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Archie Mayo is a Director American born on 29 january 1891 at New York City (USA)

Archie Mayo

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Birth name Archibald L. Mayo
Nationality USA
Birth 29 january 1891 at New York City (USA)
Death 4 december 1968 (at 77 years) at Guadalajara (Mexique)

Archie Mayo (29 janvier 1891 à New York - 4 décembre 1968 à Guadalajara, Mexique) est un réalisateur américain de cinéma.

Biography

Archibald L. "Archie" Mayo a étudié à l'université de Columbia, qu'il a quitté pour débuter une carrière de théâtre. En 1915 Archie intègre Hollywood. Son premier travail consistait à écrire des gags pour des comédies, il est ensuite devenu scénariste de courts-métrages dans les années 1920. Avec l'avènement du film parlant Archie Mayo devient réalisateur pour les studios de la Warner.

Parmi ses films notables on peut citer Au seuil de l'enfer (The Doorway to Hell) avec James Cagney en 1930, qui fixera les codes des films de gangsters, Illicit, pamphlet anti-mariage avec Barbara Stanwyck en 1931, Svengali un film dans lequel John Barrymore incarne une sorte de mage aux pouvoirs paranormaux, (1931), La Forêt pétrifiée (The Petrified Forest) en 1936 avec Humphrey Bogart et Bette Davis et Une nuit à Casablanca film délirant avec les Marx Brothers surfant sur le succès du Casablanca de Michael Curtiz.

Mayo a pris sa retraite en 1946, peu de temps après la fin du tournage de L'Évadé de l'enfer (Angel on My Shoulder) avec Paul Muni, Anne Baxter et Claude Rains.

Il est réapparu en 1968 dans l'industrie du film en tant que producteur et mourut la même année d'un cancer à Guadalajara au Mexique. Il est enterré au Hollywood Forever Cemetery.


Vie privée
Archie Mayo a été marié à Lucille Wolfe. Le mariage a duré jusqu'au décès de cette dernière le 24 février 1945.

Best films

Moontide
Moontide
(1942)
(Director) Svengali
Svengali
(1931)
(Director)

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Archie Mayo (57 films)

