Byron Morgan

Nacimiento : 1889-10-24, Carthage, Missouri, USA

Muerte : 1963-05-22

Películas

Gallant Journey
Writer
Biografía de John Montgomery, un pionero de la aviación norteamericana, que en 1883 construyó el primer prototipo.
Wings for the Eagle
Screenplay
Aircraft workers during during World War II become involved in a love triangle.
Danger Flight
Screenplay
Crooks plot to steal a payroll being shipped by air.
The Kid From Texas
Story
A loud-mouthed Texas cowpuncher tries his hand at polo finding himself at odds with high society and trying to save a floundering Wild West show.
Burn 'Em Up O'Connor
Screenplay
An auto mechanic suspects sabotage in a recent series of fatal racecar accidents.
High Flyers
Screenplay
Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter. Actually, they are retrieving diamonds stolen from a noted gem dealer. As it turns out, their plane crashes on the very estate of the dealer. Thinking the duo are police officers, the dealer offers his home for their convalescence from the accident. Meanwhile, the diamonds have been snatched by a kleptomaniac dog and buried on the estate. When the smugglers track down the pair, they try to convince the dealer that they are officials from an institution from which the two have escaped. Before long, the carnival fellows, the crooks, the gem dealer and his family, along with a platoon of cops, are tearing up the grounds to find where the dog has buried the diamonds.
The Sky Parade
Writer
Aviation action highlights this programmer which concerns foreign intrigue and a pair of WW1 buzz-boys developing a high-tech aircraft.
It's in the Air
Screenplay
Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, but first the men must dodge a dogged IRS agent and bilk a bunch of aviation investors out of the backing boodle for a balloon excursion into the stratosphere.
It's in the Air
Story
Con men Calvin Churchill and Clip McGurk know how to fix a horse-race or boxing match. Calvin wants to go straight and win back his estranged wife, but first the men must dodge a dogged IRS agent and bilk a bunch of aviation investors out of the backing boodle for a balloon excursion into the stratosphere.
Hell in the Heavens
Screenplay
During World War I, an American pilot vows to bring down the German ace responsible for his friend's death.
Come On, Marines!
Screenplay
'Lucky Davis', un sargento de los Marines, es un hombre mujeriego y sin escrúpulos. Es asignado para liderar a un escuadrón que deberá adentrarse en la jungla filipina, donde un forajido encabeza a un grupo de peligrosos guerrilleros.
Compañeros de juerga
Continuity
Stan y Ollie se comprometen a asistir a una convención de los “Hijos del Desierto” que coincide con un viaje a las montañas planeado por el matrimonio Hardy. Ollie simula una enfermedad que exige un viaje por mar. Mientras él y Stan disfrutan de la convención, el barco tropieza con una catástrofe.
Flying Devils
Screenplay
A trio of veteran pilots joins an aerial circus.
Fast Life
Screenplay
Two sailors (William Haines and Cliff Edwards) are leaving the US Navy after 10 years. In their spare time, one of them (Haines) invents a carburetor that should increase the speed that powered boats will run, but all they succeed in doing is sinking the Admiral's barge. After discharge, broke and out of work, they find work with a boat builder who wants the fastest race boat in the world. They design the boat, carburetor and the engine but lack of money and the foreclosure of the business hinders their efforts to prove the new design.
Sed de escándalo
Screenplay
El editor de un importante periódico quiere aumentar sus ventas y para ello decide sacar a la luz un caso de asesinato de hace 20 años. La autora fue Nancy Voorhees, que disparó contra su amante. Pero ahora, años después, ella es una feliz madre de familia que no quiere remover su pasado.
The Ruling Voice
Screenplay
A mob boss has a change of heart when his daughter convinces him to move on from crime.
El último vuelo
Continuity
Cinco pilotos, veteranos de la Primera Guerra Mundial, se muestran temorosos a afrontar su devenir diario tras el término del conflicto. Todos los horrores que han vivido les hacen adoptar un nihilista estilo de vida y esconderse en la ciudad de París bebiendo sin parar.
Way Out West
Screenplay
Wise-guy carnival barker Windy bilks a group of cowboys out of their money, gets caught and is forced into working off the debt on their ranch. He falls in love with Molly, the pretty owner of the ranch, but runs afoul of foreman Steve, who also loves Molly.
