John Grey

Nascimento : 1885-12-19, New York, USA

Morte : 1964-12-11

Filmes

Paradise for Buster
Writer
Buster leaves his job after learning that he inherited a farm from an old relative.
Bride and Gloom
Story
In this Columbia All-Star Comedy (production number 8439), Shemp Howard finds himself in a love nest with the wrong woman, while his bride-to-be is waiting, none too happy, at the church.
Mr. Noisy
Story
This All-Star Comedy (production number 7437, and a remake of 1940's "The Heckler" with Charley Chase) has Shemp Howard, noise-maker and heckler deluxe, hired by two gamblers to rattle a ball team while the gamblers bet on the opponents. The gamblers are more than a little bit vexed when Shemp loses his voice.
I Love a Bandleader
Story
A painter suffering from amnesia convinces himself that he's a famous bandleader and finds romance with a pretty singer. Comedy with music.
Swingin' on a Rainbow
Screenplay
A young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and is passing them off as his own.
Rockin' in the Rockies
Screenplay
Rancher Rusty Williams is away at agricultural college and leaves his spread in the hands of his older cousin Shorty. Shorty wants to do more than run a ranch, however -- he wants to prospect for gold, but he has no money. He recruits a pair of partners in the guise of two runaway vagrants and a pair of backers in two stranded singers. But then Rusty shows up, and his four somewhat bumbling hired hands manage to compound Larry and Curly's deep ineptitude, and Rusty wants them all out of his hair.
The Singing Sheriff
Story
In this comic western, a Broadway star leaves his musical revue to go West and help out his troubled friend. While there, the performer finds himself forced into becoming the town sheriff. Mayhem ensues, but somehow, the crooner manages to round up a band of killers.
Sing a Jingle
Writer
In Sing a Jingle, Allan Jones plays popular radio crooner Roy King, who goes to work in a war plant after being declared 4F. He falls in love with Muriel Crane (June Vincent), the boss' daughter, who is at first unaware of the fact that King is the heartthrob of millions (he's gotten the job under an assumed name).
Sappy Pappy
Screenplay
Andy, the owner of a bicycle shop, gets involved with one of his customers.
Sappy Pappy
Story
Andy, the owner of a bicycle shop, gets involved with one of his customers.
Private Snuffy Smith
Screenplay
A hillbilly moonshiner enlists in the army. Monogram Pictures' comedy was inspired by the then-popular comic strip character.
All the World's a Stooge
Writer
The stooges are window washers who lose their jobs after Moe impersonates the dentist in whose office they were cleaning. On the run, they are hired by a millionaire to pose as children. It seems the man's wife wants to adopt some refugees to impress her society friends. Moe is Johnny, Curly is Frankie and Larry is Mabel. Everything goes fairly well as the lady shows off the stooges to her friends, but they finally irritate her husband so much that he goes after them with an ax.
The Heckler
Story
An obnoxious heckler at a baseball game infuriates everybody.
The Awful Goof
Screenplay
A girl keeps meeting Charley the wrong moments, including losing her dress in his car, and later he finds himself in her apartment. Her jealous boxer-husband is obsessed with killing Charley after seeing them together again and again.
The Awful Goof
Story
A girl keeps meeting Charley the wrong moments, including losing her dress in his car, and later he finds himself in her apartment. Her jealous boxer-husband is obsessed with killing Charley after seeing them together again and again.
Hawaiian Nights
Story
Bandleader Tim Hartley's father objects strongly to his son's occupation choice and packs him off to Hawaii to manage the family hotel holdings. This proves to be a wrong move as Hawaiia has more bands than it does pineapples.
I'm from the City
Screenplay
Pete Pepper (Joe Penner) is a shy, timid circus performer who is scared to death of horses, but rides like a whirlwind when he has been hypnotized by "Ollie" Finch (Richard Lane). Pete is entered as a competitor in a wild-west cross-country obstacle race...and has to ride without being hypnotized.
Forty Naughty Girls
Screenplay
Hildegarde Withers and Inspector Piper try to solve a murder while attending a popular Broadway show.
Too Many Wives
Writer
An heiress and a dog-catcher go searching for a priceless stamp.
Mysterious Crossing
Writer
While crossing on the train ferry to New Orleans, roving reporter Addison Francis Murphy borrows money from singing hillbilly "Carolina," then loses it all in a crap game. Outside on deck, Murphy sees two men shaking hands, and after he looks away, hears a splash of water and discovers both men have disappeared...
False Alarms
Writer
Three inept firemen try to avoid being fired by their increasingly exasperated chief.
The Farmer in the Dell
Writer
An Iowa farmer's wife makes him move to Hollywood so their daughter can become a star.
Lightning Strikes Twice
Writer
An actress goes up to a dude ranch for relaxation, when she falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of his wife's murder.
Hold Your Temper
Screenplay
The day starts out fine for Leon, but as it goes on, things start to deteriorate.
The Gay Nighties
Story
