Joseph Depew

Nacimiento : 1912-07-11, Harrison, New Jersey, USA

Muerte : 1988-10-30

Historia

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joseph Depew (July 11, 1912 – October 30, 1988) was an American television director and producer and actor. Born in Harrison, New Jersey, Depew began his career as a child stage actor at the age of three. He was influenced by his mother, also a stage performer. He later worked as a second unit director or an assistant director in 22 films and 26 television series episodes. He was a unit director in six The Beverly Hillbillies episodes, an actor in fourteen films, an assistant producer in eleven episodes of The Bob Cummings Show and a production manager in one movie.

Películas

Park Row
Assistant Director
In New York's 1880's newspaper district a dedicated journalist manages to set up his own paper. It is an immediate success but attracts increasing opposition from one of the bigger papers and its newspaper heiress owner.
The Man Who Cheated Himself
Assistant Director
Ed es un policía de San Francisco que vive un idilio secreto con una mujer casada llamada Lois. Cuando Lois mata a su marido, Ed se ve forzado a ocultar el crimen, de modo que decide hacer creer que el muerto recibió un disparo durante un robo. Pero las cosas no serán tan sencillas.
Pitfall
Assistant Director
El agente de seguros John Forbes (Dick Powell) vive en Los Ángeles con su esposa (Jane Wyatt) y su hijo (Jimmy Hunt). Mientras tanto, un ex policía convertido en detective privado (Raymond Burr) se dedica a investigar los métodos de un estafador (Byron Barr) al que hace poco la compañía de Forbes pagó una indemnización. El detective descubre que le hizo diversos regalos a una atractiva modelo (Lizabeth Scott). (FILMAFFINITY)
Christmas Eve
Assistant Director
The greedy nephew of eccentric Matilda Reid seeks to have her judged incompetent so he can administer her wealth, but she will be saved if her three long-lost adopted sons appear for a Christmas Eve reunion. Separate stories reveal Michael as a bankrupt playboy loved by loyal Ann; Mario as a seemingly shady character tangling with a Nazi war criminal in South America; Jonathan as a hard-drinking rodeo rider intent on a flirtatious social worker. Is there hope for Matilda?
Escándalo en París
Assistant Director
Autobiografía de François Eugène Vidocq, legendario ladrón del siglo XVIII. Vidocq nació en una cárcel francesa en 1775 y llegó incluso a ser nombrado jefe de la policía de París, pero durante todo ese tiempo no dejó de ser un singular y elegante delincuente.
Memorias de una doncella
Assistant Director
Celestine consigue trabajo como doncella en la mansión de los Lanlaire, una decadente y excéntrica familia aristocrática. Su objetivo es servirse de su belleza para seducir a un hombre rico, pero el señor Lanlaire no parece el hombre adecuado debido al férreo control que su madre ejerce sobre él con la ayuda de un extraño mayordomo.
El capitán Kidd
Assistant Director
En 1699, el capitán Kidd, un rudo pirata, consigue engañar al rey para que le proporcione una escolta para un barco lleno de tesoros que ha zarpado de la India. La tripulación está formada por ex presidiarios, entre los cuales se encuentra Orange Povey, a quien Kidd había abandonado tiempo atrás en un arrecife y al que esperaba no volver a ver.
Aguas turbias
Assistant Director
Leslie Calven, es la única sobreviviente del ataque de un submarino a un barco de refugiados que huía de la guerra en Europa. Una vez a salvo busca en sus tíos el apoyo y el afecto que necesita para recuperarse psíquica y emocionalmente. Cuando llega a la mansión familiar se encontrará un extraño ambiente y con que el señor Sidney es quien controla el negocio de la plantación.
Niagara Falls
Elevator Boy (uncredited)
The nosy antics of a honeymooner puts an unwed couple in the same room.
Sweetie
Freddie Fry
Chorus girl Barbara Pell (Nancy Carroll) inherits a school for boys, and uses her position to sabotage the football career of the boy who jilted her.
Queen of the Night Clubs
Roy
Irked by the success of a brassy nightclub owner. her rivals set out to drive her out of business, and frame her for a murder in the bargain.
Walking Back
Jazz age youngster Smoke Thatcher "borrows" a neighbor's car to take Patsy, his sweetheart, to a dance after his father refuses to lend him his car. A car-fight with a rival results in the borrowed automobile's being so wrecked that Smoke cannot return it. The garage to which he and Patsy take the car for repair turns out to be actually a gang's hideaway and a place where stolen cars are brought and later fenced.
The Swan
Prince George
The Swan (1925) is a silent film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The film is based on Melville Baker's 1923 Broadway play adaptation, The Swan, of Ferenc Molnar's play A Hattyu Vigjatek Harom Felvonasbarn. This film was directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki, a recent Russian immigrant working for Famous Players-Lasky. Buchowetzki had directed pictures in Russia, Sweden, and Germany. The story of this film was remade in 1930 as One Romantic Night, an early talkie for Lillian Gish, and in Technicolor as a 1956 vehicle for Grace Kelly.
Icebound
Orin Fellowes
Ben Jordan runs away after accidentally setting fire to a barn in his small New England community. He returns when his mother dies to find that she has left everything to her ward, Jane Crosby.
Grit
Tony O'Cohen
Two former childhood gang members, "Kid" Hart and Orchid McGonigle, attempt to go straight, despite pressure to continue their lives of lawlessness.
The Daring Years
LaMotte son
Cabaret dancer Suzie La Motte is in love with Jim Moran, a boxer, but she tempts a young man named John Browning. Moran and John get into a fight in which Moran accidentally shoots himself. Out of anger at John, Suzie accuses him of Moran's murder.
Timothy's Quest
Timothy
A charming pastoral about two unwanted children finding acceptance and love, Timothys Quest (1922) is a rare, cinematic gem based on a novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), who was then known as Americas best loved author of stories about children.