Wesley Ruggles
Wesley Ruggles (June 11, 1889 – January 8, 1972) was an American film director. He was born in Los Angeles, a younger brother of actor Charles Ruggles. He began his career in 1915 as an actor, appearing in a dozen or so silent films, on occasion with Charles Chaplin. In 1917, he turned his attention to directing, making more than 50 mostly forgettable films — including a silent film version of Edith Wharton's novel The Age of Innocence (1924) — before he won acclaim with Cimarron in 1931. The adaptation of Edna Ferber's novel Cimarron, about homesteaders settling in the prairies of Oklahoma, was the first Western to win an Academy Award as Best Picture. Although Ruggles followed this success with the light comedy No Man of Her Own (1932) with Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, the comedy I'm No Angel (1933) with Mae West and Cary Grant , College Humor (1933) with Bing Crosby, and Bolero (1934) with George Raft and Carole Lombard, few of his later films were in any way memorable (an exception is Arizona). His career was on the downslide when he teamed with the Rank Organisation in 1946 to produce and direct London Town with Sid Field and Petula Clark, based on a story he wrote. The film — British cinema's first attempt at a Technicolor musical extravaganza — is notable as being one of the biggest critical and commercial failures in that country's film history. Ironically, Ruggles had been hired to helm it because as an American, it was thought, he was better equipped to handle a musical — despite the fact that nothing in his past had prepared him to work in the genre. It was his last film. An abridged version was released in the U.S. under the title My Heart Goes Crazy by United Artists in 1953. Ruggles died in 1972 in Santa Monica and was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. Description above from the Wikipedia article Wesley Ruggles, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
The Pawnshop
(Ring Client (uncredited))
A Night in the Show
(Second Man in Balcony Front Row)
Police
(Jailbird and Thief)
Shanghaied
(Shipowner)
Triple Trouble
(Crook)
Her Painted Hero
(Effeminate Party Guest (uncredited))
A Submarine Pirate
(His accomplice / Sub Officer)
A Lover's Lost Control
(Shoe Clerk)
Her Torpedoed Love
(Messenger Inside the House)
Behind the Screen
(Actor (uncredited))
The Floorwalker
(Policeman (uncredited))
Caught in a Park
(The Cop)
Gussle's Wayward Path
(Clergyman)
Beatrice Fairfax
(#15 Wristwatches)
Gussle Rivals Jonah
(Ship Steward / Ship Passenger)
A Trip Through the World's Greatest Motion Picture Studios
(Himself)
A Burlesque on the Opera Carmen
Sooner or Later
(Director)
Finders Keepers
(Director)
I'm No Angel
(Director)
Arizona
(Director)
No Man of Her Own
(Director)
Cimarron
(Director)
Somewhere I'll Find You
(Director)
Invitation to Happiness
(Director)
Invitation to Happiness
(Producer)
The Gilded Lily
(Director)
The Desperate Hero
(Director)
You Belong to Me
(Director)
You Belong to Me
(Producer)
Condemned!
(Director)
Too Many Husbands
(Director)
Street Girl
(Director)
See Here, Private Hargrove
(Director)
The Bride Comes Home
(Director)
True Confession
(Director)
Sing, You Sinners
(Director)
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
(Director)
I Met Him in Paris
(Director)
Piccadilly Jim
(Director)
Hooked at the Altar
(Director)
The Relay
(Director)
Slightly Dangerous
(Director)
The Plastic Age
(Director)
Bolero
(Director)
College Humor
(Director)
The Last Lap
(Director)
The Cinder Path
(Director)
Shoot the Works
(Director)
Accent on Youth
(Director)
Are These Our Children?
(Director)
Roar of the Dragon
(Director)
The Age of Innocence
(Director)
I Met Him in Paris
(Producer)
A Man of Quality
(Director)
London Town
(Director)
London Town
(Producer)
London Town
(Story)
Wild Honey
(Director)
Mr. Billings Spends His Dime
(Director)
Cimarron
(Producer)
The Bride Comes Home
(Producer)
If I Were Queen
(Director)
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie
(Producer)
The Collegians
(Director)
Are These Our Children?
(Story)
The Monkey's Paw
(Director)
The Sea Bat
(Producer)
The Sea Bat
(Director)
The Leopard Woman
(Director)
Too Many Husbands
(Producer)
Honey
(Director)
Around the Bases
(Director)
Breaking Records
(Director)
The Fourflusher
(Director)
Somewhere I'll Find You
(Writer)
Girl Overboard
(Director)
A Broadway Lady
(Director)
Flashing Oars
(Director)
The Heart Raider
(Director)
Love
(Director)
The Incredible World of James Bond
(Associate Producer)
Arizona
(Producer)
The Plastic Age
(Continuity)
Uncharted Seas
(Director)
Street Girl
(Producer)
Sing, You Sinners
(Producer)
Slippy McGee
(Director)
Scandal
(Director)
Beware of Widows
(Director)
Outcast
(Assistant Director)
Mississippi
(Co-Director)
The Cross Country Run
(Director)