This short features two women who run around in their nighties. Paul McCullough spends most of the picture in a dress, and Bobby Clark does an extended riff on the word "Alright!" which Lou Costello later stole verbatim. There is a political frameup, a nearsighted hotel house detective, and the ever-popular upstairs motorcycle chase.
Cinemaníaco
Story
After a mix-up with his application photograph, an aspiring actor is invited to a screen test and goes off to Hollywood.
That's My Meat
Writer
That's My Meat is a 1931 Comedy short.
Haroldo Trepa-Trepa
Story
Ambitious shoe salesman, Harold, unknowingly meets the boss' daughter and tells her he is a leather tycoon. The rest of the film he spends hiding his true circumstances, in the store and later on a ship. Trying to deliver a letter, he later finds himself dangling high above the street on a building's scaffolding.
Worldly Goods
Screenplay
A businessman who has devoted his whole life to obtaining money and power finds that he can't buy the one thing he craves: love.
Coquette
Screenplay
A Southern belle's flirtation with a working man leads to tragedy.
Coquette
Adaptation
A Southern belle's flirtation with a working man leads to tragedy.
Chinatown Charlie
Writer
A likeable pickpocket happens to stumble onto a white slavery ring while plying his trade in Chinatown.
O Ás da Velocidade
Story
Depois de perder seu emprego, Speedy começa a trabalhar como motorista de táxi. Ele descobre um esquema da companhia de trens para acabar com os bondes puxados a cavalo. Os bondes pertencem ao pai da sua namorada, então Speedy organiza os moradores mais antigos do bairro para tentar impedir os planos da companhia de trens.
Tracked by the Police
Scenario Writer
The Laguna Dam is to be built in Arizona to supply water to desert-land unfit for cultivation or stock-raising. Rival companies bid for the building contract, which leads to violence and danger for Bob Owen and his dog Satan.
O Caçula
Scenario Writer
Harold está interessado em Mary, mas ele precisa vencer sua timidez para isso. Durante uma viagem, ele a convida para ficar na sua casa. Mais tarde, quando acontece um roubo na cidade e o pai de Harold é acusado, é Mary quem lhe dá forças de correr atrás dos culpados.
O Caçula
Story
Harold está interessado em Mary, mas ele precisa vencer sua timidez para isso. Durante uma viagem, ele a convida para ficar na sua casa. Mais tarde, quando acontece um roubo na cidade e o pai de Harold é acusado, é Mary quem lhe dá forças de correr atrás dos culpados.
O Milionário Gaiato
Writer
An irresponsible young millionaire changes his tune when he falls for the daughter of a downtown minister.
O Calouro
Story
Harold Lamb está tão entusiasmado por ter ingressado na faculdade, que tem trabalhado para ganhar dinheiro para suas pequenas despesas, como estagiário na faculdade, e aprendendo um modo especial de se apresentar como ele viu num filme. Quando ele chega à Universidade de Tate, logo se torna objeto de piadas de mal gosto e é ridicularizado. Com ajuda do uma amiga leal, a Peggy, ele se esforça e tenta solucionar o problema e faz todo o possível para ficar popular.
Hot Water
Story
Lloyd's look at married life and the issues of the in-law. Adventures include a ride on a crowded trolley with a live turkey; A wild spin in a new auto with the in-laws in tow. Finally, a sequence in which Hubby accidentally chloroforms his mother-in-law and becomes convinced that he's killed her!
Canyon of the Fools
Writer
Veteran western performers Harry Carey and Marguerite Clayton appeared in three films together from 1923-1924: Desert Driven, Tiger Thompson and, perhaps their best, Canyon of the Fools.
The Crossroads of New York
Writer
A young man from the country travels to the city to find his fortune. Although he has a letter of introduction from his wealthy uncle, the best job he can find is that of a street cleaner. He catches the eye of his landlady, who somehow manages to get the man to propose to her, but he then falls in love with a pretty young socialite, and when his rich uncle dies finds himself being sued by a gold-digging vamp who wants to her her hands on his inheritance.
Bluebeard, Jr
Writer
Newlyweds Tom and Nan Beech have trouble settling into their tiny new apartment, and once they have, they get into an argument that sends Nan storming out. Almost as soon as she is gone, Tom gets word that his uncle will give him 50 thousand dollars if he can prove he is a happily married, successful businessman.
The Mystery Mind
Writer
A murderous gang of mysterious creepy killers mark a young heiress for death. They are led by a ghostly voice known only as the "The Mystery Mind."
Terror Island
Story
Inventor Harry Harper (Harry Houdini) travels to the South Seas, where there is buried treasure belonging to a girl, Beverly West (Lila Lee). Naturally, others are after the loot, and Beverly's father (Fred Turner) is being held captive by cannibals until she returns to them with a pearl that belongs to one of their idols. The climax consists of Harper saving Beverly from a safe which has been lowered into the sea.
The Little Patriot
Story
Instilled with the spirit of patriotism after her teacher reads to her the story of Joan of Arc, Marie Yarbell goes home, persuades her father to enlist and then organizes a "military company" comprised of her playmates.