Known for Directing
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ford Beebe (November 26, 1888 – November 26, 1978) was a screenwriter and director. He entered the film business as a writer around 1916 and over the next 60 years wrote and/or directed almost 200 films. He specialized in B-movies – mostly Westerns – and action serials, working on the "Buck Rogers" and "Flash Gordon" serials for Universal Pictures.
Born
November 26, 1888
Died
November 26, 1978 (age 90)
Birthplace
Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Filmography
191 films, 1 show


Buck Rogers
1977 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Edited version of the 1939 Universal serial "Buck Rogers." A 20th Century pilot named Buck Rogers and his young friend Buddy Wade awake from 500 years in suspended animation to find that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane.


Peril from the Planet Mongo
1966 · 1h 24m
country: United States
Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Zarkov return to the planet Mongo for an antidote to the Purple Death, which wreaking destruction on Earth. However, Ming the Merciless has other plans for them.


Flash Gordon: The Deadly Ray From Mars
1966 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Made for 16mm home rental, tv and video feature version of the 1938 Universal serial "Flash Gordon's Trip To Mars". Flash, Dale and Zarkov rocket from Earth to Mars to investigate the source of a ray creating environmental havoc on Earth, and find Martian queen Azura working in consort with Emperor Ming of Mongo to take over Earth.


Purple Death from Outer Space
1966 · 1h 28m
country: United States
Edited version of the 1940 Universal serial "Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe", released in a syndication package to TV in 1966.


Destination Saturn
1966 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Made-for-TV feature version of the 1940 movie serial, Buck Rogers.


Deadly Ray From Mars
1966 · 1h 36m
country: Unknown
An edited version of the 1938 Universal serial "Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars" that was released to TV in a syndication package in 1966.


Lord of the Jungle
1955 · 1h 9m
country: United States
The jungle boy tries to stop a herd of rogue elephants.


Killer Leopard
1954 · 1h 10m
country: United States
Movie actress Linda Winters has gone into the jungle to find her lost husband Fred. Bomba the Jungle Boy helps in the rescue effort. A major obstacle facing them is a killer leopard which specializes in tearing people limb from limb.


The Golden Idol
1954 · 1h 10m
country: United States
Prince Ali wants the Golden Idol of Watusi and hires a ruthless hunter to get it for him. Bomba has the idol and, with the help of Commissioner Barnes, Eli, and a beautiful archeologist, he foils Ali's plans.


Dogs 'n Ducks
1953 · 10m
country: United States
A boy trains his new golden retriever for duck retrieving competition, much to the chagrin of his first dog, a lovable but untrained mutt.


Safari Drums
1953 · 1h 11m
country: United States
A group of movie makers arrive in Africa to make a film about jungle wildlife.


Planet Outlaws
1953 · 1h 11m
country: United States
A 20th Century pilot named Buck Rogers and his young friend Buddy Wade awake from 500 years in suspended animation to find that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane. Feature version of the film serial Buck Rogers by Universal Pictures, 1940.


Bomba and the Jungle Girl
1952 · 1h 10m
country: United States
Bomba decides to find out who his parents were. He starts with Cody Casson's diary and follows the trail to a native village. An ancient blind woman tells him his parents and the village's true ruler were murdered by the current chieftain and his daughter.


Wagons West
1952 · 1h 10m
country: United States
Travelers heading west in a wagon train, under repeated assault by Indians, discover someone in their group is supplying rifles to their attackers.


African Treasure
1952 · 1h 10m
country: United States
Against stock footage of lions, elephants and wildebeasts, Bomba the Jungle Boy captures a pair of nefarious diamond smugglers.


Elephant Stampede
1951 · 1h 11m
country: United States
Bomba the jungle boy swings into action when an elephant herd is threatened by ivory hunters.


The Lion Hunters
1951 · 1h 20m
country: United States
A lion trapper and his daughter rendezvous with their hardheaded partner in the African jungle. Bomba, with assistance from a local tribe, strives to run them off.


Bomba and the Hidden City
1950 · 1h 12m
country: United States
A nature photographer and his guide meet a corrupt emir with a dirty secret. Only jungle-dwelling Bomba knows the truth.


The Lost Volcano
1950 · 1h 16m
country: United States
Little David Gordon lives in the jungle with his parents Ruth and Fred, along with their servant Nona. David likes living there while his father captures wild animals; he's made friends with Bomba the jungle boy, who has shown him a great deal about life in the jungle. One day two adventurers come looking for ancient treasure in the shadow of a live volcano.


