Directing
Jack Conway
EN cinema · 108 credits
Born
16 July 1887
Died
11 October 1952 (aged 65)
Birthplace
Graceville, Minnesota, USA
Also known as Hugh Ryan Conroy · John Conway
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia He was born as Hugh Ryan Conway, on July 17, 1887, in Graceville, Minnesota, US. Conway started out as an actor, joining a repertory theater group straight out of high school. He then moved into films and, in 1911, became a member of D.W. Griffith's stock company, appearing primarily in westerns. Four years later, he made his mark as a director and gained valuable experience at Universal (1916–17 and 1921–23), before moving on to MGM in 1925. He remained there until 1948, often helming prestige assignments featuring the studio's top male star, Clark Gable: Boom Town (1940), Honky Tonk (1941), The Hucksters (1947) – all solid box office hits. Conway was one of a team of MGM contract directors, who forsook any pretense to a specific individual style in favor of working within the strictures set forth by studio management. A thoroughly competent craftsman, he delivered commercially successful entertainments, on time, and within budget. Conway may not have achieved fame as a creative genius, but the majority of his films remain eminently entertaining to this day. In his most famous film, A Tale of Two Cities (1935), he utilized 17,000 extras for the Paris mob scenes alone. This spectacular adaptation of the Dickens classic is still regarded by many as the definitive screen version. Another popular hit was the sophisticated all-star comedy Libeled Lady (1936), with the New York Times reviewer commenting on Conway's "agile direction". Conway also directed Viva Villa!, a hit MGM film starring Wallace Beery that was nominated for four Academy Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Conway (filmmaker), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
Julia Misbehaves
Director
The Hucksters
Director
High Barbaree
Director
Desire Me
Director
Dragon Seed
Director
Crossroads
Director
Love Crazy
Director
Honky Tonk
Director
Boom Town
Director
Lady of the Tropics
Director
Let Freedom Ring
Director
Too Hot to Handle
Director
A Yank at Oxford
Director
Saratoga
Director
Libeled Lady
Director
A Tale of Two Cities
Director
One New York Night
Director
Viva Villa!
Director
The Girl from Missouri
Director, Producer
The Gay Bride
Director
The Solitaire Man
Director
The Nuisance
Director
Hell Below
Director
Red-Headed Woman
Director
Arsène Lupin
Director
The Easiest Way
Director
Just a Gigolo
Director
The Unholy Three
Director
New Moon
Director
Our Modern Maidens
Director, Producer
Untamed
Director
The Smart Set
Director, Producer
Bringing Up Father
Director
Twelve Miles Out
Director
Brown of Harvard
Director
The Only Thing
Director
Soul Mates
Director
The Trouble Shooter
Director
The Heart Buster
Director
The Roughneck
Director
Lucretia Lombard
Director
Trimmed in Scarlet
Director
The Prisoner
Director
Quicksands
Director
What Wives Want
Director
Sawdust
Director
Across the Dead-Line
Director
Step on It!
Director
Don't Shoot
Director
The Long Chance
Director
The Killer
as William Sanborn, Director
The Rage of Paris
Director
The Millionaire
Director
The Kiss
Director
The U.P. Trail
Director
Riders of the Dawn
Director
The Money Changers
Director
Restless Souls
as Hugh Gregory
Lombardi, Ltd.
Director
The Little Orphan
as David Clark, Director
Polly Redhead
Director
The Charmer
Director
Bond of Fear
Director
Come Through
Director
Macbeth
as Lennox
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Second Assistant Director
The Mainspring
Director
The Birth of a Nation
Assistant Director
The Folly of Anne
1914
The Folly of Anne
as The Heartless Publisher
The Chechako
as Smoke Bellew
Even Unto Death
as Walter Gordon
The Mistress of the Air
1914
The Mistress of the Air
as Dick - the Hero
The Twelfth Juror
1913
The Twelfth Juror
as Clarence Morton
His Only Son
Actor, Director
Her Indian Hero
as Hal Benton, Director
Kit Carson's Wooing
as Kit Carson
Her Indian Mother
1910
Her Indian Mother
as Stephen Moore