Joe Rock

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Joe Rock (born December 25, 1893 in New York City , † December 5, 1984 in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles , California ) was an American film producer , film director , actor and screenwriter who won the Oscar for best at the 1934 Academy Awards Short film in the Novelty subcategory for the film Krakatoa (1933).

Life

Rock, who also worked under the pseudonym Joe Basil , was originally a comedian with Vaudeville - Varietés and began his career in Hollywood's fledgling film industry as an actor in the comedy film Bringing Up Father with a daily wage of five US dollars . After serving as a soldier in the infantry in the First World War had participated, he worked as an actor and 1926 to nearly 100 silent films of Vitagraph with.

In addition, he worked as a film producer, director, screenwriter and assistant director from the 1920s to the mid-1930s, and continued to work as an actor in his own films. He had his greatest successes from 1924 to 1925 with a series of slapstick - short films with Stan Laurel , where he occasionally worked with his brother Murray rock as his assistant director.

At the Academy Awards in 1934, the only 1.60 meter tall skirt was nominated for the Oscar for best short film in the Novelty subcategory for the 1933 film Krakatoa . After a break of almost twenty years from the film business, he produced the documentary Mau-Mau in 1955 about the Mau-Mau wars in the British colony of Kenya .

Rock was married to the actress Louise Granville , who starred in four short films during the First World War , and had two children with her: the screenwriter and writer Phillip Rock and the actress Felippa Rock , who in turn was married to the actor Michael Pate . Rock's grandchildren are actors Christopher Pate and Kevin Rock .

Filmography (selection)

actor

  • 1915: Bringing Up Father
  • 1917: Plagues and Puppy Love
  • 1918: Telephones and Troubles
  • 1918: Sneakers and Snoozers
  • 1918: Chumps and Cops
  • 1919: Zip and Zest
  • 1921: Pot Roast
  • 1922: Aladdin
  • 1923: The Midnight Cabaret
  • 1924: Laughing Gas
  • 1926: On The Farm

Screenwriter

  • 1918: Peanuts and Politics
  • 1918: Love and Lavallieres
  • 1918: Roofs and Riots
  • 1919: Zip and Zest
  • 1926: The Goat's Whiskers

Director

  • 1919: Fairs and Fair Ones
  • 1922: The Pill
  • 1924: Cave Inn Sheik
  • 1925: Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde
  • 1937: Cotton Queen

producer

  • 1920: What! No spinach?
  • 1922: Aladdin
  • 1924: The Buttinsky
  • 1924: Detained
  • 1925: Pie-Eyed
  • 1925: Book-Bozo
  • 1926: In The Air
  • 1926: The Heavy Parade
  • 1926: Getting Hitched
  • 1926: Heavyation
  • 1927: What Price Dough
  • 1935: Strictly Illegal
  • 1937: Rhythm Racketeer

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personal data
SURNAME Rock, Joe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American actor, director, film producer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH 5th December 1984
Place of death Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles , California