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Roy Del Ruth (October 18, 1893, Delaware – April 27, 1961) was an American filmmaker. Early career. Silent film The Heart Snatcher (1920) directed by Roy Del Ruth for Fox Film Corporation. Beginning his Hollywood career as a writer for Mack Sennett in 1915, Del Ruth later directed his first short film Hungry Lions (1919) for the producer.
Roy Del Ruth. Director: It Happened on Fifth Avenue. Roy Del Ruth was born on Oct. 18, 1895, in Philadelphia, PA. He began his Hollywood career as a writer for Mack Sennett in 1915. He began directing in 1919 for Sennett with the two-reeler Hungry Lions and Tender Hearts (1920).
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May 7, 2024 · Roy Del Ruth (born October 18, 1893, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died April 27, 1961, Sherman Oaks, California) was an American filmmaker who worked with various stars, notably James Cagney, and directed a number of popular musicals in the 1930s.
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Roy Del Ruth was a Hollywood film director who worked in the 1920s and 1930s. He is known for directing The Maltese Falcon, The Babe Ruth Story, and Alligator People.
A capable director who made a number of competent musicals and crime dramas, Roy Del Ruth worked consistently throughout the 1930s and 1940s without ever distinguishing himself from his more famed contemporaries.
R oy Del Ruth was one of Hollywood's top directors and starmakers. Del Ruth was a newspaper cartoonist and columnist before entering films as a screenwriter, writing gags for...
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Roy Del Ruth was a director who made musicals and crime dramas in the 1930s and 1940s. He directed The Maltese Falcon, Ziegfeld Follies, and It Happened on Fifth Avenue, among others.
