Robert Florey

Robert Florey

1900-09-14 Paris, France 82 Credits

Biography

Robert Florey (14 September 1900 – 16 May 1979) was a French-American director, screenwriter, film journalist and actor. Born as Robert Fuchs in Paris, he became an orphan at an early age and was then raised in Switzerland. In 1920 he worked at first as a film journalist, then as an assistant and extra in featurettes from Louis Feuillade. Florey moved to the United States in 1921.

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The Children of Alda Nuova

The Children of Alda Nuova

1962

Director

7.0
Directing

Frankie Fane is an American who has been in Rome for about six weeks and is starting to get bored. He hasn't picked up much of the language, and has v...

The Incredible Doktor Markesan

The Incredible Doktor Markesan

1962

Director

7.0
Directing

Penniless Fred Bancroft, along with his new wife Molly, visits a sinister uncle he hasn't seen in years in hopes of living rent-free in his musty, dec...

The Donald Duck Story

The Donald Duck Story

1954

Director

Directing

Walt Disney takes a look at the story of the creation of Donald Duck and his later career.

The Disneyland Story

The Disneyland Story

1954

Director

8.0
Directing

Walt Disney presents a preview for both his upcoming park called Disneyland and several episodes of the show to come. Then the show focuses primarily ...

The Walt Disney Christmas Show

The Walt Disney Christmas Show

1951

Director

6.3
Directing

The Walt Disney Christmas Show is a Christmas television special, originally broadcast on Christmas Day of 1951. The then-upcoming Disney film Peter P...

Adventures of Captain Fabian

Adventures of Captain Fabian

1951

Co-Director

5.2
Directing

It all begins with the discreet romance between the Creole maid Lea Mariotte and her young boss, George Brissac, an amoral bourgeois who plans to inhe...

Operation Wonderland

Operation Wonderland

1951

Director

7.3
Directing

1951 behind the scenes featurette of the Walt Disney animated classic.

Charlie's Haunt

Charlie's Haunt

1950

Director

Directing

The residents of a small town are haunted by the ghost of Charlie McCarthy, who doesn't like the fact that they are a very careless bunch and are cons...

Johnny One-Eye

Johnny One-Eye

1950

Director

4.9
Directing

Johnny One-Eye was adapted from one of Damon Runyon's lesser-known stories. Martin Martin and Dane Cory were former partners in crime who have long si...

The Vicious Years

The Vicious Years

1950

Director

5.5
Directing

Mario, an Italian war orphan, sees Luca Rossi commit a murder. Eager for a home and family life, Mario promises not to tell the police if Luca takes h...

Outpost in Morocco

Outpost in Morocco

1949

Director

4.8
Directing

Captain Gerard, greatest lover in the Foreign Legion, is assigned to escort an emir's daughter to her father's mountain citadel and find out what he c...

The Crooked Way

The Crooked Way

1949

Director

6.2
Directing

A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his crimin...

Rogues' Regiment

Rogues' Regiment

1948

Director, Story

6.5
Directing Writing

A post World War 2, US Army agent is assigned to join the Foreign Legion in search of high ranking Nazi war criminal who may have also enlisted.

Adventures of Don Juan

Adventures of Don Juan

1948

Screenplay

6.4
Writing

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...

Tarzan and the Mermaids

Tarzan and the Mermaids

1948

Director

6.0
Directing

A high priest tries to force a young beauty to marry a pearl trader who is masquerading as the god Balu.

Monsieur Verdoux

Monsieur Verdoux

1947

Assistant Director

7.7
Directing

The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his wo...

The Beast with Five Fingers

The Beast with Five Fingers

1947

Director

6.3
Directing

Locals in an Italian village believe evil has taken over the estate of a recently deceased pianist where murder has taken place. The alleged killer: t...

Danger Signal

Danger Signal

1945

Director

5.8
Directing

After robbing and murdering his married lover and then making her death look like suicide, conniving philanderer Ronnie Mason relocates to Los Angeles...

God Is My Co-Pilot

God Is My Co-Pilot

1945

Director

7.0
Directing

Robert L. Scott has dreamed his whole life of being a fighter pilot, but when war comes he finds himself flying transport planes over The Hump into Ch...

Man from Frisco

Man from Frisco

1944

Director

6.0
Directing

Matt Braddock is a civil engineer during World War II who has new ideas for shipbuilding. Braddock tries to establish yards for building prefabricated...

Roger Touhy, Gangster

Roger Touhy, Gangster

1944

Director

6.0
Directing

Set during Prohibition, the movie centers on Touhy's rise from small time thug to the city's most powerful bootlegger whose empire is rivaled only by ...

The Desert Song

The Desert Song

1943

Director

5.9
Directing

Paul Hudson, leads a group of desert bandits against some Nazis, who want to use them as cheap labor for their railroad.

Lady Gangster

Lady Gangster

1942

Director

5.5
Directing

An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money fro...

Dangerously They Live

Dangerously They Live

1941

Director

5.9
Directing

A New York City doctor tries to rescue a young woman from Nazi agents.

