Richard Rosson

Рождение : 1893-04-04, New York City, New York, USA

Смерть : 1953-05-31

Фильмы

Море травы
Second Unit Director
Люти Кэмерон выходит замуж за промышленника Брутона, живущего среди прерий, владеющего бескрайними пастбищами и не допускающего на свои земли приезжих фермеров. Люти позиции мужа не разделяет и старается помочь поселенцам.
Corvette K-225
Director
The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
Apache Trail
Director
The brother of a notorious outlaw is put in a charge of a stagecoach line way station in dangerous Apache territory. A stagecoach arrives at the station with a valuable box of cargo, and the outlaw brother soon shows up, though denying that he's planning to take the cargo box. Soon, however, rampaging Apaches attack the station, and the station manager, his brother and a disparate group of passengers and employees must fight them off.
Stand Up and Fight
Second Unit Director
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
Hideaway
Director
A poor family receives unwanted houseguests when they're visited by gangsters looking for a place to hide out.
Behind The Headlines
Director
A radio reporter sets out to rescue his ex-girlfriend when she is kidnapped by gangsters.
Иди и бери
Director
Преуспевающий владелец лесопилок собирается жениться на дочери богача, чтобы стать его партнёром и приумножить свой капитал. Ему приходится расстаться с влюблённой в него девушкой.
West Point of the Air
Director
An army sergeant inspires his son to become an ace flyer.
Сегодня мы живём
Co-Director
Действие происходит во время Первой Мировой войны. Диана попала в любовный треугольник между британским морским офицером Клодом и американским летчиком-истребителем Богардом. Диана считает, что она должна любить Клода, друга своего брата Рони, тоже морского офицера, поскольку они еще детьми пообещали держаться друг друга, но сердце не слушает разум и рвется навстречу истинной любви к чужаку, хотя она всеми силами пытается скрыть это даже от себя…
Толпа ревёт
Assistant Director
Профессиональный автогонщик Джо Грира находится на вершине своей карьеры. Когда он возвращается домой навестить семью, он шокирован, узнав, что его младший брат Эдди тоже мечтает стать автогонщиком, и даже принимает участие в местных соревнованиях. Зная, какой это тяжелый и опасный путь, Джо решает взять своего брата под крыло и всему научить сам…
Лицо со шрамом
Co-Director
Фильм рассказывает захватывающую историю о жестком контроле организованной преступности над Чикаго в эпоху «сухого закона». Главный герой — Тони Кармонте, честолюбивый преступник, не знающий жалости. Тони идет к своей цели: он намерен стать криминальным боссом города.
Танец за десять центов
Assistant Director
Красивая танцовщица Барбара О`Нил работает в одном из танцевальных залов Нью-Йорка. У неё появляется богатый покровитель Брэдли Карлтон, который ничего не жалеет для Барбары и готов оказать ей любую помощь. Но Барбара давно влюблена в своего соседа Эдди и, не раздумывая, соглашается выйти за него замуж. Вскоре оказывается, что Эдди — мошенник. И когда он в очередной раз попадает в беду, Барбара вынуждена обратиться за помощью к Брэдли.
The Very Idea
Director
Pre-code comedy (1929) about a young married couple's unsuccessful efforts to become parents.
Road House
Director
Larry Grayson, jazz age son of permissive parents, drifts from wild parties with his classmates to more heady, roadhouse entertainment. There he becomes involved with an underworld gang and falls in love with Spanish Marla, one of their vamps. Larry leaves home after an argument with his father, throws in with the gang (who are using him for their own purposes), and is blamed for a murder. Tried and convicted, Larry is given a light sentence when the judge places most of the blame on his overindulgent parents.
Dead Man's Curve
Director
A grease monkey discovers a defect in an auto engine being turned out by his employer. But since our hero discovers this only after losing an important race, his boss chalks up the loss to Fairbanks' supposed cowardice.
The Wizard
Director
A mad doctor sews human head onto gorilla's body.
Shootin' Irons
Director
Story of a rancher clearing his girlfriend's father of a crime he didn't commit
Rolled Stockings
Director
Though billed second, the stunningly beautiful Louise Brooks is the focal point of the campus comedy Rolled Stockings. It's the old one about two collegiate brothers, Jim and Ralph Treadway (James Hall, Richard Arlen), in love with the same girl, Carol Fleming (Brooks).
Blonde or Brunette
Director
Adolphe Menjou stars in a Roaring Twenties comedy of remarriage.
Fine Manners
Director
The film depicts what happens when a rich boy accidentally meets a crude girl on New Year's Eve.
The Love Charm
Orphaned Ruth Sheldon reads an article on "Love Charms" on her way to live in the home of her Aunt Julia and Cousin Hattie Nast. Upon her arrival, Ruth is put to work as housekeeper, cook, and seamstress. When Thomas Morgan, a young banker, is invited to dinner, he focuses his attention on Ruth, prompting the envious Hattie to claim him as her own. To oblige her cousin, Ruth attempts to discourage Thomas by behaving like a frivolous society "vampire," rather than the old-fashioned girl he believes her to be.
Beating the Game
Ben Fanchette
Professional safecracker Fancy Charlie breaks into the apartment of G.B. Lawson, a criminologist, and mistakenly believes that he has robbed a fellow safecracker. Out of "professional courtesy" he informs Lawson of what he has done. Instead of calling the police, Lawson--who believes in the philosophy of "honor among thieves"--makes a deal with Charlie: to show Charlie that it's actually more profitable to be a legitimate businessman then a crook, he'll give Charlie some money if Charlie will use it to establish a legitimate business in the small town of Plumfield, and at the end of a year they will divide up whatever profits Charlie is able to make honestly. Charlie agrees, but soon discovers that things aren't going to be quite as easy as he thought.
