Nick Grindé
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- January 12, 1893
- Place of birth
- Madison, Wisconsin, USA
- Died
- June 19, 1979
Biography
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.
Movies directed by Nick Grindé
- The Man They Could Not Hang 1939 · ★ 6.6
- Before I Hang 1940 · ★ 6.3
- The Man with Nine Lives 1940 · ★ 6.3
- How to Sleep 1935 · ★ 6.6
- The Bishop Murder Case 1929 · ★ 5.4
- Menu 1933 · ★ 5.4
- Shopworn 1932 · ★ 6.7
- Hitler- Dead or Alive 1942 · ★ 4.9
- This Modern Age 1931 · ★ 5.9
- King of Chinatown 1939 · ★ 5.6
- Remote Control 1930 · ★ 5.4
- The Devil's Cabaret 1930 · ★ 5.9
- Convicted Woman 1940 · ★ 4.6
- Public Enemy's Wife 1936 · ★ 6.4
- Vanity Street 1932 · ★ 7.1
- Fugitive in the Sky 1936 · ★ 6.3
- Jailbreak 1936 · ★ 6.7
- Girls of the Road 1940 · ★ 5.4
- Exiled to Shanghai 1937 · ★ 5.5
- Love Is on the Air 1937 · ★ 6.2
- Good News 1930 · ★ 6.2
- Public Wedding 1937 · ★ 6.0
- White Bondage 1937 · ★ 6.8
- The Great American Pie Company 1935 · ★ 7.5
- Men Without Souls 1940 · ★ 6.7
- Ladies Crave Excitement 1935 · ★ 5.7
- Sudden Money 1939 · ★ 7.0
- Federal Man-Hunt 1938 · ★ 7.5
- Delinquent Parents 1938 · ★ 7.3
- The Captain's Kid 1936 · ★ 6.7
- Metro Movietone Revue #1 1929 · ★ 4.7
- Down in 'Arkansaw' 1938 · ★ 7.5
- Bum Voyage 1934 · ★ 6.5
- Mountain Moonlight 1941 · ★ 7.0
- Million Dollar Legs 1939 · ★ 6.0
- Metro Movietone Revue #2 1929 · ★ 1.0
- Metro Movietone Revue #3 1930 · ★ 2.5
- Metro Movietone Revue #4 1930 · ★ 2.5
- The Girl from Alaska 1942 · ★ 8.0
- The Ballad of Paducah Jail 1934 · ★ 9.0