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
- ^ Arthur Ripley: Part of the Langdon Brain Trust on travsd.wordpress.com, January 12, 2013
- ↑ Voice in the Wind on silverscreenoasis.com
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Ripley, Arthur |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ripley, Arthur DeWitt (full name); Ripley, Arthur D. |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American screenwriter, film director and producer |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1897 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City , New York , United States |
DATE OF DEATH | February 13, 1961 |
Place of death | Los Angeles , California , United States |