Lambert Hillyer
Lambert Hillyer ( born July 8, 1893 in South Bend, Indiana; † July 5, 1969 in Woodland Hills, California ) was an American film director and screenwriter.
Life
Hillyer was a prolific veteran of the early days of quickly rotated, U.S. Sensation film and Westerns. Prior to joining the cinema, the son worked the actress Lydia Knott (1866-1955) in the first half of the 1910s as a reporter, writer of short stories and provincial actors. He received his first movie contract in the midst of the First World War by the production company Mutual film. Since 1917 it was allowed to work as an assistant director and director since 1919, always as alone responsible director.
Hillyer works in just over three decades creative period were primarily fast -crafted, action-packed and provided with numerous daredevil stunts Western, where even the silent film era cowboy legends such as William S. Hart - Star several Hillyer productions 1917-1922 - and Tom Mix the masses held in suspense. During the 1920s, Lambert Hillyer began to work for other film genres, however, came not at any time the status of a B-movie director also.
Hillyer films were mainly produced cheaply mass-produced for a demanding audience poor, although experienced yet set also exciting way. Especially noteworthy are his Kriminalmelodram The collapse with Lon Chaney Sr. and mid-1930s, the horror film classics Fatal rays and Dracula's Daughter. A typical product of the series production Hillyer was the 15teilige cliffhanger Batman and Robin. End of the 1940s, Hillyer withdrew into private life.