William C. McGann

출생 : 1893-04-15, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

사망 : 1977-11-15

약력

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia William C. McGann was an American film director. He directed 52 films between 1930 and 1940. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and died in Los Angeles, California.

참여 작품

Fort Worth
Special Effects Supervisor
Ex-gunfighter Ned Britt returns to Fort Worth after the civil war to help run a newspaper which is against ambitious men and their schemes for control.
Three Secrets
Special Effects Supervisor
A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted and that the crash occurred on his birthday, three women begin to ponder if it's the son each gave up for adoption. As the three await news of his rescue at a mountain cabin, they recall incidents from five years earlier and why they were forced to give up their son.
The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady
Special Effects
An Irish horsecar driver's daughter meets New York showman Tony Pastor and goes into vaudeville.
잇츠 어 그레이트 필링
Special Effects
A waitress at the Warner Brothers commissary is anxious to break into pictures. She thinks her big break may have arrived when actors Jack Carson and Dennis Morgan agree to help her.
콜로라도 테리토리
Special Effects Coordinator
무법자 웨스 맥퀸은 감옥에서 친구의 도움으로 나오게 된다. 그리고 그 친구를 도와 마지막으로 한 건을 하려고 하지만 그는 그의 새로운 동료가 마음에 들지 않는다. 범행을 준비하던 중 서부로 이주해 온 줄리 앤이라는 처녀와 그녀의 아버지를 도와주게 되고, 웨스는 그녀의 순수함에 빠져든다. 그러나 범행준비는 자꾸 꼬여만가고, 웨스에게 위기가 닥친다. 이제는 정말 벗어나야 할 시간이다. 그러나 불행히도 그의 목에는 만달러의 현상금이 걸려있다. 죽느냐 사느냐 그것이 문제인 것이다.
Flaxy Martin
Special Effects
Messing with a mobster's girlfriend gets a lawyer framed for murder.
돈 쥬앙의 모험
Special Effects Supervisor
The adventures of the notorious Spanish Lothario Don Juan highlights Errol Flynn's swashbuckling and romantic antics.
June Bride
Special Effects
A magazine's staff, including bickering ex-lovers Linda and Carey, cover an Indiana wedding, which goes slightly wrong...
키 라르고
Special Effects
21회 아카데미 여우조연상(클레이어 트레보어) 수상. 의협심 강한 프랑크 맥클라우드 소령은 예편 후 동료 전우의 가족을 방문하기 위해 '키 라르고'섬을 찾는다. 하지만 그를 복병처럼 그를 기다리고 있었던 것은 무시무시한 태풍과, 위조화폐 거래를 위해 밀입국해서 호텔을 전세내 투숙하고 있던 마피아 로코 일당. 밖에선 태풍이 몰아치는 가운데 가족과 인질로 잡힌 맥클라우드는 기회주의적이고 야비한 로코와 한바탕 심리전을 펼친다. 결국 탈옥했던 인디언 두 명과 경찰 한 명이 살해되고 태풍은 지나가나 짧은 안도의 순간처럼 맥클라우드와 친구의 부인 노라의 애정을 확인하자마자 맥클라우드는 로코 일당을 태우고 쿠바로 끌려가게 된다. 태풍이 지나간 뒤의 적막처럼 이별을 아쉬워하며 섬엔 적막이 감도는 가운데 배를 몰고 쿠바로 향하던 맥클라우드는 지금껏 보여준 온유한 태도를 버리고 로코의 정부 게이가 준 총으로 매섭게 인간 쓰레기를 청소하고 키 라르고 섬으로 돌아간다.
The Big Punch
Special Effects
Gangsters frame a boxer for murder when he refuses to throw a fight.
Silver River
Special Effects
Unjustly booted out of the cavalry, Mike McComb strikes out for Nevada, and deciding never to be used again, ruthlessly works his way up to becoming one of the most powerful silver magnates in the west. His empire begins to fall apart as the other mining combines rise against him and his stubbornness loses him the support of his wife and old friends.
