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Roy Del Ruth (October 18, 1893 – April 27, 1961) was a Hollywood film director. Del Ruth, who started out as a screenwriter in 1915 writing gags for Mack Sennett, began directing feature films in the 1920s. He became known for directing urban and crime dramas including the 1931 version of The Maltese Falcon. He also directed the universally panned The Babe Ruth Story (1948) and the 20th Century Fox B-movie Alligator People (1959).
Roy Del Ruth died in 1961 at age 67 and was interred in the San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Mission Hills, Los Angeles, California.
For his contributions to the motion picture industry, he was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6150 Hollywood Blvd.
Most Popular Roy Del Ruth Trailers
Total trailers found: 102
01 April 1933
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 challenged when his deception impacts others' lives and Sylvia urges him to reform.
09 December 1933
An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star.
19 September 1931
A circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps.
29 November 1927
Fifi, a dusky, sultry Senegalese spy, uses her wiles to get information out of two American army soldiers, Ham and Eggs, in France during World War I.
01 June 1942
Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon.
19 February 1939
Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to repair it.
23 January 1938
Bandleader and manager discover skater in Norway. They become rivals as she returns with them to America.
10 September 1932
A New York gossip columnist feuds with a singer and enjoys the power of the press.
30 March 1924
Shanghaied on his wedding day, Harry struggles to cope with a cruel captain while fending off a sailor who seems attracted to him.
22 December 1928
Two pilots are in love with the same girl. On a flight over the Antarctic, the plane suddenly spins out of control and crashes into a snowbank.
05 June 1936
Ellen Neal, a young and inexperienced maid, becomes romantically involved with her employers son which causes various complications.
10 November 1934
A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.
12 March 1922
Billy Bevan trying to escape the cops! Roughly only half of the original short's twenty-two minutes still exists.
19 June 1926
Department-store models Flo and Marian set their sights on wealthy young soft-drink magnate J. A. Smith.
23 May 1952
Three friends enter military school together, but two of them don't know that the third one is secretly married.
03 May 1931
A stage star finds herself torn between a wealthy older man and a handsome younger one.
24 December 1921
An oil heir and the daughter of a social climbing family are set to marry.
05 March 1916
A mild-mannered man's problems with his domineering wife and mother-in-law lead to complications with the law.
01 June 1960
A night club singer who is the daughter of a small-town crook is tried and convicted of murder.
19 April 1924
A short packed with more stars and gags than most features of its day, this film delivered a gaggle of guffaws!
30 August 1929
Three Broadway chorus girls seek rich husbands.
20 March 1930
A man is mistaken for a champion fighter.
20 May 1933
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 social secretary.
25 August 1939
This is a film about the life of Gus Edwards, a well known vaudeville composer, entertainer, and producer.
16 July 1959
Under therapeutic hypnosis, a seemingly well-adjusted young woman tells a fantastic story, verified by lie detector, of her forgotten marriage to a man who disappeared on the day of their honeymoon, and of her search for him which takes her to a lonely mansion in a remote section of swampland tenanted by snakes, alligators, a drunken one-armed lout, a mysterious doctor, and a cold-hearted elderly woman who lives alone in a brooding manse.
09 April 1932
An ultra-efficient Plain Jane secretary blossoms when she accompanies her boss on a business trip to Paris.
17 April 1947
A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him.
19 August 1933
While waiting out World War I in a German POW camp, Captain Fred Allison discovers that his oldest and dearest friend Digby has also been captured and put into the same camp with him.
22 September 1922
Rampaging lions are on the loose in a hunting lodge. Approximately, only eight minutes of the short survives.
10 August 1929
The Hottentot is a lost 1929 American pre-Code film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Edward Everett Horton and Patsy Ruth Miller.
09 May 1935
Alternate-language French version of Folies Bergère de Paris (1935).
28 April 1934
A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably until the woman's manager decides to blackmail the millionaire.
09 May 1922
Keystone comedy about a garage owner pining for the girl next door, coming into money, and betting on a fixed fight.
09 July 1942
A count who ignores an infatuated secretary thinks he has met his match when an angel from Heaven shows up.
18 September 1935
Lovely, gifted Irene Foster hopes that her childhood sweetheart-turned Broadway producer Robert Gordon will recognize her--and her talent.
25 October 1930
Two female song-pluggers decide to become ruthless gold-diggers, with comic results.
12 March 1951
A documentary short film depicting the work of the motion picture director. An anonymous director is shown preparing the various aspects of a film for production, meeting with the writer and producer, approving wardrobe and set design, rehearsing scenes with the actors and camera crew, shooting the scenes, watching dailies, working with the editor and composer, and attending the first preview.
15 August 1934
Bulldog Drummond finds himself immersed in another adventure when he stumbles upon a corpse in the mysterious London mansion of Prince Achmed.
26 November 1949
A self-absorbed comedian steps all over his friends and colleagues in order to achieve success.
10 December 1952
With the end of Prohibition a former bootlegger and his wife attempt to go straight. Remake of the 1938 film "A Slight Case of Murder".
27 June 1927
The transition from horses to automobiles at the turn of the century causes problems between a father and son.
23 November 1953
A group of sailors invest in a musical revue.
08 April 1929
French General Birabeau has been sent to Morocco to root out and destroy the Riffs, a band of Arab rebels, who threaten the safety of the French outpost in the Moroccan desert.
22 February 1935
An entertainer impersonates a look-alike banker, causing comic confusion for wife and girlfriend.
12 December 1925
Lefty O'Brien, a pugilist, becomes engaged to ex-tomboy Patsy Ryan against the wishes of her father, Michael.
02 December 1923
An itching courtship from Mack Sennett.
30 September 1949
Nick Cherney, in prison for embezzling from Torno Freight Co., sees a chance to get back at Johnny Torno through his young priest brother Jess.
01 March 1920
A farce in which the poor Lamo has to flee after he tries to rob a rich cinema operator. While on the run, he starts working for a blacksmith, who then betrays him.
14 September 1921
Ben and fiancée Haver run a bakery and grocery. A mostly lost film, only seven minutes survive.
18 July 1930
During World War I, a female agent tries to unmask a German spy.
21 June 1924
The aging father of a farm lad thinks the boy is after dad's fiancée, so he banishes the lad. The young man heads to California where he drives a cab.
01 March 1924
Our hero is the town's photographer and its sheriff. He' in love with a young woman who's also pursued by the older, more devious Dudley Somerset.
12 February 1937
A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake, but the courtship is soon for real, to the annoyance of his co-star, hoofing chanteuese Mona Merrick.
15 November 1952
When a well off man from the city arrives in a hick town to woo a wealthy widow, he encounters first an ornery model T ride to the shabby hotel, then his rival for the widow as they go on to a local fair.
27 October 1928
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.
22 January 1926
The Man Upstairs is a lost 1926 silent film comedy directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Monte Blue. It was produced and distributed by Warner Brothers.
23 May 1931
A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette known as the Maltese Falcon.
21 March 1941
Topper is once again tormented by a fun-loving spirit. This time, it's Gail Richards, accidentally murdered while vacationing at the home of her wealthy friend, Ann Carrington, the intended victim.
26 August 1945
The late, great impresario Florenz Ziegfeld looks down from heaven and ordains a new revue in his grand old style.
02 October 1926
Following the Spanish-American War, a soldier is given the assignment of finding the leader of a band of rebels in the Philippines.
