Arthur Ripley

Arthur DeWitt Ripley (born January 12, 1897 in New York City , New York , United States , † February 13, 1961 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American screenwriter , film director and film producer .

Live and act

Arthur Ripley was born in New York City, Bronx . As a child he was artistically gifted, played the trumpet and wanted to study dance. However, he began working as a negative cleaner for the Kalem Company film production company . In 1914 he was a cameraman for the film A Celebrated Case . He then worked (mostly as Arthur D. Ripley ) for several companies, including Vitagraph , Fox Film Corporation , Metro Pictures Corporation and Universal Film Manufacturing Company . In the early 1920s he became a gag writer at Mack Sennett . Together with Frank Capra , he developed storylines for Harry Langdon . Several of the films were directed by Harry Edwards . When Harry Langdon produced films for his own Harry Langdon Corporation in the distribution of First National films from 1926 , Capra and Ripley followed him. The first films they made together were Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926), The Strong Man ( The Strong Man , 1926) and The First Long Pants ( Long Pants , 1927). After disagreements, Capra and later - since other films had no success - Ripley left the company. In the 1930s he worked again as a gag writer for several producers, including films with WC Fields , Edgar Kennedy , Leon Errol , Andy Clyde and Robert Benchley . Occasionally he directed and also appeared as a producer in the 1940s. In the 1950s he also directed several episodes for television series such as Your Jeweler's Showcase , General Electric Theater , Cavalcade of America , The Star and the Story , The Adventures of Jim Bowie and Colt .45 .

After finishing his film career, he became the first professor of film arts at the University of California at Los Angeles . He founded the UCLA Film Center and expanded it into a major film school. In 1958 he returned to film work for Robert Mitchum as director of Kilometer 375 ( Thunder Road ).

Filmography

camera operator

• 1914: A Celebrated Case
• 1914: Shannon of the Sixth
• 1915: Should a Mother Tell
• 1915: Dr. Rameau
• 1915: The Wonderful Adventure
• 1915: Blindness of Devotion
• 1915: A Price for Folly
• 1916: The Green-Eyed Monster

Film editor

• 1922: Foolish women
• 1922: Under Two Flags

Screenwriter

• 1920: The Third Generation
• 1921: Life's Darn Funny
• 1924: A Lady of Quality
• 1926: Tramp, tramp, tramp
• 1926: The strong man ( The Strong Man )
• 1927: The first long trousers ( Long Pants )
• 1929: Barnum was Right
• 1930: Captain of the Guard ( Captain of the Guard )
• 1930: Hide-Out
• 1932: Hypnotized
• 1934: Elmer Steps Out
• 1939: Waterfront

Director

• 1938: with Joshua Logan, George Cukor: I Met My Love Again
• 1942: with Edgar G. Ulmer: Prisoner of Japan (also screenplay)
• 1944: Voice in the Wind (also producer, screenplay in collaboration with Friedrich Torberg )
• 1946: The Chase
• 1949: The Lady of Atlantis ( Siren of Atlantis )
• 1958: Milestone 375 ( Thunder Road )

producer

• 1943: Behind Prison Walls
• 1953: Your Jeweler's Showcase (TV series, 14 episodes)
• 1953: General Electric Theater (TV series, 11 episodes)
• 1953–1954: Cavalcade of America (TV series, 11 episodes)

literature

• William Schelly: Harry Langdon. His Life and Films. McFarland, Jefferson 2008, ISBN 978-0-7864-3691-0 , pp. 32–35 ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
• Ted Okuda, Edward Watz: The Columbia Comedy Shorts. Two-Reel Hollywood Film Comedies, 1933–1958. McFarland, Jefferson 1998, ISBN 0-7864-0577-5 , pp. 203ff. ( limited preview in the google book search, the year of birth 1895 is given)

Web links

• Arthur Ripley in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Arthur Ripley: Part of the Langdon Brain Trust on travsd.wordpress.com, January 12, 2013
2. ↑ Voice in the Wind on silverscreenoasis.com