Roy Del Ruth

Roy Del Ruth (October 18, 1893 – April 27, 1961) was a Hollywood film director. Del Ruth, who started out as a screenwriter in 1915 writing gags for Mack Sennett, began directing feature films in the 1920s. He became known for directing urban and crime dramas including the 1931 version of The Maltese Falcon. He also directed the universally panned The Babe Ruth Story (1948) and the 20th Century Fox B-movie Alligator People (1959).

Roy Del Ruth died in 1961 at age 67 and was interred in the San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Mission Hills, Los Angeles, California.

For his contributions to the motion picture industry, he was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6150 Hollywood Blvd.

Selected filmography

• Hogan's Alley (1925)
• The Desert Song (1929)
• Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929)
• The Aviator
• Hold Everything (1930)
• The Life of the Party (1930)
• Blonde Crazy (1931)
• The Maltese Falcon (1931; aka Dangerous Female)
• Blessed Event (1932)
• Taxi! (1932)
• Lady Killer (1933)
• The Little Giant (1933)
• Bureau of Missing Persons (1933)
• Employees' Entrance (1933)
• Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934)
• Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)
• Born to Dance (1936)
• Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937)
• On the Avenue (1937)
• He Married His Wife (1940)
• Topper Returns (1941)
• The Chocolate Soldier (191)
• DuBarry Was a Lady (1943)
• Ziegfeld Follies (1946)
• It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947)
• The Babe Ruth Story (1948)
• Red Light (1949)
• The West Point Story (1950)
• On Moonlight Bay (1951)
• Starlift (1951)
• Three Sailors and a Girl (1953)
• Alligator People (1959)
• Why Must I Die? (1960)

External links

• Roy Del Ruth at the Internet Movie Database