Bomba on Panther Island
1949 · 1h 17m
country: United States
In this second film in the Bomba, the Jungle Boy series, Bomba tracks a dangerous panther.


Red Desert
1949 · 1h
country: United States
A Government agent is sent to track an outlaw who has stolen gold boulion. The chase leads into a desolate desert region where the agent is forced to utilize his survival skills.


Squadron of Doom
1949 · 1h 15m
country: United States
John "Dusty" King stars as pilot Ace Drummond in this exciting action yarn from Universal Pictures. This feature was culled from a 1936 serial


The Dalton Gang
1949 · 58m
country: United States
Deputy Marshall Larry West goes undercover to find out who has been terrorizing the territory, Navajos or the Dalton Gang.


Satan's Cradle
1949 · 1h
country: United States
Satan's Cradle was the fourth of producer Phil Krasne's "Cisco Kid" programmers for United Artists. This time, Cisco takes on a frontier megalomaniac, shyster lawyer Steve Gentry, who has taken over a mining town. Gentry's confederate is dancehall girl Lil who is as deadly as she is beautiful. When itinerant preacher Henry Lane is beaten to a pulp by Gentry's goons, Cisco and Pancho move in for the kill.


The Phantom Creeps
1949 · 1h 18m
country: United States
The truncated feature version of the 4½ hour serial about a mad scientist who attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.


Bomba, the Jungle Boy
1949 · 1h 11m
country: United States
George Harland and his daughter Pat are photographers who discover a wild boy in the jungle. When Pat becomes lost, Bomba brings her back, overcoming plagues of locusts, forest fires and fierce wild animals.


Shep Comes Home
1948 · 1h
country: United States
Little Larry Havens, whose father died in WWII, runs away from home to keep from being separated from "Shep," his father's dog. In Arizona, he is befriended by a kindly Mexican, Manuel Ortiz, who he is able to repay in time, with the aid of Sheriff "Cap" Weatherby, when Ortiz is suspected of crimes committed by local gangsters. "Shep" is instrumental in saving Ortiz from a lynching, and Larry, "Shep" and Ortiz all find a home with a couple they have befriended.


Courtin' Trouble
1948 · 56m
country: United States
Jimmy Wakely a lawman goes undrrcover with a singing job at Dawson's saloon....


Six-Gun Serenade
1947 · 55m
country: United States
In this western, two cowboys are framed as cattle rustlers and tossed in the pokey. Later, honest ranchers spring them and together they ride out against the rustlers.


My Dog Shep
1946 · 1h 2m
country: United States
An orphan boy on his way to live with his uncle picks up a stray dog, and the two become fast friends. However, the uncle doesn't want the dog, and when chickens are found dead, the uncle accuses the dog of killing them. The boy decides that it's time he and the dog hit the road so they run away, and meet up with an elderly man who also ran away from a home where he believed he wasn't wanted either.


Easy to Look At
1945 · 1h 5m
country: United States
In this musical, a talented aspiring costume designer leaves her small town to seek her fortune in the Big Apple. The girl, who is also a singer, soon begins establishing herself in the fashion industry, but when a rival accuses her of stealing a pattern, her career is nearly destroyed. Fortunately, a handsome, romantic hero is around to help her clear her name. Songs include: "Come Along My Heart", "That does It", "Swing Low Sweet Lariat" and "Is You Is or Is You Ain't My Baby?".


Enter Arsène Lupin
1944 · 1h 12m
country: United States
A rich but naive young woman is in possession of some priceless jewels. She herself doesn't know it, but a gang of jewel thieves does.


The Invisible Man's Revenge
1944 · 1h 18m
country: United States
A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner who left him for dead in the jungle after their discovery of a diamond mine. When the former partner also claims to have since lost the mine and all its wealth, which he took all for himself, and though the partner is still living in a state of luxury , the madman takes up an offer from a crazed scientist to make him invisible, something the scientist has already done with experimental animals, so that he can take revenge.


Frontier Badmen
1943 · 1h 13m
country: United States
A group of cowboys ending their cattle drive in Abilene find that cattle prices are being kept artificially low, driving down the price they'll get for their beef. They set out to change the situation.


Night Monster
1942 · 1h 12m
country: United States
Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet horrible deaths.


