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