Melville Shyer
Encyclopedia
Melville J. Shyer was an American
film director
, writer
and producer
and one of the founders of the Directors Guild of America
. His career spanned over 50 years, during which he worked with Mack Sennett
and D. W. Griffith
.
United States
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film director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
, writer
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
and producer
Film producer
A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...
and one of the founders of the Directors Guild of America
Directors Guild of America
Directors Guild of America is an entertainment labor union which represents the interests of film and television directors in the United States motion picture industry...
. His career spanned over 50 years, during which he worked with Mack Sennett
Mack Sennett
Mack Sennett was a Canadian-born American director and was known as the innovator of slapstick comedy in film. During his lifetime he was known at times as the "King of Comedy"...
and D. W. Griffith
D. W. Griffith
David Llewelyn Wark Griffith was a premier pioneering American film director. He is best known as the director of the controversial and groundbreaking 1915 film The Birth of a Nation and the subsequent film Intolerance .Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation made pioneering use of advanced camera...
.
As director
- Sucker MoneySucker MoneySucker Money is a 1933 American film directed by Dorothy Davenport and Melville Shyer.The film is also known as Victims of the Beyond in the United Kingdom.- Cast :*Mischa Auer as Swami Yomurda*Phyllis Barrington as Clare Walton...
(1933) - The Road to Ruin (1934)
- Murder in the Museum (1934)
- Smashing the Vice Trust (1937) as John Melville
- Mad YouthMad YouthMad Youth is a 1940 American film directed by Melville Shyer.The film is also known as Girls of the Underworld .- Cast :*Mary Ainslee as Marian Morgan*Betty Compson as Lucy Morgan*Willy Castello as Count DeHoven...
(1940) - Souls in Pawn (1940) as John Melville
- Confessions of a Vice Baron (1942)
As assistant director
- Ladies in LoveLadies in LoveLadies in Love is a romantic comedy film directed by Edward H. Griffith. Starring Janet Gaynor, Constance Bennett and Loretta Young the film revolves around three roommates in exotic Budapest and their comical romantic adventures. Gaynor, Bennett, and Young were billed above the title, with...
(1930) - Today (1930)
- The Lawless Woman (1931)
- Lady From Nowhere (1931)
- The DrifterThe Drifter (1932 film)- Cast :*William Farnum as The Drifter*Noah Beery as John McNary*Phyllis Barrington as Bonnie McNary*Charles Sellon as Whitey*Bruce Warren as Paul LaTour*Russell Hopton as Montana*Ann Brody as Marie*Ynez Seabury as Yvonne...
(1932) - Cross-Examination (1932)
- The King Murder (1932)
- A Scarlet Week-End (1932)
- Slightly Married (1932)
- Women Won't Tell (1932)
- Secrets of Wu Sin (1932)
- Forgotten (1933)
- Strange People (1933)
- By Appointment Only (1933)
- I Have Lived (After Midnight) (1933)
- Notorious But Nice (1933)
- Dance, Girl, Dance (1933)
- Twin Husbands (1934)
- In Love With Life (1934)
- City Park (1934)
- Fifteen Wives (1934)
- Stolen Sweets (1934)
- One in a Million (1934)
- Fugitive Road (1934)
- Murder on the Campus (1934)
- Port of Lost Dreams (1934)
- The Ghost WalksThe Ghost WalksThe Ghost Walks is a 1934 horror film, directed by Frank R. Strayer.-Plot:On a stormy night, a theatrical producer, his secretary, and playwright Prescott Ames are stranded when their car skids off the road and gets stuck. The three take refuge in the nearby home of Dr. Kent, a friend of Ames...
(1935) - Sons of Steel (1935)
- A Shot in the DarkA Shot in the Dark (1935 film)- Cast :*Charles Starrett as Kenneth "Ken" Harris*Robert Warwick as Joseph Harris*Edward Van Sloan as Prof. Bostwick*Marion Shilling as Jean Coates*Helen Jerome Eddy as Miss Lottie Case*Doris Lloyd as Lucille Coates*James Bush as Byron Coates / John Meseraux...
(1935) - Symphony of LivingSymphony of LivingSymphony of Living is a 1935 American film directed by Frank R. Strayer and starring Evelyn Brent.- Cast :*Evelyn Brent as Paula Greig Rupert*Al Shean as Adolph Greig*Charles Judels as Rozzini*John Darrow as Richard Greig*Albert Conti as Mancini...
(1935) - Circumstantial Evidence (1935)
- Condemned to LiveCondemned to LiveCondemned to Live is a 1935 American horror film starring Ralph Morgan and Maxine Doyle, and directed by Frank R. Strayer. The film is unusual for its time, as it approaches the topic of vampirism from a sympathetic standpoint.-Plot:...
(1935) - Death From a Distance (1935)
- Happiness Came C.O.D. (1935)
- The Lady in Scarlet (1935)
- Tango (1936)
- Ring Around the Moon (1936)
- Murder at Glen Athol (1936)
- The Little Red Schoolhouse (1936)
- Below the DeadlineBelow the Deadline-Cast:*Cecilia Parker as Molly Fitzgerald*Russell Hopton as Terry Mulvaney*Theodore von Eltz as Flash Ackroyd*Thomas E. Jackson as Pearson*Warner Richmond as Diamond Dutch*John St. Polis as Mr...
