Biography
Vincent Sherman (July 16, 1906 – June 18, 2006) was an American director, and actor, who worked in Hollywood. His movies include Mr. Skeffington (1944), Nora Prentiss (1947), and The Young Philadelphians (1959). He began his career as an actor on Broadway and later films. He directed B-movies for Warner Bros. before moving up to A-pictures. He was a good friend of actor Errol Flynn, whom he directed in Adventures of Don Juan (1949). He directed three Joan Crawford movies The Damned Don't Cry! (...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Sodankylä Forever
2010
as Self
The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets. Founded by ...

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
2008
as Self (archive footage)
Jack L. Warner, Harry Warner, Albert Warner and Sam Warner were siblings who were born in Poland and emigrated to Canada near the turn of the century....

Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn
2007
as Self - Film Director & Friend
The story of Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn whose short & flamboyant life, full of scandals, adventures, loves and excess was largely played out in ...
Old Acquaintance: A Classic Woman's Picture
2006
as Self
Short documentary about the "woman's picture" at Warner Brothers.
Mr. Skeffington: A Picture of Strength
2005
Produced by Warner Brothers as one of the extras to the DVD release of MR. SKEFFINGTON (1944), this short documentary has a variety of talking heads d...

The Adventures of Errol Flynn
2005
as Self - Director
A documentary about the life of Errol Flynn, with recollections from friends and family.
Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz
2004
as Self
Film noir, which enjoyed particular success in the 1930s and 1940s, is probably the most profound genre of classic Hollywood cinema. Eckhart Schmidt t...

Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
2004
as Self
Daniel Anker’s 90-minute documentary takes on over 60 years of a very complex subject: Hollywood’s complicated, often contradictory relationship with ...

Rita
2003
as Self
Biography of 1940's sex goddess Rita Hayworth.

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
as Self
Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award...

Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star
2002
as Self - Director
In this documentary on the life of Joan Crawford, we learn why she should be remembered as the great actress she was, and not only as "mommie dearest....

Forever Hollywood
1999
as Self
Noted Hollywood stars and directors talk about the history and evolution of the film industry in Los Angeles.

Peter Lorre: The Master of Menace
1996
as Self
Documentary overview of Peter Lorre's ascension to fame as a master purveyor of silky but disquieting peril.

Joan Crawford: Always the Star
1996
as Self
Glamorous and hugely popular Joan Crawford raised herself from brutal poverty to Academy Award-winning stardom by guts, determination and hard work. D...

Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul
1993
as Self
An insider's account of Jack Warner, a founding father of the American film industry. This feature length documentary provides the rags to riches stor...

Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream
1990
as Self
Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler
1983
as Self
Narrated by actor Christopher Lee, this documentary details the life of timeless Hollywood adventure hero and sex symbol Errol Flynn, who swung his wa...

Trouble in High Timber Country
1980
Director
A proud patriarch battles union organizers and a powerful conglomerate threatening the family-owned lumber and mining operation which he runs with his...

Bogie
1980
Director
The Humphrey Bogart story from the early '30s until his death, covering the period as a struggling young actor through movie stardom and his marriages...

Women at West Point
1979
Director
A fictionalized drama about the first women to enter the U.S. Military Academy in 1976 and the reactions they faced.

Lady of the House
1978
Director
A dramatization of the life of Sally Stanford, who operated a bordello in the northern California town of Sausalito, and eventually went on to be elec...

The Last Hurrah
1977
Director
The longtime head of a powerful political machine is determined to win a fourth election and stay in power, despite challenges to his regime by young,...

Le avventure e gli amori di Miguel Cervantes
1967
Director
This epic Spanish biopic chronicles the life of Cervantes, Spain's great novelist, playwright and poet, during the 16th-century, when as a young man h...

The Second Time Around
1961
Director
In 1911, a widow with two children leaves New York City for territorial Arizona and becomes a ranch hand and later gets herself elected sheriff. A gam...

A Fever in the Blood
1961
Director
A judge, a district attorney and a U. S. senator--each hoping to be elected the next governor--attempt to manipulate a murder trial to advance their o...

Ice Palace
1960
Director
Alaska: America's last great wilderness frontier. A land of primitive grandeur, of glaciers, mountains and ice-fields. And of ambitious cannery tycoon...

The Young Philadelphians
1959
Director
Up and coming young lawyer Anthony Lawrence faces several ethical and emotional dilemmas as he climbs the Philadelphia social ladder. His personal and...

The Naked Earth
1958
Director
Africa, early 20th century, an Englishman marries the girlfriend of a late friend and faces natives and adventures, on the banks of a river infested w...

The Garment Jungle
1957
Director
Alan Mitchell returns to New York to work for his father Walter, the owner of a fashion house that designs and manufactures dresses. To stay non-union...

