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Cliff Reid

Producer, Director
Born September 7, 1891Died August 22, 1959 (67 years)
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Cliff Reid (September 7, 1891 – August 22, 1959), also known as George Clifford Reid, was an American film producer and film production studio founder during the 1930s and 1940s. In addition he also directed film shorts, and was the assistant director on several feature films.

Reid was born and raised in Delaware, Ohio, and graduated from high school there. He entered the film industry in the 1910s and worked as a film distributor, before beginning to produce silent films in 1921.

Reid began in the film industry at the very beginning of the sound era, producing and directing film shorts. His first film was The Suppressed Crime, a 1930 mystery short, which was produced by Reid's own company, George Clifford Reid Productions. During 1930 and 1931 Reid's company would produce 19 film shorts, which Reid produced and directed. He even wrote one of the shorts, 1931's The Bank Swindle. Reid began working for RKO in 1933. Reid's first involvement in a feature film being as the associate producer on John Ford's war film, The Lost Patrol. He would work mostly as an associate producer for RKO over the next few years, before being given the producing helm in 1937 on the drama, The Man Who Found Himself, directed by Lew Landers. Reid remained at RKO through 1942 as a producer, his last film for them being an installment of the Mexican Spitfire series, Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost. Other notable films on which Reid worked include: the 1935 version of The Three Musketeers; the western The Arizonian, starring Richard Dix; on John Ford's Oscar-winning war film, The Informer, starring Victor McLaglen; and Howard Hawks' 1938 screwball comedy, Bringing Up Baby, starring Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn.

Reid left RKO after the Mexican Spitfire film, and by 1944 he was part of the stable of producers at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He only worked on a few films at MGM, but they included the John Ford war classic, They Were Expendable, starring John Wayne and Robert Montgomery. His final producing credit would also be at MGM the following year, producing the Norman Taurog drama The Hoodlum Saint, starring William Powell and Esther Williams. He retired after The Hoodlum Saint.

He was married to Mary Reid, and they had at least two children, Clifford Jr. and Marguerite. Clifford Jr. would follow his father into the film industry, beginning at his father's old studio, RKO, where he was an assistant director to Edward Dmytryk on his classic 1947 Academy Award nominated film, Crossfire.

In 1957, Reid suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and was hospitalized at the Motion Picture House and Hospital. He remained in the hospital for the remainder of his life. Two years later he suffered a heart attack, from which he did not recover. He died at the Motion Picture Hospital in Woodland Hills, California on August 22, 1959, at the age of 67. He was buried at San Fernando Mission Cemetery.

Known For

  • Bringing Up Baby
  • They Were Expendable
  • The Informer
  • Annie Oakley
  • The Lost Patrol
  • The Saint's Double Trouble
  • The Great Man Votes
  • Next Time I Marry
  • Mexican Spitfire
  • Play Girl
  • The Plough and the Stars
  • Lady Scarface

Filmography

2023
Fear · as Executive Producer
1946
1945
They Were Expendable · as Associate Producer
1942
1942
1942
1942
1942
1941
1941
1941
1941
1940
1940
1940
1940
1940
1940
1940
1940
1939
1939
1939
1939
1939
1939
1939
1939
1939
1938
1938
1938
1938
1938
1938
Bringing Up Baby · as Associate Producer
1938
1937
1937
1937
1937
China Passage · as Associate Producer
1937
Criminal Lawyer · as Associate Producer
1936
The Plough and the Stars · as Associate Producer
1936
Wanted! Jane Turner · as Associate Producer
1936
Without Orders · as Associate Producer
1936
Special Investigator · as Associate Producer
1936
The Witness Chair · as Associate Producer
1936
Yellow Dust · as Associate Producer
1935
Another Face · as Associate Producer
1935
Annie Oakley · as Associate Producer
1935
The Three Musketeers · as Associate Producer
1935
His Family Tree · as Associate Producer
1935
Powdersmoke Range · as Associate Producer
1935
The Arizonian · as Associate Producer
1935
1935
Chasing Yesterday · as Associate Producer
1935
Strangers All · as Associate Producer
1935
Grand Old Girl · as Associate Producer
1934
Red Morning · as Associate Producer
1934
Their Big Moment · as Associate Producer
1934
The Lost Patrol · as Associate Producer
1931
1931

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