Samuel Zierler (1895–1964) was an American
film producer of the
silent and early
sound era
A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades passed befo ...
.
[Pitts p.420] As well as working for various studios, in the late 1920s he controlled his own production company, Excellent Pictures. His final film work was for
RKO Pictures
RKO Radio Pictures Inc., commonly known as RKO Pictures or simply RKO, is an American film production and distribution company, historically one of the major film studios, "Big Five" film studios of Cinema of the United States, Hollywood's Clas ...
in 1933.
Filmography
* ''
Cordelia the Magnificent'' (1923)
* ''
The Woman of Bronze'' (1923)
* ''
A Wife's Romance
''A Wife's Romance'' is a 1923 American silent drama film directed by Thomas N. Heffron and starring Clara Kimball Young, Lewis Dayton and Alan Roscoe.Munden p.901
Synopsis
A female artist, neglected by her diplomat husband, becomes involved ...
'' (1923)
* ''
A Man of Quality'' (1926)
* ''
Striving for Fortune'' (1926)
* ''
The Broadway Drifter'' (1927)
* ''
The Winning Oar
''The Winning Oar'' is a 1927 American silent drama film directed by Bernard McEveety and starring George Walsh, Dorothy Hall and Arthur Donaldson.Munden p.909
Cast
* George Walsh as Ted Scott
* Dorothy Hall as Gloria Brooks
* William Ca ...
'' (1927)
* ''
Your Wife and Mine
''Your Wife and Mine'' is a 1927 American silent film, silent comedy film directed by Frank O'Connor (director), Frank O'Connor and starring Phyllis Haver, Stuart Holmes, and Wallace MacDonald.Katchmer p.533
Cast
* Phyllis Haver as Phyllis Warre ...
'' (1927)
* ''
His Rise to Fame'' (1927)
* ''
Broadway Madness
''Broadway Madness'' is a 1927 American silent romantic drama film directed by Burton L. King and starring Marguerite De La Motte, Donald Keith, and Betty Hilburn.
Plot
A young farmer in upstate New York City becomes obsessed with a Broadway ...
'' (1927)
* ''
A Bowery Cinderella'' (1927)
* ''
Back to Liberty'' (1927)
* ''
The Nest'' (1927)
* ''
Satan and the Woman'' (1928)
* ''
The Stronger Will'' (1928)
* ''
Women Who Dare'' (1928)
* ''
Inspiration
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* Artistic inspiration, sudden creativity in artistic production
* Biblical inspiration, a Christian doctrine on the origin of the Bible
* Inhalation, breathing in
Inspiration and rel ...
'' (1928)
* ''
A Bit of Heaven
''A Bit of Heaven'' is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Cliff Wheeler and starring Bryant Washburn, Lila Lee, and Otto Lederer.Munden p.62
Plot
A young man from a wealthy background marries a dancer in a Broadway revue, to the dis ...
'' (1928)
* ''
Making the Varsity
''Making the Varsity'' is a 1928 American silent film, silent drama film directed by Cliff Wheeler and starring Rex Lease, Arthur Rankin (actor), Arthur Rankin, and Gladys Hulette.Munden p.476
Cast
* Rex Lease as Ed Ellsworth
* Arthur Rankin (a ...
'' (1928)
* ''
Manhattan Knights
''Manhattan Knights'' is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Burton L. King and starring Barbara Bedford, Walter Miller and Crauford Kent.Munden p.209
When her brother loses fifty thousand dollars playing cards to three shady chara ...
'' (1928)
* ''
The Speed Classic
''The Speed Classic'' is a 1928 American silent action film directed by Bruce M. Mitchell and starring Rex Lease, Mildred Harris and Mitchell Lewis.
Synopsis
A young man obsessed with cars is dumped by his girlfriend, and goes on a binge in Me ...
'' (1928)
* ''
Into No Man's Land'' (1928)
* ''
Passion Song'' (1928)
* ''
Life's Crossroads'' (1928)
* ''
Broken Barriers'' (1928)
* ''
Confessions of a Wife
''Confessions of a Wife'' is a 1928 American silent drama film directed by Albert H. Kelley and starring Helene Chadwick, Walter McGrail and Ethel Grey Terry.Munden p.143
A married woman loses huge amounts of money playing cards. She is blackm ...
'' (1928)
* ''
The Clean Up'' (1929)
* ''
The Dream Melody'' (1929)
* ''
One Splendid Hour'' (1929)
* ''
Montmartre Rose'' (1929)
* ''
Daughters of Desire'' (1929)
* ''
The Talk of Hollywood
''The Talk of Hollywood'' is a 1929 American musical film, musical comedy film directed by Mark Sandrich and starring Nat Carr, Fay Marbe and Hope Sutherland.Munden p.785 It was shot at the New York City, New York studios of RKO Pictures. The fi ...
'' (1929)
* ''
The Costello Case
''The Costello Case'' is a 1930 American pre-Code crime film directed by Walter Lang.
Cast
* Tom Moore as Mahoney
* Lola Lane as Mollie
* Roscoe Karns as Blair
* Wheeler Oakman as Mile-Away-Harry
* Russell Hardie as Jimmie
* William B. Davids ...
'' (1930)
* ''
She Got What She Wanted'' (1930)
* ''
Hell Bound'' (1931)
* ''
Women Go on Forever
''Women Go on Forever'' is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film directed by Walter Lang and starring Clara Kimball Young. It was adapted from the 1927 play of the same name starring Mary Boland and James Cagney.
Plot
Cast
* Clara Kimball Young ...
'' (1931)
* ''
Command Performance'' (1931)
* ''
Salvation Nell'' (1931)
* ''
Men Are Such Fools
''Men are Such Fools'' is a 1938 American romantic comedy directed by Busby Berkeley and written by Norman Reilly Raine and Horace Jackson. The film stars Wayne Morris, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart, Hugh Herbert, Johnnie Davis, and Penny S ...
'' (1932)
* ''
Tomorrow at Seven
''Tomorrow at Seven'' is a 1933 American pre-Code mystery comedy film directed by Ray Enright
Ray Enright (March 25, 1896 – April 3, 1965) was an American film director. He directed 73 films between 1927–53, many of them for Warner ...
'' (1933)
* ''
Racetrack
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'' (1933)
* ''
Goodbye Love'' (1933)
* ''
Sailor Be Good'' (1933)
References
Bibliography
* Munden, Kenneth White. ''The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States, Part 1''. University of California Press, 1997.
* Pitts, Michael R. ''Poverty Row Studios, 1929–1940: An Illustrated History of 55 Independent Film Companies, with a Filmography for Each''. McFarland & Company, 2005.
External links
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1895 births
1964 deaths
American film producers
Filmmakers from Brooklyn
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