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William Wyler

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by Gabriel Miller


  Universal

  Director: William Wyler

  Story and continuity: George H. Plympton

  Cast: Edmund Cobb

  Mustang western, two reels, released December 11, 1926

  Lazy Lightning (1926)

  Universal

  Director: William Wyler

  Story: Harrison Jacobs

  Cinematography: Eddie Linden

  Cast: Arthur Acord, Fay Wray, Bobby Gordon, Vin Moore, Arthur Morrison, George French

  Blue streak western, five reels, released December 12, 1926

  Length: 4,572 feet

  The Stolen Ranch (1926)

  Universal

  Director: William Wyler

  Story: Robert F. Hill

  Screenplay: George H. Plympton

  Cinematography: Al Jones

  Cast: Fred Humes, Louise Lorraine, William Norton Bailey, Ralph McCullough, Nita Cavalier, Edward Cecil, Howard Truesdale, Slim Whittaker, Jack Kirk

  Blue streak western, five reels, releaed December 26, 1926

  Length: 4,587 feet

  The Two Fister (1927)

  Universal

  Director: William Wyler

  Story and continuity: George H. Plympton

  Cast: Edmund Cobb

  Mustang western, two reels, released January 8, 1927

  Kelcy Gets His Man (1927)

  Universal

  Director: William Wyler

  Story and scenario: William Lester

  Cast: Edmund Cobb, Alice Goodwin

  Mustang western, two reels, released February 19, 1927

  Tenderfoot Courage (1927)

  Universal

  Director: William Wyler

  Story: F. V. Lautzenhiser

  Cast: Fred Gilman, Alma Rayford

  Mustang western, two reels, released February 26, 1927

  The Silent Partner (1927)

  Universal

  Director: William Wyler

  Story: Basil Dickey

  Scenario: George Morgan

  Cast: Edmund Cobb, Hazel Keener

  Mustang western, two reels, released March 19, 1927

  Blazing Days (1927)

  Universal

  Director: William Wyler

  Story: Florence Ryerson

  Screenplay: George H. Plympton and R. Hill

  Cinematography: Al Jones

  Art direction: David S. Garber

  Cast: Fred Humes, Ena Gregory, Churchill Ross, Bruce Gordon, Eva

  Thatcher, Bernard Siegel, Dick L'Estrange

  Blue streak western, five reels, released March 27, 1927

  Length: 4,639 feet

  Galloping Justice (1927)

  Universal

  Director: William Wyler

  Story and scenario: George H. Plympton

  Cast: Edmund Cobb

  Mustang western, two reels, released April 9, 1927

  The Haunted Homestead (1927)

  Universal

  Director: William Wyler

  Story: L. V. Jefferson

  Cast: Fred Gilman, Violet La Plante

  Mustang western, two reels, released April 16, 1927

  Hard Fists (1927)

  Universal

  Director: William Wyler

  Screenplay: William Lester and George H. Plympton, from Charles A.

  Logue's The Grappler

  Cinematography: Edwin Linden

  Art direction: David Garber

  Cast: Art Acord, Louise Lorraine, Lee Holmes, Albert J. Smith

  Blue streak western, five reels, released April 24, 1927

  Length: 4,387 feet

  The Lone Star (1927)

  Universal

  Director: William Wyler

  Story and scenario: William Lester

  Cast: Fred Gilman, Barbara Worth

  Mustang western, two reels, released May 7, 1927

  The Ore Raiders (1927)

  Universal

  Director: William Wyler

  Story and scenario: William Lester

  Cast: Fred Gilman, Fred Humes, Barbara Starr

  Mustang western, two reels, released May 21, 1927

  The Home Trail (1927)

  Universal

  Director: William Wyler

  Story: Rhea Mitchell

  Cast: Fred Gilman, Shirley Palmer

  Mustang western, two reels, released June 4, 1927

  Gun Justice (1927)

