Robert Florey

Robert Florey

Nacimiento : 1900-09-14, Paris, France

Muerte : 1979-05-16

Historia

Robert Florey (14 September 1900 – 16 May 1979) was a French-American director, screenwriter, film journalist and actor. Born as Robert Fuchs in Paris, he became an orphan at an early age and was then raised in Switzerland. In 1920 he worked at first as a film journalist, then as an assistant and extra in featurettes from Louis Feuillade. Florey moved to the United States in 1921.

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Robert Florey

Películas

The Incredible Doktor Markesan
Director
Penniless Fred Bancroft, along with his new wife Molly, visits a sinister uncle he hasn't seen in years in hopes of living rent-free in his musty, decaying mansion.
The Donald Duck Story
Director
Walt Disney takes a look at the story of the creation of Donald Duck and his later career.
The Disneyland Story
Director
Walt Disney presents a preview for both his upcoming park called Disneyland and several episodes of the show to come. Then the show focuses primarily on the career of Mickey Mouse.
The Walt Disney Christmas Show
Director
The Walt Disney Christmas Show is a Christmas television special, originally broadcast on Christmas Day of 1951. The then-upcoming Disney film Peter Pan is promoted in this special, as is an upcoming reissue of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
La taberna de Nueva Orleans
Director
Un intrépido capitán arriesga su vida y la de su tripulación para intentar rescatar a una sirvienta, que ha sido érroneamente acusada de asesinato y encarcelada. Cuando consiga liberarla, empezarán a tener auténticos problemas.
Operation Wonderland
Director
1951 behind the scenes featurette of the Walt Disney animated classic.
Charlie's Haunt
Director
The residents of a small town are haunted by the ghost of Charlie McCarthy, who doesn't like the fact that they are a very careless bunch and are constantly putting themselves in danger.
Johnny One-Eye
Director
Johnny One-Eye was adapted from one of Damon Runyon's lesser-known stories. Martin Martin and Dane Cory were former partners in crime who have long since split up. When a new district attorney puts the heat on, Cory, anxious to save his own hide, accuses Martin of an unsolved murder. Holed up in abandoned house, Martin is befriended by a little girl and her dog. It so happens that the girl is the daughter of the crusading DA, and thereby hangs the rest of this tale.
The Vicious Years
Director
Mario, an Italian war orphan, sees Luca Rossi commit a murder. Eager for a home and family life, Mario promises not to tell the police if Luca takes him into his household and family. Luca fears and hates Mario, but his father, mother and sister all come to love him.
Outpost in Morocco
Director
Captain Gerard, greatest lover in the Foreign Legion, is assigned to escort an emir's daughter to her father's mountain citadel and find out what he can about the emir's activities. Gerard enjoys his work with lovely Cara, but arrives to find rebellion brewing.
Arrostrando la muerte
Director
A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his criminal past.
Rogues' Regiment
Story
A post World War 2, US Army agent is assigned to join the Foreign Legion in search of high ranking Nazi war criminal who may have also enlisted.
Rogues' Regiment
Director
A post World War 2, US Army agent is assigned to join the Foreign Legion in search of high ranking Nazi war criminal who may have also enlisted.
El burlador de Castilla
Screenplay
Don Juan de Mañara, un caballero español, después de provocar un escándalo amoroso que da al traste con un matrimonio de conveniencia impuesto por la reina, regresa a la corte de España. Una vez en su patria, encuentra acomodo como maestro de esgrima en el Real Colegio de Guardias Nobles, lo que le rehabilita a los ojos de todos, borrando del recuerdo su borrascoso pasado. Pero, debido a su carácter pendenciero, se verá de nuevo envuelto en situaciones comprometidas.
Tarzán y las sirenas
Director
La última ocasión en la que Weissmuller ofrece su grito de guerra en su papel de hombre-mono. Pero no antes de cumplir la misión de rescatar a una bella sirena que es forzada a contraer matrimonio con un impostor que se hace pasar por el Dios Balu. Tarzán incluso llega a estar atrapado por un pulpo gigante cuando trata de llevar la calma a una comunidad de buscadores de perlas.
Monsieur Verdoux
Assistant Director
Basada en hechos reales, esta obra maestra del genio Chaplin cuenta la historia de Henri Verdoux, un hombre de doble vida. Por un lado es un respetable hombre casado padre de un hijo, pero por otro es un seductor que, bajo otra identidad, se dedica a casarse con viudas ricas a las que posteriormente asesina para quedarse con su fortuna.
La bestia con cinco dedos
Director
En una pequeña villa italiana un rico millonario muere tras sufrir un extraño accidente, dejando toda su fortuna a su enfermera. Ello provoca lógicamente el descontento de la familia y de su secretario, quienes no tardarán en intentar impugnar el testamento ayudados por el propio abogado del difunto. Esa misma noche, empiezan a sucederse hechos extraños: el piano no cesa de sonar aunque nadie lo toca, la cripta del difunto se ilumina por la noche y el abogado aparece muerto víctima de lo que parece ser un estrangulamiento. A la mañana siguiente, los habitantes de la mansión deciden investigar en la cripta, descubriendo que al difunto le falta una mano...
