Roy Rowland

Gender: Male
Born: 31st December 1910
Died: 29th June 1995
Nationality: United States of America
Movies: A Night at the Movies, A Stranger in Town, Affair with a Stranger, Boys' Ranch, Bugles in the Afternoon, Dark Magic, Excuse My Dust, Gun Glory, Gunfighters of Casa Grande, Hit the Deck, Hollywood Party, Killer McCoy, Light's Diamond Jubilee, Lost Angel, Many Rivers to Cross, Meet Me in Las Vegas, Our Vines Have Tender Grapes, Rogue Cop, Scene of the Crime, Seven Hills of Rome, Slander, Tenth Avenue Angel, The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, The Girl Hunters, The Moonlighter, The Outriders, The Romance of Rosy Ridge, The Sea Pirate, These Wilder Years, Two Weeks with Love, Witness to Murder

Roy Rowland (December 31, 1910 – June 29, 1995) was a film director. The New York-born director helmed a number of films in the 1950s and 60s including Our Vines Have Tender Grapes, Meet Me in Las Vegas, Rogue Cop, The 5000 Fingers of Doctor T and The Girl Hunters. Rowland married Ruth Cummings, the niece of Louis B. Mayer and sister of Jack Cummings (MGM producer/director). They had one son, Steve Rowland, born in 1939, who later became a music producer in the UK, and has recently published his memoir Hollywood Heat.

Rowland, before becoming involved in film studied law at U.S.C. He later got work as a script clerk for MGM. This eventually led him to becoming a film director. Rowland started directing one-reel and two reel films before moving on to feature films in 1943. In the mid-60s Rowland directed three spaghetti westerns before retiring from film directing.

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