  Universal

  Director: William Wyler

  Story and scenario: William Lester

  Cast: Fred Gilman

  Mustang western, two reels, released July 2, 1927

  The Phantom Outlaw (1927)

  Universal

  Director: William Wyler

  Story and scenario: William Lester

  Cast: Fred Gilman

  Mustang western, two reels, released July 16, 1927

  The Square Shooter (1927)

  Universal

  Director: William Wyler

  Story: Kenneth Langley

  Cast: Fred Gilman

  Mustang western, two reels, released August 13, 1927

  Daze of the West (1927)

  Universal

  Director: William Wyler

  Story: Billy Engle

  Scenario: William Lester

  Cast: Vin Moore, Fred Gilman, Elaine Forest

  Mustang western, two reels, copyrighted Library of Congress, Catalog of Entries, Motion Pictures, August 16, 1927

  The Horse Trader (1927)

  Universal

  Director: William Wyler

  Story: Brandt Riley

  Cast: Fred Gilman

  Mustang western, two reels, released August 20, 1927

  The Border Cavalier (1927)

  Universal

  Director: William Wyler

  Screenplay: Basil Dickey

  Titles: Gardner Bradford

  Cinematography: Al Jones

  Art direction: David Garber

  Cast: Fred Humes, Evelyn Pierce, Joyce Compton, C. E. “Captain” Anderson, Gilbert “Peewee” Holmes, “Smilin’” Benny Corbett, Dick L'Estrange, Scott Mattraw, Boris Bullock

  Blue streak western, five reels, released September 18, 1927

  Length: 4,427 feet

  Straight Shootin' (1927)

  Universal

  Director: William Wyler

  Screenplay: William Lester

  Titles: Gardner Bradford

  Cinematography: Milton Bridenbecker

  Art direction: David Garber

  Cast: Ted Wells, Garry O'Dell, Lillian Gilmore, Joe Bennett, Al Ferguson, Wilbur Mack, Buck Connors

  Blue streak western, five reels, released October 16, 1927

  Length: 4,205 feet

  Desert Dust (1927)

  Universal

  Director: William Wyler

  Screenplay: William Lester

  Titles: Gardner Bradford

  Cinematography: Milton Bridenbecker

  Art direction: David Garber

  Cast: Ted Wells, Lotus Thompson, Bruce Gordon, Dick L'Estrange, Jimmy Phillips, Charles “Slim” Cole, George Ovey

  Released December 18, 1927

  Length: 4,349 feet

  Thunder Riders (1928)

  Universal

  Director: William Wyler

  Screenplay: Basil Dickey and Carl Krusada

  Titles: Gardner Bradford

  Cinematography: Milton Bridenbecker

  Editor: Harry Marker

  Art direction: David Garber

  Cast: Ted Wells, Charlotte Stevens, William A. Steele, Gilbert “Peewee” Holmes, Dick L'Estrange, Bill Dyer, Leo White, Julia Griffith, Bob Burns

  Released April 8, 1928

  Length: 4,363 feet

  Anybody Here Seen Kelly? (1928)

  Universal

  Producer: Robert Wyler

  Director: William Wyler

  Scenario: John B. Clymer

  Titles: Walter Anthony and Albert De Mond

  Story: Leigh Jason

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  Editor: George McGuire

  Cast: Bessie Love (Mitzi Lavelle), Tom Moore (Pat Kelly), Kate Price (Mrs. O'Grady), Addie McPhail (Mrs. Hickson), Bruce Gordon (Mr. Hickson), Alfred Allen (Sergeant Malloy), Tom O'Brien (Buck Johnson), Wilson Benge (Butler), Rosa Gore (French Mother), Dorothea Wolbert (Slavey)

  Approximately 83 minutes

  The Shakedown (1929)

