Personal Info
Birth date
1892-06-25 (132 Years)
Day of death
1974-12-29
Gender
Male
Known for
Writing
Place of birth
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Also known as
Robert Ellis du Reel
Robert Ellis
Biography
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Filmography
The Sphinx
4.462
Overview:
A man known to be a mute is suspected of committing a murder, as he was noticed at the scene. However, witnesses saw and heard him talking as he was leaving the scene of the crime. The police must determine if he is the actual killer or if he is being framed.Murder at Midnight
5.4
Overview:
Wealthy Mr. Kennedy shoots his secretary, Channing, during a parlor game, but it turns out the gun was loaded with real bullets. Luckily, criminologist Phillip Montrose is on hand to help the police. When Kennedy quickly ends up dead as well, the police think it's a tidy murder-suicide, but the family lawyer knows of a letter that voiced Kennedy's suspicions about someone who was out to get him. Soon, the cops are on the trail of a ruthless and clever killer who is one step ahead of even Montrose.Charlie Chan's Secret
6.8
Overview:
Allen Colby, heir to a huge fortune, is presumed drowned after an ocean liner sinks off the coast of Honolulu. Mysteriously, Colby reappears at his mansion only to be murdered soon after. When his body is discovered during a seance, everyone in attendance becomes a suspect, and it's up to Chan to find the murderer before he or she strikes again.American Madness
7
Overview:
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair... all in the same day.Susannah of the Mounties
6.3
Overview:
This classic family drama stars Shirley Temple as young orphan Susannah Sheldon, the sole survivor of a brutal Indian attack who's befriended by Canadian Mountie Angus Montague (Randolph Scott) and his girlfriend, Vicky (Margaret Lockwood). The couple takes Susannah under their wing and soon learn that having a precocious child around can come in handy; when the Indians return, the girl uses her charm to broker peace.Shirley is the orphaned survivor of an Indian attack in the Canadian West. A Mountie and his girlfriend take her in...Sun Valley Serenade
6.981
Overview:
When Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwegian refugee he has sponsored, Karen Benson. When soloist Vivian Dawn quits, Karen stages an ice show as a substitute.Charlie Chan at the Olympics
6.7
Overview:
Get ready for a Gold Medal murder mystery! This "tense, thrilling mystery" ('California Congress of Parents and Teachers') pits Charlie Chan against international spies who are using the Berlin Olympic games as the perfect cover...for cold-blooded murder!The Good Bad Girl
5.5
Overview:
A woman's former association with a gangster threatens to destroy her marriage to an upstanding young man.Hello, Frisco, Hello
6.3
Overview:
In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk to the big time, while spurning the love of his troupe's star singer for a selfish heiress.The Escape
5.5
Overview:
An embittered Louie Peronni returns from prison to find that his sister, Juli Peronni, is engaged to policeman Eddie Farrell, and also finds that his secret wife Annie Qualen has placed their baby girl in a foundling home. With his old gang again, Louie plans a robbery of a fur warehouse. Louie shoots down the night watchman and is trailed home where his father Guiseppe Peronni persuades him not to fight it out with the police. Determined to let Louie take the full rap, the gang kidnaps the district attorney's daughter.Aloha
NYR
Overview:
In the South Seas, a half-caste island girl refuses to follow tradition and marry a fellow islander, instead falling in love with a white man and heir to an American fortune.Pin Up Girl
6.1
Overview:
Glamorous Lorry Jones, the toast of a Missouri military canteen, has become "engaged" to almost every serviceman she's signed her pin-up photo for. Now she's leaving home to go into government service (not, as she fantasizes, to join the USO). On a side trip to New York, her vivid imagination leads her to True Love with naval hero Tommy Dooley; but increasingly involved Musical Comedy Complications follow.Laughing at Trouble
6
Overview:
A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper publisher who has befriended him. She knows who the real killer is.Star Dust
4.7
Overview:
When Hollywood film studios reject her because she's too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to build a career as an actress on her own.Big Town Girl
6
Overview:
When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the "Masked Countess", because he estranged husband is a crook.Call Her Savage