Two in a Taxi

Two in a Taxi

1941

Director

Directing

An ambitious but financially strapped taxi driver becomes involved with mobsters to obtain money to buy a gas station.

Meet Boston Blackie

Meet Boston Blackie

1941

Director

6.3
Directing

When a murder occurs on an ocean liner docked in New York, the trail leads to Coney Island and a spy ring.

The Face Behind the Mask

The Face Behind the Mask

1941

Director

6.5
Directing

A sweet, enthusiastic, newly-arrived American immigrant from Hungary is forced to turn to a life of crime after his face is badly disfigured in a hote...

Women Without Names

Women Without Names

1940

Director

4.8
Directing

Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the efforts...

Parole Fixer

Parole Fixer

1940

Director

Directing

This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice ...

Death of a Champion

Death of a Champion

1939

Director

Directing

Oliver Quade is a pitchman who follows state fairs that feature dog shows---which limits his territory more than a little---at which he sells encyclop...

The Magnificent Fraud

The Magnificent Fraud

1939

Director

Directing

A Chicago con man pays an actor to pose as a slain South American dictator.

Hotel Imperial

Hotel Imperial

1939

Director

6.0
Directing

It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of W...

Disbarred

Disbarred

1939

Director

6.0
Directing

The Bar Association disbars attorney Tyler Cradon when it appears he was implicated in the murder of a prominent vice crusader. Cradon, not wishing to...

King of Alcatraz

King of Alcatraz

1938

Director

5.7
Directing

A convict who has just escaped from Alcatraz Prison takes over a passenger ship. Two of the ship's crew hatch a plot to overpower him and rescue the s...

Dangerous to Know

Dangerous to Know

1938

Director

6.1
Directing

Racketeer Steve Recka, art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying, his beautiful friend and hostess (read:mistress), wit...

Daughter of Shanghai

Daughter of Shanghai

1937

Director

5.4
Directing

A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal alien smuggling ring.

This Way Please

This Way Please

1937

Director

5.5
Directing

A famous singer and matinée idol helps a pretty young theater usher in her dreams of becoming a singer, but when her career begins to take off and she...

Mountain Music

Mountain Music

1937

Director

6.5
Directing

Mary Beamish, a folksy Ozark girl, yearns for the glitter of show business and for a man. She knows she is anything but gorgeous, but figures her enth...

King of Gamblers

King of Gamblers

1937

Director

7.0
Directing

Working for a slick restaurateur who has fallen for her, a down-on-life songstress falls instead for a crusading crime reporter, unaware that her empl...

Outcast

Outcast

1937

Director

Directing

A physician in a small town suddenly finds himself the object of vilification and persecution when one of his patients commits suicide.

Hollywood Boulevard

Hollywood Boulevard

1936

Director

2.5
Directing

With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to w...

Till We Meet Again

Till We Meet Again

1936

Director

5.0
Directing

In London, August 1914, Austrian star Elsa Duranyi (Gertrude Michael) and English matinee idol Alan Barclay (Herbert Marshall) are in love and plan an...

The Preview Murder Mystery

The Preview Murder Mystery

1936

Director

5.6
Directing

Someone is murdering the cast and crew of a new Hollywood movie, and the leading lady may be next. As a police detective locks down the lot and refuse...

Ship Cafe

Ship Cafe

1935

Director

Directing

The singing stoker and the vamp.

Don't Bet on Blondes

Don't Bet on Blondes

1935

Director

5.0
Directing

Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his da...

Going Highbrow

Going Highbrow

1935

Director

6.0
Directing

A ditzy wife yearns to join "high society" when she and her husband become suddenly wealthy. Comedy.

Bride of Frankenstein

Bride of Frankenstein

1935

Story

7.5
Writing

Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive, not killed as previously believed. Dr. Frankenstein wants to get out of the evil experimen...

The Florentine Dagger

The Florentine Dagger

1935

Director

5.7
Directing

A playwright descended from the Borgia family becomes a murder suspect.

The Woman in Red

The Woman in Red

1935

Director

6.0
Directing

A professional jockey struggles to fit in with her new husband's upper-crust Long Island family in this horsy-set drama.

The Payoff

The Payoff

1935

Director

4.9
Directing

An honest sports columnist's greedy wife persuades him to go easy on a cheat, famous for crooked sports deals.

I Am a Thief

I Am a Thief

1934

Director

6.0
Directing

A man dodges jewel thieves while carrying a fortune in diamonds on the Orient Express.

I Sell Anything

I Sell Anything

1934

Director

4.5
Directing

Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?

Smarty

Smarty

1934

Director

4.4
Directing

Vicki Wallace takes great pleasure in teasing her husband Tony who takes no pleasure at all in being teased and it isn't long before he ups and clips ...

Registered Nurse

Registered Nurse

1934

Director

4.6
Directing

In this sudsy hospital melodrama, a married nurse finds herself falling in love with one of two surgeons when her husband goes mad and needs an operat...

I've Got Your Number

I've Got Your Number

1934

Second Unit Director

6.0
Directing

Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes.

Bedside

Bedside

1934

Director

5.6
Directing

Bob Brown uses his bedside manner to charm his patients while his partner makes the actual diagnoses.

