Rowland V. Lee

Rowland V. Lee

Nacimiento : 1891-09-05, Findlay, Ohio, USA

Muerte : 1975-12-21

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Rowland Vance Lee (born September 6, 1891, Findlay, Ohio — died December 21, 1975, Palm Desert, California) was a U.S. film actor, director, writer, and producer. His acting profession was fairly short lived. His main profession was directing, but he would write scripts on occasion. He worked at Fox, Paramount , Warners and RKO. Lee directed the 1940 black-and-white film The Son of Monte Cristo, starring Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett and George Sanders. He was one of the 11 co-directors of Paramount Pictures' all-star revue Paramount on Parade (1930). He also directed The Guilty Generation (1931), Zoo in Budapest (1933), Son of Frankenstein (1939), The Tower of London (1939) and The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944). He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rowland V. Lee, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Rowland V. Lee

Películas

The Big Fisherman
Producer
Drama that focuses on the later life of Peter, one of the closest disciples of Jesus.
The Big Fisherman
Writer
Drama that focuses on the later life of Peter, one of the closest disciples of Jesus.
El capitán Kidd
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.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Producer
A rope bridge over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes snaps, sending five people plunging to their deaths. A priest sets out to find out more about the life of each of the victims.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Director
A rope bridge over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes snaps, sending five people plunging to their deaths. A priest sets out to find out more about the life of each of the victims.
Powder Town
Director
Director Rowland V. Lee's wacky 1942 comedy, about an absent-minded scientist working on a secret formula at an explosives plant, stars Edmond O'Brien, Victor McLaglen, Dorothy Lovett, June Havoc, Eddie Foy Jr., Marion Martin and Mary Gordon.
El hijo de Montecristo
Producer
La Gran Duquesa se dirige a París para conseguir ayuda de Napoleón. El General Gurko Lanen está intentando hacerse con el control de su país y envía a las tropas tras la Duquesa para evitar que llegue hasta él. Gurko fuerza a La Duquesa a un matrimonio de conveniencia. Ya en el altar, Edmund Dantes reaparece lanzándose sobre Gurko, al no estar de acuerdo con dicho matrimonio.
El hijo de Montecristo
Director
La Gran Duquesa se dirige a París para conseguir ayuda de Napoleón. El General Gurko Lanen está intentando hacerse con el control de su país y envía a las tropas tras la Duquesa para evitar que llegue hasta él. Gurko fuerza a La Duquesa a un matrimonio de conveniencia. Ya en el altar, Edmund Dantes reaparece lanzándose sobre Gurko, al no estar de acuerdo con dicho matrimonio.
La torre de Londres
Producer
En el siglo XV, Ricardo, Duque de Gloucester (Basil Rathbone), ayudado por su patizambo verdugo Mord (Boris Karloff), elimina a todos aquellos que se le enfrentan en la sucesión al trono, entonces ocupado por su hermano el Rey Eduardo IV de Inglaterra. Cada vez que lleva a cabo un asesinato, disfruta eliminado una de las figuritas que tiene colocadas en la sala del trono de su casa de muñecas, cuyo aspecto se asemeja a cada uno de los posibles sucesores al trono, hasta que queda sólo la suya. Después de la muerte de Eduardo se convierte en Ricardo III, Rey de Inglaterra. Sólo le falta derrotar al exiliado enrique Tudor para mantener el poder.
La torre de Londres
Director
En el siglo XV, Ricardo, Duque de Gloucester (Basil Rathbone), ayudado por su patizambo verdugo Mord (Boris Karloff), elimina a todos aquellos que se le enfrentan en la sucesión al trono, entonces ocupado por su hermano el Rey Eduardo IV de Inglaterra. Cada vez que lleva a cabo un asesinato, disfruta eliminado una de las figuritas que tiene colocadas en la sala del trono de su casa de muñecas, cuyo aspecto se asemeja a cada uno de los posibles sucesores al trono, hasta que queda sólo la suya. Después de la muerte de Eduardo se convierte en Ricardo III, Rey de Inglaterra. Sólo le falta derrotar al exiliado enrique Tudor para mantener el poder.
