Melville Shyer

Biography

From Wikipedia Melville Jacob Shyer (September 28, 1895 – September 14, 1968) was an American film director, screenwriter 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.

Known For

Acting

Production

1938

Slander House

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1941

South of Panama

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Crew

1932

The Drifter

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Directing

1934

The Road to Ruin

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1945

The Woman in Green

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1933

Sucker Money

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1934

The Murder in the Museum

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1935

The Girl Who Came Back

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1943

Confessions of a Vice Baron

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1931

Grief Street

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1948

Smart Politics

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1944

Gypsy Wildcat

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1933

By Appointment Only

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1933

I Have Lived

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1933

Notorious But Nice

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1934

Stolen Sweets

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1933

Twin Husbands

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1934

Fugitive Road

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1933

Murder on the Campus

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1933

In the Money

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1933

Dance, Girl, Dance

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1933

A Man of Sentiment

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1934

City Park

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1934

Sons of Steel

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1935

Gun Smoke

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1935

A Shot in the Dark

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1935

Circumstantial Evidence

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1934

Green Eyes

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1934

The Ghost Walks

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1934

Fifteen Wives

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1935

Symphony of Living

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1934

In Love with Life

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1934

Port of Lost Dreams

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1935

Condemned to Live

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1935

Happiness C.O.D.

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1936

The Bridge of Sighs

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1936

The Dark Hour

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1935

False Pretenses

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1935

The Lady in Scarlet

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1936

Tango

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1935

Death from a Distance

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1950

Cherokee Uprising

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1943

It Comes Up Love

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1930

Today

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1930

Ladies in Love

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1931

The Lady from Nowhere

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1931

The Hurricane Horseman

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1932

The Drifter

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1932

The Midnight Lady

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1932

The King Murder

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1932

Probation

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1932

Cross-Examination

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1932

The Secrets of Wu Sin

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1932

Women Won't Tell

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1932

A Scarlet Week-End

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1932

The Wyoming Whirlwind

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1933

Forgotten

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1948

Smart Woman

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1949

Arson, Inc.

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1940

Mad Youth

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1943

Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man

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1945

Scarlet Street

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1950

Arizona Territory

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1946

The Killers

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1943

All by Myself

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1937

Smashing the Vice Trust

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1951

Man from Sonora

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1945

Gun Smoke

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1948

Jungle Goddess

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1952

Montana Incident

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1942

Bombay Clipper

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1940

Souls in Pawn

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1936

Murder at Glen Athol

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1957

Beginning of the End

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1946

Terror by Night

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1950

I Shot Billy the Kid

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1936

Below the Deadline

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1946

The Cat Creeps

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1943

Captive Wild Woman

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1955

The Night Holds Terror

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1952

The Maverick

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1951

The Longhorn

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1936

It Couldn't Have Happened (But It Did)

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1943

Son of Dracula

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1944

Jungle Woman

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