Defend My Love
1956
Supervising Technical Director
As part of a story, a reporter goes to meet Elisa, a young woman he met a few years ago on a trial on which she was finally exonerated.

Pride of the Blue Grass
1954
Screenplay
A girl owns a horse, and hires a boy as a trainer. The horse enters a race and is injured. The boy takes job at another stable and is semi-seduced by ...

Lone Star
1952
Director
Rip-roaring big star, big budget semi-historical story about cattle baron Devereaux Burke, who is enlisted by an aging Andrew Jackson to dissuade Sam ...

Affair in Trinidad
1952
Director, Producer
A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer.

Goodbye, My Fancy
1951
Director
Agatha has fond memories of her romance with college president Dr. James Merrill, when she was a student and he was her professor, and wants to see if...

Harriet Craig
1950
Director
A perfectionist woman's devotion to her home drives away friends and family.

The Damned Don't Cry
1950
Director
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.

Backfire
1950
Director
When he's discharged from a military hospital, ex-GI Bob Corey goes on a search for his army buddy Steve Connolly. A reformed crook, Connolly is on th...

The Hasty Heart
1949
Director
In the final days of World War II, in a MASH unit in Burma, a severely wounded corporal watches in dismay as fellow soldiers pack-up to return home bu...

Adventures of Don Juan
1948
Director
Spanish Lothario Don Juan, the legendary lover and adventurer returns to Spain following a scandal and comes to the aid of his queen, who is under thr...

The Unfaithful
1947
Director
Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her l...

Nora Prentiss
1947
Director
Quiet, organised Dr Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a street accident. Despite her misgivings they become hea...

Janie Gets Married
1946
Director
Newlywed Janie's (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her father's (Edward Arnold) newspaper.

Pillow to Post
1945
Director
With a war on and most men being drafted, Howard Oil Supply Company has no salesmen left. So daughter Jean hits the road and does not make one sale. S...

Mr. Skeffington
1944
Director
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.

In Our Time
1944
Director
It is early 1939 in Poland when Mrs. Bromley and Jennifer come to buy antiques for her business in London. Jennifer meets Count Stephen and they wine,...
A Present with a Future
1943
Director
In a short scene a mother explains to her children, Jenny and Billy, why they received war bonds as Christmas presents, even though the mother can aff...

Old Acquaintance
1943
Director
Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.

The Hard Way
1943
Director
Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.

All Through the Night
1942
Director
Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.

Sergeant York
1941
Special Guest Director
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep rel...

Underground
1941
Director
A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken, w...

Flight from Destiny
1941
Director
After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend his last days killing someone who contributes nothi...

The Man Who Talked Too Much
1940
Director
A young law graduate joins his older brother's legal practice, only to discover the firm's clients are mostly mobsters.

Saturday's Children
1940
Director
An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet.

The Return of Doctor X
1939
Director
When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multip...

Pride of the Blue Grass
1939
Story, Screenplay
A young man is determined to turn his beloved racehorse, which is blind, into a champion.

The Adventures of Jane Arden
1939
Screenplay
Reporter Jane Arden goes undercover to try to expose a gang of jewel thieves and smugglers. Her mission becomes more dangerous when her identity is di...

King of the Underworld
1939
Screenplay
Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her lice...

Heart of the North
1938
Screenplay
A two-fisted Canadian Mountie leads lawmen in pursuit of the thieves who stole an Edmonton-bound freighter's cargo.

My Bill
1938
Screenplay
An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.

Crime School
1938
Screenplay, Dialogue Coach
In the slums, teenager Frankie Warren hangs out with a rowdy gang who one day knock him out in a fight. In court, the boys refuse to reveal who struck...

Girl in Danger
1934
as Willie Tolini
Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster.

Midnight Alibi
1934
as Black Mike
An elderly woman provides an alibi to a man she scarcely knows who is on trial for murder of his girlfriend's racketeer father.

Hell Bent for Love
1934
as Johnny Frank
As a result of arresting a nightclub singer, Millie Garland, for speeding, Tim Daley, of the California Highway Patrol, incurs the enmity of the gangs...

One Is Guilty
1934
as William Malcolm
Police Inspector Steve Trent is called to the Radford Arms, a high-rise apartment building that has been taken over by a bank and its apartments now-u...

The Crime of Helen Stanley
1934
as Karl Williams
An actress is murdered in the midst of shooting a dance sequence for her latest picture, with Inspector Steve Trent on the case.

Speed Wings
1934
as Mickey
A kidnapping, three airplane crashes and several fist-fights adds speed to the plot in which the plans of a new, faster airplane motor invented by bro...

Counsellor at Law
1933
as Harry Becker
A successful lawyer struggles to deal with his wife's unfaithfulness and his own hidden past.
The Damned Don't Cry: The Crawford Formula - Real and Reel
N/A
The Joan Crawford crime thriller, The Damned Don't Cry (1950), is the topic of discussion for various interviewees.