Arthur Rosson

Nascimento : 1886-08-24, Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France

Morte : 1960-06-17

História

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Arthur Rosson (August 24, 1886 – June 17, 1960) was an English film director. He directed 61 films between 1917 and 1948. He was born in London and died in Los Angeles, California. Rosson came from a film-making family. His brother, Harold Rosson, was an Academy Award-nominated cinematographer and several other family members were involved in the early film industry. He was also the brother of silent film actress Helene Rosson and actor and director Richard Rosson. Description above from the Wikipedia article Arthur Rosson, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmes

O Pistoleiro e a Bela Aventureira
Second Unit Director
Nineteenth century Wyoming: the wild West. Mild-mannered Tom Healy has a two-wagon theater troupe hounded by creditors because Angela, his leading lady and the object of his affection, constantly buys clothes. In Cheyenne, they meet with applause, so they hope to stay awhile: the theater owner likes Angela, and she keeps him on a string. She's also the object of the attentions of Mabry, a gunslinger who's owed money by the richest man in Bonanza.
The Jayhawkers!
Second Unit
Before the U.S. Civil War rebel leader Luke Darcy sees himself as leader of a new independent Republic of Kansas but the military governor sends an ex-raider to capture Darcy.
Os Dez Mandamentos
Assistant Director
A épica vida de Moisés, desde recém-nascido, quando foi colocado nas águas em um cesto e acabou sendo adotado por uma princesa egípcia, até quando descobre sua real condição e decide liderar seu povo que, escravizado pelos egípcios, anseia pela liberdade.
A Farra dos Malandros
Second Unit Director
Wally Cook (Janet Leigh) é uma repórter do "Crônica da Manhã?, de Nova York, que vai até Fim do Mundo, um pequeno lugarejo no Novo México, para levar Homer Flagg (Jerry Lewis), um jovem que trabalha na estação ferroviária, para Nova York com as despesas pagas, pois se acredita que Homer esteja morrendo vítima de radiação. Mas quando ela chega lá Steve Harris (Dean Martin), o médico de Homer, já constatou o erro e descobriu que ele nada tem. Entretanto, Homer quer conhecer Nova York e Steve se sente atraído por Wally. Assim, nada diz e afirma que tem de acompanhar Homer nos seus últimos dias de vida. Porém, em Nova York esta farsa fica cada vez mais difícil de ser sustentada.
O Maior Espetáculo da Terra
Second Unit Director
Um filme espetacular, bem à maneira de DeMille, que é também a maior homenagem que o cinema prestou ao mundo do circo. O grande circo que é o pano de fundo deste drama humano é o famoso Ringling Bros-Barnum & Bailey, e James Stewart é o palhaço que esconde um passado misterioso. Entre os convidados especiais encontramos Bing Crosby, Bob Hope e William Boyd. Oscar de melhor filme em 1952.
Rio Vermelho
Second Unit Director
Uma aventura intensa e repleta de ação que captura a grandiosidade, imponência e perigo do selvagem oeste americano. Tom Dunson (John Wayne) conduz seu enorme rebanho pela traiçoeira Trilha Chisholm, arriscando tudo para alcançar seu destino, o Rio Vermelho. Mas, no caminho, novas informações e as maneiras tirânicas de Dunson fazem Matthew Garth, seu filho adotivo, tirar o rebanho de Dunson e levar para um novo destino no Kansas. Dunson, querendo vingança, sai em perseguição.
Rio Vermelho
Co-Director
Uma aventura intensa e repleta de ação que captura a grandiosidade, imponência e perigo do selvagem oeste americano. Tom Dunson (John Wayne) conduz seu enorme rebanho pela traiçoeira Trilha Chisholm, arriscando tudo para alcançar seu destino, o Rio Vermelho. Mas, no caminho, novas informações e as maneiras tirânicas de Dunson fazem Matthew Garth, seu filho adotivo, tirar o rebanho de Dunson e levar para um novo destino no Kansas. Dunson, querendo vingança, sai em perseguição.
Os Inconquistáveis
Second Unit Director
Inglaterra, 1763. Após ser condenada por um crime, a jovem e bela Abigail Hale concorda, a fim de escapar da forca, em servir catorze anos como escrava na colônia da Virgínia, cujos habitantes começam a ouvir e temer o canto ameaçador dos ameaçadores tambores de guerra que ecoam no vale selvagem do rio Ohio.