The Sun Never Sets
Producer
The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes home from a mission in the Gold Coast of Africa accompanied by his wife Helen. He discovers his younger brother John, is not keen on following in his footsteps. John is then persuaded to try colonial service by his grandfather. He is accompanied by Clive who has been sent to investigate the source of a series of radio broadcasts that are sewing unrest throughout the world. These may be linked to Hugo Zurof, a man plotting to rule the world.
The Sun Never Sets
Director
The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes home from a mission in the Gold Coast of Africa accompanied by his wife Helen. He discovers his younger brother John, is not keen on following in his footsteps. John is then persuaded to try colonial service by his grandfather. He is accompanied by Clive who has been sent to investigate the source of a series of radio broadcasts that are sewing unrest throughout the world. These may be linked to Hugo Zurof, a man plotting to rule the world.
El hijo de Frankenstein
Producer
De vuelta al ancestral castillo 25 años después de la muerte del monstruo, el hijo del doctor Frankenstein conoce a Ygor, un pastor loco que esconde a la terrible criatura. Buscando limpiar el nombre de la familia, revive al monstruo y lo intenta rehabilitar.
El hijo de Frankenstein
Director
De vuelta al ancestral castillo 25 años después de la muerte del monstruo, el hijo del doctor Frankenstein conoce a Ygor, un pastor loco que esconde a la terrible criatura. Buscando limpiar el nombre de la familia, revive al monstruo y lo intenta rehabilitar.
Service de Luxe
Director
Glamorous and efficient Helen Murphy runs a service that will provide any type of assistance to wealthy customers, but what she's really looking for is a man who can take care of himself.
Dos hermanas rebeldes
Director
Dos hermanas rebeldes, es un estupendo clasico basado en una novela de Kate Douglas Wiggin de nacionalidad estadounidense, bajo la dirección de Rowland V. Lee. En 1963, Disney Productions hizo una versión de la historia de Wiggin llamada Summer Magic, protagonizada por Hayley Mills y Burl Ives y dirigida por James Neilson.
El ídolo de Nueva York
Director
Al estallar la Guerra de Secesión americana (1861-1865), Jim Fisk (Edward Arnold) es un popular vendedor ambulante. Su sagacidad y la de sus dos ganchos es legendaria. Cuando empieza la contienda, se dedican al contrabando del algodón: lo compran en el Sur y lo venden en el Norte. Una vez terminada la guerra, se han hecho ricos y, no conformes con dominar la vida económica de Boston, se preparan para emprender la conquista de Nueva York. Para ello, Jim y su socio Nick (Cary Grant) deciden invertir en Bolsa.
Love from a Stranger
Director
Ann Harding plays a lovely but somewhat naive young woman who goes on a European vacation after winning a lottery. Swept off her feet by charming Basil Rathbone, Harding finds herself married before she is fully able to grasp the situation. Slowly but surely, Rathbone's loving veneer crumbles; when he casually asks Harding to sign a document turning her entire fortune over to him, she deduces that her days are numbered.
One Rainy Afternoon
Director
Suave French actor Philippe Martin provokes a scandal when, in a darkened theater, he mistakes young Monique for his mistress, Yvonne, and tries to kiss her. Charged with assault, the quick-thinking Philippe claims it's French tradition to do as he did, and is let go. To his surprise, Philippe learns that Monique has paid his fine. As the tabloids exploit the situation, Monique dates Philippe, until a photo appears of him kissing Yvonne.
Por la dama y el honor
Screenplay
El joven y valeroso D’Artagnan llega a París y busca a su padrino, el capitán de Treville, jefe del cuerpo de los mosqueteros del rey Luis XIII (1610-1643), en el que quiere ingresar. Allí conoce a Aramis, Porthos y Athos, tres prodigiosos espadachines, a los que, no obstante, D’Artagnan no duda en retar a un duelo. Pero, para ganarse el respeto de los mosqueteros, el joven tendrá que enfrentarse a los malvados sicarios del cardenal Richelieu, enemigo mortal de la Corona. Defendiendo la causa de la reina Ana de Austria, esposa de Luis XIII, se enamora de Constance, la hermosa dama de compañía de la Reina. Esta fue la primera versión sonora sobre la novela de Dumas. Con un dinámico guión de Dudley Nichols, la trama sigue fielmente la novela original, destacando las peleas a espada y la aparición de Margot Grahame como Milady De Winter.
