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Bryan Foy is a Director, Scriptwriter and Associate Producer American born on 8 december 1896 at Chicago (USA)
Bryan Foy (December 8, 1896 – April 20, 1977) was an American film producer and director. He produced 214 films between 1924 and 1963. He also directed 41 films between 1923 and 1934. He headed the B picture unit at Warner Bros. where he was known as "the keeper of the B's".
He produced the 20th Century Fox war movie Guadalcanal Diary in 1943.
He died in Los Angeles from a heart attack on April 20, 1977. He was buried in Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles.
(1951)
(Producer)
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Nationality USA
Birth 8 december 1896 at Chicago (USA)
Death 20 april 1977 (at 80 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Birth 8 december 1896 at Chicago (USA)
Death 20 april 1977 (at 80 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Bryan Foy (December 8, 1896 – April 20, 1977) was an American film producer and director. He produced 214 films between 1924 and 1963. He also directed 41 films between 1923 and 1934. He headed the B picture unit at Warner Bros. where he was known as "the keeper of the B's".
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He was born in Chicago, Illinois on December 8, 1896. He was the eldest son of the vaudeville star Eddie Foy and appeared with his father in the vaudeville act "Eddie Foy and The Seven Little Foys."He produced the 20th Century Fox war movie Guadalcanal Diary in 1943.
He died in Los Angeles from a heart attack on April 20, 1977. He was buried in Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles.
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The Royal Bed (1931)
Directed by Lowell Sherman, Bryan Foy
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Mary Astor, Lowell Sherman, Anthony Bushell, Nance O'Neil, Hugh Trevor, Robert Warwick
Rating57%
Princess Anne (Mary Astor) plans to run away with Freddie Granton (Anthony Bushell), the commoner secretary of her father, King Eric VIII (Lowell Sherman), once her domineering mother, Queen Martha (Nance O'Neil), has left for a vacation in America. Anne is therefore aghast when the Marquis of Birten (Alan Roscoe) brings news that he has negotiated her political marriage to Prince William of Grec (Hugh Trevor), a man she has never even met. Dismissing Anne's vehement protests, the Queen is delighted, a feeling not shared by Anne's loving but ineffectual father.
, 20minutesDirected by Bryan Foy
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Frank Fay, Lew Cody, Laura La Plante, Alec B. Francis, Mary Carr, Owen Moore
Rating65%
The Gorilla (1930)
, 1h10Directed by Bryan Foy
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror, Crime
Actors Harry Gribbon, Walter Pidgeon, Lila Lee, Purnell Pratt, Edwin Maxwell, Roscoe Karns
Rating48%
The story opens with a murder that has supposedly been caused by a gorilla. Police are only able to catch a glimpse of his black shadow cast against a brick wall before he disappears. Garrity (Frisco) and Mulligan (Gribbon) are two detectives who are hired by Cyrus Stevens (Maxwell) to help protect him from the gorilla as he has just been threatened with a note that indicates that the gorilla will arrive at his home before midnight.
Queen of the Night Clubs (1929)
, 1hDirected by Bryan Foy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Texas Guinan, John Davidson, Lila Lee, John Miljan, Arthur Housman, Eddie Foy, Jr.
Rating74%
After working as a hostess for Nick and Andy, Tex Malone leaves their employ and opens a club of her own. Looking for talent to book for the floor show, Tex hires Bee Walters and thereby breaks up Bee's act with Eddie Parr. Andy spitefully kills Tex's friend, Holland, and young Eddie is arrested for the crime on circumstantial evidence. Tex then learns from Eddie's father, Phil, that Eddie is her long-lost son. At the trial, Tex comes to Eddie's defense and persuades one member of the jury that there is reasonable doubt of Eddie's guilt. The jury repairs to Tex's club, where Tex discovers a piece of evidence that conclusively links Andy with the murder. Eddie is freed, and Tex and Phil get together for a second honeymoon.
