H.M. Walker

Sceneggiatore

27 giugno 1878 — 23 giugno 1937 (58 anni)
WALKER, H.M. (Harley Marquis Walker) started as a telegrapher, tapping out the descriptions of sportswriters at boxing matches and sending them to the offices of their newspapers. In 1903 he became a sportswriter himself and wrote a column, “The Wisdom of Blinkey Ben,” for the Los Angeles Examiner before joining Roach in 1917 as a part-time scenario and title writer for Harold Lloyd. In 1920, he left newspaper work and joined Roach full time as head of the editorial department. A brilliant title writer in the silent era, Walker was less skilled at dialogue; he was credited for providing these elements on more than 350 Roach comedies. He usually came up with the title for each film and also wrote fairly severe critiques after each preview. After leaving Roach in 1932 he wrote dialogue for some features, including Son of a Sailor (1933) with Joe E. Brown, W.C. Fields’ The Old Fashioned Way (1934), and the ZaSu Pitts picture Affair of Susan (1935). Walker died in the home of his good friend Leroy Shield, who had written scores at the Roach lot in 1930 and ’31. Died June 23, 1937, Chicago, Illinois, age 58; of a heart attack.

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Harley M. "Beanie" Walker (June 27, 1878 – June 23, 1937) was a member of the Hal Roach movie production company from 1916 until his resignation in 1932. The title cards he wrote for Harold Lloyd, Charley Chase, Our Gang and Laurel and Hardy comedies "have entered legend, both for silent films, and as opening remarks for the earlier talkies." He was also an officer of the Roach Studio corporation.

On Roach's "Lot of Fun", script development usually started with meetings among the gag men, who would develop what was known as an "action script": the outline of the story and a description of the scenes and some of the sight gags, which generally would run three to six legal-size pages. This document would then pass to Walker, the head of the editorial department, which oversaw not only script editing, but film editing as well. Walker usually came up with the title of each film, wrote "brilliantly witty" title cards which would be produced and inserted into the film, and wrote a critique before the picture went out to the distributors, Pathé Exchange, or later, M-G-M.

Walker's writing did not transition well to talkies and by 1931 he had left Roach studio and wrote dialogue for comedies produced by ex-Roach general manager Warren Doane at Universal Pictures. Later, he worked at Paramount Pictures, where he contributed to the W. C. Fields picture The Old Fashioned Way (1934).

Film e Serie su Plex

  • La Scuola è finita
    La Scuola è finita1930
  • Mostra canina
    Mostra canina1930
  • Un ricco aquilone
    Un ricco aquilone1931
  • La nuova Maestra
    La nuova Maestra1930
  • Caccia all'orso
    Caccia all'orso1930
  • Love Business
    Love Business1931
  • Ciuf Ciuf
    Ciuf Ciuf1932
  • Free Wheeling
    Free Wheeling1932
  • Allarme Antincendio
    Allarme Antincendio1932
  • Neonati prodigio
    Neonati prodigio1932
  • E io lo dico alla mamma
    E io lo dico alla mamma1931
  • Vita da cani
    Vita da cani1932
  • Un bambino difficile
    Un bambino difficile1929
  • All’arrembaggio
    All’arrembaggio1931
  • Helping Grandma
    Helping Grandma1931
  • Febbre del ring
    Febbre del ring1929
  • Leggi e scrivi
    Leggi e scrivi1932
  • La capanna dello zio Tom
    La capanna dello zio Tom1932
  • Una nuova mamma
    Una nuova mamma1929
  • The First Seven Years
    The First Seven Years1930

Famoso per

  • La scala musicale
    La scala musicale1932
  • Preferisco l'ascensore!
    Preferisco l'ascensore!1923
  • Affari in grande
    Affari in grande1929
  • Muraglie
    Muraglie1931
  • Il compagno B
    Il compagno B1932
  • Un nuovo imbroglio
    Un nuovo imbroglio1930
  • Tutto in ordine
    Tutto in ordine1932
  • Ospedale di contea
    Ospedale di contea1932
  • L'eredità (I vagabondi)
    L'eredità (I vagabondi)1930
  • Sporco lavoro (Alchimia)
    Sporco lavoro (Alchimia)1933
  • I due legionari
    I due legionari1931
  • Sottozero
    Sottozero1930
  • Non c'è niente da ridere
    Non c'è niente da ridere1931
  • La sbornia
    La sbornia1930
  • I ladroni
    I ladroni1930
  • Andiamo a lavorare
    Andiamo a lavorare1931
  • An Eastern Westerner
    An Eastern Westerner1920
  • Concerto di violoncello
    Concerto di violoncello1929
  • La battaglia del secolo
    La battaglia del secolo1927
  • Ospiti inattesi
    Ospiti inattesi1932

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