Richard C. Kahn

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Richard C. Kahn (born January 26, 1897 in New Orleans , Louisiana , † January 28, 1960 in Hollywood , California ) was an American film director , producer and screenwriter .

Life

Richard C. Kahn began his film career in the 1930s. His debut film as a director was the western The Secret Menace (1931), for which he also wrote the screenplay. His film The Third Sex , released in 1934, was also his first film as a producer. In the late 1930s and early 1940s he made a name for himself as a director of various race films such as Son of Ingagi (1940) and various westerns. He often worked with Spencer Williams , a black actor who starred in various Singing Cowboys films and who would later work as a director himself.

In 1955 he directed an episode of the famous country show Grand Ole Opry and in 1958, two episodes of the television series Sky King followed .

Kahn died in 1960 shortly after his 63rd birthday.

Filmography

  • 1931: The Secret Menace (also screenplay)
  • 1934: The Third Sex (also screenplay and production)
  • 1938: Two-Gun Man from Harlem (also screenplay and production)
  • 1939: The Bronze Buckaroo (also screenplay and production)
  • 1939: Harlem Rides the Range (also production)
  • 1939: Bad Boy (script only)
  • 1940: Son of Ingagi (also production)
  • 1940: Buzzy Rides the Range
  • 1941: Buzzy and the Phantom Pinto
  • 1941: Toppers Take a Bow (short film, music video for The Four Toppers)
  • 1945: A Message for Women (short film)
  • 1946: Easy Does It (short promotional film for Stokely Van Camp)
  • 1950: The Marshall of Trail City (TV short film, also production)
  • 1952: Gang Busters (TV series)
  • 1955: Grand Ole Opry (September 9, 1955)
  • 1957: FBI cleans up (Guns Don't Argue) (cut from Gangbusters)
  • 1958: Sky Kings (TV series, two episodes)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stephanie Leigh Batiste: Darkening Mirrors: Imperial Representation in Depression-Era African American Performance . Duke University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-8223-4923-5 , pp. 58 ( google.de [accessed on August 4, 2020]).
  2. ^ Edwin M. Bradley: Hollywood Musicals You Missed: Seventy Noteworthy Films from the 1930s . McFarland, 2020, ISBN 978-1-4766-3993-2 , pp. 123 ( google.de [accessed on August 4, 2020]).
  3. ^ Judith Weisenfeld: Hollywood Be Thy Name: African American Religion in American Film, 1929-1949 . University of California Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-520-94066-6 , pp. 271 ( google.de [accessed on August 4, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Easy Does It. In: Internet Movie Database . Retrieved August 4, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Kahn, Richard C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film director, film producer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH New Orleans , Louisiana
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1960
Place of death Hollywood , California