George Melford
Popularity:0.089
Known For:Directing
Birthday:1877-02-19
Place of Birth:Rochester, New York, USA
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Also Known As:George H. Melford

Call Northside 777 (1948)
In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal...

It Happens Every Spring (1949)
A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets out to exploit his discovery.

Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12 (1922)
Another entry in the popular one-reel series.

The Loyalty of Don Luis Verdugo (1911)
Lieutenant Malcolm, of the United States Army, arrives at the Casa Verdugo and reads the proclamation authorizing the occupation of Southern...

Raiders of the Seven Seas (1953)
After staging a mutiny and commandeering his own ship, famed pirate Barbarossa (John Payne) takes hostage a spirited Spanish noblewoman named Alida...

Cripple Creek (1952)
It's 1893 and gold is being smuggled out of the country. Instead of stealing gold bars, the outlaws are stealing high grade ore, having it smelted,...

A Trip to Paramountown (1922)
Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, featuring dozens of stars captured candidly and at...

That Other Woman (1942)
A secretary by the name of Emily Borden comes up with a convoluted plan to get her boss to marry her which backfires after some bad advice.

Dixie Dugan (1943)
Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dollar a year man," is late for a radio broadcast...

The Family Next Door (1939)
Rose Pierce is discontent with her life as the wife of a small town plumber and has visions of becoming a wealthy socialite. Consequently, when her...

Frontier Marshal (1939)
Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence (1939)
New York store clerk joins a hobo and an illegal immigrant heading for his newly bought land in Arizona.

The Light That Failed (1939)
A London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind.

The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1940)
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family....

Robbers of the Range (1941)
Railroad agents frame a landowner who wont sell out to them.

Remember the Night (1940)
Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter home so she doesn't have to spend Christmas alone...

The Lady Eve (1941)
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean...

Slim Jim's Last Chance (1911)
The prison doors open and Tom Benton, a first timer, and Slim Jim, alias Red Davis, of the underworld, are liberated. Tom learns that the prison odor...

Brigham Young (1940)
Based on the story of the famous Mormon leader, it follows Brigham Young and his challenge to transport his people across the Rocky mountains to...

Buck Benny Rides Again (1940)
Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing...

My Little Chickadee (1940)
While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of...

The Great McGinty (1940)
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this...

Safari (1940)
Millionaire Baron de Courland and his fiancée Linda Stewart employ Jim Logan as a guide for their hunting trip in the jungle. Linda finds...

The Hero Track Walker (1911)
Bill is discharged from Bar K Ranch and in his desperation decide to turn train robber. On his way to town he rescues Myrtle Mulligan, who has been...

The Egyptian (1954)
In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new...

Lone Star Ranger (1942)
Texas Ranger Buck Dunne is assigned to round up a gang of bank robbers. The leader of the gang turns out to be the "respectable" Judge Longstreth,...

Valley of the Sun (1942)
An Arizona frontiersman steals an Indian agent's girlfriend, followed by trouble.

Belle Starr (1941)
After her family's mansion is burned down by Yankee soldiers for hiding the rebel leader Captain Sam Starr Belle Shirley vows to take revenge....

The Ten Commandments (1956)
Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, Moses embarks on a personal...

Blue, White, and Perfect (1942)
In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly...

Golden Hoofs (1941)
A teenage horse trainer fears she'll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is sold.

Pacific Blackout (1941)
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the...

Quiet Please, Murder (1943)
A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.

The Evil Artist or a Girl Wronged (1910)
Anastasia is being picked up by an artist who wants to paint her picture.The artist have other intentions as well. He tried to seduce Anastasia....

Circumstantial Evidence (1945)
A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.

Too Busy to Work (1939)
The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their...

The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944)
A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married...

Rulers of the Sea (1939)
The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks, and his win against a crack sailing boat in the...

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well...

Her Indian Mother (1910)
The scenes are laid in the Hudson Bay country in comparatively recent years and cover the life of a Hudson Bay factor, showing him as a young man...

A Blueprint for Murder (1953)
Whitney Cameron is in a quandary: he's attracted to his beautiful sister-in-law, Lynn, but also harbors serious suspicions about her. Her husband,...

Ambush (1939)
Four bandits swoop down on a California bank and flee with $98,000, leaving a truck as the only clue to their identity. Jane Hartman, bank secretary,...

Flying Cadets (1941)
Story of test pilots at a school that trains new flyers.

California (1947)
"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. When...

Island of Lost Men (1939)
A Chinese general's daughter tracks her father to a slave-labor tyrant's jungle empire.

Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to...
