Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Lord (May 1, 1900 – April 5, 1976) was an American screenwriter and film producer. He wrote for 71 films between 1925 and 1940. He won an Academy Award in 1933 in the category Best Writing, Original Story for the film One Way Passage. He was nominated in the same category in 1938 for the film Black Legion.
Complete Filmography

The Family Secret
1951
Producer
When his son accidentally kills someone, a lawyer must defend the man wrongly charged with the murder.

Sirocco
1951
Producer
A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.

In a Lonely Place
1950
Producer
A violent screenwriter and a female neighbor fall in love after she clears him of murder, but she begins to have second thoughts.

And Baby Makes Three
1949
Producer
A recently divorced couple see things differently after learning they are going to be parents.

Tokyo Joe
1949
Producer
An American veteran returns to Tokyo to try to pick up the threads of his pre-World War II life there, but finds himself squeezed between criminals an...

Knock on Any Door
1949
Producer
An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.

Wings for the Eagle
1942
Producer
Aircraft workers during during World War II become involved in a love triangle.

Footsteps in the Dark
1941
Associate Producer
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes. This causes him no end of...

Dive Bomber
1941
Associate Producer
A military surgeon teams with a ranking navy flyer to develop a high-altitude suit which will protect pilots from blacking out when they go into a ste...

The Letter
1940
Associate Producer
After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.

No Time for Comedy
1940
Associate Producer
An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.

'Til We Meet Again
1940
Story
Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. J...

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
1939
Associate Producer
This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.

Dodge City
1939
Associate Producer
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.

The Dawn Patrol
1938
Associate Producer
In 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. The young airmen go up in bullet-riddled "crates" and the casualty r...

The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
1938
Producer
A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and proceed...

Tovarich
1937
Associate Producer
When upper-class Parisian Charles Dupont and his family hire Tina and Michel as their servants, they have no idea that the domestics are in fact Tatia...

That Certain Woman
1937
Associate Producer
A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.

Black Legion
1937
Story, Producer
When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates fore...

Give Me Your Heart
1936
Supervising Producer
An American lawyer's wife is reunited with her child and his father, an English nobleman.

Stage Struck
1936
Story, Supervising Dialogue Editor
A Broadway show is forced to bow to the whims of a talentless, whacky, but rich, Broadway actress with a contract.

The Singing Kid
1936
Story
Neurotic Broadway star Al Jackson faces professional ruin when he loses his voice. While recuperating in the country, he falls in love with farm girl ...

Colleen
1936
Story
Musical about dingaling millionaire businessman Cedric Ames and his various employees

Dr. Socrates
1935
Screenplay
Dr. Socrates gave up his brilliant career as surgeon in a prominent hospital because his betrothed died under his knife. He is now a struggling doctor...

Page Miss Glory
1935
Screenplay
A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.

The Girl from 10th Avenue
1935
Producer
When his fiancée Valentine dumps him, prominent lawyer Geoffrey Sherwood goes on a bender and winds up married to a stranger, Miriam Brady. They decid...

Gold Diggers of 1935
1935
Story
Romance strikes when a vacationing millionairess and her daughter and son spend their vacation at a posh New England resort.

Bordertown
1935
Story
An ambitious Mexican-American gets mixed up with the neurotic wife of his casino boss.

Flirtation Walk
1934
Production Supervisor
A private stationed in Hawaii gets involved with the general's engaged daughter. In order to avoid a scandal, the pair break up, but meet again years ...

Dames
1934
Story
A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.

Housewife
1934
Story, Supervising Producer
Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend Patric...

The Man with Two Faces
1934
Producer
Actress Jessica Wells, sister of actor Damon Wells, is on top of her form except when her husband Vance is around. When Vance takes her to the apartme...

He Was Her Man
1934
Story, Producer
A safecracker goes straight after doing a stretch for a bum rap. He agrees to do one last job for his "pals".

Fog Over Frisco
1934
Production Supervisor
Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is...

The Merry Frinks
1934
Producer
An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.

Merry Wives of Reno
1934
Screenplay, Story
Three couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces.

Harold Teen
1934
Supervising Producer
A young reporter pines for his high-school sweetheart, but she's preoccupied with appearing in their small town's community musical show. This 1934 co...

