Vincent Sherman

Vincent Sherman

1906-07-16 Vienna, Georgia, USA 69 Credits

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! (...

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Sodankylä Forever

Sodankylä Forever

2010

as Self

Acting

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

You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story

2008

as Self (archive footage)

8.5
Acting

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

Tasmanian Devil: The Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn

2007

as Self - Film Director & Friend

9.0
Acting

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

Acting

Short documentary about the "woman's picture" at Warner Brothers.

Mr. Skeffington: A Picture of Strength

2005

6.0
Acting

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

The Adventures of Errol Flynn

2005

as Self - Director

7.8
Acting

A documentary about the life of Errol Flynn, with recollections from friends and family.

Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz

2004

as Self

Acting

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

Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust

2004

as Self

6.5
Acting

Daniel Anker’s 90-minute documentary takes on over 60 years of a very complex subject: Hollywood’s complicated, often contradictory relationship with ...

Rita

Rita

2003

as Self

8.5
Acting

Biography of 1940's sex goddess Rita Hayworth.

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

2003

as Self

7.0
Acting

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

Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star

2002

as Self - Director

6.6
Acting

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

Forever Hollywood

1999

as Self

8.0
Acting

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

Peter Lorre: The Master of Menace

Peter Lorre: The Master of Menace

1996

as Self

6.0
Acting

Documentary overview of Peter Lorre's ascension to fame as a master purveyor of silky but disquieting peril.

Joan Crawford: Always the Star

Joan Crawford: Always the Star

1996

as Self

7.5
Acting

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

Jack L. Warner: The Last Mogul

1993

as Self

5.0
Acting

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

Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream

1990

as Self

6.5
Acting

Errol Flynn: Portrait of a Swashbuckler

1983

as Self

Acting

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

Trouble in High Timber Country

1980

Director

Directing

A proud patriarch battles union organizers and a powerful conglomerate threatening the family-owned lumber and mining operation which he runs with his...

Bogie

Bogie

1980

Director

5.0
Directing

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

Women at West Point

1979

Director

Directing

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

Lady of the House

1978

Director

Directing

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

The Last Hurrah

1977

Director

Directing

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

Le avventure e gli amori di Miguel Cervantes

1967

Director

7.5
Directing

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

The Second Time Around

1961

Director

6.2
Directing

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

A Fever in the Blood

1961

Director

6.5
Directing

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

Ice Palace

1960

Director

5.8
Directing

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

The Young Philadelphians

1959

Director

7.5
Directing

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

The Naked Earth

1958

Director

Directing

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

The Garment Jungle

1957

Director

6.4
Directing

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

Defend My Love

1956

Supervising Technical Director

Directing

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

Pride of the Blue Grass

1954

Screenplay

Writing

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

Lone Star

1952

Director

5.6
Directing

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

Affair in Trinidad

1952

Director, Producer

6.3
Directing Producing

A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer.

Goodbye, My Fancy

Goodbye, My Fancy

1951

Director

5.9
Directing

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

Harriet Craig

1950

Director

7.5
Directing

A perfectionist woman's devotion to her home drives away friends and family.

The Damned Don't Cry

The Damned Don't Cry

1950

Director

7.1
Directing

Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.

Backfire

Backfire

1950

Director

5.9
Directing

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

The Hasty Heart

1949

Director

6.7
Directing

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

Adventures of Don Juan

1948

Director

6.4
Directing

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

The Unfaithful

1947

Director

6.0
Directing

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

Nora Prentiss

1947

Director

6.1
Directing

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

Janie Gets Married

1946

Director

6.0
Directing

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

Pillow to Post

1945

Director

5.5
Directing

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

Mr. Skeffington

1944

Director

6.6
Directing

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

In Our Time

1944

Director

6.4
Directing

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

6.0
Directing

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

Old Acquaintance

1943

Director

6.9
Directing

Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.

The Hard Way

The Hard Way

1943

Director

6.6
Directing

Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.

All Through the Night

All Through the Night

1942

Director

7.0
Directing

Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.

Sergeant York

Sergeant York

1941

Special Guest Director

7.2
Directing

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

Underground

1941

Director

6.1
Directing

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

Flight from Destiny

1941

Director

5.2
Directing

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

The Man Who Talked Too Much

1940

Director

6.0
Directing

A young law graduate joins his older brother's legal practice, only to discover the firm's clients are mostly mobsters.

Saturday's Children

Saturday's Children

1940

Director

6.4
Directing

An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet.

The Return of Doctor X

The Return of Doctor X

1939

Director

5.9
Directing

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

Pride of the Blue Grass

1939

Story, Screenplay

6.0
Writing

A young man is determined to turn his beloved racehorse, which is blind, into a champion.

The Adventures of Jane Arden

The Adventures of Jane Arden

1939

Screenplay

5.7
Writing

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

King of the Underworld

1939

Screenplay

6.4
Writing

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

Heart of the North

1938

Screenplay

3.7
Writing

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

My Bill

My Bill

1938

Screenplay

6.2
Writing

An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.

Crime School

Crime School

1938

Screenplay, Dialogue Coach

6.3
Writing

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

Girl in Danger

1934

as Willie Tolini

6.0
Acting

Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster.

Midnight Alibi

Midnight Alibi

1934

as Black Mike

6.0
Acting

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

Hell Bent for Love

1934

as Johnny Frank

Acting

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

One Is Guilty

1934

as William Malcolm

3.5
Acting

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

The Crime of Helen Stanley

1934

as Karl Williams

5.1
Acting

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

Speed Wings

1934

as Mickey

Acting

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

Counsellor at Law

1933

as Harry Becker

6.6
Acting

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

Acting

The Joan Crawford crime thriller, The Damned Don't Cry (1950), is the topic of discussion for various interviewees.