Nick Grindé

Director, Writer

January 12, 1893 — June 19, 1979 (86 years)
Nick Grindé was an American film director and screenwriter. He directed 57 films between 1928 and 1945. Born in Madison, Wisconsin, Grindé 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, Grindé was a popular writer of short stories, articles and columns usually about show business and film making in early Hollywood. 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 Grindé Papers in its Special Collections.

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    March of the Wooden Soldiers
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    The Man They Could Not Hang
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    Before I Hang
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    The Divorcee
  • The Man with Nine Lives
    The Man with Nine Lives
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    Shopworn
  • The Bishop Murder Case
    The Bishop Murder Case
  • This Modern Age
    This Modern Age
  • Hitler: Dead or Alive
    Hitler: Dead or Alive
  • King of Chinatown
    King of Chinatown
  • Remote Control
    Remote Control
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    Ladies Crave Excitement