O Proscrito
Second Unit Director
O agora xerife Pat Garrett dá as boas-vindas ao seu amigo Doc Holliday em Lincoln, Novo México. Doc chega à cidade à procura de um pistoleiro que teria roubado seu cavalo em Socorro. Para sua surpresa, o pistoleiro é o jovem e famoso Billy the Kid.Ao encontrá-lo, tenta pegar seu cavalo, mas Billy reage. Pat chega ao local e, ao saber que o estranho é Billy the Kid, tenta prendê-lo. Doc intervém em favor de Billy e os dois recebem ordem para deixarem a cidade.À noite, ao tentar dormir num celeiro, Billy é atacado pela bela Rio MacDonald, numa tentativa de vingar a morte de seu irmão, ocorrida em Socorro, mas é por ele dominada. O xerife tenta novamente dar ordem de prisão a Billy e termina alvejando-o de raspão.
Vendaval de Paixões
Second Unit Director
Loxi é a jovem empresária que cuida de uma empresa de manutenção de barcos. O negócio é muito lucrativo, uma vez que a costa da Flórida em 1840 possui águas rasas e coberta de corais. Quando resgata um navio bastante danificado, Loxi conhece o capitão Jack Stuart, por quem se apaixona. A ponto de lutar ao lado do amado para convencer os proprietários do barco que Stuart não teve nenhuma culpa nos estragos. O romance entre eles estará em risco quando o advogado contratado por ela, Stephen Tolliver, também se apaixona pela moça.
Bola de Fogo
Second Unit Director
Oito professores estão voltados exclusivamente para a elaboração de um enciclopédia. Nenhum deles é casado, pois acredita-se que ter uma família pode ser prejudicial para o andamento dos trabalhos. Bertram Potts (Gary Cooper), o mais novo dos professores, tem como função preparar a parte de literatura inglesa e quer incluir no seu trabalho as mais variadas formas de gíria. Assim anda entre a população fazendo anotações e encontra em Sugarpuss O'Shea (Barbara Stanwyck), uma sexy cantora de boate, uma fonte inesgotável de termos popularescos. Inicialmente ela não colabora, mas ela namora um gângster, Joe Lilac (Dana Andrews), que foi solto por falta de provas. A Promotoria pretende detê-la para interrogatório até conseguir provas contra Joe, então O'Shea tem a idéia de se hospedar na casa onde os professores estão reunidos, usando o pretexto de que vai colaborar na enciclopédia, pois a polícia não a procurará em uma casa habitada por intelectuais.
Legião de Heróis
Second Unit Director
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)
Aliança de Aço
Second Unit Director
Sinopse: Cecil B. DeMille nos leva de volta ao ano 1860, então reconstrói a primeira ferrovia intercontinental, a Union Pacific. Um dos últimos feitos do Presidente Lincoln foi autorizar a expansão da Union Pacific para o oeste dos EUA. Um espetáculo real e histórico, que as vezes mescla as aventuras fictícias do inspetor ferroviário (McCrea), a bilheteira (Stanwyck), e o melhor amigo de McCrea, Preston. Infelizmente, Preston une-se a Donlevy, que está empenhado a destruir a ferrovia, em nome de um cartel de políticos corruptos. Durante um ataque indígena, McCrea e Preston lutam lado a lado para salvar Stanwyck, então o inspetor tenta convencer Preston, a tornar-se um homem honesto.
King of the Sierras
Director
An unusual film in that it was composed of new film footage tacked onto an original film produced by M. H. Hoffman Sr. and Jr.,and never released because of the collapse and merger of the Hoffman's Liberty Company into the newly-formed Republic operation in mid-1935, and consequently has two different sets of actors and production crew members.
Trailing Trouble
Director
When mild mannered Friendly Fields is sent to the Blair ranch to work, he is mistaken for the notorious outlaw Blackie Burke. When a drought develops and the ranchers look for new grazing land, he plays the part and forces them to give he best plot to his boss Miss Blair. But no sooner than his mother arrives to expose the hoax, the real Blackie also arrives.
Boots of Destiny
Screenplay
Both Harmon and his men and a Mexican gang are after a treasure hidden on the Wilson ranch. Acey learns of their raid and goes to get Ken only to find him in jail for a murder he did not commit.
Boots of Destiny
Director
Both Harmon and his men and a Mexican gang are after a treasure hidden on the Wilson ranch. Acey learns of their raid and goes to get Ken only to find him in jail for a murder he did not commit.
The Scoundrel
General Manager
A ruthless, cynical, hated publisher is killed in a plane crash, doomed to be a "restless" spirit for being unloved. A heavenly power gives him a month on Earth to find one person to shed a tear for him before his fate is sealed.
