Ray Enright
Ray Enright ( born May 25, 1896 in Anderson, Indiana, † April 3, 1965 in Hollywood, California ) was an American film director, screenwriter and editor. As a director, he made 73 films.
Life and work
Ray Enright came the age of five with his parents to Los Angeles. After the end of his high school years, he began his career as an assistant cutter in Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios, where he worked on the early Chaplin comedies. After his service in World War I in France, the United States Army Signal Corps Enright worked for Thomas H. Ince and finally for Warner Brothers. His debut as a director had Enright in " Rin -Tin -Tin and the Gold Digger " ( Jaws of Steel) (1927 ). In the 1930s, he worked for Warner Brothers and First National. In the 1940s he worked for Columbia Pictures, Universal Studios and RKO Pictures and moved to action movies and Western with the former star Randolph Scott.
Enright worked, among other things " Tracked by the Police " (1927 ), "Song of the West " (1930 ), " A serious boy " (The St. Louis Kid) (1934, with James Cagney ), "China Clipper " ( 1936), "Slim - A man is aiming high " ( Slim) (1937, with Henry Fonda ), " Gold Diggers in Paris" ( 1938), " Brother Rat and a Baby " (1940 ), " From town to town " (The Wagons roll at Night ) (1941, starring Humphrey Bogart ), " The Spoilers " ( The Spoilers ) (1942, with Marlene Dietrich ), ' The Terror of Texas " ( Return of the Badmen ) ( 1948), " Montana " (1950, with Errol Flynn ) and his last film, the Italian production of " conspiracy in Algiers " ( Dramma nella Casbah / the Man from Cairo ) (1953, turned in Algiers ).
Ray Enright, in the credits as Raymond Enright, died after a long illness at the age of 68 years in Hollywood of a heart attack. His final resting place is located at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale.