Gordon Douglas (director)
Gordon Douglas ( * December 15, 1907 in New York City; † September 29, 1993 in Los Angeles ) was an American film director.
Douglas ' film career began with work as an actor and casting director in the studio of Hal Roach. There he also started his career as a director, among others with short comedies of the " Our Gang " series ( Engl.: " The Little Rascals "). During this time he also shot films with Oliver Hardy ( " Zenobia, the fair Elephant ") and with Hardy and Stan Laurel ( " On the high seas ").
Thereafter, Douglas established in Hollywood as a director, the reliable quality work made in different genres, but also quite was able to create outstanding works of the genre film. Besides various renowned Western earned eg Formicula from 1954 mentioning in this context that, here mutated before Jack Arnold's Tarantula giant ants by nuclear tests, bringing to the big screen. 1960 The Gold of the Seven Mountains and 1961 with Beyond the Ruwenzori he also shot two films with Roger Moore in the lead role.
His last film shot Douglas in 1976. In September 1993, he died at the age of 85 years in Los Angeles from cancer.