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Arthur Rosson is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, General Manager, Assistant Director and Second Unit American born on 24 august 1886 at Pau (France)

Arthur Rosson

Arthur Rosson
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Nationality USA
Birth 24 august 1886 at Pau (France)
Death 17 june 1960 (at 73 years) at Los Angeles (USA)

Arthur Rosson (24 August 1886 – 17 June 1960) was an English film director. He directed 61 films between 1917 and 1948. He also worked on many major films as a second unit director until 1960, particularly for Cecil B. DeMille.

Biography

Arthur Henry Rosson Sr born 14 June 1897, was the first child born of Jockey Horse Trainer Arthur Richard Rosson (1857-1935) & Hellen (née) Rochefort (1860-1933)
was born in Pau, France of British parents and died in Los Angeles, California. Rosson came from a film-making family. His brother, Harold Rosson, was an Academy Award-nominated cinematographer and several other family members were involved in the early film industry. He was also the brother of silent film actress Helene Rosson and actor and director Richard Rosson.


Siblings
The six children of Arthur Richard Rosson and Hellen Rochefort. Arthur Richard Rosson was also married to one Anna Hatz but no current data of siblings.


Arthur Henry Rosson Arthur Rosson 1886 – 1960
Ethel (Queenie) Rosson Queenie Rosson1889 – 1978
Gladys Rosson 1891 – 1953
Richard Marquez Rosson Richard Rosson 1893 – 1953
Harold G (Hal) Rosson Harold Rosson 1895 – 1988
Helene M Rosson 1897 – 1985 Helene Rosson

Best films

The Ten Commandments (1956)
(Assistant Director)
The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
(Second Unit Director)
Red River (1948)
(Director)
Unconquered (1947)
(Director)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
(Director)
Wild Is the Wind (1957)
(Director)

Usually with

Allan Dwan
Allan Dwan
(13 films)
Lane Chandler
Lane Chandler
(10 films)
Anne Bauchens
Anne Bauchens
(10 films)
Howard Hawks
Howard Hawks
(4 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Arthur Rosson (56 films)

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Actor

The Lie
The Lie (1914)
, 20minutes
Directed by Allan Dwan
Origin USA
Actors Murdock MacQuarrie, Pauline Bush, Lon Chaney, Richard Rosson, Arthur Rosson, James Neill
Roles Fortunate Youth

Auld MacGregor, un Écossais très pieux et dogmatique, se trouve face à un dilemme pour sauver sa fille...
The Mystery of Yellow Aster Mine, 20minutes
Directed by Frank Borzage
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Actors Wallace Reid, Pauline Bush, Arthur Rosson, Frank Borzage
Roles Rosson - Reid's Brother

Criminals
Criminals (1913)
, 16minutes
Directed by Allan Dwan
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Murdock MacQuarrie, Pauline Bush, Arthur Rosson, Richard Rosson, Jessalyn Van Trump
Roles disciple de Wainwright

A Cure for Pokeritis, 13minutes
Directed by Laurence Trimble
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Jeu, Poker
Actors John Bunny, Flora Finch, Leah Baird, Charles Eldridge, Arthur Rosson, James W. Morrison
Roles the costumer
Rating51% 2.564452.564452.564452.564452.56445
Upon returning home from an evening spent losing at poker, George Brown swears off gambling forever. However, his friend Bigelow convinces him to secretly continue attending the weekly poker game and to tell his wife Mary that he has been admitted to the Sons of the Morning, a fraternal lodge, to explain his absences. When George talks in his sleep, she becomes suspicious and has her cousin Freddie Dewdrop follow him, allowing her to learn the truth. Together with the wives of the other poker players, she enacts a plan to end the gambling. Freddie and the members of his Bible study group dress up as police officers and raid the game. The gamblers' wives then arrive, and the police leave the men to be scolded, purportedly in place of being arrested. As the film ends, the Browns reconcile.

