About

Known credits:
62
Birthday:
1893-01-12
Place of birth:
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Website:
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Nick Grindé

Overview

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.

Known for

Directing
1946 Injun Talk Directing Director N/A
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1945 Road to Alcatraz Directing Director N/A
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1942 Hitler- Dead or Alive Directing Director 58
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1942 The Girl from Alaska Directing Director 58
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1941 Mountain Moonlight Directing Director N/A
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1940 Friendly Neighbors Directing Director N/A
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1940 Before I Hang Directing Director 59
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1940 Girls of the Road Directing Director 58
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1940 Men Without Souls Directing Director 59
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1940 The Man with Nine Lives Directing Director 59
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1940 Convicted Woman Directing Director 58
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1939 Scandal Sheet Directing Director N/A
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1939 A Woman is the Judge Directing Director N/A
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1939 The Man They Could Not Hang Directing Director 59
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1939 Million Dollar Legs Directing Director 58
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1939 Sudden Money Directing Director 58
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1939 King of Chinatown Directing Director 59
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1938 Federal Man-Hunt Directing Director 59
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1938 Down in 'Arkansaw' Directing Director 59
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1938 Mis dos amores Directing Director N/A
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1938 Delinquent Parents Directing Director 59
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1937 Exiled to Shanghai Directing Director 58
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1937 Love Is on the Air Directing Director 58
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1937 White Bondage Directing Director 59
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1937 Public Wedding Directing Director 59
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1937 Under Southern Stars Directing Director N/A
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1936 Fugitive in the Sky Directing Director 59
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1936 The Captain's Kid Directing Director 59
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1936 Jailbreak Directing Director 59
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1936 Public Enemy's Wife Directing Director 59
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1936 Lucky Fugitives Directing Director N/A
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1935 The Great American Pie Company Directing Director 59
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1935 How to Sleep Directing Director 59
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1935 Ladies Crave Excitement Directing Director 58
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1935 Border Brigands Directing Director N/A
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1935 Stone of Silver Creek Directing Director N/A
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1934 Bum Voyage Directing Director 58
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1934 The Ballad of Paducah Jail Directing Director N/A
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1934 No More West Directing Director N/A
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1933 Menu Directing Director 58
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1932 Vanity Street Directing Director 59
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1932 Shopworn Directing Director 59
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1931 This Modern Age Directing Director 59
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1930 The Devil's Cabaret Directing Director 58
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1930 Remote Control Directing Director 58
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1930 Wu Li Chang Directing Director N/A
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1930 Good News Directing Director 58
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1930 Metro Movietone Revue #4 Directing Director 59
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1930 Metro Movietone Revue #3 Directing Director 59
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1929 The Bishop Murder Case Directing Director 58
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1929 Metro Movietone Revue #2 Directing Director 59
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1929 Metro Movietone Revue #1 Directing Director 59
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1929 The Desert Rider Directing Director N/A
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1929 Morgan's Last Raid Directing Director N/A
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1928 Beyond the Sierras Directing Director N/A
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1928 Fuzzy Knight and His Little Piano Directing Director 59
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1927 Body and Soul Directing Assistant Director N/A
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1927 Van and Schenck: Pennant Winning Battery of Songland Directing Director N/A
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1925 Excuse Me Directing Assistant Director N/A
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Writing
1943 We've Never Been Licked Writing Screenplay 58
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1934 Babes in Toyland Writing Writer 59
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1930 The Divorcee Writing Screenplay 59
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