Roy Rowland

Highest Rated: 82% The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953)

Lowest Rated: 67% Hit the Deck (1955)

Birthday: Dec 31, 1910

Birthplace: Not Available

After studying law at U.S.C., Roy Rowland came to Hollywood, where he secured a job as a script clerk at MGM. While still in his early twenties, Rowland joined the directorial staff of the MGM's short subjects unit. He turned out entries in such one- and two-reel series as The Pete Smith Specialties and Crime Does Not Pay, and also worked harmoniously with humorist Robert Benchley, directing virtually all of Benchley's short comedies for MGM. Promoted to feature films in 1943, Rowland helmed such worthwhile endeavors as Lost Angel (1944) and Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945). His most celebrated effort of the 1950s (though decidedly not the most profitable) was the elaborate Dr. Seuss-scripted musical fantasy The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (Columbia, 1953). During the 1960s, Rowland directed the British Mickey Spillane adaptation The Girl Hunters (1964), then produced and directed a handful of European spaghetti Westerns. Married to Laura Cummings, the niece of Louis B. Mayer and sister of MGM producer/director Jack Cummings, Roy Rowland was the father of actor Steve Rowland.

Highest Rated Movies

The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T
82%
Hit the Deck
67%

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
No Score Yet	Sie nannten ihn Gringo (Man Called Gringo)	Director	—	1965
No Score Yet	Gunfighters of Casa Grande	Director	—	1964
No Score Yet	The Girl Hunters	Director Screenwriter	—	1963
No Score Yet	The Seven Hills of Rome	Director	—	1958
No Score Yet	Gun Glory	Director	—	1957
No Score Yet	These Wilder Years	Director	—	1956
No Score Yet	Meet Me in Las Vegas	Director	—	1956
No Score Yet	Many Rivers to Cross	Director	—	1955
No Score Yet	Rogue Cop	Director	—	1955
67%	Hit the Deck	Director	—	1955
No Score Yet	Witness to Murder	Director	—	1954
No Score Yet	The Moonlighter	Director	—	1953
82%	The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T	Director	—	1953
No Score Yet	Affair With a Stranger	Director	—	1953
No Score Yet	Bugles in the Afternoon	Director	—	1952
No Score Yet	Excuse My Dust (Mr. Belden's Amazing Gasmobile)	Director	—	1951
No Score Yet	Two Weeks with Love	Director	—	1950
No Score Yet	The Outriders	Director	—	1950
No Score Yet	Scene of the Crime	Director	—	1949
No Score Yet	Tenth Avenue Angel	Director	—	1948
No Score Yet	Killer McCoy	Director	—	1947
No Score Yet	Romance of Rosy Ridge	Director	—	1947
No Score Yet	Our Vines Have Tender Grapes	Director	—	1945
No Score Yet	Lost Angel	Director	—	1943
No Score Yet	A Stranger in Town	Director	—	1943
No Score Yet	Hollywood Party	Director	—	1934

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Roy Rowland

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