Robert Lord

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Robert Lord
Born	(1900-05-01)May 1, 1900 Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Died	April 5, 1976(1976-04-05) (aged 75) Los Angeles, U.S.
Occupation	Screenwriter, film producer
Years active	1927–1947

Robert Lord (May 1, 1900 – April 5, 1976) was an American screenwriter and film producer. He wrote for 71 films between 1925 and 1940. He won an Academy Award in 1933 in the category Best Writing, Original Story for the film One Way Passage.^[1] He was nominated in the same category in 1938 for the film Black Legion.^[2]

He was born in Chicago, Illinois and died in Los Angeles from a heart attack.

Selected filmography

The Lucky Horseshoe (1925)
The Johnstown Flood (1926)
The Little Snob (1928)
The Lion and the Mouse (1928)
Detectives (1928)
On Trial (1928)
On With the Show (1929)
The Aviator (1929)
Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929)
Hardboiled Rose (1929)
She Couldn't Say No (1930)
Hold Everything (1930)
Little Caesar (1931)
Five Star Final (1931)
Manhattan Parade (1931)
Winner Take All (1932)
One Way Passage (1932) also producer
20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932) producer
The World Changes (1933) producer
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) producer
Footlight Parade (1933) also producer
Convention City (1933)
Dames (1934)
Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
Page Miss Glory (1935)
Colleen (1936)
Black Legion (1937) also producer
Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) producer
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) producer
'Til We Meet Again (1940)
Footsteps in the Dark (1941) producer
High Wall (1947) producer
Tokyo Joe (1949) producer

References

↑ "The 6th Academy Awards (1934) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved February 4, 2012.
↑ "The 10th Academy Awards (1938) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved August 9, 2011.

External links

Robert Lord at the Internet Movie Database
Robert Lord at AllRovi

v t e Academy Award for Academy Award for Best Story (1928–1939)

Ben Hecht (1927/28) None given (1928/29) None given (1929/30) John Monk Saunders (1930/31) Frances Marion (1931/32) Robert Lord (1932/33) Arthur Caesar (1934) Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur (1935) Pierre Collings, Sheridan Gibney (1936) Robert Carson, William Wellman (1937) Eleanore Griffin, Dore Schary (1938) Lewis R. Foster (1939)

Complete list (1928–1939) (1940–1956)

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Persondata
Name	Lord, Robert
Alternative names
Short description	Screenwriter, film producer
Date of birth	May 1, 1900
Place of birth	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Date of death	April 5, 1976
Place of death	Los Angeles, U.S.

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