Known for Directing
Born
August 3, 1900
Died
November 10, 1968 (age 68)
Birthplace
Manhattan, New York, USA
Filmography
33 films


Live a Little, Love a Little
1968 · 1h 29m · US
Photographer Greg Nolan moonlights in two full-time jobs to pay the rent, but has trouble finding time to do them both without his bosses finding out.


Hold On!
1966 · 1h 25m · US
Herman's Hermits' first film, in which the British band has the chance to have an American spacecraft named for them.


The Americanization of Emily
1964 · 1h 55m · US
American sailor Charlie Madison falls for a pretty Englishwoman while trying to avoid a senseless and dangerous D-Day mission concocted by a deranged admiral.


7 Faces of Dr. Lao
1964 · 1h 40m · US
An old Chinese man rides into the town of Abalone, Arizona and changes it forever, as the citizens see themselves reflected in the mirror of Lao's mysterious circus of mythical beasts.


Twilight of Honor
1963 · 1h 55m · US
A young lawyer defends a drifter accused of a murder that he has already confessed to. He asks his mentor, a retired, legendary lawyer for help.


Homicidal
1961 · 1h 27m · US
A woman named Emily checks into a hotel and offers the bellboy $2000 to temporarily marry her. We soon find out Emily is the caretaker of a wheelchair-bound mute named Helga, who was the childhood guardian of a pair of siblings: Miriam Webster and her half-brother, Warren, who is about to inherit the estate of their late father. Who is the mysterious Emily and what are her intentions?


Ziegfeld Follies
1945 · 1h 50m · US
The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.


Tennessee Johnson
1942 · 1h 43m · US
Follows the tumultuous presidency of the 19th President of the United States, Andrew Johnson, whose story begins with his boyhood and early life. During the Civil War, Johnson remains a staunch Unionist and, upon Lincoln's reelection in 1864, becomes his Vice President. After Lincoln is assassinated, Johnson becomes the first U.S. President ever to be impeached.


Johnny Eager
1941 · 1h 47m · US
A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.


Escape
1940 · 1h 38m · US
An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess he seeks to engineer her escape.


Three Live Ghosts
1936 · 1h 1m · US
Three WWI veterans thought long dead turn out to be still alive and return home - much to the consternation of their friends and family.


Murder in the Fleet
1935 · 1h 9m · US
A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender. First a revolutionary new piece of technology -- an electric firing device -- is sabotaged. Then one of the cruiser's crew is murdered. In order to catch the killer, the captain locks down the ship. With foreign dignitaries, corporate goons and even Tom's girlfriend, Betty, trapped on the vessel, there is no shortage of suspects.


A Wicked Woman
1934 · 1h 12m · US
A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's condition while living with the secret that she killed her abusive husband in order to protect her children from him.


Today We Live
1933 · 1h 53m · US
Two lovers are living together and are not married; they had made a promise as children to get married when they grew up, but they "didn't wait."


New Morals for Old
1932 · 1h 15m · US
Proper parents who treat their adult children as teenagers have a son who wants to go to Paris to study art, and a daughter in love with a married man.


Guilty Hands
1931 · 1h 9m · US
A district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter's womanizing fiancé and then tries framing the fiancé's lover.


The Easiest Way
1931 · 1h 13m · US
A virtuous and innocent young woman uneasily gives in to the lavish attentions of a "sugar daddy" but then finds true love with a newspaperman her own age. But when he disappears on a long assignment, she is unable to support herself in Depression-era New York and returns to her previous arrangement, placing her in a predicament when he returns.