Roy Rowland (film director)
Roy Rowland (December 31, 1910 – June 29, 1995) was an American film director. The New York-born director helmed a number of films in the 1950s and 1960s including Our Vines Have Tender Grapes, Meet Me in Las Vegas, Rogue Cop, The 5000 Fingers of Doctor T and The Girl Hunters.[1] Rowland married Ruth Cummings, the niece of Louis B. Mayer and sister of Jack Cummings (MGM producer/director). They had one son, Steve Rowland, born in 1932, who later became a music producer in the UK, and has recently published his memoir Hollywood Heat.
Rowland, before becoming involved in film, studied law at U.S.C. He later got work as a script clerk for MGM. This eventually led him to becoming a film director. Rowland started to direct one-reel and two reel films before moving on to feature films in 1943. In the mid-1960s Rowland directed three spaghetti westerns before retiring from film directing.
Partial filmography
- Hollywood Party (1934) co-director
- A Night at the Movies (1937) short film with Robert Benchley
- A Stranger in Town (1943)
- Lost Angel (1943)
- Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945)
- The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947)
- Killer McCoy (1947)
- Scene of the Crime (1949)
- Two Weeks with Love (1950)
- The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953)
- Affair with a Stranger (1953)
- Rogue Cop (1954)
- Witness to Murder (1954)
- Light's Diamond Jubilee (1954, TV special, with 6 other directors)
- Hit the Deck (1955)
- Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956)
- These Wilder Years (1956)
- The Girl Hunters (1963)
- Gunfighters of Casa Grande (1964)
- Sie nannten ihn Gringo (1965)