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)
- About Face ... (Director)
- Here We Go Again ... (Director)
1951
- On Moonlight Bay ... (Director)
- Starlift ... (Director)
- The Screen Director as Self (uncredited)
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
- Broadway Rhythm ... (Director)
- Barbary Coast Gent ... (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
- The Star Maker ... (Director)
- Tail Spin ... (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)
- Private Number ... (Director)
- It Had to Happen ... (Director)
1935
- Folies Bergère de Paris ... (Director)
- Broadway Melody of 1936 ... (Director)
- Folies Bergère ... (Director)
- Thanks a Million ... (Director)
1934
- Upperworld ... (Director)
- Kid Millions ... (Director)
- Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back ... (Director)
1933
- Lady Killer ... (Director)
- Bureau of Missing Persons ... (Director)
- Captured! ... (Director)
- The Mind Reader ... (Director)
- Employees' Entrance ... (Director)
- The Little Giant ... (Director)
1932
- Taxi! ... (Director)
- Blessed Event ... (Director)
- Winner Take All ... (Director)
- Beauty and the Boss ... (Director)
1931
- The Maltese Falcon ... (Director)
- Blonde Crazy ... (Director)
- My Past ... (Director)
- Side Show ... (Director)
1930
- The Life of the Party ... (Director)
- Three Faces East ... (Director)
- Hold Everything ... (Director)
- The Second Floor Mystery ... (Director)
- Divorce Among Friends ... (Director)
1929
- The Aviator ... (Director)
- The Desert Song ... (Director)
- Gold Diggers of Broadway ... (Director)
- The Hottentot ... (Director)
1928
- The Terror ... (Director)
- Five and Ten Cent Annie ... (Director)
- Powder My Back ... (Director)
- Conquest ... (Director)
- Beware of Bachelors ... (Director)
1927
- Wolf's Clothing ... (Director)
- The First Auto ... (Director)
- If I Were Single ... (Director)
- Ham and Eggs at the Front ... (Director)
1926
- The Little Irish Girl ... (Director)
- Across the Pacific ... (Director)
- The Man Upstairs ... (Director)
- Footloose Widows ... (Director)
1925
- Hogan's Alley ... (Director)
- Eve's Lover ... (Director)
- Three Weeks in Paris ... (Director)
1924
- His New Mamma ... (Director)
- The Hollywood Kid ... (Director)
- A Deep Sea Panic ... (Director)
- The Cat's Meow ... (Director)
- Smile Please ... (Director)
- Shanghaied Lovers ... (Director)
1923
- Flip Flops ... (Director)
- Skylarking ... (Director)
- One Cylinder Love ... (Writer)
- Nip and Tuck ... (Director)
- Asleep at the Switch ... (Director)
1922
- On Patrol ... (Director)
- Gymnasium Jim ... (Director)
- When Summer Comes ... (Director)
- The Duck Hunter ... (Director)
1921
- Be Reasonable ... (Director)
- Bright Eyes ... (Director)
- Hard Knocks and Love Taps ... (Director)
- Love and Doughnuts ... (Director)
1920
- The Heart Snatcher ... (Director)
- His Noisy Still ... (Director)
1916
- Wife and Auto Trouble ... (Scenario Writer)