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Jack Conway

Jack Conway

Director · Born 1887-07-16 · Graceville, Minnesota, USA

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Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia He was born as Hugh Ryan Conway, on July 17, 1887, in Graceville, Minnesota, US. Conway started out as an actor, joining a repertory theater group straight out of high school. He then moved into films and, in 1911, became a member of D.W. Griffith's stock company, appearing primarily in westerns. Four years later, he made his mark as a director and gained valuable experience at Universal (1916–17 and 1921–23), before moving on to MGM in 1925. He remained there until 1948, often helming prestige assignments featuring the studio's top male star, Clark Gable: Boom Town (1940), Honky Tonk (1941), The Hucksters (1947) – all solid box office hits. Conway was one of a team of MGM contract directors, who forsook any pretense to a specific individual style in favor of working within the strictures set forth by studio management. A thoroughly competent craftsman, he delivered commercially successful entertainments, on time, and within budget. Conway may not have achieved fame as a creative genius, but the majority of his films remain eminently entertaining to this day. In his most famous film, A Tale of Two Cities (1935), he utilized 17,000 extras f…

Directed

  1. Libeled Lady (1936) — Director
  2. A Tale of Two Cities (1935) — Director
  3. Boom Town (1940) — Director
  4. Red-Headed Woman (1932) — Director
  5. Love Crazy (1941) — Director
  6. Crossroads (1942) — Director
  7. Viva Villa! (1934) — Director
  8. The Unholy Three (1930) — Director
  9. Arsène Lupin (1932) — Director
  10. Too Hot to Handle (1938) — Director
  11. Saratoga (1937) — Director
  12. The Hucksters (1947) — Director
  13. Honky Tonk (1941) — Director
  14. Dragon Seed (1944) — Director
  15. The Girl from Missouri (1934) — Director
  16. Our Modern Maidens (1929) — Director
  17. Hell Below (1933) — Director
  18. The Easiest Way (1931) — Director
  19. Brown of Harvard (1926) — Director
  20. Julia Misbehaves (1948) — Director
  21. A Yank at Oxford (1938) — Director
  22. Lady of the Tropics (1939) — Director
  23. While the City Sleeps (1928) — Director
  24. Untamed (1929) — Director
  25. The Gay Bride (1934) — Director
  26. Desire Me (1947) — Director
  27. High Barbaree (1947) — Director
  28. The Solitaire Man (1933) — Director
  29. The Smart Set (1928) — Director
  30. Just a Gigolo (1931) — Director
  31. Assignment in Brittany (1943) — Director
  32. The Nuisance (1933) — Director
  33. They Learned About Women (1930) — Director
  34. But the Flesh Is Weak (1932) — Director
  35. Let Freedom Ring (1939) — Director
  36. New Moon (1930) — Director
  37. Bringing Up Father (1928) — Director
  38. Her Indian Hero (1912) — Director
  39. The Understanding Heart (1927) — Director
  40. Lucretia Lombard (1923) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Her Indian Hero (1912) — Hal Benton
  2. Her Indian Mother (1910) — Stephen Moore
  3. The Post Telegrapher (1912)
  4. Roof Tops of Manhattan (1935) — Pa O'Shea
  5. Restless Souls (1919) — Hugh Gregory
  6. The Folly of Anne (1914) — The Heartless Publisher
  7. The Twelfth Juror (1913) — Clarence Morton
  8. Scarlet Letter (1908)
  9. The Killer (1921) — William Sanborn
  10. When Lincoln Paid (1913)
  11. Kit Carson's Wooing (1911) — Kit Carson
  12. His Only Son (1912)
  13. The Chechako (1914) — Smoke Bellew
  14. Macbeth (1916) — Lennox
  15. Old School vs. New School (2012) — Leon
  16. Burning Daylight: The Adventures of 'Burning Daylight' in Alaska (1914) — Joe Hines
  17. The Little Orphan (1917) — David Clark
  18. Even Unto Death (1914) — Walter Gordon
  19. The Mistress of the Air (1914) — Dick - the Hero
  20. The Valley of the Moon (1914) — Billy Roberts