For Those We Love
Jimmy Arnold
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.
Playthings of Passion
Spiffy (as Dick Rosson)
Helen Rowland is indifferent towards her wealthy husband Henry and spends most of her time at social events. Henry agrees to give financial assistance to young clergyman John Sterling if Helen can become interested in Sterling's work in the slums.
The Secret Garden
Colin Craven
A young British girl born and raised in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's estate. Her uncle is very distant due to the loss of his wife ten years before. Neglected once again, she begins exploring the estate and discovers a garden that has been locked and neglected.
The Ghost Flower
Giulia, a Neapolitan girl, much against her will, becomes the mistress of a wealthy gangster. Her "protector" is stabbed to death by Giulia's hot-headed musician lover Tony (Francis McDonald), whereupon the heroine takes refuge in the villa of French playwright La Farge. Under La Farge's careful tutelage, Giulia develops into a famous actress, capturing the heart of the Duke De Chaumont. Though LaFarge himself has fallen in love with the girl, he does not stand in her way when she accepts the Duke's proposal. But Giulia has not reckoned with Tony, who is still crazy about her and still willing to kill any man who stands in his way. Tony murders LaFarge, then sets his sights on the Duke, intending to kill the poor fellow during the wedding ceremony. Hoping to save the Duke's life, Giulia pretends to have fallen out of love with him and returns to Tony.
The Man Who Made Good
Assistant Director
A 1917 film directed by Arthur Rosson.
Her Father's Keeper
Director
A 1917 film directed by Arthur Rosson and Richard Rosson.
Panthea
Pablo Centeno
A woman sacrifices everything for her husband's career.
Seventeen
Johnny Watson
Seventeen year old William Sylvanus Baxter has fallen madly in love with young coquette, Lola Pratt. After spending all of his money on the fickle girl, she runs off with an older man. William now heartbroken, contemplates suicide, until a friend from childhood, May Parcher, pays a visit and William decides to fall in love with her.
The Comet's Come-Back
The gases left in the wake of a comet that passed by earth have the effect of making everyone on the planet lazy and lethargic, and actually stops time.
The Pretty Sister of Jose
Manuel - the Serenader
Pepita, a radiant and merry Spanish beauty, and her playful brother Jose, witness their mother, whose faded beauty led her husband to abandon her for another, plunge a dagger into her breast.
The Magic Cloak of Oz
Mary's Father (uncredited)
The fairies of Oz gather in the forest of Burzee one evening and weave a magic cloak that gives the wearer one wish, so long as it has not been stolen.
The Patchwork Girl of Oz
Danx
Ojo and Unc Nunkie are out of food, so they decide to journey to the Emerald City where they will never starve. Along the way, they meet Mewel, a waif and stray (mule) who leads them to Dr. Pipt, who has been stirring the powder of life for nine years. Ojo adds plenty of brains to Margolotte's Patchwork servant before she is brought to life with the powder. When Scraps does come to life, she accidentally knocks the liquid of petrifaction upon Unc Nunkie, Margolotte, and Danx (daughter Jesseva's boyfriend). So all go on separate journeys to find the ingredients to the antidote. (Of course Jesseva has Danx shrunken to take with her, which causes trouble with Jinjur.) Of course, no one ever told Ojo that some of the ingredients were illegal to obtain...
Richelieu
François
Based on a play by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Originally released in six reels, but later cut to four due to poor reviews. A lost film.
Sherlock Bonehead
Bert Smith - Secret Service Agent
Chief of Police Ivorytop and Chief of Detectives Sherlock Bonehead, of Rottenport, fall in love with Helen, a girl from the city
By the Sun's Rays
The Bandit (as Dick Rosson)
The earliest surviving film featuring Lon Chaney in a major role, By the Sun's Ray's was but one of several 2-reel westerns starring the florid Murdock MacQuarrie. MacQuarrie plays a detective investigating a series of gold shipment robberies. Along the way, he falls for a mine superintendent's pretty daughter (Agnes Vernon), much to the dismay of a sullen mine office clerk (Chaney), who is also smitten with the girl...
The End of the Feud
Writer
For fifty years the Dawsons and the Putnams have been engaged in a deadly family feud. Old Hen Dawson is now the patriarch of the Dawsons, and Jed Putnam is the leader of the Putnams.
How Fatty Made Good
Zeb
Hughey Mack comedy produced by Vitagraph.
Bettina's Substitute, or There's No Fool Like an Old Fool
Bettina's Substitute
Bettina was justified in being indignant because her employer, a married man, makes love to her. She tells her beau, Raymond, about it and he vows to get square with the old masher and teach him a lesson. He tells Bettina to send word to her boss that she is sick and obliged to remain at home for a few days, but she will send a substitute.
She Cried
A short comic film about a woman who cannot get the hang of her work in a cardboard factory.
Diamond Cut Diamond
A silent comedy in which a jealous woman wants to catch her husband in the act of infidelity.