The House on 56th Street

The House on 56th Street

1933

Director

5.2
Directing

A beautiful chorine marries a handsome rich socialite, but her idyllic life ends when she visits a dying old beau and is charged when he commits suici...

Ex-Lady

Ex-Lady

1933

Director

6.3
Directing

Although free spirit Helen Bauer does not believe in marriage, she consents to marry Don, but his infidelities cause her to also take on a lover.

A Study in Scarlet

A Study in Scarlet

1933

Screenplay

5.5
Writing

In London, a secret society led by lawyer Thaddeus Merrydew collects the assets of any of its deceased members and divides them among the remaining me...

Girl Missing

Girl Missing

1933

Director

5.1
Directing

Kay and June, two showgirls, are hurt when they seek financial help from Daisy. On Daisy's wedding night when she is rendered missing, Kay and June de...

Those We Love

Those We Love

1932

Director

6.0
Directing

Director Robert Florey's 1932 melodrama about a woman who suspects her husband of infidelity stars Mary Astor, Kenneth MacKenna, Tommy Conlon, Lilyan ...

The Man Called Back

The Man Called Back

1932

Director

4.5
Directing

Fresh from his success with the moody melodrama Murders in the Rue Morgue, director Robert Florey dashed off The Man Called Back at bargain-basement T...

Murders in the Rue Morgue

Murders in the Rue Morgue

1932

Director, Adaptation

6.1
Directing

In 19th century Paris, a maniac abducts young women and injects them with ape blood in an attempt to prove ape-human kinship but constantly meets fail...

Black and White

Black and White

1931

Director

6.0
Directing

A one-night stand with an entertainer threatens to destroy a woman's marriage after she gives birth to a black child.

Love Songs

Love Songs

1930

Director

5.0
Directing

To protect the honor of a married lady, a grammar professor pretends to be a singing teacher and falls in love with the real professor's daughter.

El amor solfeando

1930

Director

Directing
Komm' zu mir zum Rendezvous

Komm' zu mir zum Rendezvous

1930

Writer

Writing

A musical-comedy directed by Carl Boese

The Battle of Paris

The Battle of Paris

1929

Director

6.0
Directing

Gertrude Lawrence plays a singer in Paris during World War I. After stealing from Tony (Walter Petrie), an American artist, the two fall in love.

The Road Is Fine

The Road Is Fine

1929

Director

Directing
The Cocoanuts

The Cocoanuts

1929

Director

6.4
Directing

During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery.

Skyscraper Symphony

Skyscraper Symphony

1929

Director

5.8
Directing

A montage of the skyscrapers of Manhattan opens with a succession of stationary views of the upper portions of numerous buildings. This is followed by...

The Hole in the Wall

The Hole in the Wall

1929

Director

5.2
Directing

Mrs. Ramsey sent Jean Oliver to prison on a false charge. To get even, Jean (disguised as Madame Mystera) plans to kidnap her daughter and turn her in...

Night Club

1929

Director

Directing

"When the Paramount movie people decided to make "Night Club"...they took a lot of stage names, let some of them do their specialties, wound a thin, u...

Pusher-in-the-Face

1929

Director

Directing

"A comedy drama of New York life of a restaurant proprietor and it's a scream from start to finish." - Sheffield Observer, 03/28/1929

The Life and Death of 9413, A Hollywood Extra

The Life and Death of 9413, A Hollywood Extra

1928

as Casting Director

6.5
Acting

This short experimental film tells the story of a man who comes to Hollywood to become a star, only to fail and be dehumanized. He is identified by th...

The Life and Death of 9413, A Hollywood Extra

The Life and Death of 9413, A Hollywood Extra

1928

Director, Producer

6.5
Directing Producing

This short experimental film tells the story of a man who comes to Hollywood to become a star, only to fail and be dehumanized. He is identified by th...

The Love of Zero

The Love of Zero

1928

Director, Writer

6.1
Directing Writing

While playing his trombone one Sunday, the enthusiastic Zero sees Beatrix and falls in love. He returns the next week to express his feelings, and it'...

The Magic Flame

The Magic Flame

1927

Assistant Director

4.3
Directing

The Magic Flame (1927) is a feature film directed by Henry King, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, and based on the play Konig Harlekin by Rudolph Lothar. G...

Face Value

Face Value

1927

Director

Directing

Howard Crandall Jr., who comes from a wealthy family, has suffered a disfiguring facial injury during World War I, and at war's end stays in Paris rat...

The Romantic Age

The Romantic Age

1927

Director

Directing

Engaged to middle-aged Eugene O'Brien, Alberta Vaughn develops a yen for O'Brien's handsome younger brother Stanley Taylor. But when Taylor succumbs t...

The Exquisite Sinner

The Exquisite Sinner

1926

Assistant Director

Directing

Adapted by Alice Duer Miller from a novel by Alden Brooks, the film concerns a young man who forsakes the humdrum business world for the bohemian life...

The Circus of Death

The Circus of Death

1916

as John Chatle

Acting

A girl and a prince fall in love and plan to elope. But the prince's father dies, and the prince must ascend to the throne. The prince is forced to ma...