Nick Grindé
Born: 1893-01-12 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Died: 1979-06-19
Known For: Directing
Biography
Nick Grindé was an American film director and screenwriter. He directed 57 films between 1928 and 1945. Born in Madison, Wisconsin, Grindé graduated from the University of Wisconsin. He became a Hollywood film writer and director in the late 1920s, and was often assigned to familiarize Broadway stage directors with the techniques of film making. As a director, he is considered one of American cinema's early B film specialists. Throughout his career, Grindé was a popular writer of short stories, articles and columns usually about show business and film making in early Hollywood. In the mid 1930s, he had been married to actress Marie Wilson. Later, he married Korean-American actress Hazel Shon. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences houses the Nick Grindé Papers in its Special Collections.
Filmography
1946
- Injun Talk ... (Director)
1945
- Road to Alcatraz ... (Director)
1943
- We've Never Been Licked ... (Screenplay)
1942
- The Girl from Alaska ... (Director)
- Hitler- Dead or Alive ... (Director)
1941
- Mountain Moonlight ... (Director)
1940
- The Man with Nine Lives ... (Director)
- Men Without Souls ... (Director)
- Before I Hang ... (Director)
- Girls of the Road ... (Director)
- Convicted Woman ... (Director)
- Friendly Neighbors ... (Director)
1939
- Sudden Money ... (Director)
- King of Chinatown ... (Director)
- The Man They Could Not Hang ... (Director)
- A Woman is the Judge ... (Director)
- Million Dollar Legs ... (Director)
- Scandal Sheet ... (Director)
1938
- Delinquent Parents ... (Director)
- Federal Man-Hunt ... (Director)
- Down in 'Arkansaw' ... (Director)
- Mis dos amores ... (Director)
1937
- Public Wedding ... (Director)
- White Bondage ... (Director)
- Exiled to Shanghai ... (Director)
- Love Is on the Air ... (Director)
- Under Southern Stars ... (Director)
1936
- The Captain's Kid ... (Director)
- Public Enemy's Wife ... (Director)
- Fugitive in the Sky ... (Director)
- Jailbreak ... (Director)
- Lucky Fugitives ... (Director)
1935
- Border Brigands ... (Director)
- Ladies Crave Excitement ... (Director)
- The Great American Pie Company ... (Director)
- How to Sleep ... (Director)
- Stone of Silver Creek ... (Director)
1934
- Babes in Toyland ... (Writer)
- No More West ... (Director)
- The Ballad of Paducah Jail ... (Director)
- Bum Voyage ... (Director)
1933
- Menu ... (Director)
1932
- Vanity Street ... (Director)
- Shopworn ... (Director)
1931
- This Modern Age ... (Director)
1930
- Good News ... (Director)
- Remote Control ... (Director)
- The Devil's Cabaret ... (Director)
- The Divorcee ... (Screenplay)
- Metro Movietone Revue #4 ... (Director)
- Metro Movietone Revue #3 ... (Director)
- Wu Li Chang ... (Director)
1929
- The Bishop Murder Case ... (Director)
- Morgan's Last Raid ... (Director)
- The Desert Rider ... (Director)
- Metro Movietone Revue #1 ... (Director)
- Metro Movietone Revue #2 ... (Director)
1928
- Riders of the Dark ... (Director)
- Beyond the Sierras ... (Director)
- Fuzzy Knight and His Little Piano ... (Director)
1927
- Body and Soul ... (Assistant Director)
- Van and Schenck: Pennant Winning Battery of Songland ... (Director)
1925
- Excuse Me ... (Assistant Director)