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Melville Shyer is a Actor, Director, Associate Producer, Assistant Director and Second Unit American born on 28 september 1895 at Chattanooga (USA)

Melville Shyer

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Birth name Melville Jacob Shyer
Nationality USA
Birth 28 september 1895 at Chattanooga (USA)
Death 14 september 1968 (at 72 years) at Palm Springs (USA)

Melville Jacob Shyer (September 28, 1895 - September 14, 1968) was an American film director, writer and producer and one of the founders of the Directors Guild of America. His career spanned over 50 years, during which he worked with Mack Sennett and D. W. Griffith.

Shyer was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the son of Hattie (Schwarzenberg) and Charles Richard Shyer. His family was of German Jewish background.

His son is writer and director Charles Shyer.

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Melville Shyer (58 films)

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Actor

The Murder in the Museum
The Murder in the Museum (1934)
, 1h5
Directed by Melville Shyer
Origin USA
Genres Thriller
Actors Henry B. Walthall, John Harron, Tom O'Brien, Joseph W. Girard, Lynton Brent, Symona Boniface
Rating50% 2.5286152.5286152.5286152.5286152.528615
A city councilman is murdered while investigating allegations of drug dealing going on at a disreputable sideshow. The daughter of the chief suspect then teams up with a newspaper reporter to find the real killer.

Director

Confessions of a Vice Baron
Confessions of a Vice Baron (1943)
, 59minutes
Directed by Melville Shyer
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Lloyd Ingraham, Lona Andre, Betty Compson, Lester Dorr, Sam Flint, Selmer Jackson
Rating49% 2.479092.479092.479092.479092.47909
Notorious mob boss James "Lucky" Lombardi looks back upon his life and career on the night of his execution.
Mad Youth
Mad Youth (1940)
, 1h16
Directed by Melville Shyer
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Mary Ainslee, Betty Compson, Hal Price, Steve Clemente, Ethelreda Leopold, Fay McKenzie
Rating50% 2.525912.525912.525912.525912.52591
Divorceé Marian Morgan (Compson) hires a male escort Count DeHoven (Willy Castello), who has an affair with her teenage daughter, Mary (Ainslee).
Arizona Legion
Arizona Legion (1939)
, 1h1
Directed by David Howard, Melville Shyer
Origin USA
Genres Romance, Western
Actors George O'Brien, Laraine Day, Chill Wills, Edward LeSaint, Harry Cording, Glenn Strange
Rating60% 3.0015353.0015353.0015353.0015353.001535
L'anarchie régne en Arizona. Les criminels volent, brulent, tuent en toute impunité. Si l'un d'eux est arrêté, il est aussitôt remis en liberté par un jury corrompu, et les témoins gênants préfèrent s'abstenir plutôt qu'être victime d'un accident. Au milieu de ce chaos, Boone Yeager est un ivrogne et un homme de main qui recherche, sans succés, un emploi dans le gang de Dutton.
The Murder in the Museum
The Murder in the Museum (1934)
, 1h5
Directed by Melville Shyer
Origin USA
Genres Thriller
Actors Henry B. Walthall, John Harron, Tom O'Brien, Joseph W. Girard, Lynton Brent, Symona Boniface
Rating50% 2.5286152.5286152.5286152.5286152.528615
A city councilman is murdered while investigating allegations of drug dealing going on at a disreputable sideshow. The daughter of the chief suspect then teams up with a newspaper reporter to find the real killer.
The Road to Ruin
The Road to Ruin (1934)
, 1h2
Directed by Dorothy Davenport, Melville Shyer
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Helen Foster, Nell O'Day, Mae Busch, Paul Page, Dorothy Davenport, Virginia True Boardman
Rating47% 2.37372.37372.37372.37372.3737
Une jeune femme rencontre un groupe de marginaux et se laisse entraîner dans un tourbillon de drogue, d’alcool et de débauche… Elle finit par devenir une droguée alcoolique et enceinte et est forcée d'avorter.
Sucker Money
Sucker Money (1933)
, 59minutes
Directed by Dorothy Davenport, Melville Shyer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Mischa Auer, Ralph Lewis, Mae Busch, Al Bridge, J. Frank Glendon
Rating48% 2.409742.409742.409742.409742.40974
A phony spiritualist hypnotizes a banker's daughter to steal his money.

Producer

Slander House
Slander House (1938)
, 1h5
Directed by Charles Lamont
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Adrienne Ames, Craig Reynolds, Esther Ralston, George Meeker, Pert Kelton, Edward Keane
Roles Associate Producer
Rating53% 2.692532.692532.692532.692532.69253
Differences from novel Scandal House

Director

Beginning of the End
Beginning of the End (1957)
, 1h16
Directed by Bert I. Gordon
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about music and musicians, Natural horror films, Films about insects, Giant monster films, Musical films, Disaster films
Actors Peter Graves, Peggie Castle, Morris Ankrum, Richard Benedict, James Seay, Than Wyenn
Roles Assistant Director
Rating39% 1.956521.956521.956521.956521.95652
The film opens with newspaper photojournalist Audrey Aimes (Castle) accidentally stumbling upon a small town in Illinois which has been inexplicably destroyed. All 150 people in the town are missing, and the evidence indicates they are dead. Incredibly, the local fields are also barren, as if a swarm of locusts had eaten all the crops. Aimes suspects that the military is covering something up, and travels to a nearby United States Department of Agriculture experimental farm to learn what creature might have caused the agricultural destruction. She meets Dr. Ed Wainwright (Graves), who is experimenting with radiation as a means of growing gigantic fruits and vegetables to end world hunger. Dr. Wainwright reports that there have been a number of mysterious incidents nearby, and that locusts have eaten all the radioactive wheat stored in a nearby grain silo.
The Night Holds Terror
The Night Holds Terror (1955)
, 1h26
Directed by Andrew L. Stone
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir, Crime
Actors Jack Kelly, Vince Edwards, Hildy Parks, John Cassavetes, David Cross, Jack Kruschen
Roles Assistant Director
Rating62% 3.1425553.1425553.1425553.1425553.142555
Family man Gene Courtier makes the mistake of picking up a hitch-hiker, Victor Gosset, a wanted criminal.
Arson, Inc.
Arson, Inc. (1949)
, 1h3
Directed by William Berke
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime
Actors Robert Lowery, Anne Gwynne, Edward Brophy, Marcia Mae Jones, Douglas Fowley, Maude Eburne
Roles Assistant Director
Rating52% 2.627642.627642.627642.627642.62764
Joe Martin is a fire fighter in Los Angeles who is assigned by his department chief to the Arson Detail. His first assignment is to investigate a suspicious fur store fire that seems to be set by the store owner himself, Thomas Peyson.