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Richard Schayer is a Scriptwriter, Continuity and treatment American born on 13 december 1880 at Washington, D.C. (USA)

Richard Schayer

Richard Schayer
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Nationality USA
Birth 13 december 1880 at Washington, D.C. (USA)
Death 15 march 1956 (at 75 years) at Hollywood (USA)

Richard Schayer (13 December 1880 – 13 March 1956) was an American screenwriter. He wrote for over 100 films between 1916 and 1956.

He was born in Washington, D.C., son of Col. George Frederick Schayer and writer Julia Schayer, and died in Hollywood, California. He was one of seven studio executives who worked at Universal Pictures during the golden age of Laemmle management.

Best films

Kim (1950)
(Scriptwriter)
Trader Horn (1931)
(Scriptwriter)
Hallelujah (1929)
(Scriptwriter)

Usually with

Edward Sedgwick
Edward Sedgwick
(12 films)
Cedric Gibbons
Cedric Gibbons
(17 films)
Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton
(7 films)
Edward Small
Edward Small
(12 films)
Grant Whytock
Grant Whytock
(9 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Richard Schayer (90 films)

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Scriptwriter

Arizona Raiders
Directed by William Witney
Origin USA
Genres Western
Themes Political films
Actors Audie Murphy, Buster Crabbe, Michael Dante, Ben Cooper, Gloria Talbott, Ray Stricklyn
Roles Story
Rating59% 2.9543052.9543052.9543052.9543052.954305
Clint is a Confederate war hero who has gone out West to join a renegade band, Quantrill's Raiders, and ends up captured by the law.
Arizona Raiders, 1h37
Directed by William Witney
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Audie Murphy, Ben Cooper, Michael Dante, Buster Crabbe, Gloria Talbott, Ray Stricklyn
Roles Story
Rating59% 2.9543052.9543052.9543052.9543052.954305
Clint et son frère se joignent au gang des Quantrell's Raiders et parcourent l'Ouest des États-Unis. Mais ils sont aussitôt arrêtés par la cavalerie américaine. Cependant le chef Tom Andrews leur propose, pour éviter les travaux forcés, de rejoindre les Rangers pour lutter contre divers gangs de renégats qui sévissent dans tout le Far West...
Apache Rifles, 1h32
Directed by William Witney
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Audie Murphy, Michael Dante, L. Q. Jones, Linda Lawson, Ken Lynch, J. Pat O'Malley
Roles Story
Rating63% 3.198213.198213.198213.198213.19821
Captain Stanton is a renowned Indian Fighter with his animosity stirred by the fact that his career officer father was forced to resign after trusting a group of Indians who broke their word to him. Stanton is sent to the field to relieve the commander of a troop unsuccessfully hunting Apaches who have fled their reservation. Stanton quickly meets with success by having his new troop drop their excess equipment to move faster and longer. He defeats a war party of Apache by luring them with an unescorted wagon loaded with hidden soldiers who engage the enemy until Stanton's mounted troop surround and defeat them. Stanton captures Red Hawk, the son of Chief Victorio and uses him to negoitate a truce with the Apaches promising to stay on their reservation in return for white miners not trespassing on their land to mine gold.
Apache Rifles, 1h33
Directed by William Witney
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Audie Murphy, Guy Stockwell, Michael Dante, Linda Lawson, L. Q. Jones, BarBara Luna
Roles Story
Rating48% 2.4286152.4286152.4286152.4286152.428615
Lured by Apache gold, two cavalry troopers desert their post, killing some of their fellow troopers in order to steal a Gatling Gun. The devious two use a pacifist pastor to bring the weapon across the country. A pursuing cavalry patrol kills one of the deserters and captures the other, however the recovered weapon has been made inoperable.
Lancelot and Guinevere, 1h56
Directed by Cornel Wilde
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Actors Jean Wallace, Cornel Wilde, Brian Aherne, George Baker, Adrienne Corri, Reginald Beckwith
Roles Writer
Rating56% 2.848792.848792.848792.848792.84879
Lancelot is King Arthur's most valued Knight of the Round Table and a paragon of courage and virtue. Things change, however, when he falls for Guinevere (Wallace), bride of Arthur (Brian Aherne, who had essayed this character previously in 1954's Prince Valiant), and she for him.
Five Guns to Tombstone, 1h11
Directed by Edward L. Cahn
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors James Brown, James Brown, Walter Coy, Robert Karnes, Quintin Sondergaard, Boyd 'Red' Morgan
Rating49% 2.492162.492162.492162.492162.49216
Billy Wade (James Brown) est un ex-pistolero qui est approché par son frère Outlaw Matt (Robert Karnes), peu de temps hors de la prison, pour l'aider avec un vol de grand-temps. Matt force la participation de Billy avec une offre qu'il ne peut refuser, sans savoir que Billy travaille actuellement sur le côté de la loi.
Gun Fight
Gun Fight (1961)
, 1h7
Directed by Edward L. Cahn
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Joan Staley, James Brown, Gregg Palmer, James Brown, Kate Murtagh, Walter Coy
Rating51% 2.5764752.5764752.5764752.5764752.576475
First Sergeant Wayne Santley has finished his final enlistment with the 7th Cavalry and is looking forward to going into business with his brother Brad in Wyoming who has told him he has a large ranch with 2,000 head of cattle. He discovers that his brother and his associates are in a much different kind of business that Wayne wants no part of.
Gun Brothers
Directed by Sidney Salkow
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Buster Crabbe, Ann Robinson, Neville Brand, Michael Ansara, Walter Sande, Slim Pickens
Rating58% 2.9046052.9046052.9046052.9046052.904605
Wyoming, 1879: Chad Santee, a former Cavalry sergeant, is a passenger on a stagecoach bound for Cheyenne, along with saloon singer Rose Fargo and a gambler known as Blackjack Silk.
Top Gun
Top Gun (1955)

