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Oliver Drake
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Birthday: May 28, 1903
Birthplace: Boise, Idaho, USA
Prolific director of B westerns whose career spanned the early days of silent film through the "golden age" of TV. A former cattle rancher, Drake entered silent films as the star of numerous Westerns for Golden West Productions in San Diego, most of which he also wrote and directed. As a writer-director for Republic, Monogram, RKO, Columbia and Universal, he reworked basic sagebrush plots as vehicles for Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Johnny Mack Brown, Tex Ritter, Sunset Carson and Jimmy Wakely. Drake moved to TV in 1951, working on the western series "The Gene Autry Show," "Annie Oakley" and "The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok" as well as "The Adventures of Superman" and "Lassie" before his retirement in 1967.
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Mummy and the Curse of the Jackals | Director | - | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | They Ran for Their Lives | Director | - | 1969 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Border Lust | Director | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Lust to Kill | Director | - | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Parson and the Outlaw |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Outlaw Treasure | Director | - | 1955 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Battling Marshal | Director | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | David Harding, Counterspy | Screenwriter | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kid From Gower Gulch | Director | - | 1950 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lawless Code | Director | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trail of the Yukon | Screenwriter | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Brand of Fear | Director | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Roaring Westward | Director | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Across the Rio Grande | Director | - | 1949 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sunset Carson Rides Again | Director | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fighting Mustang | Director | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ginger | Director | - | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Beyond the Pecos | Producer | - | 1945 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lonesome Trail | Director | - | 1945 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trigger Trail | Producer | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trail of Terror | Director | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Riders of the Santa Fe | Producer | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cheyenne Roundup | Producer | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Border Buckaroos | Director | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Arizona Trail | Producer | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | West of Texas | Director | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shootin' Irons | Director | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Silver Bullet | Associate Producer | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Little Joe, the Wrangler |
Producer, Associate Producer |
- | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Deep in the Heart of Texas |
Screenwriter, Associate Producer |
- | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Boss of Hangtown Mesa |
Producer, Screenwriter |
- | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Today I Hang | Director | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | City of Missing Girls | Writer | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fighting Valley | Director | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hard Guy | Screenwriter | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Robbers of the Range | Screenwriter | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Racketeers of the Range | Screenwriter | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trouble in Sundown | Screenwriter | - | 1939 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Border G-Man | Screenwriter | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Painted Desert | Screenwriter | - | 1938 |
| No Score Yet | 14% | Boots and Saddles | Screenwriter | - | 1937 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Nation Aflame | Screenwriter | - | 1937 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Sagebrush Troubador | Screenwriter | - | 1935 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Vanishing Riders | Screenwriter | - | 1935 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cheyenne Tornado | Screenwriter | - | 1935 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lawless Valley | Screenwriter | - | 1934 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | When a Man Rides Alone | Screenwriter | - | 1933 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Beyond the Rockies | Screenwriter | - | 1932 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Saddle Buster | Screenwriter | - | 1932 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Law of the Tong | Screenwriter | - | 1931 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Desert Rider | Writer | - | 1929 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Lassie |
Director, Writer |
1959-1961 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Superman | Writer | 1956 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Adventures of Champion | Writer | 1955-1956 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Gene Autry Show | Writer | 1951 1954 |