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)
- The Screen Director as Self (uncredited)
- Starlift ... (Director)
1950
- The West Point Story ... (Director)
1949
- Red Light ... (Director)
- Always Leave Them Laughing ... (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
- My Lucky Star ... (Director)
- Happy Landing ... (Director)
1937
- Broadway Melody of 1938 ... (Director)
- On the Avenue ... (Director)
1936
- Born to Dance ... (Director)
- Private Number ... (Director)
- It Had to Happen ... (Director)
1935
- Broadway Melody of 1936 ... (Director)
- Thanks a Million ... (Director)
- Folies Bergère de Paris ... (Director)
- Folies Bergère ... (Director)
1934
- Kid Millions ... (Director)
- Upperworld ... (Director)
- Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back ... (Director)
1933
- Lady Killer ... (Director)
- The Little Giant ... (Director)
- Bureau of Missing Persons ... (Director)
- Employees' Entrance ... (Director)
- The Mind Reader ... (Director)
- Captured! ... (Director)
1932
- Blessed Event ... (Director)
- Taxi! ... (Director)
- Beauty and the Boss ... (Director)
- Winner Take All ... (Director)
1931
- Blonde Crazy ... (Director)
- The Maltese Falcon ... (Director)
- Side Show ... (Director)
- My Past ... (Director)
1930
- Three Faces East ... (Director)
- Divorce Among Friends ... (Director)
- The Second Floor Mystery ... (Director)
- The Life of the Party ... (Director)
- Hold Everything ... (Director)
1929
- The Hottentot ... (Director)
- The Desert Song ... (Director)
- Gold Diggers of Broadway ... (Director)
- The Aviator ... (Director)
1928
- The Terror ... (Director)
- Beware of Bachelors ... (Director)
- Conquest ... (Director)
- Five and Ten Cent Annie ... (Director)
- Powder My Back ... (Director)
1927
- The First Auto ... (Director)
- Ham and Eggs at the Front ... (Director)
- If I Were Single ... (Director)
- Wolf's Clothing ... (Director)
1926
- Across the Pacific ... (Director)
- The Man Upstairs ... (Director)
- Footloose Widows ... (Director)
- The Little Irish Girl ... (Director)
1925
- Eve's Lover ... (Director)
- Three Weeks in Paris ... (Director)
- Hogan's Alley ... (Director)
1924
- The Cat's Meow ... (Director)
- Shanghaied Lovers ... (Director)
- Smile Please ... (Director)
- His New Mamma ... (Director)
- The Hollywood Kid ... (Director)
- A Deep Sea Panic ... (Director)
1923
- Skylarking ... (Director)
- Nip and Tuck ... (Director)
- One Cylinder Love ... (Writer)
- Flip Flops ... (Director)
- Asleep at the Switch ... (Director)
1922
- Gymnasium Jim ... (Director)
- The Duck Hunter ... (Director)
- When Summer Comes ... (Director)
- On Patrol ... (Director)
1921
- Be Reasonable ... (Director)
- Love and Doughnuts ... (Director)
- Bright Eyes ... (Director)
- Hard Knocks and Love Taps ... (Director)
1920
- His Noisy Still ... (Director)
- The Heart Snatcher ... (Director)
1916
- Wife and Auto Trouble ... (Scenario Writer)