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
- Hitler- Dead or Alive ... (Director)
- The Girl from Alaska ... (Director)
1941
- Mountain Moonlight ... (Director)
1940
- Before I Hang ... (Director)
- Men Without Souls ... (Director)
- The Man with Nine Lives ... (Director)
- Convicted Woman ... (Director)
- Girls of the Road ... (Director)
- Friendly Neighbors ... (Director)
1939
- The Man They Could Not Hang ... (Director)
- King of Chinatown ... (Director)
- Million Dollar Legs ... (Director)
- A Woman is the Judge ... (Director)
- Sudden Money ... (Director)
- Scandal Sheet ... (Director)
1938
- Down in 'Arkansaw' ... (Director)
- Federal Man-Hunt ... (Director)
- Delinquent Parents ... (Director)
- Mis dos amores ... (Director)
1937
- Love Is on the Air ... (Director)
- Public Wedding ... (Director)
- White Bondage ... (Director)
- Exiled to Shanghai ... (Director)
- Under Southern Stars ... (Director)
1936
- Jailbreak ... (Director)
- Lucky Fugitives ... (Director)
- The Captain's Kid ... (Director)
- Public Enemy's Wife ... (Director)
- Fugitive in the Sky ... (Director)
1935
- Ladies Crave Excitement ... (Director)
- The Great American Pie Company ... (Director)
- Stone of Silver Creek ... (Director)
- Border Brigands ... (Director)
- How to Sleep ... (Director)
1934
- Babes in Toyland ... (Writer)
- No More West ... (Director)
- The Ballad of Paducah Jail ... (Director)
- Bum Voyage ... (Director)
1933
- Menu ... (Director)
1932
- Shopworn ... (Director)
- Vanity Street ... (Director)
1931
- This Modern Age ... (Director)
1930
- The Divorcee ... (Screenplay)
- Good News ... (Director)
- Remote Control ... (Director)
- The Devil's Cabaret ... (Director)
- Metro Movietone Revue #3 ... (Director)
- Metro Movietone Revue #4 ... (Director)
- Wu Li Chang ... (Director)
1929
- The Bishop Murder Case ... (Director)
- The Desert Rider ... (Director)
- Morgan's Last Raid ... (Director)
- Metro Movietone Revue #1 ... (Director)
- Metro Movietone Revue #2 ... (Director)
1928
- Beyond the Sierras ... (Director)
- Riders of the Dark ... (Director)
- Fuzzy Knight and His Little Piano ... (Director)
- Leo Beers: World Renowned Whistling Songster ... (Director)
1927
- Body and Soul ... (Assistant Director)
- Van and Schenck: Pennant Winning Battery of Songland ... (Director)
1925
- Excuse Me ... (Assistant Director)