Stuart Heisler

Highest Rated: 83% Blue Skies (1946)

Lowest Rated: 25% The Star (1952)

Birthday: Dec 5, 1896

Birthplace: Not Available

Another graduate of the Hollywood property-man ranks, Stuart Heisler was firmly established as a top film editor by the early 1930s. He was given his first chance to direct on the second unit of John Ford's The Hurricane (1937). Heisler's first solo directorial effort would remain his finest film: The Biscuit Eater (1940), an unpretentious Paramount "B"-pic that ended up as the "sleeper" of the season. After a brace of atmospheric horror films, The Monster and the Girl (1941) and Among the Living (1941), Heisler was promoted to "A" projects along the lines of 1942's The Glass Key. Heisler's output thereafter became unpredictably uneven. On the plus side, he was seen in the anti-KKK drama Storm Warning (1950), the gaudy Bette Davis vehicle The Star (1952), and the worthwhile Technicolor High Sierra remake I Died a Thousand Times (1955). On the minus side, audiences were subjected to the likes of Tokyo Joe (1949), Island of Desire (1953), and Hitler (1962). He enjoyed a better batting average with his many half-hour TV films of the 1950s and 1960s. In toto, the career of Stuart Heisler bears out film critic Andrew Sarris' overview: "...he has moments of insight and charm scattered like loose beads on a sawdust-covered floor."

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	BOX OFFICE	YEAR
No Score Yet	Mad Doctor of Blood Island (Grave Desires)(Tomb of the Living Dead)	Director	—	1972
No Score Yet	Hitler	Director	—	1962
No Score Yet	The Lone Ranger	Director	—	1956
No Score Yet	The Burning Hills	Director	—	1956
No Score Yet	I Died a Thousand Times	Director	—	1955
No Score Yet	Beachhead	Director	—	1954
25%	The Star	Director	—	1952
No Score Yet	Island of Desire	Director	—	1952
No Score Yet	Storm Warning	Director	—	1951
No Score Yet	Dallas	Director	—	1950
No Score Yet	Chain Lightning	Director	—	1950
No Score Yet	Tokyo Joe	Director	—	1949
No Score Yet	Tulsa	Director	—	1949
No Score Yet	Smash Up: The Story of a Woman	Director	—	1947
83%	Blue Skies	Director	—	1946
40%	Along Came Jones	Director	—	1945
No Score Yet	The Negro Soldier	Director	—	1944
78%	The Glass Key	Director	—	1942
No Score Yet	The Remarkable Andrew	Director	—	1942
No Score Yet	Among the Living	Director	—	1941
No Score Yet	The Monster and the Girl	Director	—	1941
No Score Yet	The Biscuit Eater	Director	—	1940
No Score Yet	The Hurricane	Director	—	1937

TV

RATING	TITLE	CREDIT	YEAR
No Score Yet	V: The Final Battle 1984	Director	1984
No Score Yet	Rawhide 1959-1965	Director	1960 1959
No Score Yet	Gunsmoke 1955-1975	Director	1959
No Score Yet	The Lone Ranger 1949-1957	Director	1954

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Stuart Heisler

Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

MOVIES

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