Overland Mail
1942 · 4h 39m
country: United States
Two investigators for a stagecoach company are assigned to find out why the company's stages keep being ambushed. They discover that the culprits are white men disguised as Indians, and they set out to discover who is behind the plot.


Donald's Decision
1942 · 3m
country: United States
Donald Duck buys Canadian war bonds in World War II.


Don Winslow of the Navy
1942 · 3h 57m
country: United States
A movie serial in 12 Chapters: US naval officer Don Winslow is given command of Tangita Island, near Pearl Harbor, where a ring of saboteurs is trying to destroy ships carrying supplies to the troops stationed in the islands and sabotage the war effort under orders from an unknown leader.


7 Wise Dwarfs
1941 · 4m
country: United States
7 Wise Dwarfs is an educational short animated film commissioned by the National Film Board of Canada as a short film for educating the Canadian public about war bonds during World War II. The short features the seven dwarfs from Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, four years after the characters made their screen debut.


The Thrifty Pig
1941 · 5m
country: United States
The Three Little Pigs sell Canadian war bonds.


The Masked Rider
1941 · 58m
country: United States
The beautiful owner of a silver mine in Mexico asks an employee for help when bandits keep robbing her shipments.


Sea Raiders
1941 · 3h 49m
country: United States
A bunch of waterfront youths pursue the Sea Raiders, a gang of saboteurs.


Riders of Death Valley
1941 · 4h 43m
country: United States
The Saturday matinee crowd got two cowboy stars for the price of one in this lavishly budgeted western serial starring former singing cowboy Dick Foran and Buck Jones. The latter contributed deadpan humor to the proceedings, making Jones perhaps the highest paid B-western comedy relief in history. The two heroes defend the Death Valley borax miners from an outlaw gang headed by Wolf Reade. An extraordinarily strong cast -- for a serial, at least -- supported the stars, headed by Charles Bickford as Reade, Leo Carillo, Lon Chaney, Jr., and silent screen star Monte Blue. Leading lady Jeanne Kelly later changed her name to Jean Brooks and starred in the atmospheric RKO thriller The Seventh Victim (1943). Universal claimed to have spent $1 million on this serial and made sure to get their money's worth by endlessly recycling the action footage in serials and B-westerns for years to come.


Sky Raiders
1941 · 3h 47m
country: United States
Captain Bob Dayton and Lieutenant Ed Carey are partners in a company called "Sky Raiders" which seeks US government contracts for its inventions. Enemy spies attempt to steal, sabotage and discredit the inventions and founders of the company.


The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
1940 · 4h 53m
country: United States
Second serial featuring The Green Hornet and Kato.


Junior G-Men
1940 · 4h
country: United States
A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join forces to rescue the father of one of the kids, the inventor of a super-explosive and its remote detonator, from the clutches of a band of foreign subversives call the "Flaming Torch Gang". A 12-episode movie serial with the chapters: •1. Enemies Within •2. The Blast of Doom •3. Human Dynamite •4. Blazing Danger •5. Trapped By Traitors •6. Traitors' Treachery •7. Flaming Death •8. Hurled Through Space •9. The Plunge of Peril •10.The Toll of Treason •11.Descending Doom •12.The Power of Patriotism


Dead End Kids vs. Spies, Inc.
1940 · 1h 43m
country: United States
The Dead End Kids smash a spy ring in this feature-length version of the Universal serial Junior G-Men. Billy, the leader of the Dead End Kids, learns that his scientist father has been captured by the "Order of the Flaming Torch." This group of fifth columnists plans to use America's biggest brains to destroy the country from within. When the saboteurs outwit the gang's street smarts, the kids have no choice but to ask the FBI for help. The feds send in their own teenage contingent -- The Junior G-Men! Now the two groups must form an uneasy alliance, before the Order of the Flaming Torch can turn the U.S.A. into Amerika, the Evil Empire!


Son of Roaring Dan
1940 · 1h 3m
country: United States
In this exciting western, Roaring Dan is the meanest old cuss around. He and his "son" are constantly bickering. But things are not as they seem as the young man is only pretending to be Dan's son so they can find the killers of the young man's real father. Among the guilty are two women.


Winners of the West
1940 · 4h 7m
country: United States
Beyond Hell's Gate Pass is territory controlled by a man who calls himself King Carter; he uses a variety of schemes to prevent the railroad from being built, for fear it will finish his control of (what he considers) his land.


