Known for Writing
Born
June 19, 1904
Died
August 15, 1985 (age 81)
Birthplace
New York City, New York, USA
Filmography
48 films


Born Free
1966 · 1h 35m
country: United Kingdom
At a national park in Kenya, English game warden George Adamson and his wife, Joy, care for three orphaned lion cubs. After the two larger lions are shipped off to a zoo in the Netherlands, the smallest of the three, Elsa, stays with the couple. When Elsa is blamed for causing an elephant stampede in the nearby village, head warden John Kendall demands the young lion either be trained to survive in the wilds of the Serengeti or be sent to a zoo.


High Wall
1947 · 1h 39m
country: United States
Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he's committed to an understaffed county asylum full of pathetic inmates. There, Dr. Ann Lorrison is initially skeptical about Kenet's story and reluctance to undergo treatment. But against her better judgement, she begins to doubt his guilt.


The Romance of Rosy Ridge
1947 · 1h 45m
country: United States
A mysterious Civil War veteran courts a Missouri farmer's daughter amid postwar unrest.


Fiesta
1947 · 1h 44m
country: United States
When a matador leaves town to focus on his music, his twin sister takes on his identity in the bullfighting ring.


Objective, Burma!
1945 · 2h 22m
country: United States
A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they try to rendezvous at an old air-strip to be taken back to their base, they find Japanese waiting for them, and they must make a long, difficult walk back through enemy-occupied jungle.


Pacific Blackout
1941 · 1h 16m
country: United States
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America entered WW2.


Footsteps in the Dark
1941 · 1h 36m
country: United States
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of problems when his wife wants to know about his little disappearances and exceptionally late nights out.


The Invisible Man Returns
1940 · 1h 21m
country: United States
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.


Winter Carnival
1939 · 1h 31m
country: United States
A divorced glamour girl keeps warm with a professor amid sports and romance at Dartmouth College's Winter Carnival.


Secrets of a Nurse
1938 · 1h 15m
country: United States
This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true incident, in which a gangster "returned from the dead" to save an innocent young man from the electric chair. The nurse of the film's title is Katharine McDonald, who falls in love with her prizefighter-patient Lee Burke as he recovers from a beating received in a fixed prizefight. Katharine must fend off the advances of criminal attorney John Dodge, another patient who also loves her and becomes jealous of Lee. But when Lee is framed for the murder of his disgruntled manager, Slice, by a henchman of the fight-fix leader, Joe Largo, Dodge takes on his defense and works with Katherine to discover the real killer. Convicted and sentenced to death, Burke is about to walk the "last mile", as Katharine encourages mortally wounded Largo to a deathbed confession.


The Crime of Doctor Hallet
1938 · 1h 8m
country: United States
Doctor in jungle works on cure for fever.


Midnight Intruder
1938 · 1h 8m
country: United States
A former actor poses as the son of a wealthy man and gets involved in a murder in which the real son is the suspect.


The Jury's Secret
1938 · 1h 5m
country: United States
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
The Man in Blue
The Man in Blue
1937 · 1h 7m
country: United States
A police officer who kills a thief during the commission of a robbery takes on the responsibility of raising the man's son.


Affairs of Cappy Ricks
1937 · 1h 1m
country: United States
Cappy Ricks, a crusty old sea captain, returns home from a long voyage to discover that his family and his business are in chaos--his daughter is set to marry a nitwit that he can't stand, and his future mother-in-law has taken over everything and is set to merge his business with that of a rival company. Worst of all, though, is that she--in the interests of "progress"--has completely automated his beloved ship, "Electra"!. He sets out to put an end to all this foolishness and comes up with what he thinks is a foolproof plan.


The President's Mystery
1936 · 1h 20m
country: United States
The screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is the tale of a prominent lawyer who shocks his snooty friends, family and colleagues by abruptly abandoning his successful practice and his wife to find true happiness. He soon falls in love with another woman and continues to keep a low profile until he learns that his first wife stands accused of murdering him


Too Tough to Kill
1935 · 58m
country: United States
A no-nonsense engineer is hired to oversee construction of the Whitney Tunnel, a project that has been plagued by a series of mysterious--and often fatal--accidents.


Under Pressure
1935 · 1h 10m
country: United States
Two members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other over the same woman and a rival team of sandhogs to see who will finish their half of the tunnel first, with the winning team getting more money and guaranteed future work.


Walls of Gold
1933 · 1h 14m
country: United States
A career woman marries her boyfriend's rich uncle when the boyfriend marries her sister.