Recent from talks
All channels
Be the first to start a discussion here.
Be the first to start a discussion here.
Be the first to start a discussion here.
Be the first to start a discussion here.
Welcome to the community hub built to collect knowledge and have discussions related to George M. Merrick.
Nothing was collected or created yet.
George M. Merrick
View on Wikipediafrom Wikipedia
George Martin Merrick (February 2, 1883 – December 16, 1964) was an American film editor, film director, film producer, and screenwriter,
Key Information
He was a screenwriter of the 1937 serial film Jungle Menace, starring Frank Buck .[1]
Early life
[edit]George Merrick was the son of Michael Merrick, a French-born laborer (in the 1900 US census), and Mary Merrick, a Canadian immigrant.
Career
[edit]Merrick wrote, edited, directed and produced many films, including:[2]
- The Revenge of Tarzan (1920) co-director
- Rough Riding Ranger (1935) producer, writer
- Pals of the Range (1935) producer, co-writer
- Cyclone of the Saddle (1935) producer, co-writer
- Custer's Last Stand (1936) serial; editor
- The Mysterious Pilot (1937) serial; writer
- The Secret of Treasure Island (1938) serial; producer, writer
- Secrets of a Model (1940) editor
- City of Missing Girls (1941) producer
- I'll Sell My Life (1941) producer
- Miss V from Moscow (1942) producer
- A Yank in Libya (1942) producer
- The Dawn Express (1942) producer
- Submarine Base (1943) writer
- Shake Hands with Murder (1944)
- Sweethearts of the U.S.A. (1944)
- The White Gorilla (1945) producer
- Swing, Cowboy, Swing (1946)
Work with Frank Buck
[edit]In 1937, Merrick was a writer of the Frank Buck serial film Jungle Menace, and film editor of Buck's 1944 movie Tiger Fangs.
References
[edit]- ^ Lehrer, Steven (2006). Bring 'Em Back Alive: The Best of Frank Buck. Texas Tech University Press. pp. x–xi. ISBN 0-89672-582-0.
- ^ Quigley, Eileen S. International Motion Picture Almanac, Volume 48. Quigley Publications, 1938.
