Dewey Starkey

James Dewey Starkey ( born May 9, 1898 in Ohio; † September 3, 1974 in Orange County, California ) was an American production manager and assistant director of the Oscar for best assistant director received at the Academy Awards 1934.

Biography

Starkey began in 1930 with She's My Weakness as an assistant director in the film industry in Hollywood to work and was one of the seven winners of the 1934 Oscars in the category of best assistant. Throughout his career, he was until 1944 in more than 40 films as pioneers of the Wild West (1931 ), Divorce (1932 ) A rebellious girl (1936 ), Hitting a New High (1937 ) uprising in Sidi Hakim (1938 ) Abe Lincoln in Illinois ( 1940), Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941 ), suspicion ( 1941) and Harte boys - Steep teeth ( 1943) worked as an assistant director. He worked there together, among others, with film directors such as Wesley Ruggles, George Stevens, John Cromwell, Alfred Hitchcock.

In 1948, he first began to work as a production manager and was in the following years especially in the production of television series such as I Married Joan ( 1952-1955 ), The Mickey Rooney Show ( 1954-1955 ), Hotel de Paree ( 1959-1960 ), Have Gun - Will Travel ( 1959-1960 ), Gunsmoke ( 1959-1961 ) and Perry Mason involved ( 1959-1961 ).