Person Details

Birthday: 1893-01-12 00:26:34

Death: 1979-06-19 00:26:34

Aliases: Nicholas Grindé , Nicholas Grinde , Nick Grindé

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Madison, Wisconsin, USA

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Movie Involvements: 62

TV Involvements: 0


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Biography

Nick Grindé (January 12, 1893 – June 19, 1979) was an American film director and screenwriter. He directed 57 films between 1928 and 1945. Born in Madison, Wisconsin, Grinde 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, Grinde was a popular 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, Dec. 29, 1945), a humorous B picture "how-to," and "Where's Vaudeville At?" (Saturday Evening Post, Jan. 11, 1930). Grinde died in Los Angeles, California in 1979 at the age of 86. 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 Grinde Papers in its Special Collections. Description above from the Wikipedia article Nick Grinde, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most Famous Work

Babes in Toyland
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6

Babes in Toyland

(1934) Writer
Exiled to Shanghai
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5

Exiled to Shanghai

(1937) Director
Convicted Woman
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4

Convicted Woman

(1940) Director
The Divorcee
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6

The Divorcee

(1930) Screenplay
Love Is on the Air
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5

Love Is on the Air

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Hitler- Dead or Alive
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5

Hitler- Dead or Alive

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Before I Hang
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6

Before I Hang

(1940) Director
The Man They Could Not Hang
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7

The Man They Could Not Hang

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Writing

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1943 Screenplay
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1930 Screenplay
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