James Cruze
Highest Rated: 100% Hollywood (1923)
Lowest Rated: 43% Thirty Days (1922)
Birthday: Mar 27, 1884
Birthplace: Ogden, Utah, USA
Born to Danish immigrants, he became first an actor and then, as a result of breaking his leg, a director. During the 1920s Cruze proved one of Hollywood's more varied and prolific filmmakers (and in 1927 the highest paid, earning $7,000 a week) with movies such as the lavishly produced historical epics "The Covered Wagon" (1923) and "Old Ironsides" (1926), which were noted for their almost documentary-like pictorial images but were weak on character. He also scored with the inventive, somewhat surreal "One Glorious Day" (1922) and with "Beggar on Horseback" (1925), while several of Cruze's early talkies, including the modestly budgeted but maturely handled "I Cover the Waterfront" (1933) feature some of his best work. Married to silent screen star Betty Compson from 1924 to 1930.
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gangs of New York | Director | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Prison Nurse | Director | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Come on, Leathernecks | Director | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Wrong Road | Director | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sutter's Gold | Director | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Two-Fisted | Director | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | David Harum | Director | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Their Big Moment | Director | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mr. Skitch | Director | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet |
|
I Cover the Waterfront | Director | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sailor Be Good | Director | - | 1933 |
100% |
|
If I Had a Million | Director | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Washington Merry-Go-Round | Director | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | She Got What She Wanted |
Director, Executive Producer |
- | 1930 |
71% |
|
The Great Gabbo |
Director, Producer |
- | 1929 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Man's Man | Director | - | 1929 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Duke Steps Out | Director | - | 1929 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Mating Call | Director | - | 1928 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Excess Baggage | Director | - | 1928 |
100% |
|
Old Ironsides |
Director, Producer |
- | 1926 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Pony Express |
Director, Producer |
- | 1925 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Goose Hangs High | Director | - | 1925 |
88% | No Score Yet | Beggar on Horseback | Director | - | 1925 |
No Score Yet |
|
Leap Year | Director | - | 1924 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fighting Coward | Director | - | 1924 |
81% | No Score Yet | Merton of the Movies |
Director, Producer |
- | 1924 |
100% | No Score Yet | Hollywood | Director | - | 1923 |
91% |
|
The Covered Wagon |
Director, Producer |
- | 1923 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Dictator | Director | - | 1922 |
43% | No Score Yet | Thirty Days | Director | - | 1922 |
100% | No Score Yet | One Glorious Day | Director | - | 1922 |
No Score Yet |
|
Terror Island | Director | - | 1920 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hawthorne of the U.S.A. | Director | - | 1919 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Roaring Road | Director | - | 1919 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Source | Langlois (Character) | - | 1918 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Call of the East | Janzo (Character) | - | 1917 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Snowbird | Bruce Mitchell (Character) | - | 1916 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Joseph in the Land of Egypt | Joseph (Character) | - | 1914 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Zudora Episode #2: The Mystery of the Sleeping House | Unknown (Character) | - | 1913 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Marble Heart | Raphael, the Jilted Sculptor (Character) | - | 1913 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Cry of the Children | The Working Father (Character) | - | 1912 |
No Score Yet |
|
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde |
Dr. Jekyll/ |
- | 1912 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Star of Bethlehem | Micah (Character) | - | 1912 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | In a Garden | Jack as an Adult (Character) | - | 1912 |