Dewey Starkey
James Dewey Starkey (born May 9, 1898 in Ohio , † September 3, 1974 in Orange County , California ) was an American production manager and assistant director who received the Oscar for best assistant director at the 1934 Academy Awards .
biography
Starkey began working for She's My Weakness in 1930 as an assistant director in the Hollywood film industry and was one of the seven winners of the Academy Awards in 1934 for best assistant director. In the course of his career he was in more than 40 films by 1944 such as Pioneers of the Wild West (1931), A Divorce (1932), A Defiant Girl (1936), Hitting a New High (1937), Uprising in Sidi Hakim (1938) , Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940), Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941), Suspicion (1941), and Tough Guys - Steep Teeth (1943) worked as assistant directors. He worked with film directors such as Wesley Ruggles , George Stevens , John Cromwell , Alfred Hitchcock , among others .
In 1948 he began to work as a production manager for the first time and was subsequently involved in the production of television series such as I Married Joan (1952 to 1955), The Mickey Rooney Show (1954 to 1955), Hotel de Paree (1959 to 1960), Have Gun - Will Travel (1959 to 1960), Smoking Colts (1959 to 1961) and Perry Mason (1959 to 1961) involved.
Web links
- Dewey Starkey in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Starkey, Dewey |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Starkey, James Dewey (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American assistant director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 9, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ohio |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd September 1974 |
| Place of death | Orange County , California |