Fred F. Sears
Frederick Francis Sears (* July 7, 1913 in Boston, Massachusetts, † November 30, 1957 in Hollywood ) was an American director and actor.
Life
Sears had his education at Boston College in the wake of the Great Depression of 1929 break. He then went to the age of 24 to New York. There he gave in January 1937 his debut on the stage in the play ' Rising Tide '. By the end of 1940, he appeared at the Off- Broadway, so among other things in 1938 ' Censored ' and ' Lorelei ' and 1940 'Quiet, Please! ' And ' Cue for Passion '. Later he tried his hand in the stage direction and production at the Westchester Playhouse, also in New York.
In 1941 he took over the management of the Little Theater in Memphis. In the same city Sears also taught classical acting at the Southwestern University. In 1943 he joined the United States Army. Immediately after the end of World War II, he moved to Hollywood. Yet in 1945 he was taken by Columbia Pictures as an actor under contract. Between 1947 and 1952, he starred in almost 60 films, but mostly in small roles without mention in the credits. In 1952, Harry Cohn him, at that time president of Columbia Pictures, as a director. From 1953 to 1957 he led in 29 feature films as director. Here, he was not set to a specific genre, so he turned including the Rock and Roll music film Over the top with Bill Haley and the B-movie horror films Flying Saucers, as well as several Western.
On November 30, 1957, he died in his office in Columbia Studios a cerebral hemorrhage.