Cowboy ... (Director)
- Belle of Old Mexico ... (Director)
- Frisco Tornado ... (Director)
1949
- Sheriff of Wichita ... (Director)
- The Red Menace ... (Director)
- Flame of Youth ... (Director)
- Hellfire ... (Director)
- Navajo Trail Raiders ... (Director)
- Death Valley Gunfighter ... (Director)
1948
- Son of God’s Country ... (Director)
- Out of the Storm ... (Director)
- Heart of Virginia ... (Director)
- Secret Service Investigator ... (Director)
- Renegades of Sonora ... (Director)
- The Main Street Kid ... (Director)
- Sundown in Santa Fe ... (Director)
1947
- Rustlers of Devil's Canyon ... (Director)
- Homesteaders of Paradise Valley ... (Director)
- Oregon Trail Scouts ... (Director)
- Vigilantes of Boomtown ... (Director)
- Along the Oregon Trail ... (Director)
- Under Colorado Skies ... (Director)
- Marshal of Cripple Creek ... (Director)
1946
- Stagecoach to Denver ... (Director)
- Santa Fe Uprising ... (Director)
- Sun Valley Cyclone ... (Director)
- California Gold Rush ... (Director)
- Man from Rainbow Valley ... (Director)
- Conquest of Cheyenne ... (Director)
- Sheriff of Redwood Valley ... (Director)
- Home on the Range ... (Director)
1945
- Colorado Pioneers ... (Director)
- Manhunt of Mystery Island ... (Unit Manager)
- Wagon Wheels Westward ... (Director)
- Marshal of Laredo ... (Director)
1944
- The Lady and the Monster ... (Assistant Director)
1936
- Caryl of the Mountains ... (Assistant Director)
- Pinto Rustlers ... (Assistant Director)
- Fast Bullets ... (Assistant Director)
- Step on It ... (Assistant Director)