Edmund Grainger


Producer

Biography

Filmography

 

Director (Feature Film)

The Racket (1951)
Fill-in Director of addl scenes
Flying Leathernecks (1951)
Fill-In Director
Pleasure Crazed (1929)
Assistant Director
The Farmer's Daughter (1928)
Assistant Director
The Joy Girl (1927)
Assistant Director

Producer (Feature Film)

Cimarron (1960)
Producer
Home from the Hill (1960)
Producer
Green Mansions (1959)
Producer
Never So Few (1959)
Producer
The Sheepman (1958)
Producer
Torpedo Run (1958)
Producer
Great Day in the Morning (1956)
Presented By
Bundle of Joy (1956)
Producer
Great Day in the Morning (1956)
Producer
The Treasure of Pancho Villa (1955)
Producer
The Treasure of Pancho Villa (1955)
Presented By
The French Line (1954)
Producer
Devil's Canyon (1953)
Producer
Split Second (1953)
Producer
Second Chance (1953)
Executive Producer
One Minute to Zero (1952)
Producer
Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952)
Producer
The Racket (1951)
Producer
Flying Leathernecks (1951)
Producer
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
Associate Producer
Wake of the Red Witch (1948)
Associate Producer
The Fabulous Texan (1947)
Associate Producer
Flying Tigers (1942)
Associate Producer
Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942)
Associate Producer
International Squadron (1941)
Associate Producer
Thieves Fall Out (1941)
Associate Producer
The Smiling Ghost (1941)
Associate Producer
Highway West (1941)
Associate Producer
Steel Against the Sky (1941)
Associate Producer
Knockout (1941)
Associate Producer
Flight from Destiny (1941)
Associate Producer
Flight Angels (1940)
Associate Producer
Tugboat Annie Sails Again (1940)
Associate Producer
The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940)
Associate Producer
Lady with Red Hair (1940)
Associate Producer
The House of Fear (1939)
Associate Producer
The Forgotten Woman (1939)
Associate Producer
Goodbye Broadway (1938)
Associate Producer
Nurse from Brooklyn (1938)
Associate Producer
The Devil's Party (1938)
Associate Producer
Wives Under Suspicion (1938)
Associate Producer
Service De Luxe (1938)
Associate Producer
The Jury's Secret (1938)
Associate Producer
The Crime of Doctor Hallet (1938)
Associate Producer
The Road to Reno (1938)
Associate Producer
The Crime of Dr. Hallett (1938)
Producer
The Road Back (1937)
Associate Producer
We Have Our Moments (1937)
Associate Producer
Let Them Live (1937)
Associate Producer
Prescription for Romance (1937)
Associate Producer
Breezing Home (1937)
Associate Producer
A Girl with Ideas (1937)
Associate Producer
Oh, Doctor (1937)
Associate Producer
The Lady Fights Back (1937)
Associate Producer
Flying Hostess (1936)
Associate Producer
The Magnificent Brute (1936)
Associate Producer
Love Before Breakfast (1936)
Associate Producer
It Happened in New York (1935)
Associate Producer
Diamond Jim (1935)
Associate Producer
Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935)
Associate Producer
Madame Spy (1934)
Associate Producer
Affairs of a Gentleman (1934)
Associate Producer
Half a Sinner (1934)
Associate Producer
The Rainbow Trail (1932)
Associate Producer
The Gay Caballero (1932)
Associate Producer
Fair Warning (1931)
Associate Producer
A Holy Terror (1931)
Associate Producer
Riders of the Purple Sage (1931)
Associate Producer
Not Exactly Gentlemen (1931)
Associate Producer

Production Companies (Feature Film)

Devil's Canyon (1953)
Company
Split Second (1953)
Company
Love Before Breakfast (1936)
Company
The Invisible Ray (1936)
Company
Sutter's Gold (1936)
Company
Diamond Jim (1935)
Company
The Great Impersonation (1935)
Company