The Pastoral Symphony
1940
country: United States


Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
1940 · 3h 15m
country: United States
A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his spaceship, finds a ship from planet Mongo seeding the atmosphere with dust. Sure enough, Ming the Merciless is up to his old tricks. So it's back to Mongo for Flash, Dale, and Zarkov.


The Green Hornet
1940 · 4h 18m
country: United States
A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.


Oklahoma Frontier
1939 · 59m
country: United States
It's the opening of the Cherokee strip and the Rankins are after a particular section. Frazier is also after the same section and has hired outlaws to make sure he gets it. When Jeff gives Rankin a map, the outlaws kill Rankin, steal the map, and frame Jeff for the murder. Scheduled to be hung the day of the land rush, Jeff's pal Frosty has a plan to free him.


The Oregon Trail
1939 · 5h 20m
country: United States
Jeff Scott is sent to investigate problems with wagon trains attempting to make the journey to Oregon. Sam Morgan has sent his henchmen, under lead-henchman Bull Bragg, to stop the wagon trains in order to maintain control of the fur trade in the area.


Buck Rogers
1939 · 3h 57m
country: United States
Buck Rogers and Buddy Wade are in the middle of a trans-polar dirigible flight when they are caught in a blizzard and crash. Buddy then releases a special gas to keep them in suspended animation until a rescue party can arrive. However, an avalanche covers the craft and the two are in suspended animation for 500 years. When they are found, they awake to find out that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane. Along with Lieutenant Wilma Deering, Buck and Buddy join in the fight to overthrow Kane and with the help of Prince Tallen of Saturn and his forces, they eventually do and Earth is free of Kane's grip.


The Phantom Creeps
1939 · 4h 25m
country: United States
A mad scientist attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.


Mars Attacks the World
1938 · 1h 15m
country: United States
Feature version of the 1938 film serial FLASH GORDON'S TRIP TO MARS. Flash Gordon fights Ming the Merciless once again to ensure the survival of the Earth.


Red Barry
1938 · 4h 16m
country: United States
A police detective is caught up in a plot to steal two million dollars in bonds.


Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars
1938 · 3h 49m
country: United States
When a deadly Nitron ray strikes Earth, Flash Gordon and his friends travel to Mars to battle Ming the Merciless and his new ally Queen Azura.


Tim Tyler's Luck
1937 · 3h 32m
country: United States
A 12-episode serial in which Tim Tyler goes to Africa in search of his father in gorilla country. He meets up with Laura, who is after Spider Webb who has framed her brother. Webb causes the death of Tim's father, but is eventually tracked down.


Trouble at Midnight
1937 · 1h 9m
country: United States
Noah Beery Jr. stars as Kirk Cameron in the modern-day western Trouble at Midnight. Freshly discharged from WWI, Cameron goes into the dairy-farming business, only to be hounded by his chief creditor, flint-hearted banker Everett Benson (Charles Halton). Despite his uncharitable feelings for Benson, Cameron falls in love with Catherine (Catherine Hughes), the banker's daughter.


Radio Patrol
1937 · 4h 3m
country: United States
About a young radio cop and a beautiful girl try to stop an international criminal gang from getting their hands on the formula for a new bulletproof steel.


West Bound Limited
1937 · 1h 16m
country: United States
Talbot works as a dispatcher at a small rural railway station. One rainy night, shortly after a company payroll has arrived at the station, a masked criminal arrives to steal it. Talbot intercepts the villain's plan and a struggle ensues. He manages to fight off the masked man and save the payroll. But during the fight he is away from his station and misses a call to change the tracks for an oncoming train. This causes a terrible train crash resulting in many lost lives.


Wild West Days
1937 · 4h 28m
country: United States
Retired lawman Kentucky Wade and his three buddies, Mike Morales, "Dude" Hanford and "Trigger" Benton come to Brimstone and help their friends Larry Munro and his sister, Lucy , in their fight to retain control of Larry's rich ore mine. "Doc" Hardy , as an old friend of Wade's, joins them in their efforts to keep Matt Keeler , the scheming owner of "The Brimstone News", from his efforts to wrest control of Munro's property and mine. Keller employs a legion of henchmen, and sidelines at running runs guns to Red Hatchet and his tribe so they can also get in on the fray against the Munro's and Kentucky and friends.


Secret Agent X-9
1937 · 4h 54m
country: United States
A secret agent goes after the gang that stole the crown jewels of a European monarchy.