(1936) - Three of a Kind (1936)
- Easy Money (1936)
- The Dark HourThe Dark Hour (1936 film)-Cast:*Ray Walker as Jim Landis*Berton Churchill as Paul Bernard*Irene Ware as Elsa Carson*Hobart Bosworth as Charles Carson*Hedda Hopper as Mrs. Tallman*E.E. Clive as Foot, the Butler*Harold Goodwin as Peter Blake*William V. Mong as Henry Carson...
(1936) - Missing Girls (1936)
- Never Give a Sucker an Even BreakNever Give a Sucker an Even BreakNever Give a Sucker an Even Break is a 1941 Universal Pictures comedy film starring W.C. Fields. Fields also wrote the original story, under the pseudonym "Otis Criblecoblis". Fields plays himself, searching for a chance to promote a surreal screenplay he has written, whose several framed sequences...
(1941) - Unseen Enemy (1942)
- Escape From Hong Kong (1942)
- Frankenstein Meets the Wolf ManFrankenstein Meets the Wolf ManFrankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, released in 1943, is an American monster horror film produced by Universal Studios starring Lon Chaney, Jr. as the Wolf Man and Bela Lugosi as Frankenstein's monster. This was the first of a series of "ensemble" monster films combining characters from several film...
(1943) - Cheyenne Roundup (1943)
- Rhythm of the IslandsRhythm of the IslandsRhythm of the Islands is a 1943 American film starring Jane Frazee....
(1943) - Captive Wild WomanCaptive Wild WomanCaptive Wild Woman is a sci-fi horror film, starring John Carradine, Milburn Stone, Evelyn Ankers, and Acquanetta. It was released by Universal Pictures and was directed by Edward Dmytryk.-Plot:...
(1943) - All By Myself (1943)
- Get Going (1943)
- It Comes Up Love (1943)
- Sherlock Holmes Faces DeathSherlock Holmes Faces DeathSherlock Holmes Faces Death is the sixth film in the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce series of Sherlock Holmes films. Made in 1943, it incorporates elements of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle story, "The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual".-Plot:Dr...
(1943) - Son of DraculaSon of Dracula (1943 film)Son of Dracula is a 1943 American horror film directed by Robert Siodmak - his first film for Universal studios - with a screenplay based on an original story by his brother Curt. The film stars Lon Chaney, Jr. and his frequent co-star Evelyn Ankers. Notably it is the first film where a vampire...
(1943) - Never a Dull Moment (1943)
- You're a Lucky Fellow, Mr. Smith(1943)
- Sherlock Holmes and the Spider Woman (1944)
- The Scarlet ClawThe Scarlet ClawThe Scarlet Claw is a 1944 Sherlock Holmes movie directed by Roy William Neill, starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. It is the eighth film of the Rathbone/Bruce series. The device of a killer using a supernatural entity to cover up his crimes is borrowed from The Hound of the Baskervilles,...
(1944) - Jungle WomanJungle WomanJungle Woman is a 1944 horror film released by Universal Pictures. The movie features Evelyn Ankers, J. Carrol Naish, Samuel S. Hinds, Lois Collier, Milburn Stone, Douglass Dumbrille, and Acquanetta...
(1944) - The Pearl of DeathThe Pearl of DeathThe Pearl of Death is a 1944 Sherlock Holmes film starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. The story is loosely based on Conan Doyle's short story "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons" but features some additions, such as Evelyn Ankers as an accomplice of the villain, played...
(1944) - Gypsy Wildcat (1944)
- My Gal Loves Music (1944)
- The House of Fear (1945)
- The Woman in GreenThe Woman in GreenThe Woman in Green is a 1945 Sherlock Holmes film starring Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson, with Hillary Brooke as the woman of the title and Henry Daniell as Professor Moriarty. It is mostly an original story, but scenes from Arthur Conan Doyle's The Final Problem and The...
(1945) - The Strange Affair of Uncle HarryThe Strange Affair of Uncle HarryThe Strange Affair of Uncle Harry is a 1945 film noir directed by Robert Siodmak, starring George Sanders as an aging bachelor who looks after his two sisters, one of whom tries to sabotage his romance with his co-worker...
(1945) - Pillow in Death (1945)
- Scarlet StreetScarlet StreetScarlet Street is a 1945 American film noir directed by Fritz Lang and based on the French novel La Chienne by Georges de La Fouchardière, that previously had been dramatized on stage by André Mouëzy-Éon, and cinematically as La Chienne by director Jean Renoir.The principal actors Edward G...
(1945) - Blonde Ransom (1945)
- Terror By Night (1946)
- Idea Girl (1946)
- The Cat Creeps (1946)
- Dressed to KillDressed to Kill (1946 film)Dressed to Kill , is the last of fourteen films starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Doctor Watson....
