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John Sherwood is a Director, Assistant Director and Second Unit American born on 1 january 1903

John Sherwood

John Sherwood
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Nationality USA
Birth 1 january 1903 (121 years)

John Sherwood, parfois crédité sous le nom de John F. Sherwood est un réalisateur américain né en 1903 à New York, et mort dans sa ville natale le 19 mars 1959.

Biography

À partir de En suivant la flotte (Follow the Fleet) de Mark Sandrich en 1936, il est longtemps assistant réalisateur, notamment sur Autant en emporte le vent (Gone With the Wind, 1939) de Victor Fleming, Une petite ville sans histoire (Our Town, 1940) de Sam Wood, Et tournent les chevaux de bois (Ride the Pink Horse, 1947) de Robert Montgomery, ou encore Lettre d'une inconnue (Letter from an Unknown Woman, 1948) de Max Ophüls.

Il devient enfin réalisateur en 1956. Il tourne d'abord un western en Technicolor intitulé La Proie des hommes (Raw Edge), puis est responsable de la seconde suite de L'Étrange Créature du lac noir et, l'année suivante, de la réalisation de La Cité pétrifiée, d'après une autre idée originale de Jack Arnold.

Best films

Gone with the Wind (1940)
(Second Second Assistant Director)
The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
(Assistant Director)
The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
(Assistant Director)

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Filmography of John Sherwood (37 films)

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Director

The Monolith Monsters, 1h17
Directed by John Sherwood
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Actors Grant Williams, Lola Albright, Les Tremayne, Trevor Bardette, Troy Donahue, Harry Jackson
Rating63% 3.151833.151833.151833.151833.15183
In the desert outside of San Angelo, California, a huge meteorite crashes and explodes, scattering hundreds of black fragments over a wide area. The next day, Federal geologist Ben Gilbert (Phil Harvey) brings one of the fragments to his office, where he and local newspaper publisher Martin Cochrane (Les Tremayne) examine it. That night, a strong wind blows over a full water container onto the black rock, starting a chemical reaction.
Raw Edge
Raw Edge (1956)

