Sid Rogell

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Sid Rogell (born January 16, 1900 in Saint Joseph , Missouri , † November 15, 1973 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American film producer , filmmaker and production manager who was awarded an Oscar in 1948 for the documentary Design for Death .

Life

Rogell began his career in the film industry in the early 1920s in various positions at Warner Bros. In 1925 he appeared in a small role directed by his brother Albert S. Rogell (1901–1988) as an actor in the comedy Cyclone Cavalier up. It was his only use as an actor. For RKO Pictures he primarily worked as executive producer and head of the B department. He was known not only for insisting on strict adherence to the shooting schedules, but also for watching over the budget in the same way. It is said that he took the script out of the hands of a director who was two days behind the shooting schedule, tore it out, and gave it back to him with the words that he was now two days ahead. Rogell also worked for the 20th Century Fox film studio during his film career .

He made his first film as a producer in 1932 alongside Leon Schlesinger , the romantic western Ride Him, Cowboy with John Wayne in the lead role. This constellation was exactly the same in the subsequent films The Great Stampede (1932), Haunted Gold (1932), The Telegraph Trail (1933), Settlement in Sonora (1933) and The Man from Monterey (1933). In the 1933 adventure film Fog , Rogell worked with his brother Albert, who directed the film. This was also the case in the subsequent drama The Hell Cat (1934), in which Sid Rogell first appeared as the sole producer. This collaboration between the brothers was repeated in the 1934 drama Among the Missing .

For the film noir Murder, My Sweet , Rogell acted alongside Adrian Scott as a producer. The film is based on the detective novel Farewell, My Lovely , (formerly Cheated and Atoned for ), by Raymond Chandler and is the first film appearance of Chandler's character Philip Marlowe . Murder, My Sweet is one of the early and pioneering representatives of film noir, along with Die Spur des Falken , Laura und Frau ohne Conscience . In the 1945 Western West of the Pecos with Robert Mitchum and Barbara Hale , Rogell shared responsibility for production with Herman Schlom. The script is based on a novel by Zane Gray . In the film noir about the famous detective Dick Tracy , Rogell worked again with Schlom in 1945. The action adventure Sunset Pass (1946), again produced by Rogell and Schlom, is also based on a novel by Zane Gray. The war romance The Bamboo Blonde (1946) with Frances Langford was also produced by the Rogell / Schlom team. The script is based on Wayne Whittaker's story Chicago Lulu . That same year, Rogell and Schlom revisited Dick Tracy in the action film Dick Tracy vs. Cuebal . Morgan Conway played the lead role again. Rogell and Schlom also worked together in the film drama The Devil Thumbs a Ride (1947) with Lawrence Tierney . Another joint film by the duo was the crime drama Born to Kill (1947) by Robert Wise, again with Lawrence Tierney and Claire Trevor . A film loved by film noir enthusiasts.

For the documentary Design for Death produced in 1947 , Rogell was awarded an Oscar in the category “Best Documentary” in 1948 together with Theron Warth and Richard Fleischer . Another film noir followed, which Rogell produced together with Jack J. Gross, Don Siegel's Die Rote Schlinge (1949), again with Robert Mitchum and Jane Greer . Rogell worked with John Houseman on the crime drama On Dangerous Ground . The cop Jim Wilson, played by Robert Ryan , is to be disciplined and is transferred to a snow-covered town in the mountains, where he is supposed to help the local sheriff solve a murder. The female lead is occupied by Ida Lupino . In 1952, Rogell was still involved in the adventure film The Sons of the Three Musketeers and the action drama The Pace That Thrills as executive producer, and in 1959 in George Stevens' literary film The Diary of Anne Frank with Millie Perkins in the title role.

After Rogell, who was married to actress June Clayworth from 1938 until his death in 1973, retired, he served as president of the Pacific Title and Art Co. He and his wife had one child.