It's a Great Life
Story
Casey and Babe are sisters who work in a department store and each year the store puts on a show. As expected, things are going wrong with every act until Casey comes out to help Babe with her song. They are a hit, but in the final act, Casey again comes out and this time the president sees her act and fires both her and Babe on the spot. Benny is able to book Casey, Babe and Dean into Vaudeville and their act is popular. But before they have their shot at stardom, Dean and Babe leave Casey and the act.
Speedway
Story
Bill Whipple is a happy-go-lucky mechanic for MacDonald who thinks that he is the worlds greatest driver and lover. Mac has treated Bill like a son since he took him in. One day at the track, Bill sees Pat Bannon, and tries his best to impress her, but to no avail. On his way to catch a flight, he tricks Pat into taking him to the airport and she gets even by taking him up in a plane. He hates to fly, but will not show her that he is afraid and when the plane breaks up, he is a hero for rescuing her. This gets him publicity and Renny offers him his car to drive in the Indianapolis 500. Bill breaks with Mac to drive the car and puts it on the pole for the race. Then Renny double crosses Bill and plans to drive the car himself since Bill has tuned it so well.
The Flying Fleet
Story
Six friends, all hoping to become aviators, are to graduate the next day from the United States Naval Academy. When the officer of the day becomes sick, Tommy Winslow has to take his place, while the others go out and celebrate.
The Smart Set
Story
A cocky, arrogant young playboy is expelled from his American polo team shortly before the big match with England.
The Smart Set
Scenario Writer
A cocky, arrogant young playboy is expelled from his American polo team shortly before the big match with England.
La gloria del colegio
Writer
Marion Bright (Marion Davies) es una chica muy decidida que está dispuesta a todo con tal de conseguir lo que quiere. Su objetivo es Bob, el último chico del que se ha encaprichado. Para conquistarlo va a la misma universidad en la que él estudia y es entrenador del equipo femenino de baloncesto. Para acercarse a él, Marion luchará para llegar a ser la mejor jugadora del grupo.
Man Power
Story
Caterpillar-tractor operator Tom Roberts' mission is to deliver a fragile cargo of dynamite, to be denoted for the purposes of redirecting an anticipated flood.
One Minute to Play
Story
"Red" Wade, a star high-school football player, has intentions of going to Claxton College, which has a powerhouse football team, but changes his mind when he meets the sister of the pitiful Paramlee team and goes to college there, just as his father, an alum of the school, had wished. But his father has ordered him not to play football. "Dad" Wade, has offered a $100,000 endowment to his old school, not knowing his son has joined the football team but is going to withdraw it if his son plays in the Big Game against Claxton. This puts "Red" between a rock and a hard place.
The Palm Beach Girl
Story
Emily Bennett, arriving in Palm Beach on a train, puts her head out of the window and her face is smudged black from the locomotive's coal smoke. She is mistaken for a black girl and this embarrasses her two aunts who are hoping to join the Palm Beach social set. She later fails to impress playboy Jack Trotter when she bungles the christening of his motor-boat. Late she runs into some bootleggers who are loading liquor onto Jack's boat with intent to steal the boat. They have no wish of anyone knowing their intentions, so they kidnap Emily. As it turns out, the gangsters would have been better off by just leaving Emily where she was.
Fascinating Youth
Story
Playboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry Loris Lane, but tells Teddy he can marry whom he pleases if he will make the Mountain Inn a profitable operation. Teddy agrees, and with the support of his friends arranges an ice-boat race with a $10,000 prize to the winner. A problem arises when his father refuses to pay such an amount. Teddy thinks one of his friends will win the race and refuse the prize, but champion racer "Duke" Slade shows up and Teddy knows he will take the money. Some movie stars show up and, while using their own names, are definitely not playing "Self" in this fictional film.
The Pace That Thrills
Story
Paula, a chorus girl, marries into an aristocratic family. Unfortunately, her husband is a drunk. When he tries to give some liquor to their infant son, she brandishes a pair of scissors at him. He wrestles them away from her, then falls down the stairs and stabs himself. Due to the perjured testimony of the maid and butler, Paula is convicted of murder and sent to jail. Her son, Danny, grows up to be a movie star. There is a controversy surrounding him because he refuses to do his own stunts. The reason he won't take any chances is that he is using all his money to get his mother out of jail. Finally, to redeem himself, he agrees to participate in a charity auto race, but his mother's hearing is scheduled for the race day.
California Straight Ahead
Writer
Wealthy racing driver Tom Hayden (Reginald Denny) loses his inheritance and his fiance due to a wacky mishap on his wedding day.