시에라 마드레의 황금
Special Effects
멕시코 탐피코 마을. 일거리를 찾지 못하던 돕스는 팻에게 고용되어 목수 일을 하게 된다. 팻이 임금을 주지 않자 돕스는 커틴과 함께 팻의 돈을 훔쳐 달아난다. 여관에서 우연히 만난 노인 하워드가 사금이 나온다는 계곡 이야기를 들려주자 둘은 함께 금을 찾으러 떠나는데... 존 휴스턴의 페르소나라 할 수 있는 험프리 보가트와 아버지 월터 휴스턴이 함께 연기한 작품으로, 인간의 탐욕을 적나라하게 그려냈다.
Deep Valley
Special Effects
A shy California farm girl falls head-over-heels in love with Barry Burnett, a fugitive from a chain gang building a road through the wilderness.
Cry Wolf
Special Effects
A woman uncovers deadly secrets when she visits her late husband's family.
The Unfaithful
Special Effects
Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.
포제스트
Special Effects
After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.
추적
Special Effects Supervisor
어렸을 적에 가족들이 몰살을 당하고 혼자 살아남게 된 제브는 캘럼 부인의 손에 의해 그 집안에서 자라게 된다. 하지만 그의 뇌리에 남아있는 기억은 간헐적으로 그를 괴롭힌다. 서부극이면서도 당시 유행하던 필름 느와르의 스타일을 차용해 '느와르 웨스턴'이라 불린 걸작이다. 당대 최고의 액션감독이었던 라울 월시의 대표작중의 하나이다.
Never Say Goodbye
Special Effects
Phil and Ellen Gayley have been divorced for a year, and their 7-year old daughter, Flip, is very unhappy that her parents are not together. Flip starts a correspondence with a Marine, sending a picture of her beautiful mother as the author of Flip's flirtatious letters. When the Marine shows up to meet his pen pal, Ellen takes the opportunity to make her ex-husband jealous.
The Doughgirls
Special Effects
Arthur and Vivian are just married, but when the get to their honeymoon suite in Washington D.C., they find it occupied. Arthur goes to meet Slade, his new boss, and when he comes back, he finds three girls in his suite. He orders Vivian to get rid of them, but they are friends of Vivian's and as time goes by, it looks more like Grand Central Station than the quiet honeymoon suite Arthur expected. As long as there is anyone else in the suite, Arthur will not stay there and there will be no honeymoon.
Trial by Trigger
Director
California logger Bill Cardigan must save his stand of redwoods from being bought by unscrupulous Dan Fallon, a logging company owner from Michigan.
American Empire
Director
Richard Dix as Dan Taylor and Preston S. Foster as Paxton Bryce are two longtime friends seeking their fortune in Texas after the war. The two men decide, not without problems, to establish a cattle empire. Paxton becoming too ambitious, distances himself from Dan and Abby, Paxton's wife. It will only be after a personal tragedy that he will come back to his senses.
Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die
Director
Uneven version of Wyatt Earp vs. the Clanton Gang with a little romance thrown in haphazardly.
In Old California
Director
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.
We Go Fast
Director
A waitress falls for a foreign businessman (Mohr), while receiving attention from a pair of motorcycle cops, Curtis and Defore. She soon realizes that Mohr is actually a crook and goes back to flirting with her fast cop friends.
Highway West
Director
A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.
The Parson of Panamint
Director
As he looks over the dusty, deserted remains of the western "boom town" of Panamint, grizzled old prospector Chuckawalla Bill Redfield (Ruggles) recalls the town's glory days. Looming large in Chuckawalla's reminiscences is the day that young and apparently mild-mannerd minister Philip Pharo (Phillip Terry) rode into town. In his own gentle but forceful fashion, Pharo managed to bring the town's lawless element into line, mollify the local bluenoses, and win the heart of likeable dance-hall girl Mary Mallory (Ellen Drew).
A Shot in the Dark
Director
A reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner's murder.
The Lady and the Lug
Director
In this comedic short, a reporter wins a boxer's contract and decides to stage an exhibition fight for a society ladies' Milk Fund benefit bazaar.
Dr. Christian Meets the Women
Director
A conman arrives in town trying to sell his miracle methods of weight loss to the ladies. It's left to the good Dr. Christian to expose this fake and save a fragile young girl's life.
Cinderella's Feller
Director
The story of Cinderella with a children's cast.
Wolf of New York
Director
A New York attorney defends a young man with a criminal past who has been accused of murdering a police inspector.