Filmography (selection)

as a producer

  • 1932: Ride Him, Cowboy
  • 1932: The Big Stampede
  • 1932: Haunted Gold
  • 1933: The Telegraph Trail
  • 1933: Settlement in Sonora (Somewhere in Sonora)
  • 1933: The Man from Monterey
  • 1934: The Hell Cat
  • 1934: Among the Missing
  • 1934: The Road to Perdition (Fugitive Lady)
  • 1935: Death Flies East
  • 1936: You May Be Next!
  • 1936: Roaming Lady
  • 1944: The Falcon in Hollywood
  • 1944: Murder, My Sweet
  • 1944: Nevada
  • 1944: Mademoiselle Fifi
  • 1945: What a Blonde
  • 1945: Betrayal from the East
  • 1945: Pan-Americana
  • 1945: Zombies on Broadway
  • 1945: Those Endearing Young Charms
  • 1945: The Brighton Strangler
  • 1945: Wanderer of the Wasteland
  • 1945: The Falcon in San Francisco
  • 1945: Radio Stars on Parade
  • 1945: Mama Loves Papa
  • 1945: West of the Pecos
  • 1945: Sing Your Way Home
  • 1945: A Game of Death
  • 1945: Dick Tracy
  • 1945: Deadline at Dawn
  • 1946: The Truth About Murder
  • 1946: The Falcon's Alibi
  • 1946: Ding Dong Williams
  • 1946: Sunset Pass
  • 1946: The Bamboo Blonde
  • 1946: step by step
  • 1946: Child of Divorce
  • 1946: Genius at Work
  • 1946: Criminal Court
  • 1946: Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
  • 1946: Vacation in Reno
  • 1946: The Falcon's Adventure
  • 1946: San Quentin
  • 1947: Design for Death (documentary)
  • 1947: Beat the Band
  • 1947: The Devil Thumbs a Ride
  • 1947: Born to Kill
  • 1947: The Judge Steps Out
  • 1948: Mystery in Mexico
  • 1948: Bodyguard
  • 1948: Gun Man
  • 1949: The Big Steal
  • 1949: Strange Bargain
  • 1949: The Woman on Pier 13 (German title I married a communist)
  • 1949: A Dangerous Profession
  • 1950: Hell at the White Tower (The White Tower)
  • 1950: Born to Be Bad
  • 1950: End of the line murder (Gambling House)
  • 1951: The Company She Keeps
  • 1951: The Ambitious (Payment on Demand)
  • 1951: My Forbidden Past
  • 1952: On Dangerous Ground
  • 1952: The Sons of the Three Musketeers (At Sword's Point)
  • 1952: The Pace That Trills

Different positions

  • 1925: Cyclone Cavalier (as an actor)
  • 1928: Circus life ( The Wagon Show ; Managing Director)
  • 1930: Mountain Justice (as production manager)
  • 1930: Song of the Caballero (as production manager)
  • 1931: Millie (as department head)
  • 1934: Name the Woman (as production manager)
  • 1935: Atlantic Adventure (supervision)
  • 1935: Escape from Devil's Island (supervision)
  • 1938: The Mad Miss Manton (as production manager)
  • 1941: Citizen Kane (site manager and executive producer)
  • 1942: The Magnificent Ambersons ( The Magnificent Ambersons , site managers)
  • 1944: A Night of Adventure (as production manager)
  • 1944: The Falcon in Mexico (as production manager)
  • 1944: Girl Rush (as production manager)
  • 1959: The Diary of Anne Frank ( The Diary of Anne Frank ; as executive production manager)

Award

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b John Howard Reid: Hollywood's Miracles of Entertainment , pp. 62, 63
  2. ↑ Distinguished Residents of Hillside Memorial Park - Sid Rogell at hillsidememorial.org (English) PDF document
  3. ↑ Born to Kill at ocdviewer.com (English). Retrieved February 24, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Rogell, Sid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film producer, filmmaker, and production manager
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint Joseph , Missouri , United States
DATE OF DEATH 15th November 1973
Place of death Los Angeles , California , United States