Nick Grinde

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American film director

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nameNick Grinde
imageNick Grinde 1928.jpg
captionGrinde in 1928
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birth_placeMadison, Wisconsin, US
death_date
death_placeLos Angeles, California, US
occupationFilm director
Screenwriter
yearsactive1928-1945
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Nick Grinde (January 12, 1893 – June 19, 1979) was an American film director and screenwriter. He directed 57 films between 1928 and 1945.

Biography

Born Harry A. Grinde in Madison, Wisconsin but nicknamed "Nick", Grinde graduated from the University of Wisconsin. He later moved to New York and worked in Vaudeville. Grinde 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. Notable films include The Man they Could Not Hang with Boris Karloff, and Ronald Reagan's first motion picture: Love is on the Air (1937). As a screenwriter, he is credited as a co-writer of Laurel and Hardy's Babes in Toyland (1934).

Throughout his career, Grinde was a writer of short stories, articles and columns usually about show business and film making in early Hollywood. Prime examples include "Pictures for Peanuts" (Saturday Evening Post, December 29, 1945), a humorous B picture "how-to," and "Where's Vaudeville At?" (Saturday Evening Post, January 11, 1930).

Grinde died in Los Angeles, California in 1979 at the age of 86. In the early 1940s, he was engaged to actress Marie Wilson. Later, he married Korean-American actress Hazel Shon.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences houses the Nick Grinde Papers in its Special Collections.

Selected filmography

References

References

  1. Raw, Laurence. (January 10, 2014). "Character Actors in Horror and Science Fiction Films, 1930-1960". McFarland.
  2. Pitts, Michael R.. (January 10, 2014). "Columbia Pictures Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films, 1928-1982". McFarland.
  3. (June 23, 1979). "Harry A. Grinde". The Philadelphia Inquirer.
  4. (June 22, 1979). "Rites Set for Harry A. Grinde, 86, Pioneer Movie Director". The Los Angeles Times.
  5. "Nick Grinde papers".

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