Complete Filmography

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1974
Teleplay
The story of a family living in a New York City slum in 1912, headed by a loving but alcoholic father and a strong-willed mother.

The Train
1964
Screenplay
As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He...

Night of the Quarter Moon
1959
Writer
A POW marries a woman he meets in Mexico. Controversy erupts when people find out that she's one-quarter black.

The Indian Fighter
1955
Screenplay
A scout leading a wagon train through hostile Indian country gets involved with a Sioux chief's daughter.

The Boy from Oklahoma
1954
Screenplay
A town despot makes a guileless patsy the sheriff, lives to regret it.

The Jazz Singer
1953
Screenplay
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer.

Springfield Rifle
1952
Screenplay
Major Lex Kearney, dishonourably discharged from the army for cowardice in battle, volunteers to go undercover to try to prevent raids against shipmen...

The Story of Will Rogers
1952
Screenplay
Biography of humorist and movie star Will Rogers

Ten Tall Men
1951
Screenplay
Sgt. Mike Kincaid of the French Foreign Legion learns, from a Riff prisoner, that an attack will soon be made by the villainous Hussin on the Legion's...

Jim Thorpe – All-American
1951
Dialogue
The triumph and tragedy of Native American Jim Thorpe, who, after winning both the pentathlon and decathlon in the same Olympics, is stripped of his m...

Fighting Father Dunne
1948
Screenplay
A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis.

The Woman on the Beach
1947
Screenplay
A sailor suffering from post-traumatic stress becomes involved with a beautiful and enigmatic seductress married to a blind painter.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945
Screenplay
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well thro...

Are Husbands Necessary?
1942
Screenplay
George and Mary Elizabeth Cugat are about to celebrate their second wedding anniversary and dream of having a child. Although they live comfortably on...

Remember the Day
1941
Screenplay
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Da...

Dance, Girl, Dance
1940
Screenplay
Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career...

It's a Wonderful World
1939
Producer
Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by ...

The Chaser
1938
Producer
A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the tr...

Lord Jeff
1938
Producer
Spoiled child Geoffrey Bramer teams up with a pair of small time crooks to pose as an aristocrat and steal jewelry from exclusive shops. During a a ca...

The Devil Is a Sissy
1936
Producer
A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.

Petticoat Fever
1936
Producer
A lonely radio operator in Labrador falls for an engaged woman.

One New York Night
1935
Screenplay
Foxhall Ridgeway, arriving in New York City from the West, stumbles onto a murder in the hotel room next to his. He gets tangled up into the affair, a...

The bitter fruit
1931
Producer
Min, a hard-boiled proprietress of a waterfront hotel, who has as her sweetheart Bill, a fisherman, brings up Nancy, a girl who was deserted by her ow...

Spring Fever
1927
Writer
Kelly's employer, Waters, is such a keen golfer that he asks Kelly to help him improve his game at an exclusive country club.

California
1927
Writer
"The war with Mexico serves to bring together American officer and Mexican senorita, the former all ardent and the latter defiant because of the fact ...