Nick Grindé

Biography

Nick Grindé was an American film director and screenwriter. He directed 57 films between 1928 and 1945. Born in Madison, Wisconsin, Grindé graduated from the University of Wisconsin. He became a Hollywood film writer and director in the late 1920s, and was often assigned to familiarize Broadway stage directors with the techniques of film making. As a director, he is considered one of American cinema's early B film specialists. Throughout his career, Grindé was a popular writer of short stories, articles and columns usually about show business and film making in early Hollywood. In the mid 1930s, he had been married to actress Marie Wilson. Later, he married Korean-American actress Hazel Shon. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences houses the Nick Grindé Papers in its Special Collections.

Directed

1. The Man They Could Not Hang (1939) — Director
2. Before I Hang (1940) — Director
3. The Man with Nine Lives (1940) — Director
4. How to Sleep (1935) — Director
5. The Bishop Murder Case (1929) — Director
6. Menu (1933) — Director
7. Hitler- Dead or Alive (1942) — Director
8. This Modern Age (1931) — Director
9. Shopworn (1932) — Director
10. King of Chinatown (1939) — Director
11. Remote Control (1930) — Director
12. The Devil's Cabaret (1930) — Director
13. Convicted Woman (1940) — Director
14. Public Enemy's Wife (1936) — Director
15. Vanity Street (1932) — Director
16. Fugitive in the Sky (1936) — Director
17. Jailbreak (1936) — Director
18. Exiled to Shanghai (1937) — Director
19. Girls of the Road (1940) — Director
20. Love Is on the Air (1937) — Director
21. Good News (1930) — Director
22. Public Wedding (1937) — Director
23. White Bondage (1937) — Director
24. The Great American Pie Company (1935) — Director
25. Men Without Souls (1940) — Director
26. Ladies Crave Excitement (1935) — Director
27. Sudden Money (1939) — Director
28. Federal Man-Hunt (1938) — Director
29. Delinquent Parents (1938) — Director
30. The Captain's Kid (1936) — Director
31. Metro Movietone Revue #1 (1929) — Director
32. Down in 'Arkansaw' (1938) — Director
33. Bum Voyage (1934) — Director
34. Mountain Moonlight (1941) — Director
35. Million Dollar Legs (1939) — Director
36. Metro Movietone Revue #2 (1929) — Director
37. Metro Movietone Revue #3 (1930) — Director
38. Metro Movietone Revue #4 (1930) — Director
39. The Girl from Alaska (1942) — Director
40. The Ballad of Paducah Jail (1934) — Director