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Nick Grindé

Nick Grindé

Director · 1893–1979 · Madison, Wisconsin, USA

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Biography

Nick Grindé was an American film director and screenwriter. He directed 57 films between 1928 and 1945. Born in Madison, Wisconsin, Grindé graduated from the University of Wisconsin. He became a Hollywood film writer and director in the late 1920s, and was often assigned to familiarize Broadway stage directors with the techniques of film making. As a director, he is considered one of American cinema's early B film specialists. Throughout his career, Grindé was a popular writer of short stories, articles and columns usually about show business and film making in early Hollywood. In the mid 1930s, he had been married to actress Marie Wilson. Later, he married Korean-American actress Hazel Shon. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences houses the Nick Grindé Papers in its Special Collections.

Directed 58

1940s

  1. 1946

    Injun Talk

    Director

  2. 1945

    Road to Alcatraz

    Director

  3. 1942

    Hitler- Dead or Alive

    Director

  4. The Girl from Alaska

    Director

  5. 1941

    Mountain Moonlight

    Director

  6. 1940

    Friendly Neighbors

    Director

  7. Before I Hang

    Director

  8. Girls of the Road

    Director

  9. Men Without Souls

    Director

  10. The Man with Nine Lives

    Director

  11. Convicted Woman

    Director

1930s

  1. 1939

    Scandal Sheet

    Director

  2. A Woman is the Judge

    Director

  3. The Man They Could Not Hang

    Director

  4. Million Dollar Legs

    Director

  5. Sudden Money

    Director

  6. King of Chinatown

    Director

  7. 1938

    Federal Man-Hunt

    Director

  8. Down in 'Arkansaw'

    Director

  9. Delinquent Parents

    Director

  10. 1937

    Exiled to Shanghai

    Director

  11. Love Is on the Air

    Director

  12. White Bondage

    Director

  13. Public Wedding

    Director

  14. Under Southern Stars

    Director

  15. 1936

    Fugitive in the Sky

    Director

  16. The Captain's Kid

    Director

  17. Jailbreak

    Director

  18. Public Enemy's Wife

    Director

  19. Lucky Fugitives

    Director

  20. 1935

    The Great American Pie Company

    Director

  21. How to Sleep

    Director

  22. Ladies Crave Excitement

    Director

  23. Border Brigands

    Director

  24. Stone of Silver Creek

    Director

  25. 1934

    Bum Voyage

    Director

  26. The Ballad of Paducah Jail

    Director

  27. No More West

    Director

  28. 1933

    Menu

    Director

  29. 1932

    Vanity Street

    Director

  30. Shopworn

    Director

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  31. 1931

    This Modern Age

    Director

  32. 1930

    The Devil's Cabaret

    Director

  33. Remote Control

    Director

  34. Wu Li Chang

    Director

  35. Good News

    Director

  36. Metro Movietone Revue #4

    Director

  37. Metro Movietone Revue #3

    Director

1920s

  1. 1929

    The Bishop Murder Case

    Director

  2. Metro Movietone Revue #2

    Director

  3. Metro Movietone Revue #1

    Director

  4. The Desert Rider

    Director

  5. Morgan's Last Raid

    Director

  6. 1928

    Beyond the Sierras

    Director

  7. Fuzzy Knight and His Little Piano

    Director

  8. 1927

    Body and Soul

    Assistant Director

  9. Van and Schenck: Pennant Winning Battery of Songland

    Director

  10. 1925

    Excuse Me

    Assistant Director

Wrote 3

1940s

  1. 1943

    We've Never Been Licked

    Screenplay

1930s

  1. 1934

    Babes in Toyland

    Writer

    77
  2. 1930

    The Divorcee

    Screenplay