Nick Grindé

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1893-01-12

Deathday 1979-06-19 (86 years old)

Place of Birth Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Also Known As Nicholas Grindé, Nicholas Grinde, Nick Grinde

Nick Grindé

Biography

Nick Grindé was an American film director and screenwriter. He directed 57 films between 1928 and 1945. Born in Madison, Wisconsin, Grindé graduated from the University of Wisconsin. He became a Hollywood film writer and director in the late 1920s, and was often assigned to familiarize Broadway stage directors with the techniques of film making. As a director, he is considered one of American cinema's early B film specialists. Throughout his career, Grindé was a popular writer of short stories, articles and columns usually about show business and film making in early Hollywood. In the mid 1930s, he had been married to actress Marie Wilson. Later, he married Korean-American actress Hazel Shon. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences houses the Nick Grindé Papers in its Special Collections.

Known For

Director

1946
Injun Talk

as Director

1945
Road to Alcatraz

as Director

1942
1942
1941
Mountain Moonlight

as Director

1940
1940
Girls of the Road

as Director

1940
Convicted Woman

as Director

1940
Men Without Souls

as Director

1940
Before I Hang

as Director

1940
Friendly Neighbors

as Director

1939
Scandal Sheet

as Director

1939
King of Chinatown

as Director

1939
Sudden Money

as Director

1939
1939
1938
Federal Man-Hunt

as Director

1938
Down in 'Arkansaw'

as Director

1938
Delinquent Parents

as Director

1938
Mis dos amores

as Director

1937
1937
Exiled to Shanghai

as Director

1937
Love Is on the Air

as Director

1937
Public Wedding

as Director

1937
White Bondage

as Director

1936
1936
1936
The Captain's Kid

as Director

1936
Jailbreak

as Director

1936
Lucky Fugitives

as Director

1935
How to Sleep

as Director

1935
1935
1935
Border Brigands

as Director

1934
Bum Voyage

as Director

1934
No More West

as Director

1933
Menu

as Director

1932
Shopworn

as Director

1932
Vanity Street

as Director

1931
This Modern Age

as Director

1930
1930
Good News

as Director

1930
Remote Control

as Director

1930
Wu Li Chang

as Director

1930
1930
1929
1929
1929
1929
The Desert Rider

as Director

1929
Morgan's Last Raid

as Director

1928
Beyond the Sierras

as Director

1927
Body and Soul

as Assistant Director

1925
Excuse Me

as Assistant Director

Writer

1943
1934
1930
The Divorcee

as Screenplay