Pride of the Blue Grass
Director
A young man is determined to turn his beloved racehorse, which is blind, into a champion.
Everybody's Hobby
Director
A hobby-mad family makes their obsessions pay off.
Sweepstakes Winner
Director
A scatterbrained waitress invests her inheritance in a broken-down race horse and a sweepstakes ticket.
Lincoln in the White House
Director
This short chronicles Abraham Lincoln's presidency from his inauguration through delivery of the Gettysburg Address.
Blackwell's Island
Director
A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.
Girls on Probation
Director
A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.
When Were You Born
Director
A San Francisco astrologer correctly predicts a ship passenger's death and then helps the police look for the murderer.
Penrod and His Twin Brother
Director
Penrod Schofield's mischievous dog, Duke, is falsely accused of biting Penrod's spoiled friend, Rodney.
Sh! The Octopus
Director
Comedy-mystery finds Detectives Kelly and Dempsey trapped in a deserted lighthouse with a group of strangers who are being terrorized by a killer octopus AND a mysterious crime figure named after the title sea creature.
Alcatraz Island
Director
A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.
Marry the Girl
Director
Frantic screwball comedy about a meek personal assistant (Frank McHugh) who is promoted to managing editor of a newspaper features syndicate that is owned by and staffed with cuckoos.
Penrod and Sam
Producer
A boy (Billy Mauch) and his gang catch bank robbers using their clubhouse as a hide-out.
Penrod and Sam
Director
A boy (Billy Mauch) and his gang catch bank robbers using their clubhouse as a hide-out.
Polo Joe
Director
A young man allergic to horses decides he has to learn to play polo in order to impress the girl he loves. Comedy.
The Case of the Black Cat
Director
Lawyer Perry Mason is summoned to the Laxter mansion in the dead of night to write granddaughter Wilma out of invalid Peter Laxter's will, to keep her from marrying suspected fortune hunter Doug. Peter dies in a mysterious fire and Laxter's two grandsons, Sam Laxter and Frank Oafley, inherit his estate on the condition old caretaker Schuster and his cat Clinker are kept on. When cat-hating Sam threatens Clinker, Perry steps in and learns Laxter's death was suspicious and the family fortune and diamonds are missing. Schuster's found dead in his basement apartment, Laxter's nurse Louise is murdered with Schuster's crutch, and circumstantial evidence brings Doug to trial for Louise's death. Mason's investigation produces a surprise witness who turns the trial around. Written by Sister Grimm
Hot Money
Director
Salesman develops a fake stock plan in new invention before it is finished.
Two Against the World
Director
A radio-network manager's boss makes him air a serial based on a murder, tormenting a woman involved.
Times Square Playboy
Director
A stock broker's small-town best friend thinks the bride-to-be and her family are gold-diggers so he does everything he can to prevent the wedding.
Brides Are Like That
Director
Fred, the wealthy owner of apple groves, has sent his nephew to college, but the only job that his nephew has after graduating is the job of not working. Bill is a dreamer, a talker and a golf player and he has a lot of ideas, but still lives off Fred. When Hazel gets engaged to Doc Jenkins, it takes a while, but Bill talks her into marrying him instead. The only problem is that now, he needs to find a job.
Freshman Love
Director
A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like schools that have high academic standards.
Man of Iron
Director
A construction company foreman's life changes--not necessarily for the better--when he is promoted to an executive position.
A Night at the Ritz
Director
A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.
Maybe It's Love
Director
Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.
The Kennel Murder Case
Assistant Director
Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.
Her Night Out
Director
A married couple accidentally become mixed up with a bank robber.
Illegal
Director
This is the story of a woman who kicks out her no-good second husband after he wastes all her money. Since gambling and drink had taken all her money, she decides to use the money from a windfall to open an illegal after hours night club and gambling parlor, in order to provide her two daughters with a high society education. Eventually she gets caught, and the daughters take over the night club and legitimize it. But the daughters have conflicts, and the no-good husband shows up to complicate matters.
The Silver Greyhound
Director
A British crime thriller film directed by William C. McGann
Murder on the Second Floor
Director
A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants...
