Edward Bernds

Edward Bernds ( born July 12, 1905 in Chicago, Illinois; † 20 May 2000 Van Nuys, California ) was an American film director, sound engineer and screenwriter who was mainly known by numerous B-movies.

Life

Bernd worked in the 1920s as a sound engineer, first for radio stations in Chicago. There he met Howard Campbell, know, he got a job at United Artists in Hollywood over the 1928. Later he moved to Columbia Pictures, where he belonged to the permanent staff of Frank Capra.

His career as a director and screenwriter he began only in 1945 for Columbia Pictures with the Three- Stooges short film A Bird in the Head. This was not published until after his second film Micro- Phonies. In the next twenty years he turned almost a hundred films, among other Three- Stooges films also some Western and sci-fi trash films.

1957 received Bernds and Elwood Ullman an Oscar nomination for best original screenplay. This was, however, an oversight: Actually, John Patrick should have been nominated for the upper crust, but there was a mix-up with a film of the same name, on the Ullman and Bob's were involved. The nomination was subsequently withdrawn.

Published in 1999, Bernd's autobiography under the title Mr. Bernds Goes to Hollywood.

Filmography (selection)

Written and directed by

Only script

• Reform School Girl ( 1994)