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Oliver Drake is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Associate Producer and Songs American born on 28 may 1903

Oliver Drake

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Nationality USA
Birth 28 may 1903
Death 19 august 1991 (at 88 years)

Oliver Drake est un scénariste, réalisateur, producteur, compositeur et acteur américain né le 28 mai 1903 à Boise dans l'Idaho (États-Unis), et mort le 19 août 1991 à Las Vegas dans le Nevada.

Biography

C’est en 1927 que Clarence Oliver Drake signe sa première histoire pour le cinéma Cyclone of the range. D’autres scénarios suivront, surtout pour des westerns de série B, mais il collabore aussi à des productions plus importantes comme Deadline en 1948 et La Poursuite fantastique en 1957 de Harold D. Schuster.
Entre 1932 et 1950, il produira 32 films et en réalisera presque autant sous ses propres scénarios. De sa collaboration aux westerns de Gene Autry naitront les paroles de nombre de romances du célèbre cow.boy chantant.
Il conclut sa carrière dans les années 1970.

Il avait un ranch près de Pearblossom, en Californie, dans la vallée d'Antelope, qui a été utilisé pour le tournage de westerns, de la fin des années 1940 à la fin des années 1950.

Il était marié à l’actrice Liz Marshall décédée le 31 mars 2002 à Las Vegas, Nevada.

Il meurt le 19 août 1991 d’un accident vasculaire cérébral.

Usually with

Gene Autry
Gene Autry
(7 films)
Nat Levine
Nat Levine
(8 films)
Sol C. Siegel
Sol C. Siegel
(10 films)
Ray Corrigan
Ray Corrigan
(12 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Oliver Drake (61 films)

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Director

Public Cowboy No. 1, 1h1
Directed by Smiley Burnette, Ann Rutherford, Joseph Kane, Sol C. Siegel, Gene Autry, Bernard McConville, Oliver Drake
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Ann Rutherford, William Farnum, Arthur Loft, House Peters, Jr.
Rating56% 2.815842.815842.815842.815842.81584
A rash of strange cattle rustlings have occurred in which cattle are slaughtered on the range and their carcasses taken away. Sheriff Matt Doniphon (William Farnum) and his deputies, Gene Autry (Gene Autry) and Frog Millhouse (Smiley Burnette), watch over one rancher's cattle as they are driven to Box Canyon. After the sheriff and his men leave, the rustlers move in, radio the cattle's location from an airplane, and then bring in refrigerator trucks. The rancher and one of his workers are murdered, the cattle killed, and the carcasses taken away.
Round-Up Time in Texas, 1h1
Directed by Smiley Burnette, Joseph Kane, Gene Autry, Maxine Doyle, Nat Levine, Oliver Drake
Origin USA
Genres Action, Western
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Maxine Doyle, LeRoy Mason, Earle Hodgins, Dick Wessel
Rating47% 2.386142.386142.386142.386142.38614
After rounding up a large herd of horses in Texas, Gene Autry (Gene Autry) receives a telegram from his brother Tex (Ken Cooper), who is mining diamonds in South Africa. The message states that Tex and his partner, Edward Barclay, have discovered a big strike in the Valley of Suspicion and urges Gene to bring as many horses as possible to Dunbar, South Africa, where he can contact John Cardigan (LeRoy Mason), the saloon owner who grubstaked Tex and Barclay. Gene and his sidekick Frog (Smiley Burnette) quickly arrange for passage overseas and accompany the horses to South Africa.
Oh, Susanna, 54minutes
Directed by Smiley Burnette, Joseph Kane, Gene Autry, Nat Levine, Oliver Drake
Origin USA
Genres Romance, Western
Actors Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Earle Hodgins, Frances Grant, Donald Kirke, Clara Kimball Young
Rating55% 2.7686952.7686952.7686952.7686952.768695
Singing cowboy Gene Autry (Gene Autry) is traveling to Mineral Springs Ranch to visit an old friend, Jefferson Lee (Carl Stockdale), whom he hasn't seen in fifteen years. On the train he is robbed and then thrown from the train by escaped murderer Wolf Benson (Boothe Howard). Believing Gene to be dead, Wolf plans to travel to Mineral Springs Ranch and pose as the radio celebrity in order to collect the $10,000 that Lee owes Gene.
The Singing Vagabond, 56minutes
Directed by Betty Burbridge, Nat Levine, Carl Pierson, Oliver Drake
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Gene Autry, Ann Rutherford, Smiley Burnette, Warner Richmond, Barbara Pepper, Niles Welch
Rating62% 3.1361653.1361653.1361653.1361653.136165
At a St. Louis opera house in 1860, a singer in blackface named Jerry Barton, known as "King of the Minstrels", comes backstage and asks his sweetheart, Lettie Morgan (Ann Rutherford), to elope. Lettie's Aunt Hortense, fearing that Barton is a fortune hunter, tells Lettie she is not the heiress she thought she was and that she has been living off her aunt's charity. With no fortune to hunt, Barton informs Lettie that an artist cannot be burdened with the responsibility of a wife.

Scriptwriter

Dragoon Wells Massacre, 1h28
Directed by Harold D. Schuster
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Barry Sullivan, Dennis O'Keefe, Mona Freeman, Katy Jurado, Sebastian Cabot, Max Showalter
Roles Original Story
Rating60% 3.0041353.0041353.0041353.0041353.004135
This script must be run from the command line
Sky Dragon
Sky Dragon (1949)

Directed by Lesley Selander
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Adventure, Crime
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors Roland Winters, Mantan Moreland, Keye Luke, Noel Neill, Iris Adrian, Elena Verdugo
Roles Story
Rating63% 3.196033.196033.196033.196033.19603
After passengers on an airplane headed for San Francisco are drugged, they wake up to discover that a quarter-million dollars is missing. Mantan Moreland provides comic relief as Chan's chauffeur, Birmingham Brown.