Directed by John Sherwood
Origin USA
Genres Romance, Western
Actors Rory Calhoun, Yvonne De Carlo, Mara Corday, Neville Brand, Rex Reason, Emile Meyer
Rating59% 2.999792.999792.999792.999792.99979
En 1842, dans l'Oregon, des hommes s'affrontent pour l'amour d'une femme.
The Creature Walks Among Us, 1h18
Directed by John Sherwood
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Adventure, Horror
Actors Jeff Morrow, Ricou Browning, Rex Reason, Don Megowan, Leigh Snowden, Gregg Palmer
Rating55% 2.798732.798732.798732.798732.79873
Following the Gill-man's escape from Ocean Harbor, Florida, a team of scientists led by the deranged and cold-hearted Dr. William Barton (Jeff Morrow) aboard the Vagabondia III. to capture the creature in the Everglades. Barton is mentally unstable and apparently abusive husband to his wife Marcia (Leigh Snowden), as he becomes very jealous and paranoid when Marcia is with other men. Their guide Jed Grant (Gregg Palmer) makes numerous passes on Marcia, with Barton becoming paranoid about the two.
Against All Flags, 1h23
Directed by Douglas Sirk, Frederick de Cordova, George Sherman, John Sherwood
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films
Actors Errol Flynn, Maureen O'Hara, Anthony Quinn, Mildred Natwick, Alice Kelley, Robert Warwick
Rating64% 3.246053.246053.246053.246053.24605
Brian Hawke, an officer aboard the British merchant ship The Monsoon, volunteers for a dangerous mission to infiltrate the pirate's base at Diego-Suarez on the coast of Madagascar. He is to pose as a deserter, and to make his disguise more convincing, he is given twenty lashes. Once he has arrived at Diego-Suarez he is greeted with an air of suspicion by the pirates, especially Captain Roc Brasiliano. Brasiliano orders him to appear before a tribunal of the Coast Captains to decide his fate. If they do not like him, he will be executed. Meanwhile, Hawke has caught the eye of Spitfire Stevens - the only woman amongst the Coast Captains - who inherited her position from her father.
Once More, My Darling, 1h32
Directed by Robert Montgomery, Michael Gordon, John Sherwood
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Robert Montgomery, Ann Blyth, Jane Cowl, Charles McGraw, Roland Winters, Steven Geray
Rating66% 3.3327253.3327253.3327253.3327253.332725
The last thing Collier "Collie" Lang wants to do is get married, but Marita "Killer" Connell has other ideas.
You Gotta Stay Happy, 1h40
Directed by H. C. Potter, John Sherwood
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Joan Fontaine, James Stewart, Eddie Albert, Roland Young, Percy Kilbride, Willard Parker
Rating66% 3.344033.344033.344033.344033.34403
Marvin Payne (Stewart) is a World War II army air force veteran trying to make it on a shoe-string with a startup air-freight business. On an overnight stay in New York he has the misfortune of being roomed next to the reluctant bride Dee Dee Dillwood (Fontaine) and her rather formal husband Henry Benson. A ruckus causes Payne to become enmeshed in the world of Miss Dillwood. Hiding from her husband, Payne assumes the rather vague Miss Dillwood is a penniless country girl come to the city, who has descended to sleeping with married men to get by. He grudgingly agrees to give her a lift out of town and encourages her to go back to her parents. All the while Payne does not realize that Miss Dillwood is independently wealthy, and the married man she was to sleep with was the man she had just exchanged vows with that afternoon. Meanwhile, Payne's fellow veteran and co-pilot, Bullets Baker (Albert) encourages Payne to relax and enjoy life. His encouragements to join him and a couple of young ladies for a few laughs fall on deaf ears. It is with great surprise than that Baker finds a girl in the straight-laced Payne's room the following morning. A rough and tumble flight across country result in a number of surprises, not the least of which is that Marvin discovers he cares for the tag-along Miss Dillwood.
Ball of Fire, 1h51
Directed by Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson, John Sherwood
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Crime, Romance
Actors Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oskar Homolka, Henry Travers, S.Z. Sakall, Richard Haydn
Rating76% 3.8467453.8467453.8467453.8467453.846745
A group of (mainly bachelor) professors have lived together for some years in a New York City residence, compiling an encyclopedia of all human knowledge. The youngest, Professor Bertram Potts (Gary Cooper), is a grammarian who is researching modern American slang. The professors are accustomed to working in relative seclusion at a leisurely pace with a prim housekeeper named Miss Bragg (Kathleen Howard) keeping watch over them. Their impatient financial backer Miss Totten (Mary Field) suddenly demands that they finish their work soon.
Our Town
Our Town (1940)
, 1h30
Directed by Sam Wood, John Sherwood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors William Holden, Martha Scott, Fay Bainter, Beulah Bondi, Thomas Mitchell, Stuart Erwin
Rating64% 3.2464453.2464453.2464453.2464453.246445
Chronique de la vie et des relations familiales d'une petite ville américaine.
Way Down South
Directed by Leslie Goodwins, Bernard Vorhaus, John Sherwood
Origin USA
Genres Musical, Crime
Themes Films about children, Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Bobby Breen, Ralph Morgan, Alan Mowbray, Steffi Duna, Clarence Muse, Sally Blane
Rating55% 2.764342.764342.764342.764342.76434
In pre-Civil War Louisiana in 1854, young Timothy Reid Jr. (Breen) is orphaned. He inherits a plantation and its well-cared-for slaves. However, lawyer Martin Dill (Maxwell) is made the executor for the minor. Dill plots to sell off the slaves and flee to Paris with the proceeds. Timothy is befriended by Jacques Bouton (Mowbray), who persuades Judge Louis Ravenal (Greig) to look into the matter and save the day.
Swiss Miss
Swiss Miss (1938)
, 1h13
Directed by Hal Roach, John G. Blystone, John Sherwood
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Mafia films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Buddy films, Gangster films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Walter Woolf King, Eric Blore, Anita Garvin, Charles Judels
Rating65% 3.293343.293343.293343.293343.29334
Stan and Ollie are mousetrap salesmen hoping for better business in Switzerland, with Stan's theory that because there is more cheese in Switzerland, there should be more mice.