  Universal-Jewel

  Director: William Wyler

  Scenario: Charles A. Logue and Clarence Marks

  Titles and dialogue: Albert De Mond

  Story: Charles A. Logue

  Photography: Charles Stumar and Jerome Ash

  Editors: Lloyd Nosler and Richard Cahoon

  Musical score: Joseph Cherniavsky

  Cast: James Murray (Dave Hall), Barbara Kent (Marjorie), George Kostonaros (Battling Rolf), Wheeler Oakman (Manager), Jack Hanlon (Clem), Harry Gibbon (Bouncer)

  Sound: approximately 88 minutes; silent: approximately 90 minutes

  The Love Trap (1929)

  Universal

  Director: William Wyler

  Scenario: John B. Clymer and Clarence J. Marks

  Story: Edward J. Montagne

  Dialogue: Clarence Thompson

  Titles: Albert De Mond

  Photography: Gilbert Warrenton

  Editor: Maurice Pivar

  Cast: Laura La Plante (Laura/Evelyn Todd), Neil Hamilton (Peter Cadwaller/Paul Harrington), Robert Ellis (Guy Emory), Jocelyn Lee (Bunny), Norman Trevor (Judge Cadwaller/Harrington), Clarissa Selwynne (Mrs. Cadwaller/Harrington), Rita Le Roy (Mary Cadwaller/iris Harrington)

  Sound: approximately 83 minutes; silent: approximately 85 minutes

  1930s

  Hell's Heroes (1930)

  Universal

  Presented by: Carl Laemmle

  Director: William Wyler

  Screenplay and dialogue: Tom Reed, based on the novel The Three Godfathers by Peter Kyne

  Photography: George Robinson

  Editors: William Boyce and Earl Neville (silent version); Harry Marker (sound version)

  Supervising story chief: C. Gardner Sullivan (silent version)

  Recording engineer: C. Roy Hunter

  Sound technician: William W. Hedgecock

  Cast: Charles Bickford (Bob Sangster), Raymond Hatton (Barbwire Gibbons), Fred Kohler (Wild Bill Kearny), Fritzi Ridgeway (Mother), Jose de la Cruz (Jose), Buck Conners (Parson Jones), Walter James (Sheriff)

  Sound: approximately 82 minutes; silent: approximately 78 minutes

  The Storm (1930)

  Universal

  Presented by: Carl Laemmle

  Director: William Wyler

  Screenplay: Wells Root, based on the play The Storm by Langdon McCormick

  Adaptation: Charles A. Logue

  Dialogue: Tom Reed

  Photography: Alvin Wyckoff

  Recording engineer: Joseph P. Lapis and C. Roy Hunter

  Cast: Lupe Velez (Manette Fachard), Paul Cavanagh (Dave Stewart), William Boyd (Burr Winston), Alphonse Ethier (Jacques Fachard), Ernest Adams (Johnny), Tom London, Nick Thompson, Erin La Bissoniere

  Distribution: Universal

  76 minutes

  A House Divided (1931)

  Universal

  Producer: Carl Laemmle Jr.

  Director: William Wyler

  Assistant producer: Paul Kohner

  Screenplay: John B. Clymer and Dale Van Every, based on the story “Heart and Hand” by Olive Edens

  Dialogue: John Huston

  Photography: Charles Stumar

  Supervising film editor: Maurice Pivar

  Editor: Ted Kent

  Art direction: John Hughes

  Special effects: John Fulton

  Cast: Walter Huston (Seth Law), Kent Douglass (Matt Law), Helen Chandler (Ruth Evans), Vivian Oakland (Bess), Lloyd Ingraham (Doc), Charles Middleton (Minister), Frank Hagney (Mann), Mary Foy (Mary), Walter Brennan (Musician)

  70 minutes

  Tom Brown of Culver (1932)

  Universal

  Director: William Wyler

  Screenplay: George Green and Tom Buckingham, based on a story by George Green and Dale Van Every

  Additional dialogue: Clarence Marks

  Photography: Charles Stumar

  Editor: Ted Kent

  Art direction: John J. Hughes

  Cast: Tom Brown (Tom Brown), H. B. Warner (Dr. Brown), Slim Summerville (Slim), Richard Cromwell (Bob Randolph), Ben Alexander (Ralph), Sidney Toler (Major Wharton), Russell Hopton (Doctor), Andy Devine (Call Boy), Willard Robertson (Captain White), Norman Philips Jr. (Carruthers), Tyrone Power Jr. (John), Kit Wain, Matt Roubert, Dick Winslow, personnel of the Culver Military Academy

  70 minutes

  Her First Mate (1933)

  Universal

  Presented by: Carl Laemmle

  Producer: Carl Laemmle Jr.

  Director: William Wyler

  Screenplay: Earle Snell and Clarence Marks, based on the play Salt Water by Daniel Jarrett, Frank Craven, and John Golden

  Photography: George Robinson

  Editor: Ted Kent

  Art direction: Stanley Fleischer

  Cast: Slim Summerville (John Horner), ZaSu Pitts (Mary Horner), Una Merkel (Hattie Horner), Warren Hymer (Percival Todd), Henry Armetta (Nick Socrates), Berton Churchill (Harvey Davis), George Marion (Sam), Jocelyn Lee (Redhead)

  66 minutes

  Counsellor-at-Law (1933)

  Universal

  Personally supervised by: Carl Laemmle Jr.

  Producer: Henry Henigson

  Director: William Wyler

  Screenplay: Elmer Rice, adapted from the stage play by Elmer Rice

  Photography: Norbert Brodine

  Editor: Daniel Mandell

  Editorial supervision: Maurice Pivar

  Art direction: Charles D. Hall

  Cast: John Barrymore (George Simon), Bebe Daniels (Regina Gordon), Doris Kenyon (Cora Simon), Onslow Stevens (John P. Tedesco), Isabel Jewell (Bessie Green), Melvyn Douglas (Roy Darwin), Thelma Todd (Lillian La Rue), Mayo Methot (Zedorah Chapman), Marvin Kline (Herbert Howard Weinberg), Conway Washburne (Arthur Sandler), John Qualen (Breitstein), Bobby Gordon (Henry Susskind), John Hammon Dailey (McFadden), Malka Kornstein (Sarah Becker), Angela Jacobs (Goldie Rindskopf), Clara Langsner (Lena Simon), T. H. Manning (Peter J. Malone), Elmer Brown (Francis Clark Baird), Barbara Perry (Dorothy), Richard Quine (Richard), Victor Adams (David Simon), Frederick Burton (Crayfield), Vincent Sherman (Harry Becker)

  78 minutes

  Glamour (1934)

  Universal

  Director: William Wyler

  Adaptation: Doris Anderson, based on the short story by Edna Ferber

  Continuity: Gladys Unger

  Photography: George Robinson

  Editor: Ted Kent

  Art direction: Charles D. Hall

  Musical score: Howard Jackson and Roy Turk

  Cast: Paul Lukas (Victor Banki), Constance Cummings (Linda Faye), Phillip Reed (Lorenzo Valenti), Joseph Cawthorn (Ibsen), Doris Lloyd (Nana), Lyman Williams (Forsyth), David Dickinson (Stevie), Peggy Campbell (Amy), Olaf Hytten (Dobbs), Alice Lake (Secretary), Lita Chevret (Grassie), Phil Tead (Jimmy)

  74 minutes

  The Good Fairy (1935)

  Universal

  Producer: Carl Laemmle Jr.