Crime Sem Paixão
General Manager
Caddish lawyer Lee Gentry is going out with Katy Costello, but carrying on an affair with dancer Carmen Brown. When he wants to end the dalliance with Carmen, she is so distraught that she becomes suicidal. Seizing the gun from Carmen, he accidentally shoots her, and thinking she's dead, concocts a series of increasingly outlandish alibis to cover his tracks under the guidance of a ghostly apparition that is his alter ego.
Flaming Guns
Director
A ranch manager falls in love with a banker's daughter, but after a quarrel with the girl's parents, flee across the border into Mexico.
Hidden Gold
Director
Griffen and his two men have been caught after robbing a bank but the money has not been recovered. So the Chief sends his friend Tom to prison to become their friend and hopes he can learn where the loot is hidden.
Women Who Play
Director
In order to deter his wife from having an affair a man hires an actress as part of an elaborate scheme.
Ebb Tide
Director
A sailor falls in love with a woman he meets at the dockside, but is deeply conflicted because his former lover is in prison.
The Wide Open Spaces
Director
A Wild West spoof by The Masquers Comedy Club of Hollywood.
The Concentratin' Kid
Director
A cowboy who loves a radio singer he's never met makes a bet that he can meet and win her.
Trailing Trouble
Novel
Ed King travels east to sell Pop Blake's cattle. While there Buck, another of Blake's hands, plans to rob Ed by using a local girl Ming Toy as a decoy. Ming Toy gets the money and returning empty handed, and before the other hands arrive, Ed is surprised to find Ming Toy return with the men.
Trailing Trouble
Director
Ed King travels east to sell Pop Blake's cattle. While there Buck, another of Blake's hands, plans to rob Ed by using a local girl Ming Toy as a decoy. Ming Toy gets the money and returning empty handed, and before the other hands arrive, Ed is surprised to find Ming Toy return with the men.
The Long, Long Trail
Director
Its time for the big race and its the Rambling Kid riding Dynamite versus Wilson's horse Thunderbolt. When Gyp informs Wilson that Lightning is faster, Wilson has Gyp drug the Kid's coffee just before the race.
The Winged Horseman
Director
Skyball Smith is a Texas Ranger, assigned to investigate a series of ranch bombings.
Silk Legs
Director
The Last Outlaw
Director
On his way to Steer City, Buddy Hale rescues Janet Lane from a runaway horse. Unknown to Buddy, the woman's brother Ward just shot the sheriff. Heading a ring of indignant ranchers whose cattle are being systematically rustled, Ward suspects that the sheriff and Justice Bert Wagner are leading the gang of thieves. Justice Wagner makes Buddy sheriff and sends him to arrest his predecessor's murderer.
Set Free
Director
"Side Show" Saunders gains the respect of shopowner Holly Farrell and the townsfolk when he gives up entertaining with his trick horse and dog and goes to work in the general store.
Stranded in Paris
Director
American shop-girl Julie McFadden, wins a free passage to Paris; en route she meets Robert Van Wye, who has to kiss her when she loses a sack race. In Paris, Julie finds her proposed residence destroyed, and while waiting for Bob her purse is snatched; in the ensuing chase she gets lost and enters a dressmaker shop, where the two owners are in dire need of an English-speaking girl to deliver some gowns. Accidentally she is given free entry to the apartment of Countess Pasada and is shown to her rooms; the count is in his pajamas when she emerges from her bath, and she locks him in the bathroom.
The Soapsuds Lady
Director
The Soapsuds Lady is a 1925 silent comedy.
You'd Be Surprised
Director
A diamond is stolen at a houseboat party given by the district attorney. He gives the thief a chance to return it by putting an empty box on a table and turning out the lights. When the lights are turned back on the box is gone, and the district attorney has a knife in his back and is quite dead. The police and the coroner arrive. There are several attempts made on the life of the coroner. Ruth Whitman is found hiding in a grandfather-clock, holding the gem box. She claims the box was pushed into her hands and she was pushed into the clock. The district attorney's butler/valet tells the coroner he saw who killed his employer and a few minutes later he is also murdered. The mystery deepens.
A Sweet Pickle
Director
A Sweet Pickle is a 1925 Comedy short.
Over Thereabouts
Director
Hapless pilot Billy manages to raise himself from KP duty to flying ace. He manages to wreck havoc on the German Air Force and return home a hero!
The Meddler
Director
Richard Gilmore, a staid Wall Street broker, is jilted by Dot Parkhurst when he fails to provide her with the romance and adventure that she wants out of life. Richard then goes west in an effort to prove himself a man and becomes a highwayman known as "The Meddler," robbing people only to return to them all that he stole, keeping only a valueless memento for himself.
