Robert Emmett Tansey

Highest Rated: 80% Here Comes the Navy (1934)

Lowest Rated: 80% Here Comes the Navy (1934)

Birthday: Jun 28, 1897

Birthplace: Not Available

On stage from the age of four, Robert Emmett Tansey was the son of vaudevillians John Tansey and Emma Tansey (née Purcell). Young Tansey made his screen debut at the age of 14 in 1911, but adolescence raised its ugly head and he returned to the legitimate stages. He was back in harness after World War I (using the names Al Lane or Bert Tansey), and later gained a modicum of fame as a true jack-of-all-trades, low-budget style. Using several variations of his given name, including Robert Emmett and Bob Tansey, Tansey went on to supervise, assistant direct, direct, write, produce, and even compose the scores of low-budget Westerns and action melodramas, working with very little other than gusto and a remarkable ability to churn them out fast and furious. Never candidates for any awards, Tansey's films were high on action but low on credibility, thespian prowess, bankable stars, and other Hollywood niceties. Yet he worked continuously between the dawn of sound and the early '50s, often employing brothers Sherry Tansey (aka James Sheridan) and John Tansey, and mother Emma Tansey.

Highest Rated Movies

Here Comes the Navy
80%

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
No Score Yet	Lap Dancer	Actor	—	1995
No Score Yet	Adventure of the Texas Kid: Border Ambush	Director Screenwriter	—	1954
No Score Yet	Stars Over Texas	Director	—	1946
No Score Yet	Colorado Serenade	Director	—	1946
No Score Yet	Driftin' River	Director	—	1946
No Score Yet	Prairie Outlaws	Director	—	1946
No Score Yet	Death Valley Rangers	Director	—	1943
No Score Yet	Wild Horse Stampede	Producer	—	1943
No Score Yet	Tumbleweed Trail	Director	—	1942
No Score Yet	Lone Star Law Men	Screenwriter	—	1942
No Score Yet	Arizona Roundup	Screenwriter	—	1942
No Score Yet	Silver Stallion	Screenwriter	—	1941
No Score Yet	The Man from Texas	Screenwriter	—	1939
No Score Yet	Across the Plains	Screenwriter	—	1939
No Score Yet	Gunsmoke Trail	Screenwriter	—	1938
No Score Yet	Where Trails Divide	Screenwriter	—	1937
No Score Yet	God's Country and the Man	Screenwriter	—	1937
No Score Yet	Sing, Cowboy, Sing	Screenwriter	—	1937
No Score Yet	Trouble in Texas	Screenwriter	—	1937
No Score Yet	Hittin' the Trail	Screenwriter	—	1937
No Score Yet	Riders of the Rockies	Screenwriter	—	1937
No Score Yet	Headin' for the Rio Grande	Screenwriter	—	1936
No Score Yet	Song of the Gringo	Screenwriter	—	1936
No Score Yet	The Oregon Trail	Screenwriter	—	1936
No Score Yet	Pinto Rustlers	Screenwriter	—	1936
No Score Yet	Men of the Plains	Screenwriter	—	1936
No Score Yet	Law of the 45's	Screenwriter	—	1935
No Score Yet	The New Frontier	Screenwriter	—	1935
No Score Yet	Westward Ho	Screenwriter	—	1935
No Score Yet	Paradise Canyon	Screenwriter	—	1935
No Score Yet	Timber Terrors	Screenwriter	—	1935
80%	Here Comes the Navy	Actor	—	1934

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