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Roy Del Ruth (October 18, 1893 – April 27, 1961) was a Hollywood film director. Del Ruth, who started out as a screenwriter in 1915 writing gags for Mack Sennett, began directing feature films in the 1920s. He became known for directing urban and crime dramas including the 1931 version of The Maltese Falcon. He also directed the universally panned The Babe Ruth Story (1948) and the 20th Century Fox B-movie Alligator People (1959).
Roy Del Ruth died in 1961 at age 67 and was interred in the San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Mission Hills, Los Angeles, California.
Filmography
- Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929)
- Hold Everything (1930)
- The Life of the Party (1930)
- Blonde Crazy (1931)
- Maltese Falcon (1931)
- Blessed Event (1932)
- Taxi! (1932)
- Lady Killer (1933)
- The Little Giant (1933)
- Bureau of Missing Persons (1933)
- Employees' Entrance (1933)
- Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1934)
- Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)
- Born to Dance (1936)
- Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937)
- On the Avenue (1937)
- Topper Returns (1941)
- DuBarry Was a Lady (1943)
- Ziegfeld Follies (1946)
- On Moonlight Bay (1951)
- Alligator People (1959)
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