5.882
Overview:
A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her marriage fails and she learns the errors of her ways.Charlie Chan on Broadway
7
Overview:
Returning from European exile where she avoided testifying against her criminal associates, a former singer with a tell-all diary is murdered to insure her silence.Friends of Mr. Sweeney
6
Overview:
Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to his prudish, overbearing boss, only to be beaten down again. With the encouragement of his secretary Beulah (Ann Dvorak), his old college team-mate Wynn (Eugene Pallette) and some liquor, Asaph regains some of his wild-man soul. Watch out world!The Fighting Sheriff
NYR
Overview:
A dying Jack makes Bob and Flash promise not to tell his sister that he was an outlaw. When Bob confronts Flash with his muffler found at the stage holdup, Flash tells Mary that Bob killed her brother. Believing he can now marry Mary, he plans one more robbery. But the jealous Tiana overhears and runs for the Sheriff.The Penal Code
6
Overview:
A man is released from prison and tries to get back into life on the outside without his family and friends knowing he's been in jail.Slightly Married
5.5
Overview:
Mary Smith is picked up by the police and is about to be sentenced, in night court, to jail for prostitution. But a stranger, Jimmie Martin, stands up and tells the judge that Mary was waiting for him and they were going to be married.The Phantom Express
4.7
Overview:
Railroad foes cause terror on the tracks with the illusion of a ghost train.Four Jills in a Jeep
5.7
Overview:
Reenactments of actual USO experiences of its female stars entertaining troops overseas.City in Darkness
6.4
Overview:
Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy, even as the rising clouds of World War II force the city into nightly blackout status..Charlie Chan in Egypt
6.9
Overview:
While investigating the theft of antiquities from an ancient tomb excavation , Charlie discovers that the body of the expedition's leader concealed inside the mummy's wrappings.Footlight Serenade
NYR
Overview:
Conceited World Champion boxer Tommy Lundy decides to test his popularity in a Broadway show. Tommy always has an eye for the ladies and he starts paying attention to beautiful chorus girl Pat Lambert. Pat's boyfriend Bill Smith isn't impressed with Tommy even though Tommy gets him a boxing part in the show. When Tommy finds out that Pat and Bill were secretly together the night before the show opens, he angrily plans to turn the boxing scene with Bill into a real bout.If I'm Lucky
6.5
Overview:
Out of work swing band maneuvers a gig working for a political campaign, by drawing in and entertaining prospective voters at rallies. The candidate is really a stooge for a corrupt political machine, which discovers the band's handsome and appealing singer would make a better stooge. Meanwhile, romance blossoms between the band's singers. When election day approaches, the band's singer wants out of the campaign, but the machine threatens to smear him and his pals in the band if he quits.The Constant Woman
5
Overview:
A mother abandons her family only to become a crispy critter with her lover, the husband finds out about it AND that his son isn't really his, becomes an alcoholic, is being held prisoner in a speak-easy, is rescued by 'Beef', is sobered up, gets a good job, negotiates a great contract for lots 'o money, realizes he's in love, asks the girl to marry him, son returns from boarding school and freaks out when told this, runs off and joins the circus that now happens to catch fire.....Broadway
5.6
Overview:
A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.A Very Honorable Guy
2
Overview:
Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to an ambitious doctor who agrees to allow him one last month to live life to the fullest, then kill himself.Acting
1934A Girl of the Limberlost as Frank Comstock
1934Friends of Mr. Sweeney as Casino Manager
1934A Very Honorable Guy as Gangster
1934I've Got Your Number as Turk Garrison
1934Dancing Man as Cavendish
1934Madame Spy as Sulkin
1933Notorious But Nice as Prosecuting Attorney
1933Police Call as Police Chief Crown
1933The Important Witness as Jack (Duke) Farnham
1933The Sphinx as Inspector James Riley
1933The Thrill Hunter as Al Blake
1933Soldiers of the Storm as Moran
1933The Constant Woman as Leading Man
1933Reform Girl as Kellar
1933Treason as Colonel Jedcott
1933The Curse of a Broken Heart as Simon Flint
1932The Penal Code as James Forrester
1932Officer Thirteen as Jack Blake
1932Call Her Savage as Hotel Manager (Uncredited)
1932Women Won't Tell as District Attorney
1932Speed Demon as Langard