Por la dama y el honor
Director
El joven y valeroso D’Artagnan llega a París y busca a su padrino, el capitán de Treville, jefe del cuerpo de los mosqueteros del rey Luis XIII (1610-1643), en el que quiere ingresar. Allí conoce a Aramis, Porthos y Athos, tres prodigiosos espadachines, a los que, no obstante, D’Artagnan no duda en retar a un duelo. Pero, para ganarse el respeto de los mosqueteros, el joven tendrá que enfrentarse a los malvados sicarios del cardenal Richelieu, enemigo mortal de la Corona. Defendiendo la causa de la reina Ana de Austria, esposa de Luis XIII, se enamora de Constance, la hermosa dama de compañía de la Reina. Esta fue la primera versión sonora sobre la novela de Dumas. Con un dinámico guión de Dudley Nichols, la trama sigue fielmente la novela original, destacando las peleas a espada y la aparición de Margot Grahame como Milady De Winter.
El cardenal Richelieu
Director
Versión cinematográfica de la obra de Lord Edward George Bulwer-Lytton sobre el conspirador cardenal Richelieu, al servicio del rey de Francia y siempre dispuesto a sacar adelante sus proyectos sin importarle las consecuencias. Sus manipulaciones tienen lugar en la corte, y lo mismo busca obstáculos para el amor entre dos jóvenes que lucha denonadamente contra el hermano del monarca.
El conde de Montecristo
Writer
Tras pasar 13 años en prisión injustamente encarcelado, Edmundo Dantés logra fugarse y maquina una diabólica venganza contra sus enemigos.
El conde de Montecristo
Director
Tras pasar 13 años en prisión injustamente encarcelado, Edmundo Dantés logra fugarse y maquina una diabólica venganza contra sus enemigos.
I Am Suzanne!
Writer
A dancer falls in love with a puppeteer, much to the consternation of her manipulative manager. The puppeteer himself seems more interested in his puppets than in romance with her. Can she find true love?
I Am Suzanne!
Director
A dancer falls in love with a puppeteer, much to the consternation of her manipulative manager. The puppeteer himself seems more interested in his puppets than in romance with her. Can she find true love?
Zoo in Budapest
Screenplay
Zani is an unusual young man who has spent his entire life in a zoo in Budapest. His only true friends are the zoo's animals. When Zani meets Eve, a young orphan girl, they fall in love. To be together Eve must somehow escape from her strict orphan school. When she does she and Zani must hide overnight in the zoo - where everyone is looking to find them.
Zoo in Budapest
Director
Zani is an unusual young man who has spent his entire life in a zoo in Budapest. His only true friends are the zoo's animals. When Zani meets Eve, a young orphan girl, they fall in love. To be together Eve must somehow escape from her strict orphan school. When she does she and Zani must hide overnight in the zoo - where everyone is looking to find them.
That Night in London
Director
A young bank clerk steals £500 and plans to go on a spree before shooting himself but a bad girl turned good tries to convince him to return the money and stay alive
The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case
Production Supervisor
A young woman turns to Holmes for protection when she's menaced by an escaped killer seeking missing treasure. However, when the woman is kidnapped, Holmes and Watson must penetrate the city's criminal underworld to find her.
Monte Carlo Madness
Dialogue
In Monte Carlo, a captain tries to raise the money to pay his crew at the gaming table, but falls in love with a Queen.
Le capitaine Craddock
Dialogue
Congress Dances
Adaptation
In 1815, Tsar Alexander I romances a working-class glove seller, while his double takes his place at the Vienna Congress. English-language version of Der Kongreß tanzt.
The Guilty Generation
Director
The children of feuding gangsters fall in love and fight to escape their parents' notoriety.
The Ruling Voice
Writer
A mob boss has a change of heart when his daughter convinces him to move on from crime.
The Ruling Voice
Director
A mob boss has a change of heart when his daughter convinces him to move on from crime.
Derelict
Producer
Two rival seamen fight for both a promotion to a captaincy in their shipping line and the attentions of a Havana saloon singer. Sparks fly as they both try to out do each other in obtaining what they know their opposite is after. In the end they will need to work together in order to save the day.
