Director
Joseph H. Lewis
119 years · New York City, New York, USA · 46 films
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
Best known for
Filmography 46
Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula
1997 · Self
Terror in a Texas Town
1958 · Director
On Plex
The Halliday Brand
1957 · Director
On ScreenPix Amazon Channel
7th Cavalry
1956 · Director
On Tubi TV
A Lawless Street
1955 · Director
On YouTube Free
Man on a Bus
1955 · Director
The Big Combo
1955 · Director
On Plex
Cry of the Hunted
1953 · Director
Desperate Search
1952 · Director
Retreat, Hell!
1952 · Director
A Lady Without Passport
1950 · Director
Gun Crazy
1950 · Director
On Kanopy
The Undercover Man
1949 · Director
The Return of October
1948 · Director
On The Roku Channel
The Swordsman
1948 · Director
So Dark the Night
1946 · Director
My Name Is Julia Ross
1945 · Director
On Plex
The Falcon in San Francisco
1945 · Director
Minstrel Man
1944 · Director
On Fawesome
Secrets of a Co-Ed
1942 · Director
Boss of Hangtown Mesa
1942 · Director
The Silver Bullet
1942 · Director
Bombs Over Burma
1942 · Director, Screenplay
On Hoopla
The Mad Doctor of Market Street
1942 · Director