Robert Lord

• Born: May 01, 1902 in Chicago, Illinois
• Died: 1976 in Los Angeles, California
• Occupation: Writer, Director
• Active: '20s-'30s
• Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
• Career Highlights: Little Caesar, The Letter, Gold Diggers of 1933
• First Major Screen Credit: The Lucky Horseshoe (1925)

Biography

A busy magazine contributor in the 1920s, Chicago-born writer Robert Lord entered movies through the back door when his story "The Lucky Horseshoe" was made into a film in 1925. One year later, Lord secured his niche in the Hollywood firmament with his screenplay for the elaborate Universal "disaster" epic The Johnstown Flood (1926). Beginning with the early days of talkies, Lord was often employed by Warner Bros., an association that lasted until 1941's Dive Bomber, and which won him a Best Original Screenplay Oscar in 1932 for One Way Passage. Humphrey Bogart fans will recognize Robert Lord as Bogart's business partner in Santana Productions, the independent firm responsible for such films as Knock on Any Door (1949), Tokyo Joe (1949), In a Lonely Place (1950) and Sirocco (1951). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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