A Voice Said Goodnight
Director
A British crime film directed by William C. McGann
I Like Your Nerve
Director
Romance and political intrigue highlight director William C. McGann's 1931 comedy about a playboy smitten with the stepdaughter of a corrupt government official in a fictional Central American country. The cast includes Loretta Young, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Henry Kolker, Boris Karloff (in the small role of a secretary), Edmund Breon, Claude Allister and Luis Alberni.
Gold Dust Gertie
Assistant Director
Early 30s pre-code comedy about a woman attempting to get her two ex-husbands to pay back alimony.
The Stolen Jools
Director
Famous actress Norma Shearer's jewels are stolen… (Star-packed promotional short film intended to raise funds for the National Variety Artists Tuberculosis Sanatorium.)
Those who dance
Director
Golden Dawn
Assistant Director
Golden Dawn (1930) is a musical operetta released by Warner Brothers, photographed entirely in Technicolor, and starring Walter Woolf King and Noah Beery. The film is based on the semi-hit stage musical of the same name by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto Harbach. Beery's extraordinarily deep bass voice registers particularly well in the songs.
A Notorious Affair
Assistant Director
A scheming musician seduces a wealthy woman for love and money.
On the Border
Director
A Mexico/United States border patrol officer is aided by his police dog, Rinty.
Niagara Falls
Director
A short drama about a married couple planning to go to Niagara Falls.
Say It with Songs
Assistant Director
Joe Lane, radio entertainer and songwriter, learns that the manager of the studio, Arthur Phillips, has made improper advances to his wife, Katherine. Infuriated, Lane engages him in a fight, and the encounter results in Phillips' accidental death. Joe goes to prison for a few years, and when he is released he visits his son, Little Pal, at school and is begged by him to run away together.
Footloose Widows
Assistant Director
Department-store models Flo and Marian set their sights on wealthy young soft-drink magnate J. A. Smith. Through a misunderstanding, they pick on the wrong J. A. Smith, a fortune hunter himself who assumes that Marian is a wealthy widow. Meanwhile, Marian falls for the real Smith, never dreaming that he's the millionaire.
The Night Cry
Assistant Director
A giant condor decimates a herd of sheep, and Rin-Tin-Tin is accused of having turned killer.
세 가지 시대
Director of Photography
석기 시대, 고대 로마 시대, 현대 미국에 이르기까지 시공간을 넘어 버스터는 오직 사랑하는 여인을 악당으로부터 지켜내기 위해 고군분투한다. (2015 영화의 전당 - 버스터 키튼 탄생 120주년 특별전)
The Nut
Director of Photography
Eccentric inventor Charlie Jackson tries to interest wealthy investors in his girlfriend's plan to help children from poor neighbourhoods.
The Mark of Zorro
Cinematography
Don Diego Vega pretends to be an indolent fop as a cover for his true identity, the masked avenger Zorro.
When the Clouds Roll By
Himself
Daniel Boone Brown is a pleasure-seeking playboy carousing around New York City without a care in the world -- that is, until he becomes the unwitting subject of a series of experiments at the hands of a sadistic psychiatrist. Through various means of control, the mad scientist drives Daniel to think he's losing his mind, but ultimately introduces him to the lovely Lucette.
When the Clouds Roll By
Director of Photography
Daniel Boone Brown is a pleasure-seeking playboy carousing around New York City without a care in the world -- that is, until he becomes the unwitting subject of a series of experiments at the hands of a sadistic psychiatrist. Through various means of control, the mad scientist drives Daniel to think he's losing his mind, but ultimately introduces him to the lovely Lucette.
Man's Desire
Cinematography
Tom Denton comes from the East to the Northwest lumber region and becomes co-owner of a lumber camp with Howard Patton, whose bored wife Vera insists on flirting with Tom despite his discouragement.
Hearts of Men
Director of Photography
Silent Italy immigrant family relationship romantic melodrama about a poor Italian flower seller whose mother gets sick. The doctor tells him to take his mother to Arizona, which he does with his wife and child. The railroad men in Arizona think he is the start of a wave of Italian immigrants coming to take away their jobs, but they meet his darling son, Beppo, who wins them over. But then, his wife dies, and he gets involved with an immigrant Italian woman who takes Beppo back to Italy, but the railroad men help him get Beppo back. It turns out his land has oil on it, so he's fabulously rich, and he shares the fortune with the railroad men!