Roy Rowland (film director)
Roy Rowland ( born December 30, 1902 in New York, USA, † June 29, 1995, Laguna Hills, Orange County, California ) was an American film director.
Life and work
Rowland had a few semesters studied law before he found a job at the movie in the script department at the beginning of the 30s. 1931/32 he assisted the director WS Van Dyke with Tarzan the Ape Man and turned in 1934 without naming a number of scenes from Richard Allan Dwan Boleslawskis and The Lion of Hollywood ( Hollywood Party ). From 1936 to Rowland worked as a short film director for MGM (amongst others with the Crime Does Not Pay and Pete Smith series ) and for the army.
1943 debuted as a director Roy Rowland full-length feature films. His productions were experienced entertainment without artistic ambitions. He turned musical romances and westerns, crime films and comedies with slapstick bonds, gefühlige melodramas and musicals. His most interesting and unusual staging was the horror fantasy The 5000 fingers of Dr. T.. Since the late 50s was Roy Rowland primarily operates in Europe ( Spain, Italy and UK ) studios. His last production was sole in 1964, shot in Spain Euro Western They called him gringo with Götz George, Alexandra Stewart and Helmut Schmid in the lead roles.
The mid-60s he participated without referring by name to be on the U.S. versions of two pirate movies, Under the flag of the Tiger (El tigre de los siete lean a ) and thunder over the Indian Ocean ( Tormenta sobre el Pacifico ), with Gérard Barray in the lead role. After the production line to Go to hell, Gringo to Rowland withdrew into private life.