Roy Del Ruth

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Roy Del Ruth (October 18, 1893 – April 27, 1961) was a Hollywood film director. Del Ruth, who started out as a screenwriter in 1915 writing gags for Mack Sennett, began directing feature films in the 1920s. He became known for directing urban and crime dramas including the 1931 version of The Maltese Falcon. He also directed the universally panned The Babe Ruth Story (1948) and the 20th Century Fox B-movie Alligator People (1959). Roy Del Ruth died in 1961 at age 67 and was interred in the San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Mission Hills, Los Angeles, California. For his contributions to the motion picture industry, he was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6150 Hollywood Blvd. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roy Del Ruth, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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The Screen Director (1951)

A documentary short film depicting the work of the motion picture director. An anonymous director is shown preparing the various aspects of a film for production, meeting with the writer and producer, approving wardrobe and set design, rehearsing scenes with the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Richard L. Bare
CAST:  Richard L. Bare  •  Frank Capra  •  Phyllis Coates  •  John Huston

A documentary short film depicting the work of the motion picture director. An anonymous director is shown preparing the various aspects of a film for production, meeting with the writer and producer, approving wardrobe and set design, rehearsing scenes with the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Richard L. Bare
CAST:  Richard L. Bare  •  Frank Capra  •  Phyllis Coates  •  John Huston

Across the Pacific (1926)

Following the Spanish-American War, a soldier is given the assignment of finding the leader of a band of rebels in the Philippines. In order to do this, he must romance Roma, a cabaret spy working for the rebels. This does not please the daughter of his commanding ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roy Del Ruth
CAST:  Monte Blue  •  Jane Winton  •  Myrna Loy  •  Charles Stevens

Following the Spanish-American War, a soldier is given the assignment of finding the leader of a band of rebels in the Philippines. In order to do this, he must romance Roma, a cabaret spy working for the rebels. This does not please the daughter of his commanding ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roy Del Ruth
CAST:  Monte Blue  •  Jane Winton  •  Myrna Loy  •  Charles Stevens

The Desert Song (1929)

French General Birabeau has been sent to Morocco to root out and destroy the Riffs, a band of Arab rebels, who threaten the safety of the French outpost in the Moroccan desert. Their dashing, daredevil leader is the mysterious "Red Shadow". Margot Bonvalet, a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roy Del Ruth
CAST:  John Boles  •  Carlotta King  •  Louise Fazenda  •  Johnny Arthur

French General Birabeau has been sent to Morocco to root out and destroy the Riffs, a band of Arab rebels, who threaten the safety of the French outpost in the Moroccan desert. Their dashing, daredevil leader is the mysterious "Red Shadow". Margot Bonvalet, a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roy Del Ruth
CAST:  John Boles  •  Carlotta King  •  Louise Fazenda  •  Johnny Arthur

If I Were Single (1927)

Rich girl Joan Whitney does her flirtatious best to break up the marriage of May and Ted Howard and almost succeeds, but not before May Howard has a light flirtation with a light-in-the-slippers specimen named Claude.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roy Del Ruth
CAST:  May McAvoy  •  Conrad Nagel  •  Myrna Loy  •  George Beranger

Rich girl Joan Whitney does her flirtatious best to break up the marriage of May and Ted Howard and almost succeeds, but not before May Howard has a light flirtation with a light-in-the-slippers specimen named Claude.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roy Del Ruth
CAST:  May McAvoy  •  Conrad Nagel  •  Myrna Loy  •  George Beranger

Ham and Eggs at the Front (1927)

Fifi, a dusky, sultry Senegalese spy, uses her wiles to get information out of two American army soldiers, Ham and Eggs, in France during World War I.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roy Del Ruth
CAST:  Tom Wilson  •  Heinie Conklin  •  Myrna Loy  •  William Irving

Fifi, a dusky, sultry Senegalese spy, uses her wiles to get information out of two American army soldiers, Ham and Eggs, in France during World War I.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roy Del Ruth
CAST:  Tom Wilson  •  Heinie Conklin  •  Myrna Loy  •  William Irving

Eve's Lover (1925)

Austin Starfield has his greedy eye on a steel mill belonging to Eve Burnside. He persuades an impoverished count, Leon Molnar to marry Eve so he can then gain control of her fortune.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roy Del Ruth
CAST:  Clara Bow  •  Irene Rich  •  Bert Lytell  •  Willard Louis

Austin Starfield has his greedy eye on a steel mill belonging to Eve Burnside. He persuades an impoverished count, Leon Molnar to marry Eve so he can then gain control of her fortune.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roy Del Ruth
CAST:  Clara Bow  •  Irene Rich  •  Bert Lytell  •  Willard Louis

The Man Upstairs (1926)

The Man Upstairs is a lost 1926 silent film comedy directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Monte Blue. It was produced and distributed by Warner Brothers. The film is based on a novel, The Agony Column by Earl Derr Biggers.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roy Del Ruth
CAST:  Monte Blue  •  Dorothy Devore  •  Helen Dunbar  •  John Roche

The Man Upstairs is a lost 1926 silent film comedy directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Monte Blue. It was produced and distributed by Warner Brothers. The film is based on a novel, The Agony Column by Earl Derr Biggers.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roy Del Ruth
CAST:  Monte Blue  •  Dorothy Devore  •  Helen Dunbar  •  John Roche

Powder My Back (1928)

Rex Hale, a reform mayor, closes the musical comedy "Powder My Back" because he feels that it is immoral. Indignant, Fritzi Foy, star of the comedy, determines to revenge herself on Hale. Gaining entrance to his home by pretending to be injured in an automobile ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roy Del Ruth
CAST:  Irene Rich  •  Audrey Ferris  •  George Beranger  •  Anders Randolf

Rex Hale, a reform mayor, closes the musical comedy "Powder My Back" because he feels that it is immoral. Indignant, Fritzi Foy, star of the comedy, determines to revenge herself on Hale. Gaining entrance to his home by pretending to be injured in an automobile ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roy Del Ruth
CAST:  Irene Rich  •  Audrey Ferris  •  George Beranger  •  Anders Randolf

His Noisy Still (1920)

If you can't buy it... make your own! A Fox silent short subject comedy.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roy Del Ruth
CAST:  Glen Cavender  •  Dave Morris  •  Olive Dale  •  Kewpie Morgan

If you can't buy it... make your own! A Fox silent short subject comedy.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roy Del Ruth
CAST:  Glen Cavender  •  Dave Morris  •  Olive Dale  •  Kewpie Morgan

Asleep at the Switch (1923)

Asleep at the Switch is a 1923 comedy short.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roy Del Ruth
CAST:  Ben Turpin  •  Kewpie Morgan  •  Madeline Hurlock  •  Billy Armstrong

Asleep at the Switch is a 1923 comedy short.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roy Del Ruth
CAST:  Ben Turpin  •  Kewpie Morgan  •  Madeline Hurlock  •  Billy Armstrong

The Little Irish Girl (1926)

Beautiful Dot Walker is part of a ring of crooks in San Francisco, who use her to lure impressionable young men into a crooked card game. Young Johnny has come to the big city to sell his grandmother's hotel back in his home town, but he falls under Dot's spell, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roy Del Ruth
CAST:  Dolores Costello  •  John Harron  •  Matthew Betz  •  Lee Moran

Beautiful Dot Walker is part of a ring of crooks in San Francisco, who use her to lure impressionable young men into a crooked card game. Young Johnny has come to the big city to sell his grandmother's hotel back in his home town, but he falls under Dot's spell, ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Roy Del Ruth
CAST:  Dolores Costello  •  John Harron  •  Matthew Betz  •  Lee Moran
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