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F. McGrew Willis
Writer, Director, Producer, Additional Credits
Born August 18, 1891Died October 13, 1957 (66 years)
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F. McGrew Willis (August 18, 1891 – October 13, 1957) was an American screenwriter of the silent and early sound film eras. Born Frank McGrew Willis on August 18, 1891, in Pleasanton, Iowa, he broke into the film industry writing film shorts in 1914 and 1915 as a freelance screenwriter. His first feature credit came in 1915, with The Quest, the first of three features he would pen in 1915. Over the next fourteen years he would write the scripts or stories for 43 silent films, three of which, The Girl in the Pullman (1927), Annapolis (1928), and A Blonde for a Night (1928), he also produced for either De Mille Pictures and/or Pathé Exchange. He would also produce another three films in 1928. In 1929, and through the next 6 years of the blossoming talking picture era, he would write the screenplays or stories for another 18 films. In the late 1930s he would work in England, where he scripted 6 films during the remainder of the decade. His final screenwriting credit would come on 1941's Sis Hopkins, for which he wrote the story. Willis died on October 13, 1957, in Menlo Park, California, and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, California.
F. McGrew Willis (August 18, 1891 – October 13, 1957) was an American screenwriter of the silent and early sound film eras. Born Frank McGrew Willis on August 18, 1891, in Pleasanton, Iowa, he broke into the film industry writing film shorts in 1914 and 1915 as a freelance screenwriter. His first feature credit came in 1915, with The Quest, the first of three features he would pen in 1915. Over the next fourteen years he would write the scripts or stories for 43 silent films, three of which, The Girl in the Pullman (1927), Annapolis (1928), and A Blonde for a Night (1928), he also produced for either De Mille Pictures and/or Pathé Exchange. He would also produce another three films in 1928. In 1929, and through the next 6 years of the blossoming talking picture era, he would write the screenplays or stories for another 18 films. In the late 1930s he would work in England, where he scripted 6 films during the remainder of the decade. His final screenwriting credit would come on 1941's Sis Hopkins, for which he wrote the story. Willis died on October 13, 1957, in Menlo Park, California, and was buried in Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, California.
F. McGrew Willis Filmography
| 1939 | |
| 1934 | Keep 'Em Rolling · as Screenplay |
| 1933 | Midshipman Jack · as Screenplay |
| 1931 | The Big Gamble · as Screenplay |
| 1928 | |
| 1928 | |
| 1926 | |
| 1926 | |
| 1926 | Up in Mabel's Room · as Screenplay |
| 1925 | Madame Behave · as Screenplay |
| 1925 |
| 1928 |
| 1941 | Sis Hopkins · as Story |
| 1936 | The Man in the Mirror · as Adaptation |
| 1933 | Back Page · as Dialogue |
| 1933 | When a Man Rides Alone · as Story |
| 1931 | Suicide Fleet · as Continuity |
| 1931 | Suicide Fleet · as Dialogue |
| 1930 | Charley's Aunt · as Screen Adaptation |
| 1928 | A Blonde for a Night · as Supervising Producer |
| 1927 | The Girl in the Pullman · as Adaptation |
| 1927 | Getting Gertie's Garter · as Adaptation |
| 1925 | Charley's Aunt · as Adaptation |
| 1923 | The Light That Failed · as Adaptation |
| 1919 | The Man Who Turned White · as Story |