Lights of New York (1928)
, 57minutesDirected by Bryan Foy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Helene Costello, Cullen Landis, Eugene Pallette, Mary Carr, Wheeler Oakman, Robert Elliott
Rating57%
When bootleggers Jake Jackson (Walter Percival) and Dan Dickson (Jere Delaney), who have been hiding out in a small upstate New York town, learn that they finally can return to New York, they try to convince a young kid named Eddie Morgan (Cullen Landis) and his friend, a local barber named Gene (Eugene Palette) to come with them.
Anthony and Cleopatra (1924)
Directed by Bryan Foy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Politique, Théâtre, Political films, Films based on plays, Films based on works by William Shakespeare, Films about royalty
Actors Ethel Teare
Scriptwriter
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe (1942)
, 1h7Directed by Harry Lachman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Films about writers, Children's films
Actors Linda Darnell, Shepperd Strudwick, Jane Darwell, Virginia Gilmore, Harry Morgan, Mary Howard
Rating56%
Alcatraz Island (1937)
, 1h3Directed by William C. McGann
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Crime, Romance
Actors John Litel, Ann Sheridan, Mary Maguire, Gordon Oliver, Dick Purcell, Ben Welden
Rating56%
College (1927)
, 1h6Directed by James W. Horne, Buster Keaton
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Buster Keaton, Anne Cornwall, Harold Goodwin, Snitz Edwards, Carl Harbaugh, Florence Turner
Roles Writer
Rating68%
Set in Southern California, the movie opens with Ronald graduating high school as the school’s “most brilliant scholar”. At his graduation, Ronald speaks on “the Curse of the Athlete”, arguing that books are more important than athletics.
The Fortune Hunter (1927)
Directed by Charles Reisner
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Sydney Chaplin, Helene Costello, Clara Horton, Thomas Jefferson, Erville Alderson, Nora Cecil
Roles Writer
Producer
PT 109 (1963)
, 2h20Directed by Leslie H. Martinson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Biography
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, United States Armed Forces in films
Actors Cliff Robertson, Ty Hardin, James Gregory, Robert Culp, Grant Williams, Errol John
Roles Producer
Rating65%
U.S. Navy Lieutenant, junior grade John F. Kennedy (Cliff Robertson) uses his family's influence to get himself assigned to the fighting in the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Theater during World War II, much to the surprise of Commander C.R. Ritchie (James Gregory). Kennedy lobbies for command of a PT Boat, and is assigned to the "109", a badly damaged boat that is in dire need of repair and overhaul. Initially, Ritchie seems to regard the young, inexperienced Kennedy as something of a lightweight, but his enthusiasm to build a crew and refurbish the "109" to operational status eventually earns Ritchie's grudging respect. The crew includes Kennedy's executive officer, Ensign Leonard J. Thom (Ty Hardin), and sailors "Bucky" Harris (Robert Blake) and Edmund Drewitch (Norman Fell).
House of Women (1962)
, 1h25Directed by Crane Wilbur, Walter Doniger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Women in prison films
Actors Shirley Knight, Andrew Duggan, Constance Ford, Barbara Nichols, Margaret Hayes, Jeanne Cooper
Roles Producer
Rating60%
Erica Hayden (Knight) is a young expectant mother who is wrongly implicated in a crime and sent to prison for five years. Erica learns that she must find a guardian for her daughter or she will become a ward of the state. The prison's warden, Frank Cole (Duggan), becomes infatuated with Erica and effectively blocks her chances for a parole.
Directed by Lewis Seiler
Genres Drama, Biography, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about drugs
Actors Betsy Palmer, Jack Lord, Barry Atwater, John Anderson, Gavin MacLeod, Richard Bull
Roles Producer
Rating62%
In a prologue, Edmund "Pat" Brown, who was the California Attorney General at the time of the film's production, makes a statement directly to the viewer, attesting to the veracity of the film's story and to the societal scourge presented by drug trafficking.
Women's Prison (1955)
, 1h19Directed by Lewis Seiler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Prison films, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Women in prison films
Actors Ida Lupino, Jan Sterling, Audrey Totter, Cleo Moore, Phyllis Thaxter, Howard Duff
Roles Producer
Rating64%
A ruthless superintendent of a prison, Amelia van Zandt, makes life hell for the female inmates. Her rules are rigid and she makes no exceptions.