Person
Melville Shyer
Directing
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Sep 28, 1895
- Died
- Sep 14, 1968
- From
- Memphis - Tennessee - USA
From Wikipedia Melville Jacob Shyer (September 28, 1895 – September 14, 1968) was an American film director, screenwriter and producer and one of the founders of the Directors Guild of America. His career spanned over 50 years, during which he worked with Mack Sennett and D. W. Griffith. Shyer was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the son of Hattie (Schwarzenberg) and Charles Richard Shyer. His family was of German Jewish background. His son is writer and director Charles Shyer.
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The Road to Ruin

The Drifter

The Woman in Green

Sucker Money

The Murder in the Museum

The Girl Who Came Back

Confessions of a Vice Baron

Grief Street

Smart Politics

Gypsy Wildcat

I Have Lived

By Appointment Only

Notorious But Nice

Dance, Girl, Dance

A Man of Sentiment

Murder on the Campus

In the Money

Twin Husbands