Richard Schayer

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Ernest Richard Schayer (born December 13, 1880 in Washington, DC , † March 13, 1956 in Los Angeles , California , United States ) was an American screenwriter .

Life

The son of the short story writer Julia Schayer (1842-1928) studied at the beginning of the 20th century at Georgetown University and then attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts before embarking on an acting career. He initially performed on repertoire stages in the provinces, but switched to journalism before the outbreak of World War I and worked as a reporter for several daily newspapers in New York, Washington and Chicago. Drafted in 1917/18, Schayer moved to Los Angeles after his release from military service, and in 1920 found work as a screenwriter for films.

In just ten years, Richard Schayer contributed to an abundance of manuscripts for silent films in a wide variety of genres: dramas such as Greta Garbo's Wild Orchids , adventure materials and comedies, including one or the other Buster Keaton classics, especially Buster, the film reporter ( "The Cameraman"). With the dawn of the age of talkies, Schayer was only able to get screenplay assignments sporadically. Right at the beginning of this era, in 1929, he developed the treatment for King Vidor's classic Hallelujah . In 1931 Richard Schayer edited the script for the legendary Frankenstein film with Boris Karloff , and the following year he delivered the story for Karloff's The Mummy . Most recently, Schayer wrote almost exclusively for B-Westerns with George Montgomery and adventure stories. After his death in the early 1960s, various previously unfilmed models from Schayer were implemented, most recently in England in 1962 with the mythical subject Lancelot, the daring knight .

Movies

  • 1916: Sudden Riches
  • 1918: The One Woman
  • 1919: The Westerners
  • 1919: Flame of the Desert
  • 1919: The Dragon Painter
  • 1919: The Tong Man
  • 1920: Li Ting Lang
  • 1920: The Woman in Room 13
  • 1920: To Arabian Knight
  • 1921: The Killer
  • 1921: The Spenders
  • 1921: Black Roses
  • 1922: The Gray Dawn
  • 1922: My Dad
  • 1923: The Victor
  • 1923: The Thrill Chaser
  • 1924: The Dangerous Flirt
  • 1924: The Sawdust Trail
  • 1924: Silk Stocking Sal
  • 1925: The Hurricane Kid
  • 1925: The Man in Blue
  • 1926: Fire in the East ( Tell it to the Marines )
  • 1926: The Unknown Soldier
  • 1926: The Terror
  • 1927: On Ze Boulevard
  • 1927: Circus Babies ( Circus Rookies )
  • 1928: Duty and Love ( Across to Singapore )
  • 1928: The burning prairie ( The Law of the Range )
  • 1928: Die Komödiantin ( The Actress )
  • 1928: Buster, the film reporter ( The Cameraman )
  • 1928: The Flying Fleet ( The Flying Fleet )
  • 1929: Wild Orchids ( Wild Orchids )
  • 1929: The imperfect marriage ( Spite Marriage )
  • 1929: The White Tiger ( Where East is East )
  • 1929: The youngest lieutenant ( Devil-May-Care )
  • 1930: Buster slips into film land ( Free and Easy )
  • 1930: Doughboys
  • 1930: Trader Horn
  • 1931: Just a Gigolo
  • 1931: Intimacies (Private Lives)
  • 1932: Night World
  • 1932: Tom accounts (Destry Rides Again)
  • 1932: Cocktail Hour
  • 1932: The Mummy (The Mummy)
  • 1933: The Meanest Gal in Town
  • 1935: The Winning Ticket
  • 1936: Dangerous Waters
  • 1936: Three Little Gangsters ( The Devil is a Sissy )
  • 1947: Black Arrows ( The Black Arrow )
  • 1950: On the Warpath ( Davy Crockett, Indian Scout )
  • 1950: In the footsteps of Winnetou ( The Iroquois Trail )
  • 1950: Kim - Secret Service in India ( Kim )
  • 1950: Castle of Vengeance ( Lorna Doone )
  • 1951: Border Police in Texas ( The Texas Rangers )
  • 1951: Devil of the White Mountains ( Indian Uprising )
  • 1952: Two clean up ( Cripple Creek )
  • 1952: Bandits of Corsica ( The Bandits of Corsica )
  • 1953: Assault in Texas ( Gun Belt )
  • 1953: Trail to the Desert ( The Steel Lady )
  • 1953: Against Terror and Bandits ( The Lone Gun )
  • 1955: Undefeated ( Top Gun )
  • 1956 Revolvermänner ( Gun Brothers )
  • 1960: Five Guns to Tombstone
  • 1961: Gun Fight
  • 1962: Lancelot, the daring knight ( Lancelot and Guinevere )

literature

  • Ephraim Katz : The Film Encyclopedia, 4th Edition. Revised by Fred Klein & Ronald Dean Nolen, pp. 1213 f., New York 2001

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personal data
SURNAME Schayer, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC , United States
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1956
Place of death Los Angeles , California , United States