Directed by Ray Nazarro
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Sterling Hayden, Karin Booth, James Millican, Regis Toomey, Hugh Sanders, John Dehner
Rating61% 3.098223.098223.098223.098223.09822
Rick Martin arrives in a small town warning of an impending attack by his old gang.
The Lone Gun, 1h14
Directed by Ray Nazarro
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors George Montgomery, Douglas Kennedy, Dorothy Malone, Neville Brand, Frank Faylen, Skip Homeier
Rating57% 2.89952.89952.89952.89952.8995
Les hasards de la route font se rencontrer un certain Beau-Fixe, joueur professionnel, et Cruze, un ex-marshal fatigué de s'attirer des ennuis en défendant le bon droit. Cruze, à peine arrivé en ville, rosse un buveur peu gracieux et se voit de nouveau proposer l'étoile : il refuse...
The Bandits of Corsica, 1h21
Directed by Ray Nazarro
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Richard Greene, Raymond Burr, Paula Raymond, Dona Drake, Raymond Greenleaf, Lee Van Cleef
Roles Writer
Rating55% 2.775812.775812.775812.775812.77581
In the eighteenth century a pair of twin brothers overthrow a sadistic aristocrat. It is also known by the alternative title The Return of the Corsican Brothers
Gun Belt
Gun Belt (1953)

Directed by Ray Nazarro
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors George Montgomery, Tab Hunter, Helen Westcott, John Dehner, Jack Elam, James Millican
Rating58% 2.906752.906752.906752.906752.90675
A former outlaw clashes with his old gang. Ringo decides to hang up his guns, buy a ranch and wed Arlene Reach (Helen Westcott) . Chip’s father, Matt (John Dehner), is serving a prison sentence and Billy is determined to keep him off the outlaw trail. Ringo is trying to keep on the straight and narrow, with three other outlaws, Dixon, Hollaway and Hoke, frame Ringo into pulling a bank robbery with them. Pretending to side with them, after accidentally killing Matt, Ringo informs Marshal Wyatt Earp of their plan to rob a Wells Fargo express wagon. A gunfight ensues at the robbery and the three outlaws are killed and Ike Clinton, the ringleader, is turned over to Marshal Earp by Ringo.
The Steel Lady, 1h24
Directed by Ewald André Dupont
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure
Themes Films set in Africa, Transport films, Aviation films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors Rod Cameron, Anthony Caruso, Tab Hunter, John Dehner, Charles Victor, Richard Erdman
Rating63% 3.1936553.1936553.1936553.1936553.193655
Four employees on an oil company crash-land in the desert and face a slow death, until they discover a German Panzer from World War II buried in the sand.
Gun Belt
Gun Belt (1953)
, 1h17
Directed by Ray Nazarro
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors George Montgomery, Tab Hunter, Helen Westcott, John Dehner, Jack Elam, Douglas Kennedy
Rating58% 2.906752.906752.906752.906752.90675
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