Director

No Name on the Bullet, 1h17
Directed by Jack Arnold
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action, Western
Actors Audie Murphy, Charles Drake, Joan Evans, Virginia Grey, Warren Stevens, Karl Swenson
Roles Assistant Director
Rating71% 3.59063.59063.59063.59063.5906
When infamous hired gunman John Gant (Audie Murphy) arrives in the small town of Lordsburg, Arizona, the locals are terrified by his reputation and surprised by how young he is. Although Sheriff Buck Hastings would like to arrest Gant, he points out to the townsmen that Gant always coerces his rivals to draw their gun first, allowing him to kill them legally in "self-defence." While the men in the town speculate anxiously about Gant's target, Luke Canfield (played by Charles Drake, an off-screen friend and frequent co-star of Murphy), the town blacksmith and doctor, greets Gant and is totally unaware of Gant's reputation as a hired gunman. During his first meeting with Gant at the smithy, Luke demonstrates his perfect aim with a maul.
Backlash
Backlash (1956)
, 1h20
Directed by John Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Romance, Western
Actors Richard Widmark, Donna Reed, John McIntire, William Campbell, Barton MacLane, Harry Morgan
Roles Assistant Director
Rating65% 3.294883.294883.294883.294883.29488
Jim Slater (Richard Widmark) meets Karyl Orton (Donna Reed) in Gila Valley, Arizona. She thinks that he is searching for a gold cache believed to hidden somewhere in the valley. When a man with a rifle starts shooting at him, Jim wonders if she can be trusted. After Jim kills his foe, he discovers the dead man was a deputy sheriff from Silver City. He takes the body there.
The Rawhide Years, 1h25
Directed by Rudolph Maté
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Tony Curtis, Colleen Miller, John Arthur Kennedy, William Demarest, William Gargan, Peter van Eyck
Roles Assistant Director
Rating60% 3.047183.047183.047183.047183.04718
Ben Matthews gives up the flashy life of a riverboat gambler, hoping to settle down in Galena with his girlfriend, luscious entertainer Zoe. But, Galena's leading citizen is murdered on the riverboat while on their way. Ben is implicated on arrival and flees, all the while working both sides of the law to clear his name. Three years of wandering later, Zoe's letters stop coming and Ben returns to find her. Encountering Rick Harper, whom he initially takes as a would be bandit, they develop a friendship that winds up with both men saving the others neck.
Female on the Beach, 1h37
Directed by Joseph Pevney
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Joan Crawford, Jeff Chandler, Cecil Kellaway, Jan Sterling, Judith Evelyn, Charles Drake
Roles Assistant Director
Rating63% 3.192413.192413.192413.192413.19241
Lynn Markham (Crawford) visits a beach house that once belonged to her dead husband. There, she meets real estate agent Amy Rawlinson (Jan Sterling) and Drummond "Drummy" Hall (Chandler), an attractive beach bum who wanders in and out of the house as though he owned it.
The Shrike
The Shrike (1955)
, 1h28
Directed by José Ferrer
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films based on plays, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors José Ferrer, June Allyson, Edward Platt, Joy Page, Mary Hayley Bell, Leigh Whipper
Roles Assistant Director
Rating64% 3.238283.238283.238283.238283.23828
Successful stage director Jim Downs (Ferrer) is driven to a mental breakdown by his domineering wife Ann (June Allyson). Institutionalized, he confides in Dr. Bellman (Kendall Clark) and Dr. Barrow (Isabel Bonner), and he finds a kindred spirit in Charlotte Moore (Joy Page).