Derelict
Director
Two rival seamen fight for both a promotion to a captaincy in their shipping line and the attentions of a Havana saloon singer. Sparks fly as they both try to out do each other in obtaining what they know their opposite is after. In the end they will need to work together in order to save the day.
A Man from Wyoming
Director
A story about a man from Wyoming who enlists in the Army and is sent to the front during World War I. There he saves the life of an American society girl working in the Ambulance Corps. Afterwards at a rest camp, they meet again, fall in love, and are secretly married.
Ladies Love Brutes
Director
The movie stars George Bancroft, Mary Astor and Fredric March who are all excellent in their roles. The story begins as Joe Forziati (Bancroft), an Italian immigrant who has battled his way to success as a New York building contractor, decides to embark on a social career.
The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu
Producer
The villainous master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu sets out to destroy the people he holds responsible for the death of his family.
The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu
Director
The villainous master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu sets out to destroy the people he holds responsible for the death of his family.
Paramount on Parade
Director
Una serie de números musicales interpretados por estrellas bajo contrato de la Paramount, haciendo cosas que nunca habían hecho en sus películas habituales.
The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu
Producer
A Chinese doctor vows revenge against the allied troops who killed his wife and child during the Boxer Rebellion.
The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu
Director
A Chinese doctor vows revenge against the allied troops who killed his wife and child during the Boxer Rebellion.
A Dangerous Woman
Director
The commissioner of an African outpost lives with a woman who drives the white men to their deaths with her seductive ways. The commissioner learns that his brother will be his next assistant, and the woman begins working her wiles on him....
The Wolf of Wall Street
Director
A ruthless stockbroker sells short in the copper business and ruins the life of his friends by ruining their finances.
Loves of an Actress
Writer
Rachel becomes the leading actress in the Comédie Française through the patronage of three influential men: Baron Hartman, the wealthiest man in France; Count Vareski, a relative of Napoleon; and Dr. Durande. All three men are in love with her, but she throws them over when she falls in love with Raoul Duval....
Loves of an Actress
Director
Rachel becomes the leading actress in the Comédie Française through the patronage of three influential men: Baron Hartman, the wealthiest man in France; Count Vareski, a relative of Napoleon; and Dr. Durande. All three men are in love with her, but she throws them over when she falls in love with Raoul Duval....
The First Kiss
Director
The Talbots, formerly one of the Eastern Shore's first families, have gone to seed: Pap is a drunk, soddenly decaying in his ruined ancestral home, and three of his sons (William, Carol, and Ezra) are lazy, shiftless young men. Mulligan, Pap's second son who supports the entire family by oyster fishing, falls in love with wealthy Anna Lee, but when he first kisses her, she calls him "white trash."
Three Sinners
Producer
A woman allows her husband, who she knows no longer loves her, to believe that she has been killed in a train wreck. Her husband later finds her as a hostess in a gambling den.
Three Sinners
Director
A woman allows her husband, who she knows no longer loves her, to believe that she has been killed in a train wreck. Her husband later finds her as a hostess in a gambling den.
Esclava por amor
Producer
Mary Vilner vive con su padre, anciano y enfermo, en una modestísima casa en la granja de Doomsday, propiedad del millonario Percival Fream. Este propone a Mary ser su esposa. Pero Mary, que ve en esta propuesta una manera de tener acceso a la comodidad material para ella y para su padre, está muy dudosa. En secreto, ama a Arnold Furze, un agricultor que trabaja en Doomsday.
Esclava por amor
Director
Mary Vilner vive con su padre, anciano y enfermo, en una modestísima casa en la granja de Doomsday, propiedad del millonario Percival Fream. Este propone a Mary ser su esposa. Pero Mary, que ve en esta propuesta una manera de tener acceso a la comodidad material para ella y para su padre, está muy dudosa. En secreto, ama a Arnold Furze, un agricultor que trabaja en Doomsday.
The Secret Hour
Writer
An Elderly fruit grower sends a photo of his foreman, not himself, to a waitress he wishes to marry. She falls in love with the foreman.
The Secret Hour
Director
An Elderly fruit grower sends a photo of his foreman, not himself, to a waitress he wishes to marry. She falls in love with the foreman.
