Known For
Complete Filmography

The Happy Ending
1931
Director
A father who deserted his family some years before returns home only to find that his wife has told his children and neighbours that he died as a hero...

The Golden Calf
1930
Director
In this pygmalionesque musical, a drab secretary leads a boring life until a good friend intervenes. The friend begins a total make-over upon her frie...

Glorifying the American Girl
1929
Director, Story
A young woman, who wants to be in the Follies, is making ends meet by working at a department store's sheet music department, where she sings the late...

The Painted Angel
1929
Director
The story of Mamie Hudler, aka Rodeo West, from her days as a New Orleans singer to a California Western movie cowgirl, star to the queen of the New Y...

Gentlemen of the Press
1929
Director
A newspaperman is drawn away from family life by the needs of his paper until a new woman enters his life.

Honeymoon Flats
1928
Director
Disappointed that her daughter has not married into money, a mother meddles trying to make the girl unhappy with life in her new home, the economical ...

The Drop Kick
1927
Director
College football player Jack Hamill finds his reputation on the line when he pays an innocent visit to a woman whose husband kills himself.

Naughty But Nice
1927
Director
Naughty But Nice was based on The Bigamists, a story by Lewis Alen Brown. Gawky country girl Berenice Summers (Colleen Moore) is catapulted head-first...

An Affair of the Follies
1927
Director
Young husband Jerry, a clerk, loses his job, and in order to bring money into the house, his wife Tamara goes back to her old job as a dancer in the F...

The Sea Beast
1926
Director
Based on Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick."

The Golden Cocoon
1925
Director
The story of a much put-upon woman who becomes involved with a professor of political economy only to be thrown over by him for the daughter of a weal...

My Wife and I
1925
Director, Screenplay
In a wealthy society family, the mother is forced to sit by and watch while her husband and son both compete for the affections of a pretty young temp...

The Dark Swan
1924
Director, Director of Photography
Clever vamp Eve Quinn has generally had her way with men, while her quiet, deep-thinking sister Cornelia cannot bring herself to deliberately pursue t...

Her Marriage Vow
1924
Director, Scenario Writer
A man sees his wife flirting with a former boyfriend. Enraged, he decides to end the marriage. After cooling down, though, he begins to have second th...

Tiger Rose
1923
Writer
Originally a Broadway play by Willard Macks, Lenore Ulric played the lead on Broadway and reprises her role for this film. At the Wutchi Wum trading p...

Where the North Begins
1923
Writer
A German Shepherd puppy is "adopted" by a wolf pack in the snowy and frozen Great North and raised by them as one of their own. A few years later he c...

Where's My Wandering Boy Tonight?
1922
Director
Garry Beecher, forgetting his mother and sweetheart, Lorna, falls in love with Veronica, a chorus girl, and heads for the city; finding her with a mil...

The Fighting Shepherdess
1920
Director, Writer
A young woman fights to keep her Wyoming sheep ranch from being overrun and destroyed by cattle ranchers.

Reaching for the Moon
1917
as Mr. Mann
A button factory worker has always dreamed that he was meant for better things, to be rich and famous and in "the company of kings". One day he discov...

Going Straight
1916
Assistant Director
A man and his wife both have criminal pasts, but have quit crime and are now respectable citizens. One day a member of their old gang shows up and thr...

The Children in the House
1916
Assistant Director
A woman is stuck with an unfaithful husband until he is killed robbing a bank.