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Melville Shyer

Film Director / Film Producer / Screenwriter | * 09/28/1895 († 72, 09/14/1968) | Memphis, Tennessee (United States of America (USA))
Melville Jacob Shyer (September 28, 1895 – September 14, 1968) was an American film director, screenwriter and producer and one of the founders of the Directors Guild of America. His career spanned over 50 years, during which he worked with Mack Sennett and D. W. Griffith. Shyer was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the son of Hattie (Schwarzenberg) and Charles Richard Shyer. His family was of German-Jewish background. His son is writer and director Charles Shyer. ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Romance / Love | Mystery

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Secret agent Roger Pryor is dispatched below the border to protect an important scientific formula. Believe it or don't, this mixture has the ability to render things invisible. ...

South of Panama

Certification unknown

1941 | 3.0/5 | 1h 8min
Thriller, Drama, Action, War
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On the eve of his execution, a vice-rackets bigshot recalls his various exploits in crimes such as abortion and white slavery, in which he frequently operated under an alias. ...

Confessions of a Vice Baron

NR

1943 | 1.8/5 | 59min
Drama
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When a city councilman is murdered while investigating allegations of drug dealing going on a a somewhat disreputable sideshow, the daughter of the chief suspect teams up with a newspaper reporter to ...

The Murder in the Museum

NR

1934 | 2.5/5 | 1h 5min
Thriller
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A phony spiritualist hypnotizes the daughter of a wealthy banker in a scheme to swindle the banker out of his money. A reporter investigating the swami discovers the plot, determines to expose it. ...

Sucker Money

NR

1933 | 2.2/5 | 59min
Drama, Mystery, Romance / Love
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Movies with Melville Shyer as Crew(74)

Directing/Assistant Director1957 Beginning of the End
Directing/Assistant Director1951 Man from Sonora
Directing/Assistant Director1950 Cherokee Uprising
Directing/Assistant Director1950 Arizona Territory
Directing/Assistant Director1949 Arson, Inc.
Directing/Assistant Director1948 Smart Politics
Directing/Assistant Director1948 Jungle Goddess
Directing/Assistant Director1948 Smart Woman
Directing/Assistant Director1946 The Killers
Directing/Assistant Director1945 Scarlet Street
Directing/Assistant Director1945 Gun Smoke
Directing/Assistant Director1945 The Woman in Green
Directing/Assistant Director1944 Gypsy Wildcat
Directing/Assistant Director1944 Jungle Woman
Directing/Assistant Director1943 It Comes Up Love
Directing/Assistant Director1943 Son of Dracula
Directing/Assistant Director1943 All by Myself
Directing/Assistant Director1943 Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
Directing/Director1943 Confessions of a Vice Baron
Production/Associate Producer1941 South of Panama
Directing/Director1940 Mad Youth
Directing/Director1940 Souls in Pawn
Production/Associate Producer1938 Slander House
Directing/Director1937 Smashing the Vice Trust
Directing/Assistant Director1936 The Dark Hour
Directing/Assistant Director1936 The Bridge of Sighs
Directing/Assistant Director1936 It Couldn't Have Happened (But It Did)
Directing/Assistant Director1936 Tango
Directing/Assistant Director1935 Happiness C.O.D.
Directing/Assistant Director1935 Circumstantial Evidence
Directing/Assistant Director1935 Gun Smoke
Directing/Assistant Director1935 A Shot in the Dark
Directing/Assistant Director1935 Condemned to Live
Directing/Assistant Director1935 Symphony of Living
Directing/Assistant Director1935 Death from a Distance
Directing/Assistant Director1935 False Pretenses
Directing/Assistant Director1935 The Lady in Scarlet
Directing/Assistant Director1934 The Ghost Walks
Directing/Assistant Director1934 Fifteen Wives
Directing/Assistant Director1934 Fugitive Road
Directing/Director1934 The Road to Ruin
Directing/Assistant Director1934 In Love with Life
Directing/Assistant Director1934 City Park
Directing/Assistant Director1934 Sons of Steel
Writing/Screenplay1934 The Man from Hell
Directing/Director1934 The Murder in the Museum
Directing/Assistant Director1934 Stolen Sweets
Directing/Assistant Director1934 Port of Lost Dreams
Directing/Assistant Director1934 Green Eyes
Directing/Assistant Director1933 Dance, Girl, Dance
Directing/Assistant Director1933 I Have Lived
Directing/Assistant Director1933 By Appointment Only
Directing/Assistant Director1933 Twin Husbands
Directing/Director1933 Sucker Money
Directing/Assistant Director1933 A Man of Sentiment
Directing/Assistant Director1933 In the Money
Directing/Assistant Director1933 Forgotten
Directing/Assistant Director1933 Murder on the Campus
Directing/Assistant Director1933 Notorious But Nice
Directing/Assistant Director1932 The Wyoming Whirlwind
Directing/Assistant Director1932 The Midnight Lady
Directing/Assistant Director1932 The King Murder
Crew/Second Unit1932 The Drifter
Directing/Assistant Director1932 The Drifter
Directing/Assistant Director1932 A Scarlet Week-End
Directing/Assistant Director1932 Probation
Directing/Assistant Director1932 Cross-Examination
Directing/Assistant Director1932 Women Won't Tell
Directing/Assistant Director1932 The Secrets of Wu Sin
Directing/Assistant Director1931 Grief Street
Directing/Assistant Director1931 The Lady from Nowhere
Directing/Assistant Director1931 The Hurricane Horseman
Directing/Assistant Director1930 Ladies in Love
Directing/Assistant Director1930 Today

Born: Saturday, 09/28 1895 (September) in Memphis, Tennessee (United States of America (USA))
Died: Saturday, 09/14 1968 (September) in Palm Springs (aged: 72)
Zodiac sign: Libra (Chinese zodiac sign: Goat)
Other names for Melville Shyer (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Richard Shier"
"John Melville"
Melville Shyer frequently works together with these people:
M.A. Andersen (40x, Crew)
Edward C. Jewell (27x, Crew)
Pete Clark (24x, Crew)
Roland D. Reed (21x, Crew)
Richard Thorpe (18x, Crew)
George R. Batcheller (16x, Crew)
Robert Ellis (16x, Actor)
Maury M. Cohen (14x, Crew)
Willis Kent (14x, Crew)
L.E. Clark (13x, Crew)
Frank R. Strayer (12x, Crew)
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