Las eternas pasiones
Adaptation
Durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, en Francia, una mujer ve la granja de su familia convertida en campo para prisioneros alemanes por orden del gobierno francés. La convivencia con ellos hará surgir una historia de amor entre ella y uno de los prisioneros.
Las eternas pasiones
Director
Durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, en Francia, una mujer ve la granja de su familia convertida en campo para prisioneros alemanes por orden del gobierno francés. La convivencia con ellos hará surgir una historia de amor entre ella y uno de los prisioneros.
The Whirlwind of Youth
Director
As No Man Has Loved
Director
Also known as The Man Without a Country
Gentle Julia
Director
Gentle Julia is a 1923 American silent romantic drama film based on the popular novel Gentle Julia by Booth Tarkington. Directed by Rowland V. Lee, the film starred Bessie Love.
Mixed Faces
Director
A Self-Made Man
Director
A 1922 film starring William Russell and Renée Adorée.
His Back Against the Wall
Director
Jeremy Dice, a finisher in a New York East Side tailor shop who prides himself on being a smart dresser and dancer, proves to be cowardly when he retreats from a bully who gets fresh with his girl, and his employer discharges him. Deciding to go out west, Jeremy is caught hitching the rails and comes upon two outlaws in the desert disputing over booty; they are both killed in a shoot-out, and Jeremy is proclaimed a hero by the sheriff.....
The Sea Lion
Director
When his long-suffering wife leaves him, the hard-driving captain of a whaling ship turns bitter and takes out his anger, resentment and frustrations on all those around him, leading to tensions with his crew that come up to the point of mutiny.
Blind Hearts
Director
In 1898 friends John Thomas and Lars Larson travel to the Yukon with their wives to make their fortunes. While in Alaska Thomas' wife gives birth to a boy, and Larson's wife has a girl, Julia. However, Larson spots a birthmark on his daughter's shoulder that resembles one on Thomas' shoulder, and he begins to suspect that he may not actually be the girl's father. Over the next 20 years the two become millionaires, but Larson's wife dies. Julia and Thomas fall in love and wish to marry, but Larson is determined to oppose it.
The Cup of Life
Director
Infamous Singapore smuggler Bully Brand possess a beautiful pearl necklace that is desired by Chinese merchant Chan Chang for his daughter Pain, a young white girl he had adopted. Warren Bradford, Brand's ward, returns from college and falls in love with Chang's daughter.
His Own Law
Jean Saval
An American marries the widow of one of his French army friends, who never got back from the front. They live their lives together and take care of the child, who was born soon after the Frenchman was called for duty. Years after, the Frenchman returns from his release from a German Prisoners-of-War camp and is confronted with the dramatic changes in his matrimonial situation.
Dangerous Days
Graham Spencer
Patriotism, love and treason in the United States during the First World War. Barker manages to give every scene the right climate through inventive use of color. From semi-documentary to cruel melodrama.
Water, Water, Everywhere
Arthur Gunther
Cowboy Billy Fortune is in love with Hope Beecher, who prefers Billy's friend Ben Morgan, but resists his advances because of his fondness for drink. Hope's discontent is echoed by the town wives' public outcry against drink. To divert their interest, Billy is nominated to make love to their leader, widow Fay Bittinger, who has already disposed of four husbands....
The Woman in the Suitcase
W.H. 'Billy' Fiske (as Roland Lee)
Mary Moreland discovers the photograph of a woman not her mother in her father's suitcase and sets out to find her in hopes of returning her father to his rightful place in the family.
Polly Ann
Howard Straightlane
Young Polly-Ann works in a small town inn as a maidservant. A troupe of actors comes to town and the innocent girl falls in love with one of its members. Howard Straightlane is sent to the small town by his father, to work as a schoolteacher in hopes of smartening up the young man from his wild ways. Howard soon meets Polly-Ann and saves her from the unscrupulous actor.
Wild Winship's Widow
Archibald Herndon
Widow Catherine Winship cherishes the memory of her late husband so greatly that she has given up her life to the adoration of his memory. However Catherine's idealism is rudely shattered when she discovers a package of love letters in a secret drawer in Winship's desk.