Lucien Hubbard
Lucien Hubbard (born December 22, 1888 in Fort Thomas , Kentucky , † December 31, 1971 in Beverly Hills , California ) was an American screenwriter , film producer and film director .
Life
Lucien Hubbard began writing templates and scenarios for the silent film The Angel Factory in 1917 . During his career he wrote the scripts for fifty films.
At the Academy Awards in 1931 he was nominated for an Oscar for the best original story for the first time , together with Joseph Jackson for Easy Money (1931). In 1932 he was again nominated for an Oscar in the category of best original story for The Star Witness . Further films based on his literary models and scripts were The Tower of Jewels (1920), Paid (1930), Three on a Match (1932) and Company Donnerschlag (1943). In addition, he began working as a film producer for Warner Bros. in the mid-1920s and, after his debut The Wanderer of the Wasteland (1924), produced almost sixty films by 1941. Other productions by him were Wings (1927), Employees' Entrance (1933), Storm at Daybreak (1933) and Operator 13 (1934). He has worked as a writer and producer with film directors such as Tom Teriss , Alfred E. Green , Mervyn LeRoy , Ray Enright , William A. Wellman , Sam Wood and Richard Boleslawski . For the film Rose-Marie (1928) he not only wrote the script, but also directed it. His best-known and still available directing work is the Jules Verne film adaptation The Mysterious Island (1929) with Lionel Barrymore in the lead role. However, these films remained two of his only three directorial works.
In the 1940s, Hubbard planned a vacation resort in Desert Hot Springs, east of Los Angeles, but it never got beyond a motel developed by John Lautner .
Filmography
- 1927: Wings (production)
- 1928: Rose-Marie (director, screenplay)
- 1930: Paid (screenplay)
- 1933: Employees' Entrance (Production)
- 1933: Storm at Daybreak (Production)
- 1931: Easy Money ( Smart Money ) (writer)
- 1934: Operator 13 (production)
- 1943: Operation Thunderbolt ( 'Gung Ho!': The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders ) (screenplay)
Web links
- Lucien Hubbard in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hubbard, Lucien |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American screenwriter, film producer and film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 22, 1888 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fort Thomas , Kentucky |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 31, 1971 |
| Place of death | Beverly Hills , California |