George Melford
Date of birth: 1877-02-19
Place of birth: Rochester, New York, USA
Known for: Directing
Also known as: George H. Melford
Biography
George H. Melford was an American stage and film actor, director, producer, and screenwriter.
Movie Credits
Call Northside 777
1948-02-13
In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by F
It Happens Every Spring
1949-06-10
A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets ou
Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12
1922-11-05
Another entry in the popular one-reel series.
The Loyalty of Don Luis Verdugo
1911-05-10
Lieutenant Malcolm, of the United States Army, arrives at the Casa Verdugo and reads the proclamatio
Raiders of the Seven Seas
1953-05-27
After staging a mutiny and commandeering his own ship, famed pirate Barbarossa takes hostage a spiri
Cripple Creek
1952-06-30
It's 1893 and gold is being smuggled out of the country. Instead of stealing gold bars, the outlaws
A Trip to Paramountown
1922-07-10
Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, feat
That Other Woman
1942-11-13
A secretary by the name of Emily Borden comes up with a convoluted plan to get her boss to marry her
Dixie Dugan
1943-03-12
Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dol
The Family Next Door
1939-03-30
Rose Pierce is discontent with her life as the wife of a small town plumber and has visions of becom
Frontier Marshal
1939-07-28
Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized versi
Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence
1939-11-03
New York store clerk joins a hobo and an illegal immigrant heading for his newly bought land in Ariz
The Light That Failed
1939-12-24
A London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind.
The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
1940-01-11
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He
Robbers of the Range
1941-04-17
Railroad agents frame a landowner who wont sell out to them.
Remember the Night
1940-01-19
Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter
The Lady Eve
1941-02-25
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Ch
Slim Jim's Last Chance
1911-04-13
The prison doors open and Tom Benton, a first timer, and Slim Jim, alias Red Davis, of the underworl
Brigham Young
1940-09-27
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transp
Buck Benny Rides Again
1940-05-31
Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of ri
My Little Chickadee
1940-02-09
While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked
The Great McGinty
1940-08-01
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to he
Safari
1940-06-14
Millionaire Baron de Courland and his fiancée Linda Stewart employ Jim Logan as a guide for their hu
The Hero Track Walker
1911-03-30
Bill is discharged from Bar K Ranch and in his desperation decide to turn train robber. On his way t
The Egyptian
1954-08-25
In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his frien
Lone Star Ranger
1942-03-20
Texas Ranger Buck Dunne is assigned to round up a gang of bank robbers. The leader of the gang turns
Valley of the Sun
1942-02-06
An Arizona frontiersman steals an Indian agent's girlfriend, followed by trouble.
Belle Starr
1941-09-12
After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam
The Ten Commandments
1956-10-05
Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of
Blue, White, and Perfect
1942-01-06
In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get
Golden Hoofs
1941-02-14
A teenage horse trainer fears she'll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is sol
Pacific Blackout
1941-12-31
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. U
Quiet Please, Murder
1943-03-19
A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich
The Evil Artist or a Girl Wronged
1910-09-23
Anastasia is being picked up by an artist who wants to paint her picture.The artist have other inten
Circumstantial Evidence
1945-04-20
A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an
Too Busy to Work
1939-11-17
The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run
The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
1944-09-18
A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell
Rulers of the Sea
1939-11-08
The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945-02-28
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's
Her Indian Mother
1910-12-16
The scenes are laid in the Hudson Bay country in comparatively recent years and cover the life of a
A Blueprint for Murder
1953-07-24
Whitney Cameron is in a quandary: he's attracted to his beautiful sister-in-law, Lynn, but also harb
Ambush
1939-01-20
Four bandits swoop down on a California bank and flee with $98,000, leaving a truck as the only clue
Flying Cadets
1941-10-24
Story of test pilots at a school that trains new flyers.
California
1947-02-21
"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but
Island of Lost Men
1939-08-16
A Chinese general's daughter tracks her father to a slave-labor tyrant's jungle empire.
Hail the Conquering Hero
1944-08-09
Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow
Meet John Doe
1941-03-14
As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who
Virginia
1941-01-28
Post-Civil War romantic drama about defeated Southerners, starring Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMur
The Brigand
1952-06-24
Carlos Delargo, the banished son of a royal princess of Mandorra, is returned to the kingdom to be t
A Ticket to Tomahawk
1950-05-19
A cowboy is hired by a stagecoach boss to stop the railroad reaching his territory and putting him o