Ben Silvey

Ben Silvey (birth name: Benjamin Silberman ) (* May 23, 1894 in New York; † February 7, 1948 in Hollywood, California ) was an American assistant director, who was nominated for the Academy Awards in 1934 for an Oscar for best assistant director.

Biography

Silvey began in 1929 with wedding rings as an assistant director in the film industry in Hollywood and worked in this capacity to the manufacture of more than ten other films such as The Song of the Flame ( 1930), The Rothschilds (1934 ), the struggle for India ( 1935) and Thanks a Million (1935 ) with. At the Academy Awards in 1934, he was among the nominees for the only a few years awarded Oscar for best assistant director.

Then he was up to his death involved in ten other films as a producer or production manager like Jesse James, man without law (1939 ), The Return of Frank James (1940 ), raid the Ogalalla (1941 ), Adopted Happiness ( 1941), The Lifeboat (1944 ) and The snake Pit (1948 ). He has worked with renowned film directors such as Henry King, Fritz Lang, H. Bruce Humberstone, Alfred Hitchcock and Anatole Litvak.