Robert Florey

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AKA: Florian Roberts
Nationality: French
Birthdate: 09/14/1900
Birthplace: Paris, France
Death Date: 05/16/1979

biography

French screenwriter, director of short films and actor who moved to Hollywood in 1921. Florey worked as assistant director to Josef von Sternberg, Frank Borzage and Victor Fleming before making his feature directing debut in 1926. He turned out more than 50 movies over the next 23 years, ranging from the first Marx brothers vehicle, "The Cocoanuts" (1929), to skillful low-budget crime programmers like "The Crooked Way" (1949). For many historians some of Florey's finest work is to be found in these lower-budget programmers and B films; he hit a peak at Paramount in the late 30s with films Continued

Credits

milestones

Year
Milestone
1922 
First film as technical director "Monte Cristo"
1923 
First short film as director in America "Fifty-Fifty"
1926 
Feature film directing debut with "One Hour of Love"
1929 
Directed the almost-feature length musical picture, "Night Club"
1929 
First full-length talkie, "The Hole in the Wall"
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