Display filmography as list

Director

A Night in Casablanca
A Night in Casablanca (1946)
, 1h25
Directed by Archie Mayo
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films set in Africa
Actors Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Charles Drake, Sig Ruman, Dan Seymour
Rating68% 3.447973.447973.447973.447973.44797
Set in Casablanca shortly after World War II, escaped Nazi war criminal Heinrich Stubel (Sig Ruman) has steadily murdered three different managers of the Hotel Casablanca. Disguised as a Count Pfferman, Stubel's goal is to reclaim the stolen art treasures that he has hidden in the hotel. However, the only way he can do this undetected is by murdering the hotel's managers and running the hotel himself.
Angel on My Shoulder
Angel on My Shoulder (1946)
, 1h40
Directed by Archie Mayo
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Romance
Themes Films about religion, Films about angels
Actors Paul Muni, Anne Baxter, Claude Rains, Erskine Sanford, Onslow Stevens, James Flavin
Rating67% 3.396233.396233.396233.396233.39623
After his release from prison, gangster Eddie Kagle (Paul Muni) is killed by his partner in crime, Smiley Williams (Hardie Albright). Kagle ends up in Hell, where "Nick" (Claude Rains) offers him a chance to escape hell and avenge his own death in exchange for help with a problem. Kagle looks exactly like Judge Frederick Parker, an upright man who is causing Nick distress because he is entirely too honest. Nick fears that Parker may cause him more anxiety in future, as he is running for governor of his state. Nick wants to destroy Parker's reputation and Kagle readily agrees to have his soul transferred into Parker's body.
Crash Dive
Crash Dive (1943)
, 1h46
Directed by Otto Brower, Archie Mayo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, La bataille de l'Atlantique, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Political films, Children's films
Actors Tyrone Power, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, James Gleason, May Whitty, Harry Morgan
Rating62% 3.1483753.1483753.1483753.1483753.148375
A US Navy submarine, the USS Corsair, is operating in the North Atlantic, hunting German merchant raiders that are preying on Allied shipping. Its new executive officer, Lt. Ward Stewart (Tyrone Power), has been transferred back into submarines after commanding his own PT boat. At the submarine base in New London, Connecticut, he asks his new captain, Lt. Cmdr. Dewey Connors (Dana Andrews), for a weekend leave to settle his affairs before taking up his new assignment. On a train bound for Washington D.C., Stewart accidentally encounters New London school teacher Jean Hewlett (Anne Baxter) and her students. Despite her initial resistance to his efforts, he charms her and they fall in love.
Moontide
Moontide (1942)
, 1h35
Directed by Fritz Lang, Archie Mayo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Jean Gabin, Ida Lupino, Thomas Mitchell, Claude Rains, Jerome Cowan, Ralph Byrd
Rating67% 3.394833.394833.394833.394833.39483
The film tells about a man who fears he has committed a murder when he was drunk.
Orchestra Wives
Orchestra Wives (1942)
, 1h38
Directed by Archie Mayo
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors George Montgomery, Ann Rutherford, Lynn Bari, Cesar Romero, Marion Hutton, Virginia Gilmore
Rating67% 3.3931753.3931753.3931753.3931753.393175
Connie Ward (Ann Rutherford) is a young woman who on the spur of the moment marries Bill Abbott (George Montgomery), a trumpet player in Gene Morrison's (Glenn Miller) swing band (Miller's character was given a name with initials that matched Miller's so that the band could use their monogrammed stainless-steel music stands). She soon finds herself at odds with the cattiness and petty jealousies of the other band members' spouses, as they accompany their husbands on their cross-country train tour. Her discomfort is exacerbated by a flirtation between Abbott and Jaynie (Lynn Bari), the band's female vocalist. When Ward eventually walks out on Abbott, their split releases so many other tensions among the musicians and their wives, that leader Morrison is forced to break up the orchestra. Ward and the band's pianist Sinjin (Cesar Romero) then work behind the scenes to reunite the band, which also produces a reconciliation between Ward and Abbott (with additional help from Connie's father (Grant Mitchell)).
Charley's Aunt
Charley's Aunt (1941)
, 1h20
Directed by Archie Mayo
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Films based on plays, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Jack Benny, Kay Francis, Anne Baxter, James Ellison, Edmund Gwenn, Reginald Owen
Rating67% 3.3912953.3912953.3912953.3912953.391295
Babbs, Charley et Jack, étudiants à Oxford, forment un trio que rien n'arrête. Charley et Jack rêvant d'obtenir Un rendez-vous avec deux jeunes filles, il leur faut un chaperon. Les 3 compères ne trouvent rien de mieux que de déguiser Babbs en femme et de prétendre qu'il est la tante de Charley....
Confirm or Deny
Confirm or Deny (1941)
, 1h13
Directed by Fritz Lang, Archie Mayo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, Children's films
Actors Don Ameche, Joan Bennett, Roddy McDowall, Raymond Walburn, John Loder, Eric Blore
Rating63% 3.1926853.1926853.1926853.1926853.192685
American war correspondent Mitchell is stationed in London in September 1940, working for Consolidated Press of America. Mitch is ambitious to get his news of the coming German invasion over to his editor in America as fast as possible. He starts using Sir Titus Scott's wire from Penzance in Cornwall to save forty minutes, and two carrier pigeons, operated by young Albert Perkins and the elderly Mr. Bindle to get his reports to the wire station.
The House Across the Bay
The House Across the Bay (1940)
, 1h28
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Archie Mayo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors George Raft, Joan Bennett, Lloyd Nolan, Walter Pidgeon, Gladys George, June Knight
Rating64% 3.238223.238223.238223.238223.23822
Un concepteur d'avions tombe pour la femme d'un gangster emprisonné.
They Shall Have Music
They Shall Have Music (1939)
, 1h45
Directed by Reginald Le Borg, Archie Mayo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Joel McCrea, Andrea Leeds, Gene Reynolds, Walter Brennan, Porter Hall, Terry Kilburn
Rating68% 3.43453.43453.43453.43453.4345
Youngster Frankie (Gene Reynolds) and his small gang commit petty crimes in their New York City tenement neighborhood, such as stealing bicycles and taking money from other boys. One of those boys, Willy (Tommy Kelly), complains to his father about this, who takes the matter to Frankie's mother (Marjorie Main) and stepfather (Arthur Hohl). Frankie finds an old violin in his basement which he used to play when his father was around. He then pawns it to get some money to put in the gang's treasury.
The Real Glory
The Real Glory (1939)
, 1h35
Directed by Henry Hathaway, Stuart Heisler, Archie Mayo
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action
Actors Gary Cooper, David Niven, Andrea Leeds, Reginald Owen, Broderick Crawford, Kay Johnson
Rating64% 3.246033.246033.246033.246033.24603
In 1906, Alipang (Tetsu Komai) and his Muslim Moro guerrillas are terrorizing the people of the Philippine island of Mindanao, raiding villages, killing the men, and carrying off the women and children for slaves. Instead of maintaining garrisons indefinitely to protect the Filipinos, the U.S. army tests out a new tactic at Fort Mysang. The army detachment is replaced by a handful of officers – Colonel Hatch (Roy Gordon), Captains Manning (Russell Hicks) and Hartley (Reginald Owen), and Lieutenants McCool (David Niven) and Larsen (Broderick Crawford) - who are to train the native Philippine Constabulary to take over the burden. Army doctor Lieutenant Canavan (Gary Cooper) is sent along to keep them healthy. They are welcomed by a skeptical Padre Rafael (Charles Waldron).
The Adventures of Marco Polo
The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)
, 1h44
Directed by John Ford, Archie Mayo
Origin USA
Genres Biography, Adventure, Historical, Romance
Actors Gary Cooper, Sigrid Gurie, Basil Rathbone, George Barbier, Alan Hale, Ernest Truex
Rating56% 2.8041352.8041352.8041352.8041352.804135
Nicolo Polo shows treasures from China and sends his son Marco Polo (Gary Cooper) there with his assistant (and comic relief) Binguccio (Ernest Truex). They sail from Venice, are shipwrecked, and cross the desert of Persia and the mountains of Tibet to China, to seek out Peking and the palace of China's ruler, Kublai Khan (George Barbier).