Joseph H. Lewis

Director

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Joseph H. Lewis (April 6, 1907–August 30, 2000), was an American B-movie film director. Although he worked with both Béla Lugosi (The Invisible Ghost) and Lionel Atwill in early 1940s horror, he is best known for his work in film noir from the late 40s and the 1950s. His most acclaimed feature, Gun Crazy (1949), is a dark romance about gun-obsession, and notable for its use of location photography. At the dawn of his career (1937–1940), when Lewis was directing inexpensive westerns, he earned the derogatory nickname "Wagon-Wheel Joe" from the studio editors, because of his tendency to use wagon-wheels for constructing interesting visual compositions within the frame. Lewis's offbeat and eye-catching compositions added style and value to inexpensive productions. His 1944 musical Minstrel Man, starring singer Benny Fields, is quite possibly the finest film ever made by low-budget PRC Pictures. Industry insiders noticed, prompting Columbia Pictures to hire Lewis to film the musical sequences for its blockbuster musical The Jolson Story. Toward the end of Lewis's career, he worked in television, directing mostly westerns: The Rifleman, Bonanza, The Big Valley, Gunsmoke, and the pilot for Branded. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joseph H. Lewis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Born: April 6, 1907 in New York City, New York, USA

Died: August 30, 2000 (Age 93)

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Title	Rating	Job	Role(s)	Year
Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula Movie	7.2	Actor	Self	1997
7th Cavalry Movie	5.6	Directing	Director	1956
A Lady Without Passport Movie	5.9	Directing	Director	1950
A Lawless Street Movie	6.3	Directing	Director	1955
Bombs Over Burma Movie	5	Directing	Screenplay, Director	1942
Boys of the City Movie	5.4	Directing	Director	1940
Criminals Within Movie	5.2	Directing	Director	1941
Cry of the Hunted Movie	5.9	Directing	Director	1953
Desperate Search Movie	5.6	Directing	Director	1952
Gun Crazy Movie Available on 30 streaming services.	7.5	Directing	Director	1950
Hitch Hike Lady Movie	6.7	Editing	Editor	1935
Invisible Ghost Movie Available on 21 streaming services.	5.4	Directing	Director	1941
Minstrel Man Movie	4.6	Directing	Director	1944
My Name Is Julia Ross Movie Available on 1 streaming services.	6.9	Directing	Director	1945
Pride of the Bowery Movie	5.7	Directing	Director	1940
Retreat, Hell! Movie	6.2	Directing	Director	1952
So Dark the Night Movie	6.1	Directing	Director	1946
Streamline Express Movie	5.1	Editing	Editor	1935
Terror in a Texas Town Movie Available on 10 streaming services.	6.7	Directing	Director	1958
That Gang of Mine Movie	5.6	Directing	Director	1940
The Adventures of Rex and Rinty Movie	6.4	Editing	Editor	1935
The Big Combo Movie Available on 20 streaming services.	7.4	Directing	Director	1955
The Falcon in San Francisco Movie	6.2	Directing	Director	1945
The Halliday Brand Movie	6.1	Directing	Director	1957
The Mad Doctor of Market Street Movie	5	Directing	Director	1942
The Man from Tumbleweeds Movie	5.6	Directing	Director	1940
The Return of October Movie	5.9	Directing	Director	1948
The Swordsman Movie	5.7	Directing	Director	1948
The Undercover Man Movie	6.4	Directing	Director	1949
Undersea Kingdom Movie	4.4	Editing	Supervising Editor	1936
Waterfront Lady Movie	5.8	Editing	Supervising Film Editor	1935
The Last Stand Movie	6.5	Directing	Director	1938
The Silver Bullet Movie	6.1	Directing	Director	1942
Boss of Hangtown Mesa Movie	6.3	Directing	Director	1942
The Gold Racket Movie	5.3	Directing	Director	1937
Arizona Cyclone Movie	5.4	Directing	Director	1941
The Spy Ring Movie	5.5	Directing	Director	1938
Secrets of a Co-Ed Movie	5.4	Directing	Director	1942
Blazing Six Shooters Movie	7.4	Directing	Director	1940
The Return of Wild Bill Movie	7	Directing	Director	1940
Texas Stagecoach Movie	6.4	Directing	Director	1940
Two-Fisted Rangers Movie	6.9	Directing	Director	1939
Navy Spy Movie	5.4	Directing	Director	1937
Courage of the West Movie	6.5	Directing	Director	1937
Border Wolves Movie	5.8	Directing	Director	1938
The Singing Outlaw Movie	5.7	Directing	Director	1938
Branded TV Show	7.2	Directing	Director 1 Episode	1965-1966
Daniel Boone TV Show	7.1	Directing	Director 1 Episode	1964-1970
Gunsmoke TV Show Available on 2 streaming services.	7.9	Directing	Director 2 Episodes	1955-1975
The Big Valley TV Show Available on 1 streaming services.	7.4	Directing	Director 2 Episodes	1965-1969
The Detectives TV Show	7.3	Directing	Director 1 Episode	1959-1962
The Rifleman TV Show Available on 16 streaming services.	8.1	Directing	Director 52 Episodes	1958-1963
The Investigators TV Show	7.8	Directing	Director 13 Episodes	1961-1961
Man on a Bus Short Film	5.2	Directing	Director	1955
Title	Rating	Job	Role(s)	Year

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