The Lucky Devil
Writer
Richard Dix, a displayer in a department store, enters a raffle and wins the so-called 'hoodoo' bad-luck automobile formerly owned by the store owner's son, a soul seemingly always in trouble with cops and women. Well, suddenly Dix begins to have the same problem, only he also gets mixed up in the life of Esther Ralston and her Aunt Edna May Oliver. Hilarious misunderstandings and undertakings become the fodder for the day!
The Air Mail
Writer
Russ Kane obtains work as a pilot in the airmail service with the purpose of robbing the mails. However, during his training period at the Reno field, he becomes imbued with the spirit of the service and dedicates himself to getting the mail through.
Code of the Sea
Story
Young Bruce McDow tries to live with the specter of his late Father's perceived folly as a Sailor. That led to the loss of a ship and its crew many years earlier. Struggling with his personal demons in a town that doesn't seem to want to forgive or forget.
Sporting Youth
Story
Jimmy Wood, a chauffeur, is mistaken for famous racing driver Splinters Wood. Because he is deeply in debt, he enters a race on the advice of Betty Rockford, daughter of a wealthy automobile manufacturer.
Skid Proof
Story
Halfway through a transcontinental auto race, Dutton Hardmere discovers foul play.
Racing Hearts
Story
Automobile maker John Kent is an old-fashioned sort who refuses to advertise his car line. His daughter Ginger, however, is determined to get him some publicity and goes speeding around town in one of his cars, hoping to get arrested. Roddy Smith, posing as a cop, stops her. His father owns a rival firm and he suggests that Ginger convince her father to enter his car in the Vanderbilt road race.
Across the Continent
Story
Jimmy Dent , son of John Dent, the maker of the reliable but plain Dent automobile, is dismissed from the firm after he refuses to drive a Dent. He goes west with the Tyler family, owners of a rival automobile firm, in one of their expensive high speed cars. 
Across the Continent
Scenario Writer
Jimmy Dent , son of John Dent, the maker of the reliable but plain Dent automobile, is dismissed from the firm after he refuses to drive a Dent. He goes west with the Tyler family, owners of a rival automobile firm, in one of their expensive high speed cars. 
The Hell Diggers
Story
Teddy Darman is the construction superintendent for the Continental Gold Dredging Company. But the farmers of the valley where the firm is doing its dredging are upset because it is ruining their land. Led by John Wade, the farmers form a fierce opposition. This doesn't bother Darman until he realizes that Dora (Lois Wilson), his sweetheart -- who is also Wade's daughter -- is siding with the farmers. This turns him around and the farmers mortgage their farms so that Darman can build a dredging machine that resoils the land.
The Hell Diggers
Screenplay
Teddy Darman is the construction superintendent for the Continental Gold Dredging Company. But the farmers of the valley where the firm is doing its dredging are upset because it is ruining their land. Led by John Wade, the farmers form a fierce opposition. This doesn't bother Darman until he realizes that Dora (Lois Wilson), his sweetheart -- who is also Wade's daughter -- is siding with the farmers. This turns him around and the farmers mortgage their farms so that Darman can build a dredging machine that resoils the land.
Too Much Speed
Story
Egotistical race-car driver Dusty Rhoades learns that humility pays off even better than acclaim.
Too Much Speed
Screenplay
Egotistical race-car driver Dusty Rhoades learns that humility pays off even better than acclaim.
What's Your Hurry?
Writer
Truckdriver Dusty Rhoades leads a team of truckers over dangerous roads to deliver emergency supplies before a crucial dam breaks.
Excuse My Dust
Story
Un piloto de carreras abandona su profesión para casarse, ya que su mujer no quiere que vuelva a las carreras, pero tiempo después la mujer le abandona con su hijo. Cuando el hijo se encuentra enfermo en San Francisco, el piloto usará un coche último modelo para juntarse con su familia al otro lado del país.
Excuse My Dust
Minor Role (uncredited)
Un piloto de carreras abandona su profesión para casarse, ya que su mujer no quiere que vuelva a las carreras, pero tiempo después la mujer le abandona con su hijo. Cuando el hijo se encuentra enfermo en San Francisco, el piloto usará un coche último modelo para juntarse con su familia al otro lado del país.
Double Speed
Writer
Auto racer Speed Carr enters a marathon race across the United States, from New York to Los Angeles. He encounters numerous obstacles not related to the race and must switch identities and vehicles before he can finish.
The Roaring Road
Story
A young man pursues a young lady with the same energy he applies to his other obsession in life, auto racing.