Danger Signal
Director
After robbing and murdering his married lover and then making her death look like suicide, conniving philanderer Ronnie Mason relocates to Los Angeles. Under a new identity and claiming to be a writer, Ronnie finds lodging at the home of Hilda Fenchurch and her mother. He woos Hilda, knowing she has money, but when he discovers that Hilda's sister, Anne, has just inherited $25,000, he switches his attentions to her.
Dios es mi copiloto
Director
Biografía de Robert L. Scott, afamado piloto de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, que se enfrentó a muerte con su mortífero enemigo, el aviador japonés conocido como Tokyo Joe.
Man from Frisco
Director
Matt Braddock is a civil engineer during World War II who has new ideas for shipbuilding. Braddock tries to establish yards for building prefabricated ships on the West Coast, but he is hindered by the former superintendent of the shipyard, Joel Kennedy. A disappointed lover fails to deliver an important message on welds and it leads to the collapse of a new ship's superstructure and the death of a boy.
Roger Touhy, Gangster
Director
Set during Prohibition, the movie centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's most powerful bootlegger whose empire is rivaled only by that of Al Capone (who is referred to, but never named in the story). It is his rival who frames Touhy for kidnapping and arranges for him to serve a life-long term in Stateville prison. Determined to be free again, the desperate Touhy and his cellmate Basil "the Owl" Banghart, begin plotting a violent break out.
The Desert Song
Director
Paul Hudson, leads a group of desert bandits against some Nazis, who want to use them as cheap labor for their railroad.
Lady Gangster
Director
An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money from her partners and hides it, she is thinking to use it as a bargaining chip to be released from prison. However, her former partners don't have the same ideas.
Dangerously They Live
Director
A doctor tries to rescue a young innocent from Nazi agents.
Two in a Taxi
Director
An ambitious but financially strapped taxi driver becomes involved with mobsters to obtain money to buy a gas station.
Meet Boston Blackie
Director
When a murder occurs on an ocean liner docked in New York, the trail leads to Coney Island and a spy ring.
La máscara de fuego
Director
Janos Szabo, un oscuro inmigrante húngaro usa una máscara porque su rostro ha quedado desfigurado por terribles quemaduras. En tal circunstancia, le resulta imposible conseguir un trabajo. Solo y desamparado, poco a poco se irá hundiendo en el mundo del hampa, del cual únicamente lo podrá sacar el amor que siente por una joven ciega.
Women Without Names
Director
Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the efforts of politically ambitious assistant DA Marlin, Fred awaits his doom on Death Row, while Joyce works overtime on the outside to clear her husband's name
Parole Fixer
Director
This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice system in order to get undeserving convicts parole from prisons. The point is made when FBI agents are assigned to track down "Big Boy" Bradmore, who after getting an undeserved parole, via the efforts of a shyster lawyer, promptly murders an FBI agent.
Death of a Champion
Director
Unos detectives intentan descubrir quién mató a un perro famoso en el mundo del espectáculo.
The Magnificent Fraud
Director
A Chicago con man pays an actor to pose as a slain South American dictator.
Hotel Imperial
Director
It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of World War I, to be occupied one day by the Russians, the next by the Austrians, and the inhabitants soon acquire a complacent view of the changing allegiances. To the town comes Ann Warschaska, intent on avenging the suicide of her sister, who has killed herself after being betrayed by an Austrian officer. She knows no more about his identity than the number of his room at the "Hotel Imperial".
Disbarred
Director
The Bar Association disbars attorney Tyler Cradon when it appears he was implicated in the murder of a prominent vice crusader. Cradon, not wishing to be without an income,is impressed by the way Joan Carroll handled a small-town murder, poses as a real estate agent and offers to get her into a law firm of a friend of his. Placed in the office of Roberts, running a front for Cradon, Joan is taught every trick of the trade. With her cases all prepared for her, she goes from one courtroom victory to another, soon becoming the darling of the underworld and the despair of all law-enforcing authorities.
King of Alcatraz
Director
A convict who has just escaped from Alcatraz Prison takes over a passenger ship. Two of the ship's crew hatch a plot to overpower him and rescue the ship's passengers.
Dangerous to Know
Director
Racketeer Steve Recka, art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying, his beautiful friend and hostess (read:mistress), with an iron hand. He meets Margaret Van Kase, a socialite not impressed by his power nor his wealth, having no money herself, and Steve makes frantic efforts to win her and turns away from the loyal Lin Yang.
