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Nick Grindé
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.
As director
Injun Talk
Road to Alcatraz
Hitler- Dead or Alive
The Girl from Alaska
Mountain Moonlight
The Man with Nine Lives
Girls of the Road
Convicted Woman
Men Without Souls
Before I Hang
Friendly Neighbors
The Man They Could Not Hang
Scandal Sheet
Sudden Money
King of Chinatown
Million Dollar Legs
A Woman is the Judge
Federal Man-Hunt
Down in 'Arkansaw'
Delinquent Parents
Mis dos amores
Under Southern Stars
Exiled to Shanghai
Love Is on the Air
Public Wedding
White Bondage
Public Enemy's Wife
Fugitive in the Sky
The Captain's Kid
Jailbreak