Cliff Reid


Biography

Filmography

 

Director (Feature Film)

Walk Like a Dragon (1960)
Assistant Director
The Light in the Forest (1958)
2d Assistant Director
Casanova's Big Night (1954)
Assistant Director
Arrowhead (1953)
2d Assistant Director
Crossfire (1947)
Assistant Director

Producer (Feature Film)

The Hoodlum Saint (1946)
Producer
They Were Expendable (1945)
Associate Producer
Sing Your Worries Away (1942)
Producer
Powder Town (1942)
Producer
The Mayor of 44th Street (1942)
Producer
Mexican Spitfire at Sea (1942)
Producer
Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost (1942)
Producer
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby (1941)
Producer
Repent at Leisure (1941)
Producer
Play Girl (1941)
Producer
Lady Scarface (1941)
Producer
You Can't Fool Your Wife (1940)
Producer
Mexican Spitfire (1940)
Producer
Anne of Windy Poplars (1940)
Producer
One Crowded Night (1940)
Producer
Laddie (1940)
Producer
Wildcat Bus (1940)
Producer
The Saint's Double Trouble (1940)
Producer
Mexican Spitfire Out West (1940)
Producer
Cross-Country Romance (1940)
Producer
Two Thoroughbreds (1939)
Producer
Fixer Dugan (1939)
Producer
The Great Man Votes (1939)
Producer
Conspiracy (1939)
Producer
The Girl and the Gambler (1939)
Producer
The Spellbinder (1939)
Producer
Almost a Gentleman (1939)
Producer
Sued for Libel (1939)
Producer
Panama Lady (1939)
Producer
The Law West of Tombstone (1938)
Producer
Blind Alibi (1938)
Producer
Next Time I Marry (1938)
Producer
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Associate Producer
Crime Ring (1938)
Producer
This Marriage Business (1938)
Producer
Crashing Hollywood (1938)
Producer
Criminal Lawyer (1937)
Associate Producer
The Plough and the Stars (1937)
Associate Producer
Behind the Headlines (1937)
Producer
Hideaway (1937)
Producer
The Man Who Found Himself (1937)
Producer
China Passage (1937)
Associate Producer
The Witness Chair (1936)
Associate Producer
Without Orders (1936)
Associate Producer
Yellow Dust (1936)
Associate Producer
Wanted! Jane Turner (1936)
Associate Producer
Special Investigator (1936)
Associate Producer
Annie Oakley (1935)
Associate Producer
Strangers All (1935)
Associate Producer
Another Face (1935)
Associate Producer
The Arizonian (1935)
Associate Producer
Chasing Yesterday (1935)
Associate Producer
The Three Musketeers (1935)
Associate Producer
The Informer (1935)
Associate Producer
His Family Tree (1935)
Associate Producer
West of the Pecos (1935)
Associate Producer
Grand Old Girl (1935)
Associate Producer
Powdersmoke Range (1935)
Associate Producer
The Lost Patrol (1934)
Associate Producer
Red Morning (1934)
Associate Producer
Their Big Moment (1934)
Associate Producer

Life Events

Videos

Movie Clip

Great Man Votes, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Your Liquor Or My Lucre 27-year old Garson Kanin directs John Barrymore, then 52, whom he fought to get in the role, with Luis Alberni, who’s not really the milkman, with a brief appearance by second-billed MGM child star Virginia Weidler, on loan to RKO, opening The Great Man Votes, 1939.
Great Man Votes, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) Pop's Only Speaking Metagorical Our first scene in the Vance the household, where John Barrymore is “Pop,” , a usually drunk but apparently erudite night watchman in a nameless Prohibition-era city, and Peter Holden and Virginia Weidler are introduced as his precocious children, in The Great Man Votes, 1939, directed by Garson Kanin.
Great Man Votes, The (1939) -- (Movie Clip) The Color Of Thy Giblets! We?re still figuring out the background of ?Pop? Vance (John Barrymore), a drunken, widowed and brainy night watchman, whose son and daughter have gotten into some scrapes at school, when their teacher (Katharine Alexander as Miss Billow) visits, revealing new angles, in RKO?s The Great Man Votes, 1939, directed by Garson Kanin.
Hoodlum Saint, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Baltimore, 1919 Opening in Baltimore, 1919, MGM offers William Powell as reporter-turned-doughboy come home, visiting his old newspaper where there’s no job on offer, meeting his pals and Will Wright as his old editor, in The Hoodlum Saint, 1946, original screenplay by Frank Wead and James Hill.
Hoodlum Saint, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) Everything Is Sweetness And Love Crashing a Baltimore society wedding in 1919, out-of-work WWI vet reporter Terry (William Powell) has charmed Kay (Esther Williams), whom he learns is the niece of the publisher (Charles Trowbridge) and friend of the financier Malbery (Henry O’Neill) he hoped to meet, in The Hoodlum Saint, 1946.
Hoodlum Saint, The (1946) -- (Movie Clip) If I Had You Home in Baltimore, now a Wall Street success, Terry (William Powell) has brought jewelry and hopes to win back ex-flame Kay (Esther Williams), but is thwarted, and returns to New York, where he finds some comfort with a friend, singer Dusty (Angela Lansbury), in MGM’s The Hoodlum Saint, 1946.
Crashing Hollywood (1938) -- (Movie Clip) My Husband Is A Criminologist Herman (Paul Guilfoyle) and wife Goldie (Lee Patrick) think they’re hijacking Winston (Lee Tracy) for a suitcase full of bonds on the train, but they find out it was just his inflated sense of the value of his manuscripts, and neighbor Barbara (Joan Woodbury) needn’t have worried, in Crashing Hollywood, 1938.
Crashing Hollywood (1938) -- (Movie Clip) Who's Your Leading Man? Goldie (Lee Patrick), has just picked up Herman (Paul Guilfoyle) from prison, and at the station they meet star Lee Tracy, seeking but not getting insurance for his briefcase, then he meets Barbara (Joan Woodbury), headed for the big time, in RKO’s Crashing Hollywood, 1938.
Wildcat Bus (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Such A Lovely Beginning Ted (Fay Wray), who’s under-cover as a rider with an un-licensed car service that’s trying to put her family bus-line out of business, has discovered that broke ex-playboy Jerry (Charles Lang) is one of their drivers, making trouble then attracting the cops, in the RKO programmer Wildcat Bus, 1940.
Wildcat Bus (1940) -- (Movie Clip) The Magic Wand Has Waved Fay Wray is “Ted,” whose dad (Oscar O’Shea) is grappling with unexplained troubles for their bus line, and after reassuring him, she deals with broke playboy Jerry (Charles Lang) and his ex-chauffeur Donovan (Paul Guilfoyle), looking for work, not realizing she’s the boss, in Wildcat Bus, 1940.
Next Time I Marry (1938) -- (Movie Clip) My Wife Lives In Buffalo Opening scene, Garson Kanin directing Lucille Ball in one of her first top-billed roles, as madcap heiress Nancy who invites WPA ditch-digger "Tony" Anthony (James Ellison) to get married, in the RKO B-comedy Next Time I Marry, 1938.
Next Time I Marry (1938) -- (Movie Clip) I'll Set Fire To This Thing! Having locked kooky heiress Nancy (Lucille Ball) in the trailer, so he can be sure to get to Reno first so that he can initiate divorce proceedings, after she paid him to marry her, Tony (James Ellison) stays cool, Garson Kanin directing, in Next Time I Marry, 1938.

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