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Edward Killy

Edward Killy

Known For Directing
Birthday Jan 26, 1903
Died Jul 02, 1981 (78)
Birthplace Connecticut, USA
Popularity 0.1 (history)
Updated Aug 05, 2024
Entry Date Apr 24, 2024
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Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edward Killy (January 26, 1903 – July 2, 1981) was an American director, assistant director and production manager in films and television. He was one of the few individuals to be nominated for the short-lived Academy Award for Best Assistant Director. During h ... is 30-year career he worked on over 75 films and television shows. Killy was born on January 26, 1903 in Connecticut. He entered the film industry as an assistant director at RKO Pictures, his first film being the 1931 musical comedy, Caught Plastered, directed by William Seiter, and starring the comedy duo of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey. Over the next five years he assisted on over a dozen films, many of them notable films. In 1932 he was one of two assistants to George Cukor on the drama What Price Hollywood?, starring Constance Bennett and Lowell Sherman. In 1933 he was one of several assistants to Dorothy Arzner on the melodrama Christopher Strong, which featured Katharine Hepburn in her first starring role. He'd work with Hepburn on two more films in 1933, Morning Glory (one of three assisting Lowell Sherman), and one of two assisting Cukor on the classic, Little Women. That year he also assisted Seiter again on another Wheeler & Woolsey comedy, Diplomaniacs, as well as being one of three assistants to Thornton Freeland on the RKO musical Flying Down to Rio, which featured the first on-screen pairing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. The following year Killy assisted Philip Moeller on the classic drama The Age of Innocence, the first talking version of the novel, starring Irene Dunne and John Boles. He would also work with Hepburn again, being one of three assistants to Richard Wallace on The Little Minister. It was during the filming of this movie when Killy gained notoriety by telling off Hepburn. She was acting up on set one day and refusing to take her place on set, so he told her, "Get on the set before you're sent back to New York to do another 'Lake'." However, he soon became one of her favorite assistant directors. In 1935 Killy became part of a concerted effort on RKO's part to build a cadre of young directors. His first assignment as the main man behind the camera was as co-director with William Hamilton, on the 1935 film Freckles, based on the 1904 novel of the same name. The two would again pair up to direct the 1935 version of Seven Keys to Baldpate, starring Gene Raymond and Margaret Callahan. The pair would co-direct two more films before Killy was given his first solo directing assignment, 1936's Second Wife, starring Gertrude Michael and Walter Abel. Over the next ten years, he'd direct another 20 films, mostly B movie Westerns, and being the chief director for Tim Holt's Westerns. Some of the oater collaborations between Killy and Holt include: The Fargo Kid (1940), Wagon Train (1940), Along the Rio Grande (1941), and Land of the Open Range (1942). In the mid-1940s, a young actor, Robert Mitchum, was signed to a seven-year contract with RKO, with the intent of making B-Westerns based on Zane Grey novels. Killy was assigned the first of these films, 1944's Nevada. He would also direct Mitchum in another film adaptation of a Grey novel, 1945's West of the Pecos, which was also Killy's last credit as the director of a film.

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Gunsight Ridge

Gunsight Ridge

1957

Assistant Director

The Conqueror

The Conqueror

1956

Assistant Director

Tension at Table Rock

Tension at Table Rock

1956

Unit Manager

Susan Slept Here

Susan Slept Here

1954

Assistant Director

Angel Face

Angel Face

1953

Unit Manager

The Lusty Men

The Lusty Men

1952

Assistant Director

Adventure in Baltimore

Adventure in Baltimore

1949

Production Manager

The Set-Up

The Set-Up

1949

Assistant Director

Bride by Mistake

Bride by Mistake

1944

Assistant Director

Bombardier

Bombardier

1943

Assistant Director

The Navy Comes Through

The Navy Comes Through

1942

Assistant Director

Triple Justice

Triple Justice

1940

Assistant Director

Primrose Path

Primrose Path

1940

Assistant Director

Bachelor Mother

Bachelor Mother

1939

Assistant Director

Gunga Din

Gunga Din

1939

Assistant Director

Fifth Avenue Girl

Fifth Avenue Girl

1939

Assistant Director

The Age of Innocence

The Age of Innocence

1934

Assistant Director

Hips, Hips, Hooray!

Hips, Hips, Hooray!

1934

Assistant Director

Sing and Like it

Sing and Like it

1934

Assistant Director

The Little Minister

The Little Minister

1934

Assistant Director

Morning Glory

Morning Glory

1933

Assistant Director

Emergency Call

Emergency Call

1933

Assistant Director

Bed of Roses

Bed of Roses

1933

Assistant Director

Christopher Strong

Christopher Strong

1933

Assistant Director

Diplomaniacs

Diplomaniacs

1933

Assistant Director

What Price Hollywood?

What Price Hollywood?

1932

Assistant Director

West of the Pecos

West of the Pecos

1945

Director

Nevada

Nevada

1944

Director

Come on Danger

Come on Danger

1942

Director

Riding the Wind

Riding the Wind

1942

Director

Land of the Open Range

Land of the Open Range

1942

Director

Cyclone on Horseback

Cyclone on Horseback

1941

Director

The Bandit Trail

The Bandit Trail

1941

Director

Along the Rio Grande

Along the Rio Grande

1941

Director

Robbers of the Range

Robbers of the Range

1941

Director

Wagon Train

Wagon Train

1940

Director

The Fargo Kid

The Fargo Kid

1940

Director

Stage to Chino

Stage to Chino

1940

Director

Quick Money

Quick Money

1937

Director

The Big Shot

The Big Shot

1937

Director

Saturday's Heroes

Saturday's Heroes

1937

Director

Criminal Lawyer

Criminal Lawyer

1937

Director

China Passage

China Passage

1937

Director

Bunker Bean

Bunker Bean

1936

Director

The Big Game

The Big Game

1936

Director

Murder on a Bridle Path

Murder on a Bridle Path

1936

Director

Second Wife

Second Wife

1936

Director

Wanted: Jane Turner

Wanted: Jane Turner

1936

Director

Freckles

Freckles

1935

Director

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