Jimmy the Gent
1934
Producer
An unpolished racketeer, whose racket is finding heirs for unclaimed fortunes, affects ethics and tea-drinking manners to win back the sweetheart who ...

Convention City
1933
Screenplay
Extra-marital fun and games at a convention of the Honeywell Rubber Company in Atlantic City. President J.B. Honeywell is to choose a new company sale...

The World Changes
1933
Producer
Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen through the eyes of businessman Orin Nordholm Jr....

Footlight Parade
1933
Producer, Story
A fledgling producer finds himself at odds with his workers, financiers and his greedy ex-wife when he tries to produce live musicals for movie-going ...

Mary Stevens, M.D.
1933
Screenplay
A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage.

Heroes for Sale
1933
Screenplay
Tom Holmes is someone guided by honesty and moral rectitude, a heroic veteran of the World War I marked by the unbearable suffering caused by his batt...

The Little Giant
1933
Screenplay
Prohibition is ending so bootlegger Bugs Ahearn decides to crack California society. He leases a house from down-on-her-luck Ruth and hires her as soc...

The Mind Reader
1933
Screenplay
Con-man Chandler and his partner Frank decide to start a clairvoyant act. Chandler falls for Sylvia, one of their marks, but their relationship is cha...

Hard to Handle
1933
Screenplay
A hustling public relations man promotes a series of fads.

Frisco Jenny
1933
Screenplay
Jenny is carrying the child of a young man who dies in the San Francisco earthquake (1906). After giving birth, she decides to place her child in the ...

20,000 Years in Sing Sing
1932
Adaptation
Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.

You Said a Mouthful
1932
Screenplay
Two men bear the name Joe Holt. One is a shipping clerk, the other a champion Canadian swimmer. When a socialite gets them confused, thinking the cler...

The Conquerors
1932
Screenplay
A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire.

One Way Passage
1932
Story, Producer
A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's se...

The Purchase Price
1932
Writer
Nightclub singer Joan Gordon runs away from her gangster boyfriend to become a mail-order bride to a struggling North Dakota farmer. Their relationshi...

Winner Take All
1932
Adaptation
Overworked boxer Jim goes to a health ranch in New Mexico to recover where he falls in love with Peggy and her sickly son. Once recovered, Jim leaves ...

Man Wanted
1932
Story
A female editor of a magazine falls in love with her male secretary.

It's Tough to Be Famous
1932
Screenplay
Scotty, an unwilling Navy war hero is cast into the limelight. He wants to get married and be an engineer, but is forced to fulfil the expectations of...

Fireman, Save My Child
1932
Adaptation, Story
Joe Grant is an inventor, fireman and baseball player in his small hometown. He gets an offer to play in a big team and hopes to get more money for hi...

Taxi!
1931
Producer
Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered...

Manhattan Parade
1931
Adaptation
Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop.

Her Majesty, Love
1931
Screenplay
The wealthy von Wellingens are shocked when the father of their son Fred's fiancée Lia juggles desserts at a formal dinner. They encourage Fred to bre...

Local Boy Makes Good
1931
Adaptation
John is a timid student who works at the University Book Store. He is studying to be a botanist and has a secret crush on the lovely Julia. One day, o...

Five Star Final
1931
Adaptation
Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman in...

The Ruling Voice
1931
Adaptation
A mob boss has a change of heart when his daughter convinces him to move on from crime.

Big Business Girl
1931
Adaptation
A young woman goes to New York and finds success in advertising thanks to her legs while her boyfriend spends the summer in Europe with his band.

Hold Everything
1930
Screenplay
A man is mistaken for a champion fighter.

She Couldn't Say No
1930
Writer
A night club singer falls for a gangster.

The Aviator
1929
Scenario Writer
Brooks, a publisher and his publicist decide to boost the sales of a wartime book of flying experiences. They credit the book to popular author Robert...

The Sap
1929
Screenplay
A small town dimwit takes the blame for his brother-in-law's crime.

So Long Letty
1929
Writer
Uncle Claude comes to the Ardmore Beach Hotel to see Tommy and his wife. At the hotel, with his two granddaughters Ruth and Sally, Uncle Claude meets ...

