Cullen Tate

Cullen Tate ( born March 10, 1896 in Paducah, Kentucky, † October 12, 1947 in Hollywood, California ) was an American assistant director, who was nominated for the Academy Awards in 1935 for an Oscar for best assistant director.

Biography

Tate began in 1917 at Little American his career as an assistant director in the film industry in Hollywood and was involved in the creation of some 30 films. At the Academy Awards in 1935 he was nominated for an Oscar for best assistant director in the film Cleopatra (1934 ). Other well-known films produced under his staff, were The Ten Commandments (1923 ), time of the lilac (1928 ), The Man in the Iron Mask (1939) and favorite to dictation (1942 ). In the films he worked with, among others, the directors Cecil B. DeMille, James Whale and Mitchell Leisen.

After appearances as a film actor in two silent films in 1923, he turned himself as a film director, the silent films Try and Get It (1924 ), Cheap Kisses (1924 ) and The Carnival Girl ( 1926).

Between 1923 and 1928 he was married to the actress Bess Flowers, which was later called 700 because of their roles in more than forty-year career, " The Queen of the Hollywood Extras".