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Joseph H. Lewis
New York City, New York, USA
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 In…
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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
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1997
Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula
Movie Self
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1966
Bat Men of Africa
Movie Supervising Editor
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1965
The Big Valley
TV show Director
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1965
Branded
TV show Director
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1964
Daniel Boone
TV show Director
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1961
The Investigators
TV show Director
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1959
The Detectives
TV show Director
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1958
The Rifleman
TV show Director
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1958
Terror in a Texas Town
Movie Director
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1957
The Halliday Brand
Movie Director
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1956
7th Cavalry
Movie Director
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1955
A Lawless Street
Movie Director
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1955
Gunsmoke
TV show Director
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1955
Man on a Bus
Movie Director
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1955
The Big Combo
Movie Director
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1953
Cry of the Hunted
Movie Director
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1952
Desperate Search
Movie Director
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1952
Retreat, Hell!
Movie Director
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1950
A Lady Without Passport
Movie Director
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1950
Gun Crazy
Movie Director
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1949
The Undercover Man
Movie Director
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1948
The Return of October
Movie Director
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1948
The Swordsman
Movie Director
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1946
So Dark the Night
Movie Director
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1945
My Name Is Julia Ross
Movie Director
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1945
The Falcon in San Francisco
Movie Director
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1944
Minstrel Man
Movie Director
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1942
Secrets of a Co-Ed
Movie Director
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1942
Boss of Hangtown Mesa
Movie Director
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1942
The Silver Bullet
Movie Director
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1942
Bombs Over Burma
Movie Director
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1942
The Mad Doctor of Market Street
Movie Director
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1941
Arizona Cyclone
Movie Director
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1941
Criminals Within
Movie Director
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1941
Invisible Ghost
Movie Director
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1940
Pride of the Bowery
Movie Director
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1940
That Gang of Mine
Movie Director
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1940
Boys of the City
Movie Director
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1940
The Return of Wild Bill
Movie Director
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1940
Texas Stagecoach
Movie Director
