Roy Del Ruth
Born: 1893-10-18 in New Castle, Delaware, USA
Died: 1961-04-27
Known For: Directing
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Roy Del Ruth (October 18, 1893 – April 27, 1961) was a Hollywood film director. Del Ruth, who started out as a screenwriter in 1915 writing gags for Mack Sennett, began directing feature films in the 1920s. He became known for directing urban and crime dramas including the 1931 version of The Maltese Falcon. He also directed the universally panned The Babe Ruth Story (1948) and the 20th Century Fox B-movie Alligator People (1959). Roy Del Ruth died in 1961 at age 67 and was interred in the San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Mission Hills, Los Angeles, California. For his contributions to the motion picture industry, he was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6150 Hollywood Blvd. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roy Del Ruth, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
1960
- Why Must I Die ... (Director)
1959
- Adventures in Paradise ... (Director)
- The Alligator People ... (Director)
1957
- Richard Diamond, Private Detective ... (Director)
1955
- The 20th Century Fox Hour ... (Director)
1954
- Phantom of the Rue Morgue ... (Director)
1953
- Three Sailors and a Girl ... (Director)
1952
- Stop, You're Killing Me ... (Director)
- Here We Go Again ... (Director)
- About Face ... (Director)
1951
- On Moonlight Bay ... (Director)
- Starlift ... (Director)
- The Screen Director as Self (uncredited)
1950
- The West Point Story ... (Director)
1949
- Always Leave Them Laughing ... (Director)
- Red Light ... (Director)
1948
- The Babe Ruth Story ... (Director)
1947
- It Happened on Fifth Avenue ... (Director)
1945
- Ziegfeld Follies ... (Director)
1944
- Barbary Coast Gent ... (Director)
- Broadway Rhythm ... (Director)
1943
- Du Barry Was a Lady ... (Director)
1942
- I Married an Angel ... (Director)
- Maisie Gets Her Man ... (Director)
1941
- Topper Returns ... (Director)
- The Chocolate Soldier ... (Director)
1940
- He Married His Wife ... (Director)
1939
- Tail Spin ... (Director)
- The Star Maker ... (Director)
- Here I Am a Stranger ... (Director)
1938
- Happy Landing ... (Director)
- My Lucky Star ... (Director)
1937
- Broadway Melody of 1938 ... (Director)
- On the Avenue ... (Director)
1936
- Born to Dance ... (Director)
- It Had to Happen ... (Director)
- Private Number ... (Director)
1935
- Folies Bergère de Paris ... (Director)
- Broadway Melody of 1936 ... (Director)
- Folies Bergère ... (Director)
- Thanks a Million ... (Director)
1934
- Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back ... (Director)
- Upperworld ... (Director)
- Kid Millions ... (Director)
1933
- Bureau of Missing Persons ... (Director)
- Captured! ... (Director)
- Lady Killer ... (Director)
- The Little Giant ... (Director)
- The Mind Reader ... (Director)
- Employees' Entrance ... (Director)
1932
- Beauty and the Boss ... (Director)
- Taxi! ... (Director)
- Blessed Event ... (Director)
- Winner Take All ... (Director)
1931
- Blonde Crazy ... (Director)
- The Maltese Falcon ... (Director)
- My Past ... (Director)
- Side Show ... (Director)
1930
- The Second Floor Mystery ... (Director)
- The Life of the Party ... (Director)
- Three Faces East ... (Director)
- Hold Everything ... (Director)
- Divorce Among Friends ... (Director)
1929
- Gold Diggers of Broadway ... (Director)
- The Aviator ... (Director)
- The Hottentot ... (Director)
- The Desert Song ... (Director)
1928
- Five and Ten Cent Annie ... (Director)
- The Terror ... (Director)
- Conquest ... (Director)
- Beware of Bachelors ... (Director)
- Powder My Back ... (Director)
1927
- Ham and Eggs at the Front ... (Director)
- The First Auto ... (Director)
- Wolf's Clothing ... (Director)
- If I Were Single ... (Director)
1926
- The Little Irish Girl ... (Director)
- Across the Pacific ... (Director)
- The Man Upstairs ... (Director)
- Footloose Widows ... (Director)
1925
- Three Weeks in Paris ... (Director)
- Eve's Lover ... (Director)
- Hogan's Alley ... (Director)
1924
- A Deep Sea Panic ... (Director)
- The Cat's Meow ... (Director)
- The Hollywood Kid ... (Director)
- His New Mamma ... (Director)
- Smile Please ... (Director)
- Shanghaied Lovers ... (Director)
1923
- Flip Flops ... (Director)
- Nip and Tuck ... (Director)
- Asleep at the Switch ... (Director)
- Skylarking ... (Director)
- One Cylinder Love ... (Writer)
1922
- On Patrol ... (Director)
- When Summer Comes ... (Director)
- The Duck Hunter ... (Director)
- Gymnasium Jim ... (Director)
1921
- Be Reasonable ... (Director)
- Hard Knocks and Love Taps ... (Director)
- Bright Eyes ... (Director)
- Love and Doughnuts ... (Director)
1920
- The Heart Snatcher ... (Director)
- His Noisy Still ... (Director)
1916
- Wife and Auto Trouble ... (Scenario Writer)