The Fighting Demon
Director
Richard Talmadge plays John Drake, a safe expert who gets work managing a safe company in South America. On the way to his new job, he gets into a fight with Dynamite Diaz (Dick Sutherland), a prize fighter who thinks that Drake has flirted with his wife (Peggy Shaw). Drake has found love on board, but it's with Dolores D'Arcy (Lorraine Eason), the daughter of a banker (Charles Hill Mailes). Once he lands in South America, however, he discovers the job was a fake and is robbed of his money and passport.
The Burning Trail
Director
A professional boxer known as "Smiling Bill Flannigan" accidentally kills an opponent in the ring. He gives up the sport and heads west. He gets a job on a ranch as a cook, and before he knows it he finds himself involved in a war between ranchers and sheepherders.
Tearing Through
Director
Richard Jones is the assistant to the district attorney. He decides to single-handedly expose a drug ring that is terrorizing Madison, a reformer. Madison's son, Bob, has become a hophead because of the ring, and Greer, Jones' rival for the hand of Madison's daughter, Constance, is the ring's leader. The district attorney himself is in league with Greer as well. Jones disguises himself as an Asian, leaps over tenement roofs, beats up a mob of Chinese gangsters, and performs several dozen other daredevil feats.
Straight Through
Director
O'Day, the terror of Red Gulch, wins the entire stake of a gambler named Granger in a poker game but gives it all to Denver Nell, a dancehall girl, when she tells him her sad story. O'Day later discovers that she has returned the money to Granger, and he decides to reform. He goes to another town, where (now known as Good Deed O'Day) he meets an old friend, a wealthy rancher with whose sister, Mary, he is in love. Snowden takes a trip to Denver and returns with Nell, whom he has married.
Taming the West
Director
John Carleton is living a carefree jazz lifestyle, much to the annoyance of his father. When he can take it no longer, Carleton senior sends John to his ranch in the West, hoping that the experience will make a man of him. John's ability to ride a bucking bronco wins the friendship of the cowhands, but trouble's a-brewin' when he falls in love with Beryl King.
Ridin' Pretty
Director
A red-blooded romance of a millionaire cowboy and a city girl with stirring chase after a racing express that'll hold you spellbound.
Condemned
Director
Unable to pay train fare for a pet, a girl disguises her dog as a baby. It is later mistaken for a kidnapped baby.
The Satin Girl
Director
The Satin Girl is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Arthur Rosson and starring Mabel Forrest, Norman Kerry and Marc McDermott.
Little Johnny Jones
Director
Jockey Johnny Jones is hired to ride The Earl of Bloomsburg's horse at the English Derby. Crooked gambler Robert Anstead frames Johnny as a thief and kidnaps his sweetheart in order to make Johnny throw the race. Will he succeed?
Garrison's Finish
Director
Billy Garrison, a jockey, is framed and suspended for throwing a face. Depressed, he goes to a bar and eventually gets into a fight. He loses his memory, and is taken to the home of pretty young Sue Desha, who gets him a job as a jockey for her father, Col. Desha. Unfortunately, the man who framed Billy, named Crimmins, finds out he's working for the Sue's father and reveals Billy's past to the colonel. Complications ensue.
The Fighting Streak
Writer
Based on a 1921 story by George Owen Baxter (alias Frederick Faust and Max Brand)
The Fighting Streak
Director
Based on a 1921 story by George Owen Baxter (alias Frederick Faust and Max Brand)
For Those We Love
Adaptation
Berenice Arnold spends her time trying to keep her family happy. This is easier said than done -- her brother, Jimmy, is a gambler and he steals 80 dollars that his father was responsible for. Berenice sets out to get the money back, but winds up causing a scandal because of her association with Trix Ulner, a gambler and thief.
For Those We Love
Director
Berenice Arnold spends her time trying to keep her family happy. This is easier said than done -- her brother, Jimmy, is a gambler and he steals 80 dollars that his father was responsible for. Berenice sets out to get the money back, but winds up causing a scandal because of her association with Trix Ulner, a gambler and thief.
Prisoners of Love
Director
Blanche Henry, a vivacious young woman, finds what she believes is true love with a handsome young man, but then learns that he has designs on her younger sister.
Polly of the Storm Country
Director
Polly Hopkins belongs to a family of squatters living in Silent City. The poor squatters are constantly at odds with the wealthy "hilltoppers," but Polly's grandmother has gone against popular opinion by teaching Polly to love everybody. Polly keeps the faith, even when her sister's husband is railroaded into jail.