  Director: William Wyler

  Associate producer: Henry Henigson

  Screenplay: Preston Sturges, based on the play by Ferenc Molnár as translated by Jane Hinton

  Photography: Norbert Brodine

  Editorial supervision: Maurice Pivar

  Editor: Daniel Mandell

  Art direction: Charles D. Hall

  Costumes: Vera West

  Music director: Heinz Roemheld

  Sound supervision: Gilbert Kurland

  Cast: Margaret Sullavan (Luisa Ginglebusher), Herbert Marshall (Dr. Max Sporum), Frank Morgan (Konrad), Reginald Owen (Detlaff), Alan Hale (Schlapkohl), B
eulah Bondi (Dr. Schultz), Cesar Romero (Joe), Eric Blore (Dr. Metz), Al Bridges (Doorman), June Clayworth (Actress), George Davis (Chauffeur), Hugh O'Connell (Gas Collector)

  98 minutes

  The Gay Deception (1935)

  Twentieth Century–Fox

  Producer: Jesse L. Lasky

  Director: William Wyler

  Screenplay: Stephen Avery and Don Hartman

  Additional dialogue: Arthur Richman (and Sam Raphaelson, uncredited)

  Photography: Joseph Valentine

  Art direction: Max Parker

  Costumes: William Lambert

  Music: Louis de Francesco

  Sound: A. von Kirbach

  Assistant director: A. Schaumer

  Cast: Francis Lederer (Sandro), Frances Dee (Mirabel), Benita Hume (Miss Channing), Alan Mowbray (Lord Clewe), Paul Hurst (Bell Captain), Ferdinand Gottschalk (Squires), Richard Carle (Spitzer), Lenita Lane (Peg DeForrest), Lennox Pawel (Consul-General), Adele St. Maur (Lucille, the Maid), Lionel Stander (Gettel), Akim Tamiroff (Spellek), Barbara Fritchie (Joan Dennison)

  Distribution: United Artists

  79 minutes

  These Three (1936)

  Samuel Goldwyn Production

  Producer: Samuel Goldwyn

  Director: William Wyler

  Screenplay: Lillian Hellman, based on her play The Children's Hour

  Photography: Gregg Toland

  Editor: Daniel Mandell

  Art direction: Richard Day

  Costumes: Omar Kiam

  Music: Alfred Newman

  Assistant director: Walter Mayo

  Sound recorder: Frank Maher

  Cast: Miriam Hopkins (Martha Dobie), Merle Oberon (Karen Wright), Joel McCrea (Dr. Joseph Cardin), Catherine Doucet (Mrs. Lily Mortar), Alma Kruger (Mrs. Tilford), Bonita Granville (Mary Tilford), Marcia Mae Jones (Rosalie Wells), Carmencita Johnson (Evelyn), Margaret Hamilton (Agatha), Marie Louise Cooper (Helen Burton), Mary Ann Durkin (Joyce Walton), Walter Brennan (Taxi Driver)

  Distribution: United Artists

  93 minutes

  Dodsworth (1936)

  Samuel Goldwyn Production

  Producer: Samuel Goldwyn

  Director: William Wyler

  Associate producer: Merritt Hulburd

  Screenplay: Sidney Howard, based on the novel by Sinclair Lewis and on the play adapted by Sidney Howard as produced for the stage by Max Gordon

  Photography: Rudolph Maté

  Editor: Daniel Mandell

  Art direction: Richard Day

  Costumes: Omar Kiam

  Music: Alfred Newman

  Assistant director: Eddie Bernoudy

  Sound: Oscar Lagerstrom

  Location cameraman: Harry Perry

  Cast: Walter Huston (Sam Dodsworth), Ruth Chatterton (Fran Dodsworth), Paul Lukas (Arnold Iselin), Mary Astor (Edith Cortwright), David Niven (Major Clyde Lockert), Gregory Gaye (Kurt von Obersdorf), Maria Ouspenskaya (Baroness von Obersdorf), Odette Myrtil (Mme. Renée de Penable), Kathryn Marlowe (Emily), John Payne (Harry McKee), Spring Byington (Matey Pearson), Harlan Briggs (Tubby Pearson), Charles Halton (Hazzard), Beatrice Maud (Mary, the Dodsworths’ Maid), Wilson Benge (Steward), Inez Palange (Teresa)

 

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