Daughter of Shanghai
Director
A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal alien smuggling ring.
This Way Please
Director
A famous singer and matinée idol helps a pretty young theater usher in her dreams of becoming a singer, but when her career begins to take off and she becomes engaged to a wealthy young man, he realizes he's fallen for her and plots to break up her impending marriage.
Mountain Music
Director
Mary Beamish, a folksy Ozark girl, yearns for the glitter of show business and for a man. She knows she is anything but gorgeous, but figures her enthusiasm offsets that small deficit.
King of Gamblers
Director
A fast moving and low budget crime drama seasoned with mystery & comedy.
Outcast
Director
A physician in a small town suddenly finds himself the object of vilification and persecution when one of his patients commits suicide.
Hollywood Boulevard
Director
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.
Till We Meet Again
Director
In London, August 1914, Austrian star Elsa Duranyi (Gertrude Michael) and English matinee idol Alan Barclay (Herbert Marshall) are in love and plan an immediate marriage. But the War comes and Elsa mysteriously disappears. Alan's ease in speaking German results in his appointment to the British Intelligence and, to aid his use as a spy, they announce he was killed in action. He takes the name and personality of "shell-shocked" Hans Teller, a German prisoner, and is sent into Germany on an exchange of prisoners.
The Preview Murder Mystery
Director
The star of "Song of the Toreador" receives threatening messages that he will not survive the preview screening of the film. The studio publicist works with the Director, the Producer and the police, to discover who is behind the threats.
Ship Cafe
Director
The singing stoker and the vamp.
Going Highbrow
Director
A ditzy wife yearns to join "high society" when she and her husband become suddenly wealthy. Comedy.
Don't Bet on Blondes
Director
Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.
La novia de Frankenstein
Story
Después de la huida del monstruo creado por el doctor Frankenstein, el siniestro Dr. Praetorius propone al científico la creación de una compañera para el monstruo.
The Florentine Dagger
Director
A playwright descended from the Borgias family becomes a murder suspect.
The Woman in Red
Director
A polo player's wife becomes the mystery woman in a Long Island horsy-set murder trial.
The Payoff
Director
An honest sports columnist's greedy wife persuades him to go easy on a cheat, famous for crooked sports deals.
I Am a Thief
Director
A man dodges jewel thieves while carrying a fortune in diamonds on the Orient Express.
I Sell Anything
Director
Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?
Smarty
Director
Vicki Wallace takes great pleasure in teasing her husband Tony who takes no pleasure at all in being teased and it isn't long before he ups and clips her on the chin. Vicki's friend and attorney Vernon Thorpe secures a divorce for her, and Vicki and Vernon are soon married. Vicki's yen for wearing revealing clothes and a penchant for inviting ex-husband to dinner soon provokes the easily-provoked Vernon into belting one on her himself. She goes to Tony's apartment, where Tony is entertaining Bonnie, who is not all that entertained by the presence of Vicki, especially after Vicki shows every intent of moving in and staying.
Registered Nurse
Director
In this sudsy hospital melodrama, a married nurse finds herself falling in love with one of two surgeons when her husband goes mad and needs an operation. One of the surgeon's regards his pursuit a lark, while the other harbors genuine affections for the nurse.
Bedside
Director
Bob Brown uses his bedside manner to charm his patients while his partner makes the actual diagnoses.
The House on 56th Street
Director
A beautiful chorine marries a handsome rich socialite, but her idyllic life ends when she visits a dying old beau and is charged when he commits suicide.
Ex-Lady
Director
Although free spirit Helen Bauer does not believe in marriage, she consents to marry Don, but his infidelities cause her to also take on a lover.
A Study in Scarlet
Screenplay
In London, a secret society led by lawyer Thaddeus Merrydew collects the assets of any of its deceased members and divides them among the remaining members. Society members start dropping like flies. Sherlock Holmes is approached by member James Murphy's widow, who is miffed at being left penniless by her husband. When Captain Pyke is shot, Holmes keys in on his mysterious Chinese widow as well as the shady Merrydew. Other members keep dying: Malcom Dearing first, then Mr. Baker. There is also an attempt on the life of young Eileen Forrester, who became a reluctant society member upon the death of her father. Holmes' uncanny observations and insights are put to the test.
Girl Missing
Director
Kay and June, two showgirls, are hurt when they seek financial help from Daisy. On Daisy's wedding night when she is rendered missing, Kay and June decide to look for her to claim the reward.
Those We Love
Director
Director Robert Florey's 1932 melodrama about a woman who suspects her husband of infidelity stars Mary Astor, Kenneth MacKenna, Tommy Conlon, Lilyan Tashman, Hale Hamilton, Cecil Cunningham and Virginia Sale.