Director

Heller in Pink Tights, 1h40
Directed by George Cukor, Arthur Rosson
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Themes Théâtre
Actors Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn, Steve Forrest, Margaret O'Brien, Ramón Novarro, Eileen Heckart
Rating58% 2.949722.949722.949722.949722.94972
In the 1880s, followed by bill collectors, the Healy Dramatic Company arrives in Cheyenne to play at the west’s grandest theater. Continental actress, Angela, and owner-manager, Tom Healy, head a troupe that includes Della as ingenue, her mother, a character actress, Lorna, and a grand old Shakespearean ham, Doc Montague. After a creditor arrives, Angela collects a night’s receipt from a man named, Pierce, the theater owner. She risks it all in a poker game with gunslinger Clint Mabry, puts herself up as collateral, and loses.
Wild Is the Wind, 1h54
Directed by George Cukor, Arthur Rosson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Films about families
Actors Anna Magnani, Anthony Quinn, Anthony Franciosa, Dolores Hart, Joseph Calleia, Franklyn Farnum
Rating65% 3.296953.296953.296953.296953.29695
Gino, quadragénaire d’origine italienne devenu un florissant propriétaire terrien et éleveur de moutons de l’État du Nevada, ne s’est jamais remis de la mort de sa femme Rossana. C’est pour cela qu’il a demandé par correspondance à Gioia, sœur de la défunte, de devenir sa femme sans toutefois l’avoir jamais rencontrée, car celle-ci vit en Italie. Gioia répond par l’affirmative et Gino va en Italie où il l’épouse puis revient avec elle au ranch familial. On comprend qu’il cherche un substitut à sa très regrettée première femme et incite d’ailleurs Gioia à se comporter comme la défunte. Or elle ne ressemble en rien à sa sœur, ni physiquement ni comme une femme discrète et soumise... Elle se confronte fréquemment à Gino malgré l’affection qu’elle éprouve pour lui alors qu’il ne lui témoigne qu’une triviale attention les moments où il ne la confond pas avec la défunte.
The Naked Jungle, 1h35
Directed by Arthur Rosson, Byron Haskin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Films about animals, La fin du monde, Natural horror films, Films about insects, Disaster films, Film de catastrophe animalière
Actors Eleanor Parker, Charlton Heston, Abraham Sofaer, William Conrad, Douglas Fowley, Romo Vincent
Rating66% 3.3455053.3455053.3455053.3455053.345505
In 1901, mail order bride Joanna (Eleanor Parker) arrives from New Orleans at a South American cocoa plantation to meet her new husband, plantation owner Christopher Leiningen (Charlton Heston), whom she has married by proxy.
Red River
Red River (1948)
, 2h6
Directed by Howard Hawks, Arthur Rosson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Actors John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Walter Brennan, Joanne Dru, Coleen Gray, John Ireland
Rating77% 3.8959653.8959653.8959653.8959653.895965
Thomas Dunson (John Wayne) is a stubborn man who wants nothing more than to start up a successful cattle ranch in Texas. Shortly after he begins his journey to Texas with his trail hand, Nadine Groot (Walter Brennan), Dunson learns that his love interest (Coleen Gray), whom he had told to stay behind with the wagon train with the understanding that he would send for her later, was killed in an Indian attack. Despite this tragedy, Dunson and Groot press on. That night, Dunson and Groot, keeping watch, hear a group of Indians planning to attack them. They kill the Indians, and on the wrist of one, Dunson finds a bracelet he had been left by his late mother. One day before, he had presented it to his young love as he left the wagon train. The bracelet reappears significantly later in the film.
Blood on the Moon, 1h28
Directed by Robert Wise, Arthur Rosson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Romance, Western
Actors Robert Mitchum, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Preston, Walter Brennan, Phyllis Thaxter, Frank Faylen
Rating68% 3.442313.442313.442313.442313.44231
Cowboy drifter Jim Garry is summoned by his friend, smooth-talking Tate Riling. Garry rides into an Indian reservation and finds himself in the middle of a conflict between a cattle owner and some homesteaders. He meets cattle owner John Lufton, and eventually his daughters Amy and Carol. The Luftons suspect that Garry is on Riling's side and are initially hostile, especially Amy. Garry readily admits that he is going to work for his friend.
The Man from Colorado, 1h40
Directed by Henry Levin, Arthur Rosson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Themes Political films
Actors Glenn Ford, William Holden, Ellen Drew, Ray Collins, Edgar Buchanan, Jerome Courtland
Rating66% 3.3472653.3472653.3472653.3472653.347265
In Colorado near the end of the American Civil War, Union Colonel Owen Devereaux (Ford) orders his regiment to fire on a detachment of Confederate soldiers, even though he (and only he) has seen that they are signaling their surrender with a white flag. Afterward, his best friend and second-in-command, Captain Del Stewart (Holden), finds the flag and buries it as a surviving Confederate officer secretly looks on.
Unconquered, 2h26
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, Arthur Rosson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Historical, Romance, Western
Actors Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva, Boris Karloff, Henry Wilcoxon, Cecil Kellaway
Rating68% 3.442233.442233.442233.442233.44223
Based on Neil Swanson's Unconquered, a Novel of the Pontiac Conspiracy, the film focuses on "Abby" Hale (Paulette Goddard), who is condemned to death by a British court, then offered clemency if she will become an indentured servant in America. There is a bidding competition between Captain Christopher Holden (Gary Cooper) and Martin Garth (Howard Da Silva), which Holden wins. He then sets her free. Unfortunately, Garth is a sore loser; he kidnaps Abby and takes her to the western frontier, where he is involved in illegal arms sales to the Native Americans. Soon, Holden becomes involved in the conflict with the warring tribes and is reunited with Abby; he also has further confrontations with Garth and his henchman (Mike Mazurki).
The Story of Dr. Wassell, 2h20
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, Arthur Rosson, Oscar Rudolph
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Political films
Actors Gary Cooper, Laraine Day, Signe Hasso, Dennis O'Keefe, Paul Kelly, Carol Thurston
Rating65% 3.29443.29443.29443.29443.2944
Lors de l'offensive japonaise en Indonésie, un médecin originaire de l'Arkansas, le Dr Wassell, chercheur passionné engagé dans la Marine se consacre à soigner les blessés américains d'un navire coulé par les Japonais. Au moment ce l'offensive japonaise sur Java un navire accepte d'embarquer les blessés capables de marcher mais pas la petite douzaine sur des civières. Le Dr Wassell reste avec eux, les ramène à l'hôpital de campagne plusieurs fois bombardé, parvient à les faire transporter par un convoi anglais à travers la jungle, use de la ruse pour les faire monter à bord d'un cargo surchargé et arrive enfin en Australie.
Reap the Wild Wind, 2h3
Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, Arthur Rosson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard, Robert Preston, Susan Hayward, Charles Bickford
Rating65% 3.2975453.2975453.2975453.2975453.297545
Au milieu du XIX siècle, seuls les grands voiliers ont la possibilité, avant l'arrivée du chemin de fer, d'assurer la liaison entre le Nord-Est des États-Unis et la vallée du Mississippi. Mais il faut tenir compte des récifs de Floride, où s'échouent les navires. Pilleurs d'épaves et sauveteurs s'affrontent...