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
- 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
- King of Chinatown ... (Director)
- The Man They Could Not Hang ... (Director)
- Million Dollar Legs ... (Director)
- Scandal Sheet ... (Director)
- Sudden Money ... (Director)
- A Woman is the Judge ... (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)
- Exiled to Shanghai ... (Director)
- White Bondage ... (Director)
- Under Southern Stars ... (Director)
1936
- Lucky Fugitives ... (Director)
- The Captain's Kid ... (Director)
- Jailbreak ... (Director)
- Fugitive in the Sky ... (Director)
- Public Enemy's Wife ... (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
- Good News ... (Director)
- The Devil's Cabaret ... (Director)
- The Divorcee ... (Screenplay)
- Metro Movietone Revue #3 ... (Director)
- Metro Movietone Revue #4 ... (Director)
- Remote Control ... (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
- Fuzzy Knight and His Little Piano ... (Director)
- Riders of the Dark ... (Director)
- Leo Beers: World Renowned Whistling Songster ... (Director)
- Beyond the Sierras ... (Director)
1927
- Van and Schenck: Pennant Winning Battery of Songland ... (Director)
- Body and Soul ... (Assistant Director)
1925
- Excuse Me ... (Assistant Director)