The Man Called Back
Director
Fresh from his success with the moody melodrama Murders in the Rue Morgue, director Robert Florey dashed off The Man Called Back at bargain-basement Tiffany Studios. The film is set in the tropics; Conrad Nagel tops the cast as a dissipated, derelict doctor, hopelessly in love with married socialite Doris Kenyon. Doris' insane husband John Halliday commits suicide, but arranges the evidence so that his wife will be charged with murder.
El doble asesinato de la calle Morgue
Adaptation
A finales del siglo XIX, un sádico doctor de París se dedica a secuestrar a mujeres jóvenes para realizar experimentos que puedan ayudarle a confirmar sus teorías sobre la evolución del mono al hombre. Desgraciadamente, las víctimas no sobreviven a los estudios del científico, y éste se ve obligado a capturar a nuevas desafortunadas para continuar con su trabajo. Mientras, la joven pareja formada por Camille y el joven médico Pierre vive ajena a los planes del doctor, hasta que ella se convierte en el próximo objetivo del científico.
El doble asesinato de la calle Morgue
Director
A finales del siglo XIX, un sádico doctor de París se dedica a secuestrar a mujeres jóvenes para realizar experimentos que puedan ayudarle a confirmar sus teorías sobre la evolución del mono al hombre. Desgraciadamente, las víctimas no sobreviven a los estudios del científico, y éste se ve obligado a capturar a nuevas desafortunadas para continuar con su trabajo. Mientras, la joven pareja formada por Camille y el joven médico Pierre vive ajena a los planes del doctor, hasta que ella se convierte en el próximo objetivo del científico.
El doctor Frankenstein
Writer
El doctor Henry Von Frankenstein acomete un experimento tenebroso: construir, a partir de fragmentos de cadáveres, un nuevo ser humano. Con la ayuda de su criado Fritz, se adentra durante la noche en los cementerios de la localidad para arrancar a los cadáveres las partes que necesita. Lo que ignora es que el cerebro que ha utilizado en su experimento había pertenecido a un criminal.
Black and White
Director
A one-night stand with an entertainer threatens to destroy a woman's marriage after she gives birth to a black child.
Love Songs
Director
To protect the honor of a married lady, a grammar professor pretends to be a singing teacher and falls in love with the real professor's daughter.
El amor solfeando
Director
Classic spanish movie
The Battle of Paris
Director
Gertrude Lawrence plays a singer in Paris during World War I. After stealing from Tony (Walter Petrie), an American artist, the two fall in love.
The Road Is Fine
Director
Los cuatro cocos
Director
Durante el auge inmobiliario de Florida, los Hermanos Marx gestionan un hotel, subastan tierras, frustran un robo de joyas y, en general, actúan como ellos mismos.
Skyscraper Symphony
Director
A montage of the skyscrapers of Manhattan opens with a succession of stationary views of the upper portions of numerous buildings. This is followed by a wide variety of fluid shots, which also begin to show more and more of the surrounding city, in addition to the skyscrapers themselves.
The Hole in the Wall
Director
Mrs. Ramsey sent Jean Oliver to prison on a false charge. To get even, Jean (disguised as Madame Mystera) plans to kidnap her daughter and turn her into a thief. Love entanglements with a gangster known as "The Fox" and newspaperman Grant complicate her plans.
The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra
Casting Director
This short experimental film tells the story of a man who comes to Hollywood to become a star, only to fail and be dehumanized. He is identified by the number 9413 written on his forehead.
The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra
Director
This short experimental film tells the story of a man who comes to Hollywood to become a star, only to fail and be dehumanized. He is identified by the number 9413 written on his forehead.
The Love of Zero
Director
While playing his trombone one Sunday, the enthusiastic Zero sees Beatrix and falls in love. He returns the next week to express his feelings, and it's mutual. Over the next few months, they spoon, kiss, and find happiness. Then, she receives a letter from Kabul, demanding that she return to the palace of the grand vizier. The lovers part, heartbroken. Zero tries expressing himself to a woman on the street. He meets derision. Then, news of Beatrix. Does this romance end in smiles or tears?
La llama mágica
Assistant Director
Película perdida. Drama, Cine mudo.
Face Value
Director
Howard Crandall Jr., who comes from a wealthy family, has suffered a disfiguring facial injury during World War I, and at war's end stays in Paris rather than return home to his family and sweetheart Muriel looking the way he does. While in Paris he forms a secret society of men who are in a similar position. When he finally does decide to return home, his family and Muriel are at first shocked by his appearance, but they recover and try to make him feel comfortable and accepted. However, it's not before Howard begins to feel their actions are motivated more by pity than love, and when Arthur Wells, who was once Muriel's suitor, shows up one day and is greeted warmly and intimately by Muriel, Howard starts to think that his suspicions are justified.
La elegante pecadora
Assistant Director