Gold Diggers of Broadway
1929
Story
Three Broadway chorus girls seek rich husbands.

On With the Show!
1929
Scenario Writer
With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the l...

The Time, the Place and the Girl
1929
Scenario Writer
A musical comedy that follows the progress of a college All America football player whose swollen head is deflated when, after graduating , he takes a...

No Defense
1929
Writer
No Defense is a 1929 romantic drama directed by Lloyd Bacon and starring Monte Blue. It was a silent film with part talking and sound-effects by the V...

Hardboiled Rose
1929
Writer
A Southern Belle must work in a gambling house to pay off her father's debts, which drove him to suicide. She then meets a man who sweeps her off her ...

Kid Gloves
1929
Screenplay
When a taxi carrying socialite Ruth Darrow drives into the middle of a gun battle between hijacker Kid Gloves and a trio of bootleggers, Ruth is injur...

The Million Dollar Collar
1929
Writer
Bill Holmes rescues Rinty from a car wreck not realizing that there is a stolen $50,000 diamond necklace hidden in the dog's collar.

The Greyhound Limited
1929
Dialogue
A train engineer and his fireman are best friends until the engineer breaks up a romance between his pal and a trampy girl he knows is no good for him...

My Man
1928
Writer
Fannie Brand, an industrious girl who supports her brother and sister by working in a theatrical costume house, falls in love with Joe Halsey, a young...

On Trial
1928
Screenplay
A man is put on trial for the murder of his best friend. A young attorney wants to become successful and decides to defend him. However, he is very in...

Beware of Bachelors
1928
Writer
A young doctor is accused by his pretty wife of paying too much attention to one of his woman patients when she makes a pass at him. Ferris, assuming ...

Beyond the Sierras
1928
Screenplay
A masked avenger takes on claim jumpers.

Women They Talk About
1928
Writer
Women They Talk About is a part-talkie Vitaphone film, with talking, music and sound effects sequences, starring Irene Rich, directed by Lloyd Bacon a...

Detectives
1928
Screenplay, Story
Lois, a stenographer at a luxury hotel, is being pursued by the hotel's house detective and a bellhop. When some valuable jewels are stolen, the bellh...

Five and Ten Cent Annie
1928
Scenario Writer
Street cleaner Elmer Peck (Clyde Cook) inherits a million dollars from his uncle Adam Peck (Tom Ricketts) on the conditions that he retains the uncle'...

The Lion and the Mouse
1928
Writer
Judge Ross, on the Federal Bench, rules in favor of a large company in litigation before him, unaware that a smaller company in which he owns consider...

The Matinee Idol
1928
Story
The famous matinee idol and blackface comedian, Don Wilson, heads out of town to escape adulation. There, calling himself Harry Mann, he accidentally ...

Powder My Back
1928
Writer
Rex Hale, a reform mayor, closes the musical comedy "Powder My Back" because he feels that it is immoral. Indignant, Fritzi Foy, star of the comedy, d...

The Little Snob
1928
Scenario Writer
May Banks (May McAvoy) is a working-class girl who gets ideas above her station in life when her father, Colonel Banks (Aleck B. Francis), a Coney Isl...

If I Were Single
1927
Story, Scenario Writer
Rich girl Joan Whitney does her flirtatious best to break up the marriage of May and Ted Howard and almost succeeds, but not before May Howard has a l...

A Reno Divorce
1927
Scenario Writer
An attractive heiress, Carla (May McAvoy), and David (Ralph Graves), a successful artist, fall in love following an automobile accident. and are marri...
The Swell-Head
1927
Story, Scenario Writer
Businessman Lefty Malone decides to become a prizefight, has his head turned by instant success, falls for the wrong woman, Kitty, then realizes the e...

Tony Runs Wild
1926
Scenario Writer
Tom Grant saves Grace Percival from being tromped by a herd of stampeding horses,led by Tony, and they become friends. Grace tells Slade, a renegade w...

The Johnstown Flood
1926
Writer
A dramatic recreation of the Johnstown Flood of 1889.

The Lucky Horseshoe
1925
Story
Based on a story by Robert Lord, the film is about a ranch foreman who assumes responsibility for the ranch following the owner's death. He also cares...