(1946) - Inside Job (1946)
- The Killers (A Man Alone) (1946)
- Danger Woman (1946)
- The Beautiful Cheat(1946)
- Smart Politics (1948)
- The Prince of Thieves (1948)
- Smart Woman (1948)
- Music Man (1948)
- Jungle Goddess (1948)
- Thunder in the Pines (1948)
- Highway 13 (1948)
- Henry, the Rainmaker (1949)
- Fighting FoolsFighting FoolsFighting Fools is a 1949 comedy film starring The Bowery Boys. The film was released on April 17, 1949 by Monogram Pictures and is the thirteenth film in the series.-Plot:...
(1949) - Bomba, the Jungle Boy (1949)
- Sky Liner (1949)
- Jiggs and Maggie in Jackpot Jitters (1949)
- Deputy Marshal (1949)
- Arson, Inc.Arson, Inc.- Cast :*Robert Lowery as Joe Martin*Anne Gwynne as Jane Jennings*Edward Brophy as Pete Purdy*Marcia Mae Jones as Betty - Fender's Secretary*Douglas Fowley as Frederick P. 'Fred' Fender*Maude Eburne as Grandma*William Forrest as Deputy Fire Chief / Narrator...
(1949) - Border IncidentBorder IncidentBorder Incident is a film noir directed by Anthony Mann. The MGM film was written by John C. Higgins and George Zuckerman. The film was shot by cinematographer John Alton who used shadows and lighting effects to involve an audience despite the fact that the film was shot on a low budget...
(1949) - Joe Palooka Meets Humphry (1950)
- Everybody's Dancin (1950)
- I Shot Billy the Kid (1950)
- Gunfire (1950)
- Train to Tombstone (1950)
- Cherokee Uprising (1950)
- Silver Raiders (1950)
- Outlaw Gold (1950)
- Outlaws of Texas (1950)
- Colorado Ambush (1951)
- Abilene Trail (1951)
- Man From Sonora (1951)
- Wanted, Dead or Alive (1951)
- Canyon Raiders (1951)
- Blazing Bullets (1951)
- Cavalry Scout (1951)
- Nevada Badman (1951)
- Stagecoach Driver (1951)
- Oklahoma Justice (1951)
- Whistling Hills (1951)
- Lawless Cowboys (1951)
- The Longhorn (1951)
- Texas Lawmen (1951)
- Stage to Blue River (1951)
- Fargo (1952)
- Wyoming Roundup (1952)
- The Maverick (1952)
- Star of Texas (1953)
- The Homesteaders (1953)
- The Marksman (1953)
- Rebel City (1953)
- Topeka (1953)
- The Fighting Lawman (1953)
- Vigilante Terror (1953)
- Bitter Creek (1954)
- The Forty-Niners (1954)
- The Desperado (1954)
- Two Guns and a Badge (1954)
- The Night Holds TerrorThe Night Holds TerrorThe Night Holds Terror is an American crime film written and directed by Andrew L. Stone that stars Vince Edwards, John Cassavetes and Jack Kelly.It was originally shown on Z Channel, uncut and commercial-free.-Plot:...
(1955) - Crime in the StreetsCrime in the StreetsCrime in the Streets is a 1956 film about juvenile delinquency, directed by Don Siegel and based on a television play written by Reginald Rose. The play first appeared on the Elgin Hour and was directed by Sidney Lumet. The film featured actor Sal Mineo who had previously appeared in Rebel Without...
(1956) - Beginning of the EndBeginning of the EndBeginning of the End is a 1957 American science fiction film directed by Bert I. Gordon and starring Peter Graves and Peggie Castle. The film is about an agricultural scientist who has successfully grown gigantic vegetables using radiation...
(1957) - Girl With an Itch (1957)
- Creation of the Humanoids (1962)
As screenwriter
- The Man From Hell (1934)
- Green EyesGreen Eyes (1934 film)- Cast :*Shirley Grey as Jean Kester*Charles Starrett as Michael Tracy*Claude Gillingwater as Steven Kester*John Wray as Inspector Crofton*William Bakewell as Cliff Miller*Dorothy Revier as Mrs. Pritchard*Alden 'Stephen' Chase as Mr. Pritchard*Ben Hendricks Jr...
(1934) - Dead Man's Trail (1952)
As associate producer
- Delinquent Parents (1938)
- Slander HouseSlander House- Cast :*Adrienne Ames as Helen "Mme. Helene" Smith*Craig Reynolds as Pat Fenton*Esther Ralston as Ruth De Milo*George Meeker as Dr. Herbert Stallings*Pert Kelton as Mazie Mason*William Newell as Terry Kent*Dorothy Vaughan as Mrs. Horton...
(1938) - South of Panama (1941)
- Gambling Daughters (1941)
As production manager
- The House of Secrets (1936)
- Red Lights AheadRed Lights Ahead- Cast :*Andy Clyde as Grandpa Hopkins*Lucile Gleason as Molly "Ma" Wallace*Roger Imhof as Pa Wallace*Ben Alexander as George Wallace*Ann Doran as Mary Wallace*Frank Coghlan Jr. as Willie Wallace*Paula Stone as Edna Wallace*Addison Randall as Nordingham...
(1937)