Director

Nick Grindé

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Directed movies: 57Directed series: 0All crew credits: 60

TMDB ID: 96608

IMDb ID: nm0342417

Known for: Directing

Born: January 12, 1893

Died: June 19, 1979

Age: 86

Place of birth: Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1925 - 1946

Years active: 22

Average TMDB rating: 6.29

Wikidata: Q1985392

Also known as

Nicholas Grindé • Nicholas Grinde • Nick Grinde

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Director (55)Assistant Director (2)Screenplay (2)Writer (1)

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Biography

Nick Grindé was an American film director and screenwriter. He directed 57 films between 1928 and 1945. Born in Madison, Wisconsin, Grindé graduated from the University of Wisconsin. He became a Hollywood film writer and director in the late 1920s, and was often assigned to familiarize Broadway stage directors with the techniques of film making. As a director, he is considered one of American cinema's early B film specialists. Throughout his career, Grindé was a popular writer of short stories, articles and columns usually about show business and film making in early Hollywood. In the mid 1930s, he had been married to actress Marie Wilson. Later, he married Korean-American actress Hazel Shon. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences houses the Nick Grindé Papers in its Special Collections.

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