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
- The Man with Nine Lives ... (Director)
- Before I Hang ... (Director)
- Men Without Souls ... (Director)
- Girls of the Road ... (Director)
- Convicted Woman ... (Director)
- Friendly Neighbors ... (Director)
1939
- The Man They Could Not Hang ... (Director)
- Million Dollar Legs ... (Director)
- King of Chinatown ... (Director)
- A Woman is the Judge ... (Director)
- Sudden Money ... (Director)
- Scandal Sheet ... (Director)
1938
- Delinquent Parents ... (Director)
- Down in 'Arkansaw' ... (Director)
- Federal Man-Hunt ... (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
- Fugitive in the Sky ... (Director)
- Lucky Fugitives ... (Director)
- Public Enemy's Wife ... (Director)
- The Captain's Kid ... (Director)
- Jailbreak ... (Director)
1935
- The Great American Pie Company ... (Director)
- Ladies Crave Excitement ... (Director)
- Stone of Silver Creek ... (Director)
- Border Brigands ... (Director)
- How to Sleep ... (Director)
1934
- Babes in Toyland ... (Writer)
- The Ballad of Paducah Jail ... (Director)
- No More West ... (Director)
- Bum Voyage ... (Director)
1933
- Menu ... (Director)
1932
- Shopworn ... (Director)
- Vanity Street ... (Director)
1931
- This Modern Age ... (Director)
1930
- The Devil's Cabaret ... (Director)
- The Divorcee ... (Screenplay)
- Metro Movietone Revue #4 ... (Director)
- Good News ... (Director)
- Remote Control ... (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)
- Fuzzy Knight and His Little Piano ... (Director)
- Beyond the Sierras ... (Director)
- Leo Beers: World Renowned Whistling Songster ... (Director)
1927
- Van and Schenck: Pennant Winning Battery of Songland ... (Director)
- Body and Soul ... (Assistant Director)
1925
- Excuse Me ... (Assistant Director)