Life Events

Videos

Movie Clip

Torpedo Run (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Good Old Fujiyama Sighting land in their chase after a Japanese battleship, Sloan (Ernest Borgnine) and Commander Doyle (Glenn Ford) elect to surface, with Lt. Foley (Dean Jones) running late, in Torpedo Run, 1958.
Torpedo Run (1958) -- (Movie Clip) Rough On The Skipper Opening scene, clearly tormented submarine Commander Doyle (Glenn Ford) takes out a Japanese ship with one shot, supported by executive officer Sloan (Ernest Borgnine), in Torpedo Run, 1958, from a story by Richard Sale.
Torpedo Run (1958) -- (Movie Clip) I'm A Bad Risk Ending a sequence in which Cmdr. Doyle (Glenn Ford) had to torpedo the transport ship carrying his wife and daughter, because it was used to “screen” a Japanese ship he was obligated to attack, a flashback to his courtship with Jane (Diane Brewster), with his best-buddy Lt. Archie Sloan (Ernest Borgnine), in Torpedo Run, 1958.
Never So Few (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, In The Hills Of North Burma Handy cast I-D shots are featured in the opening to John Sturges' World War Two Burma adventure Never So Few, 1959, starring Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lawford and Steve McQueen.
Love Before Breakfast (1936) -- (Movie Clip) She Ran After An Old Airedale Engaged New Yorkers Kay (Carole Lombard) and Bill (Cesar Romero), introduced here, have no idea that zillionaire Scott (Preston Foster) is behind the job offer that’s got him rushing for the boat to Japan, all meeting with the kooky countess (Betty Lawford) at the pier, early in Love Before Breakfast, 1936.
Love Before Breakfast (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Where'd You Get This Blue Eye? Carole Lombard as socialite Kay was accidentally clobbered by her rich suitor Scott (Preston Foster) the night before, so she visits Charles (George Andre Beranger) at the salon, only to find he?s not given up, in Universal?s Love Before Breakfast, 1936.
Love Before Breakfast (1936) -- (Movie Clip) Is That A Name Or A Condition? Another big outfit for Carole Lomard, as society gal Kay, with her mother (Janet Beecher), who is sort of supporting Scott (Preston Foster), her rich and rejected would-be boyfriend, who has already intercepted her date Stu (Don Briggs), in Love Before Breakfast, 1936.
Cimarron (1960) -- (Movie Clip) You're Gonna Get Buried Here Bustle on April 21, 1889, eve of the Oklahoma Land Rush, Yancey and Sabra (Glenn Ford, Maria Schell) meet his old friends the Peglers (Robert Keith, Aline MacMahon) and intervene as Yountis (Charles McGraw) and thugs hassle an Indian (Ben Red Feather) and family, also Harry Morgan as Jesse, in Cimarron, 1960.
Bundle Of Joy (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Worry About Tomorrow The married co-stars Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds haven't yet met, story-wise, so they split the opening song by Josef Myrow and Mack Gordon, in Bundle Of Joy, the 1956 musical re-make of Bachelor Mother, 1939.
Bundle Of Joy (1956) -- (Movie Clip) All About Love Department store kingpin Merlin (Adolphe Menjou) getting sentimental with his loyal son Dan (Eddie Fisher), who then joins the staff for a tune by Josef Myrow and Mack Gordon, early in Bundle Of Joy, 1956, mostly financed by Fisher and co-starring his wife, Debbie Reynolds.
Bundle Of Joy (1956) -- (Movie Clip) Your Charming Character Shopgirl Polly (Debbie Reynolds), dismissed and wrongly assumed to be the mother of a foundling, deals with colleague Freddie (Tommy Noonan) then with Dan (Eddie Fisher, Reynolds' husband), the conscientious son of the boss, in Bundle Of Joy, 1956.
Cimarron (1960) -- (Movie Clip) All Them Too-Sooners Rolling from Kansas for the 1889 Oklahoma Land Rush, newlyweds Yancey and Sabra (Glenn Ford, Maria Schell) meet the Wyatt’s (Arthur O’Connell, Mercedes McCambridge) and brood, and John Pickard the cavalry captain organizing the event, in producer Edmund Grainger’s Cimarron, 1960.

Family

James R Grainger
Family
Pioneer film executive.

Bibliography