Rough-Riding Romance
Director
Dreamer dairyman Phineas Dobbs of Cow Hollow suddenly acquires a fortune when oil is discovered on his ranch, and celebrates by throwing a party for the whole town. One day a young woman comes to town, delayed by train trouble. Dobbs rescues her from the town bully, and agrees to follow her to San Francisco.
Sahara
Director
Actress Mignon is the toast of Paris until she marries young American engineer John Stanley. He is commissioned to go to work in the Sahara desert, and Mignon accompanies him with their baby. But it isn't long before she is lonely and horribly bored. When a wealthy Russian, Baron Alexis, passes through the camp, he offers to take her away to Cairo. She goes with him, and he surrounds her in luxury. Years pass, but the situation does not bring her happiness.
The Coming of the Law
Scenario Writer
Kent Hollis has arrived in Dry Bottom, New Mexico to settle the affairs of his dead father. But when he discovers that the town is at the mercy of "Big Bill" Dunlavey and his crew, he decides to stick it out at dad's old ranch for a spell.
The Coming of the Law
Director
Kent Hollis has arrived in Dry Bottom, New Mexico to settle the affairs of his dead father. But when he discovers that the town is at the mercy of "Big Bill" Dunlavey and his crew, he decides to stick it out at dad's old ranch for a spell.
100% American
Director
A girl wants to go to a ball, admission one Liberty Bond, but rather than go herself, she loans the bond to a girlfriend. A soldier and a sailor find out and take her to the ball with them.
Headin' South
Assistant Director
A lost film. As described in a film magazine Exhibitors Herald on March 16, 1918: "a forest ranger known only as Headin' South (Fairbanks) goes forth in search of Spanish Joe (Campeau), a Mexican responsible for most of the treachery and outlawry along the U.S.-Mexican boarder. Headin' South gains quite a reputation as he goes along and finally believes himself worthy of joining Joe's band. in a whirlwind finish in which Joe is captured, Headin' South meets one of Joe's near victims (MacDonald) and falls in love with her."
The Man Who Made Good
Director
A 1917 film directed by Arthur Rosson.
Her Father's Keeper
Director
A 1917 film directed by Arthur Rosson and Richard Rosson.
Panthea
Assistant Director
A woman sacrifices everything for her husband's career.
Discord and Harmony
Writer
Joy reigns in a colony of struggling artists because Old Felix, a composer, has at last sold one of his symphonies. The night of its initial hearing at the grand opera house the members of the colony turn out en masse. Too poor for orchestra seats, they gather in the gallery around the old composer. The old composer is happy almost to tears, and when the last note has died away there is a cry for the composer. Felix attempts to utter a few words of thanks, but is smothered with flowers. At his studio his friends have prepared for his welcome, and it is upon his arrival there that be feels the happiness which comes of success. However, at the other end of the hall another different drama is being enacted. A girl sits beside her stricken mother, and as the merriment in the studio reaches its height, the soul of the mother departs from the body.
The Wall of Money
Rosson - Factory Employee
One day, Harry, who also works at the mill and with whom Wally is living, is badly hurt. Wally in his working clothes goes to his father and explained how dangerous it is for any man to work in the mill.
The Gratitude of Wanda
An indian girl brings military relief to the besieged cabin because of her gratitude to the white man who befriended her.
The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine
Rosson - Reid's Brother
Reed and Rosson are owners of the Yellow Aster mine. They have taken out enough gold to make the final payment, which is due. Both brothers love the same girl, Pauline, but she prefers Reed. Reed saves an Indian, Eagle Eye, from the drunken taunts of a half-breed, and the latter swears vengeance.
The Picket Guard
Writer
While a Union picket reminisces about his sweetheart and recalls leaving home to go to war, a Confederate ambushes soldier ambushes and kills him.
The Spirit of the Flag
Bonita's Father
Dr. Reid, a young American physician in the Philippines, risks his life in the cause of patriotism, and eventually wins the love of the girl of his choice. With the idea of developing in the natives in his community the spirit of manly citizenship, Dr. Reid requests the War Department to furnish him with a number of discarded Winchesters with which to drill the natives. His request is granted, but he runs afoul with the occupant Spanish army.
A Cure for Pokeritis
This domestic comedy depicts a woman who stops her husband's gambling habit by having her cousin stage a fake police raid on the weekly poker game.
Points West
Director
Cole Lawson Jr. goes undercover as a bandit to infiltrate the gang responsible for his father's death.
The Mounted Stranger
Adaptation
A boy's father is murdered. As an adult, he tracks down the killers.
The Mounted Stranger
Director
A boy's father is murdered. As an adult, he tracks down the killers.