1932Slightly Married as Brandon
1932White Eagle as Jim Gregory
1932Come on Danger! as Frank Sanderson
1932Broadway to Cheyenne as Butch Owens
1932American Madness as Dude Finlay (uncredited)
1932The Phantom Express as Reynolds
1932Daring Danger as Hugo DuSang
1932A Man's Land as John Thomas (as Bob Ellis)
1932Behind Stone Walls as Jack Keene - Man-about-Town
1931The Devil Plays as Gordon Stiles
1931One Man Law as Jonathan P. Streeter
1931The Deadline as Ira Coleman
1931Murder at Midnight as Duncan Channing
1931The Good Bad Girl as Dapper Dan Tyler
1931The Fighting Sheriff as Flash Halloway
1931Aloha as Larry Leavitt
1931The Last Parade as A.C. Marino
1931Caught Cheating as Joe Cabrone
1930The Squealer as Valleti
1930What Men Want as Howard LeMoyne
1930Undertow as Jim Paine
1929Night Parade as Mr. John W. Zelli
1929Tonight at Twelve as Jack Keith
1929The Love Trap as Guy Emory
1929Broadway as Steve Crandall
1928Restless Youth as Robert Haines
1928Freedom of the Press as Cyrus Hazlett
1928Varsity as Rod Luke
1928Cleopatra as Marc Antony
1928The Law and the Man as Ernest Vane
1926Brooding Eyes as Phillip Mott
1926Ladies of Leisure as Unknown
1926The Girl from Montmartre as Jack Ewing
1925S.O.S. Perils of the Sea as Unknown
1925The Northern Code as Louis Le Blanc
1925Lady Robinhood as Hugh Winthrop
1925Forbidden Cargo as Jerry Burke
1924A Cafe in Cairo as Barry Braxton
1924Silk Stocking Sal as Bob Cooper
1924Lovers' Lane as Dr. Tom Singletoon
1924The Law Forbids as Paul Remsen
1923The Wanters as Elliot Worthington
1923The Flame of Life as Fergus Derrick
1923Dark Secrets as Lord Wallington
1922Hurricane's Gal as Steele O'Connor
1922The Infidel as Cyrus Flint
1922Love's Masquerade as Herbert Norwood
1922Wild Honey as Kerry Burgess
1921Ladies Must Live as Anthony Mulvain
1920The Daughter Pays as Gerald Roseborough
1919The Spite Bride as Billy Swayne
1919Upstairs and Down as Terrence O'Keefe
1918Brown of Harvard as 'Bud' Hall
1917The Lifted Veil as Leslie Palliser
1916The Menace as Luigi Verra
1916The Trail's End as The Wolf
1916The Lurking Peril as The Wolf
1915The Secret Room as Buford
1915The Cabaret Singer as Lloyd Denton - Randall's Chum
1913A Modern Jekyll and Hyde as Roger Master - Nora's Sweetheart
Writing
1950I'll Get By ... Story
1946Three Little Girls in Blue ... Adaptation
1946If I'm Lucky ... Writer
1946Do You Love Me ... Screenplay
1944Something for the Boys ... Screenplay
1944Pin Up Girl ... Screenplay
1944Four Jills in a Jeep ... Screenplay
1943Hello, Frisco, Hello ... Screenplay
1942Iceland ... Writer
1942Footlight Serenade ... Writer
1942Song of the Islands ... Screenplay
1941Sun Valley Serenade ... Screenplay
1941The Great American Broadcast ... Writer
1940Tin Pan Alley ... Screenplay
1940Lucky Cisco Kid ... Screenplay
1940Star Dust ... Screenplay
1940The Man Who Wouldn't Talk ... Writer
1939Too Busy to Work ... Writer
1939City in Darkness ... Writer
1939The Escape ... Screenplay
1939Susannah of the Mounties ... Screenplay
1939Chasing Danger ... Writer
1939Pardon Our Nerve ... Screenplay
1938Road Demon ... Screenplay
1938Sharpshooters ... Screenplay
1938Down on the Farm ... Writer
1938Speed to Burn ... Screenplay
1938Rascals ... Writer
1938A Trip to Paris ... Screenplay
1938Love on a Budget ... Writer
1937Big Town Girl ... Writer
1937Charlie Chan on Broadway ... Story
1937Born Reckless ... Screenplay
1937Big Business ... Writer
1937Charlie Chan at the Olympics ... Screenplay
1937Off to the Races ... Writer
1936Laughing at Trouble ... Screenplay
1936Red Lights Ahead ... Screenplay
1936Back to Nature ... Writer
1936Charlie Chan at the Race Track ... Screenplay
1936Federal Agent ... Story
1936Charlie Chan at the Circus ... Writer
1936Hitch Hike To Heaven ... Writer
1936Charlie Chan's Secret ... Screenplay
1935The Lady in Scarlet ... Screenplay
1935Happiness C.O.D. ... Screenplay
1935Charlie Chan in Egypt ... Screenplay
1935Insure Your Wife ... Screenplay
1934Port of Lost Dreams ... Story, Adaptation
1934Fugitive Road ... Screenplay
1934In Love with Life ... Screenplay, Dialogue
1934The Quitter ... Screenplay
1933Twin Husbands ... Story
1933In the Money ... Screenplay
1933A Man of Sentiment ... Screenplay, Dialogue
1933Dance, Girl, Dance ... Writer, Adaptation
1933By Appointment Only ... Screenplay
1932The Monster Walks ... Story, Adaptation
Directing
1921A Divorce of Convenience ... Director
1920The Daughter Pays ... Director
1920A Fool and His Money ... Director
1919The Tiger's Trail ... Director
1919The Imp ... Director
1916The Menace ... Director
1916A Double Elopement ... Director
1916The Trail's End ... Director
1916The Lurking Peril ... Director
1915The Ventures of Marguerite ... Director