Jungle Jim
1937 · 3h 52m
country: United States
Two safaris enter the African jungle intent on finding a white girl who is the heiress to a fortune. One safari, led by Jungle Jim, wants to make sure she gets the news that she is now a rich woman. The leaders of the other safari want to kill the girl so they can try to get hold of her inheritance.


Stampede
1936 · 57m
country: United States
A cowboy out to find out who murdered his brother discovers that the killers may not be who he thought they were.


Ace Drummond
1936 · 4h 15m
country: United States
This 13 chapter serial is based on the comic strip character Ace Drummond created by Eddie Rickenbacker. Ace is a 'G-Man of the sky' working out of Washington D.C. He is sent to Mongolia to find out why a mysterious villain known only as 'The Dragon' is trying to prevent the newly formed International Airways from setting up an airport there. Ace meets Peggy Trainor (Jean Rogers) who is searching for her archaeologist father who has disappeared. Together they search for answers to the puzzles.


The Adventures of Rex and Rinty
1935 · 3h 49m
country: United States
A 12 episode serial starring Rex, the King of the Wild Horses and Rin-Tin-Tin, Jr. Rex is brought from the island of Sujan, where he is worshiped as a God-Horse, to the U.S. to be trained as a polo pony. He escapes, meets Rinty and with the help of Frank Bradley is returned to Sujan. The natives have been persuaded to turn against their God-Horse, however he is rescued just in time before he is burned as a sacrifice.


The Man from Guntown
1935 · 1h 1m
country: United States
When Tim Hanlon arrives to tell Ruth McArthur her long lost brother has been killed, she mistakes him for her brother. He stays on to help her retain control of the dam her farther started. But DeLong is after the dam and having had McArthur killed, he now sends his man after Tim.


Law Beyond the Range
1935 · 1h
country: United States
Tim is dismissed from the Rangers for letting his friend Kane who is accused of murder escape. When newspaper editor Alexander dies, Tim takes over to continue that fight against Heston and his stooge Sheriff. He also hopes to find the notorious leader of an outlaw gang and to also help Kane prove his innocence.


Laughing at Life
1933 · 1h 11m
country: United States
Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities and an American detective named Mason. His globe hopping escape leads him finally to South America, where he is hired to organize a band of revolutionaries, unaware that they plan to eliminate him when his job is done.


The Pride of the Legion
1932 · 1h 10m
country: United States
After suffering a traumatic injury, a policeman resigns from the force and, after he's saved from a suicide attempt, goes to work at a café frequented by gangsters.


The Last of the Mohicans
1932 · 3h 51m
country: United States
Natty Bumppo, known as Hawk-Eye, is a frontiersman in the American wilderness. Together with his Indian friends Chingachgook and Uncas, he fights battles against nefarious white soldiers as well as the vicious Indian Magua and his cohorts.


The Shadow of the Eagle
1932 · 3h 38m
country: United States
The Eagle uses sky writing to make threats against a corporation. Nathan Gregory owns a travelling fairground and is thought to be the Eagle. Craig McCoy is a pilot who goes looking for the Eagle when Gregory turns up missing.


The Vanishing Legion
1931 · 3h 40m
country: United States
A mysterious master criminal known as The Voice plots with his gang to sabotage the Milesburg Oil Company, but the rightful heir has a secret army of her own to protect her rights.


Lost, Strayed or Stolen
1923 · 24m
country: United States
After Jones kicks David Phillips off his ranch, Phillips finds Jones' young grandson who had strayed away from the ranch. Not allowed on Jones' ranch, he leaves the boy at another ranch with a note. With a reward being offered for the boy's return, Jones' foreman finds the boy and alters the note to make it look like a kidnaping.
Smoked Out
Smoked Out
1923 · 21m
country: United States
Walt Rogers finds a man that has been injured and robbed. The man was returning home after a long absence. When Walt goes to his ranch he is assumed to be the long missing son. Unable to tell the dying mother he assumes the part. But then there is trouble when the robber arrives with the papers to prove he is the son.


Border Law
1923 · 20m
country: United States
Texas Ranger Chuck Williams is the bashful sweetheart of the daughter, Ellen, of the captain of his Texas Rangers troop. He is working with the Mexican Rurales in an effort to stop a gang of gun runners. The gang-leader shows up, posing as an artist, and Ellen takes him in as a boarder to make Chuck jealous. But Chuck is wise to the boarder, who kidnaps Ellen and heads for the mountain hideout of his gang.