Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Known Credits
65
Gender
Male
Birthday
1902-06-09
Day of Death
1997-05-20 (95 years old)
Place of Birth
Long Beach, California, USA
Also Known As
John Rawlings
J.R. Rawlins
Jack Rawlins
Jack Rollins
John Rawlins
Biography
Director John Rawlins started in films in 1918 as an actor, stunt man, gag writer and assistant director. For a while he sidelined as a comedy writer, then became an editor and later directed second features for First National in Britain from the early 1930s. Returning to the US, he joined Universal (1938-46), where he turned out "B" pictures and serials, including installments of the "Dick Tracy" and "Sherlock Holmes" series. He had similar assignments at RKO (1947-48) and United Artists (1951-53), before branching out into television dramas.
