Harvey Harris Gates

• Occupation: Writer
• Active: '20s-'40s
• Major Genres: Drama, Crime
• Career Highlights: If I Had a Million, Say It with Songs, Sky Riders
• First Major Screen Credit: Judge Not; or The Woman of Mona Diggings (1915)

Biography

A screenwriter from 1917, American-born Harvey H. Gates also briefly served as a director. Gates' only known directorial credits are a brace of 1918 films including Wine Girl and Marriage Lie. During the first years of the talkies, he collaborated on the scripts of such prestige productions as Hell Divers (1931) and If I Had a Million (1932). By the 1940s, he was working in low-budgeters for quickie producer Sam Katzman. Harvey Gates' final credits include several East Side Kids and Bela Lugosi vehicles, as well as actress Kay Francis' valedictory Monogram productions Divorce (1945) and Allotment Wives (1946). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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