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.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Children of Alda Nuova
1962
Director
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
1962
Director
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
1954
Director
Walt Disney takes a look at the story of the creation of Donald Duck and his later career.

The Disneyland Story
1954
Director
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
1951
Director
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
1951
Co-Director
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
1951
Director
1951 behind the scenes featurette of the Walt Disney animated classic.

Charlie's Haunt
1950
Director
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
1950
Director
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
1950
Director
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
1949
Director
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
1949
Director
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
1948
Director, Story
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
1948
Screenplay
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
1948
Director
A high priest tries to force a young beauty to marry a pearl trader who is masquerading as the god Balu.

Monsieur Verdoux
1947
Assistant Director
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
1947
Director
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
1945
Director
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
1945
Director
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
1944
Director
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
1944
Director
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
1943
Director
Paul Hudson, leads a group of desert bandits against some Nazis, who want to use them as cheap labor for their railroad.

Lady Gangster
1942
Director
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
1941
Director
A New York City doctor tries to rescue a young woman from Nazi agents.

Two in a Taxi
1941
Director
An ambitious but financially strapped taxi driver becomes involved with mobsters to obtain money to buy a gas station.

Meet Boston Blackie
1941
Director
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
1941
Director
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
1940
Director
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
1940
Director
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
1939
Director
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
1939
Director
A Chicago con man pays an actor to pose as a slain South American dictator.

Hotel Imperial
1939
Director
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
1939
Director
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
1938
Director
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
1938
Director
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
1937
Director
A Chinese-American woman tries to expose an illegal alien smuggling ring.

This Way Please
1937
Director
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
1937
Director
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
1937
Director
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
1937
Director
A physician in a small town suddenly finds himself the object of vilification and persecution when one of his patients commits suicide.

Hollywood Boulevard
1936
Director
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
1936
Director
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
1936
Director
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
1935
Director
The singing stoker and the vamp.

Don't Bet on Blondes
1935
Director
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
1935
Director
A ditzy wife yearns to join "high society" when she and her husband become suddenly wealthy. Comedy.

Bride of Frankenstein
1935
Story
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
1935
Director
A playwright descended from the Borgia family becomes a murder suspect.

The Woman in Red
1935
Director
A professional jockey struggles to fit in with her new husband's upper-crust Long Island family in this horsy-set drama.

The Payoff
1935
Director
An honest sports columnist's greedy wife persuades him to go easy on a cheat, famous for crooked sports deals.

I Am a Thief
1934
Director
A man dodges jewel thieves while carrying a fortune in diamonds on the Orient Express.

I Sell Anything
1934
Director
Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?

Smarty
1934
Director
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
1934
Director
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
1934
Second Unit Director
Two telephone repairmen have many adventures and romance a pair of blondes.

Bedside
1934
Director
Bob Brown uses his bedside manner to charm his patients while his partner makes the actual diagnoses.

The House on 56th Street
1933
Director
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
1933
Director
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
1933
Screenplay
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
1933
Director
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
1932
Director
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
1932
Director
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
1932
Director, Adaptation
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
1931
Director
A one-night stand with an entertainer threatens to destroy a woman's marriage after she gives birth to a black child.

Love Songs
1930
Director
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

Komm' zu mir zum Rendezvous
1930
Writer
A musical-comedy directed by Carl Boese

The Battle of Paris
1929
Director
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
1929
Director

The Cocoanuts
1929
Director
During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery.

Skyscraper Symphony
1929
Director
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
1929
Director
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
"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
"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
1928
as Casting Director
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
1928
Director, Producer
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
1928
Director, Writer
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
1927
Assistant Director
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
1927
Director
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
1927
Director
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
1926
Assistant Director
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
1916
as John Chatle
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...