Oliver Drake
Born: 1903-05-28 in Boise, Idaho, USA
Died: 1991-08-19
Known For: Writing
Biography
Oliver Drake was an American screenwriter and director, primarily known for his contributions to the Western genre. Over his career, he wrote and directed numerous low-budget Westerns, including Today I Hang (1942). Drake's work was instrumental in shaping the B-Western film landscape during the 1930s and 1940s.
Filmography
1978
- Western von gestern ... (Screenplay)
1970
- Angelica, the Young Vixen ... (Director)
1969
- The Mummy and the Curse of the Jackals ... (Director)
- Ride a Wild Stud ... (Director)
1968
- The Las Vegas Strangler ... (Writer)
- They Ran for Their Lives ... (Director)
1958
- A Lust to Kill ... (Director)
1957
- Dragoon Wells Massacre ... (Original Story)
- The Parson and the Outlaw ... (Director)
1955
- Cheyenne ... (Teleplay)
- Outlaw Treasure ... (Director)
1950
- Battling Marshal ... (Director)
- The Kid from Gower Gulch ... (Director)
1949
- Lawless Code ... (Director)
- Trail of the Yukon ... (Screenplay)
- Sky Dragon ... (Screenplay)
- Across The Rio Grande ... (Director)
- Brand of Fear ... (Director)
- Roaring Westward ... (Director)
1948
- Sunset Carson Rides Again ... (Director)
- The Feathered Serpent ... (Adaptation)
- Fighting Mustang ... (Director)
- Deadline ... (Director)
1947
- Ginger ... (Screenplay)
- Rainbow Over the Rockies ... (Story)
1946
- Moon Over Montana ... (Director)
- Trail to Mexico ... (Director)
- West of the Alamo ... (Director)
- Song of the Sierras ... (Director)
- Thunder Town ... (Screenplay)
1945
- Riders of the Dawn ... (Director)
- Beyond the Pecos ... (Associate Producer)
- Lonesome Trail ... (Director)
- Gun Smoke ... (Screenplay)
- Springtime in Texas ... (Director)
- Saddle Serenade ... (Director)
1944
- Weird Woman ... (Associate Producer)
- Oklahoma Raiders ... (Associate Producer)
- The Mummy's Curse ... (Associate Producer)
- Marshal of Gunsmoke ... (Associate Producer)
- Riders of the Santa Fe ... (Producer)
- Pride of the Plains ... (Story)
1943
- Fighting Valley ... (Story)
- Border Buckaroos ... (Writer)
- The Lone Star Trail ... (Screenplay)
- Trail of Terror ... (Director)
- West of Texas ... (Screenplay)
- Arizona Trail ... (Associate Producer)
1942
- Arizona Stage Coach ... (Story)
- Today I Hang ... (Director)
- Deep in the Heart of Texas ... (Writer)
- The Silver Bullet ... (Producer)
- The Old Chisholm Trail ... (Associate Producer)
- Shut My Big Mouth ... (Screenplay)
- Raiders of the West ... (Story)
- The Lone Rider in Cheyenne ... (Story)
- Boss of Hangtown Mesa ... (Screenplay)
- Little Joe, the Wrangler ... (Associate Producer)
1941
- Kansas Cyclone ... (Writer)
- Arizona Bound ... (Story)
- Hard Guy ... (Story)
- Fugitive Valley ... (Story)
- Robbers of the Range ... (Story)
- Pals of the Pecos ... (Screenplay)
- Forbidden Trails ... (Story)
- Riders of Death Valley ... (Story)
- The Lone Rider Ambushed ... (Story)
- City of Missing Girls ... (Screenplay)
1940
- Billy the Kid Outlawed ... (Writer)
- The Tulsa Kid ... (Screenplay)
- Trailing Double Trouble ... (Screenplay)
1939
- Death Rides the Range ... (Story)
- Racketeers of the Range ... (Screenplay)
- Trouble in Sundown ... (Screenplay)
- The Fighting Gringo ... (Screenplay)
- Cowboys from Texas ... (Screenplay)
- Arizona Legion ... (Screenplay)
1938
- Lawless Valley ... (Screenplay)
- Gun Law ... (Story)
- Border G-Man ... (Screenplay)
- The Renegade Ranger ... (Screenplay)
- The Purple Vigilantes ... (Screenplay)
- Painted Desert ... (Screenplay)
1937
- Nation Aflame ... (Story)
- Gunsmoke Ranch ... (Songs)
- The Riders of the Whistling Skull ... (Screenplay)
- Heart of the Rockies ... (Screenplay)
- Public Cowboy No. 1 ... (Screenplay)
- Round-Up Time in Texas ... (Screenplay)
- The Trigger Trio ... (Screenplay)
- Hit the Saddle ... (Story)
- Wild Horse Rodeo ... (Screenplay)
- Boots and Saddles ... (Screenplay)
1936
- Sharad of Atlantis ... (Screenplay)
- Roarin' Lead ... (Story)
- Oh, Susanna ... (Screenplay)
- Comin' 'Round the Mountain ... (Screenplay)
- Ghost Town Gold ... (Screenplay)
1935
- Gun Smoke ... (Screenplay)
- The Cyclone Ranger ... (Story)
- The Sagebrush Troubadour ... (Screenplay)
- The Texas Rambler ... (Story)
- Born to Battle ... (Writer)
- The Singing Vagabond ... (Original Story)
- The Vanishing Riders ... (Screenplay)
- Lightning Triggers ... (Screenplay)
- The Reckless Buckaroo ... (Story)
1934
- Border Guns ... (Writer)
- Fighting Thru ... (Story)
- West of the Divide ... (Story)
1933
- When a Man Rides Alone ... (Adaptation)
- War of the Range ... (Writer)
- Deadwood Pass ... (Adaptation)
1932
- The Drifter ... (Writer)
- Lawless Valley ... (Story)
- Beyond the Rockies ... (Screenplay)
- A Scarlet Week-End ... (Writer)
- The Reckless Rider ... (Writer)
- The Wyoming Whirlwind ... (Adaptation)
- The Texan ... (Screenplay)
- Law and Lawless ... (Story)
- Outlaw Justice ... (Dialogue)
- The Saddle Buster ... (Screenplay)
- The Scarlet Brand ... (Adaptation)
- Texas Tornado ... (Director)
1931
- The Law of the Tong ... (Scenario Writer)
- The Hurricane Horseman ... (Adaptation)
- West of Cheyenne ... (Writer)
1930
- Rogue of the Rio Grande ... (Screenplay)
1929
- The Drifter ... (Story)
- The Desert Rider ... (Writer)
- The Vagabond Cub ... (Screenplay)
- Pals of the Prairie ... (Story)
1928
- The Phantom of the Range ... (Scenario Writer)
- The Little Buckaroo ... (Scenario Writer)
- Red Riders of Canada ... (Scenario Writer)
- Orphan of the Sage ... (Story)
1927
- The Mojave Kid ... (Writer)
1925
- Red Blood and Blue as Slim