Lou Brock (producer)
Louis " Lou" Brock ( born August 21, 1892 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, † April 19, 1971 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American film producer, director and screenwriter who the Oscar for best short film in at the Academy Awards 1934 the subcategory Comedy won yet another time was nominated in this category.
Life
Brock began his career as a producer in the film industry in Hollywood in 1930 with the comedy short film General Ginsberg and produced in the course of his career until 1953, nearly 90 short films for RKO Pictures and other film production companies. As a producer, he was instrumental in merging the Hollywood dream couple Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and was also director of the short film department at RKO Pictures. He also worked in a few films as well as a director and screenwriter.
At the Academy Awards in 1934, he was awarded the Oscar for the best short film in the subcategory Comedy for So This Is Harris! (1933 ) and was also nominated a second time for that Oscar in this Oscar ceremony namely for A Preferred List ( 1933).
Brock, who was married, among others, with the actress Helen Christian, impoverished after finishing his career as a film producer and most recently worked until his death as a night porter in a hotel in Hollywood.