Rowland V. Lee | |
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 Rowland V. Lee in 1928 | |
| Born | September 6, 1891 |
| Died | December 21, 1975 (aged 84) |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, director, producer |
Rowland Vance Lee (September 6, 1891 – December 21, 1975) was an American film director, actor writer, and producer.
Biography
Lee was born in 1891 in Findlay, Ohio. In 1929, he directed The Wolf of Wall Street featuring George Bancroft.[1] Lee directed The Son of Monte Cristo (1940), starring Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett and George Sanders. He was one of the 11 co-directors of Paramount Pictures' all-star revue Paramount on Parade (1930). He made creative use of the then-new sound medium in the near-fantasy treatment of Zoo in Budapest (1933).
He also directed The Guilty Generation (1931), Son of Frankenstein (1939), The Tower of London (1939), and The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944).
Lee died in 1975 in Palm Desert, California. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Lee was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, in Glendale, California.[2]
Partial filmography
As actor
- Wild Winship's Widow (1917)
- Time Locks and Diamonds (1917)
- The Mother Instinct (1917)
- Polly Ann (1917)
- The Stainless Barrier (1917)
- The Maternal Spark (1917)
- They're Off (1918)
- The Woman in the Suitcase (1920)
- Water, Water, Everywhere (1920)
- Dangerous Days (1920)
- His Own Law (1920)
- Her Husband's Friend (1920)
As director
- A Thousand to One (1920)
- Cupid's Brand (1921, short)
- The Cup of Life (1921)
- Blind Hearts (1921)
- The Sea Lion (1921)
- What Ho, the Cook (1921) - also writer
- Money to Burn (1922)
- The Men of Zanzibar (1922)
- His Back Against the Wall (1922)
- A Self-Made Man (1922) - also writer
- Dust Flower (1922)
- Mixed Faces (1922)
- Shirley of the Circus (1922)
- Alice Adams (1923) - also writer
- Desire (1923)
- Gentle Julia (1923)
- You Can't Get Away with It (1924)
- In Love with Love (1924)
- The Man Without a Country (1925)
- Havoc (1925)
- The Outsider (1926)
- The Silver Treasure (1926)
- The Whirlwind of Youth (1927)
- Barbed Wire (1927) - also producer, writer
- The Secret Hour (1928) - also writer
- Doomsday (1928) - also producer
- Three Sinners (1928) - also producer
- Loves of an Actress (1928) - also writer
- The First Kiss (1928) - also producer
- The Wolf of Wall Street (1929)
- A Dangerous Woman (1929)
- The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu (1929) - also producer
- Paramount on Parade (1930)
- The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu (1930) - also producer
- Ladies Love Brutes (1930)
- A Man from Wyoming (1930)
- Derelict (1930)
- The Ruling Voice (1931) - also writer
- Le capitaine Craddock (1931) - writer only
- The Guilty Generation (1931)
- That Night in London (1932)
- The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case (1932) - production supervisor only
- Monte Carlo Madness (1932) - writer only
- Zoo in Budapest (1933) - also writer
- I Am Suzanne! (1933) - also writer
- The Count of Monte Cristo (1934) - also writer
- Gambling (1934)
- Cardinal Richelieu (1935)
- The Three Musketeers (1935) - also writer
- One Rainy Afternoon (1936)
- Love from a Stranger (1937)
- The Toast of New York (1937)
- Mother Carey's Chickens (1938)
- Service de Luxe (1938) - also producer
- Son of Frankenstein (1939) - also producer
- The Sun Never Sets (1939) - also producer
- Tower of London (1939) - also producer
- The Son of Monte Cristo (1940) - also producer
- Powder Town (1942)
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944) - also producer
- Captain Kidd (1945) (final film)
- The Big Fisherman (1959) - writer, producer only
References
- ^ Fridson, Martin (December 26, 2013). "The Non-Original Wolf Of Wall Street". Forbes. Retrieved April 12, 2014.
- ^ Rowland V. Lee at Find a Grave
External links
- Rowland V. Lee at IMDb
- Rowland V. Lee at Virtual History
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