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Alfred E. Green
Director 1889 - 1960

Alfred E. Green

Perris, California, USA

Alfred E. Green (July 11, 1889 – September 4, 1960) was a prolific movie director and assistant director. Green entered film in 1912 as an actor for the Selig Polyscope Company. He became an assistant to director Colin Campbell. He then started to direct two-reelers until he... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

15 titles
Invasion USA

Invasion USA

Alfred E. Green 1952 1h 13m 5.0

A group of American witness the deadly invasion of the United States by the Soviet Union.

The Jackie Robinson Story

The Jackie Robinson Story

Alfred E. Green 1950 1h 17m

Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues.

Cover Up

Cover Up

Alfred E. Green 1949 1h 22m 6.0

Insurance investigator Sam Donovan is looking into the apparent suicide of a man in a small Midwestern town. All clues leads him into suspecting murder. Unfortunately, no one wants to assist him with the case, including Sheriff Larry Best.

The Fabulous Dorseys

The Fabulous Dorseys

Alfred E. Green 1947 1h 28m 5.0

The Dorsey Brothers bandleaders' lives traced from childhood music insisting father to fame rise eventual split furthering careers propelling with their music.

The Jolson Story

The Jolson Story

Alfred E. Green 1946 2h 8m

The Jolson Story is a 1946 musical biography which purports to tell the life story of singer Al Jolson. It stars Larry Parks as Jolson, Evelyn Keyes as "Julie Benson" (approximating Jolson's wife, Ruby Keeler), William Demarest as his manager, Ludwig Donath and Tamara Shayne as his parents, and Scotty Beckett as the young Jolson.

A Thousand and One Nights

A Thousand and One Nights

Alfred E. Green 1945 1h 33m 6.0

On the run after being found sweet-talking the Sultan's daughter, Aladdin comes upon a lamp which, when rubbed, summons up Babs the genie. He uses it to return as a visiting prince asking for the princess's hand.

Badlands of Dakota

Badlands of Dakota

Alfred E. Green 1941 1h 14m

In the Dakotas during the days of the Great Gold Boom, brothers Jim and Bob Holliday are bumping heads over the affections of pretty Anne Grayson. While all this is going on, Wild Bill Hickok does his best to neutralize the local criminal element-and to fend off the romantic overtures of boisterous Calamity Jane.

The Gracie Allen Murder Case

The Gracie Allen Murder Case

Alfred E. Green 1939 1h 18m

Super-sleuth Philo Vance faces the zaniest case of his career when Gracie Allen "helps" him try to solve the murder of an escaped convict. As she attempts to clear the name of a friend accused of the killing, her wacky, scatterbrained ways constantly impede the investigation.

Thoroughbreds Don't Cry

Thoroughbreds Don't Cry

Alfred E. Green 1937 1h 20m 6.0

A cocky young jockey who gets mixed up with some crooked gamblers befriends an English lad with a fast horse and the niece of a woman who runs a boarding house for jockeys.

Parachute Jumper

Parachute Jumper

Alfred E. Green 1933 1h 12m 5.0

To share expenses, unemployed Alabama moves in with also unemployed Bill and Toodles. Bill is hired by a gangster's mistress and ultimately becomes the gangster's bodyguard. Alabama unknowingly applies for a stenographer's job at Mr. Weber's (the gangster's) business. Bill is forced to fly a plane carrying narcotics into the U.S. but fights back.

Baby Face

Baby Face

Alfred E. Green 1933 1h 16m 8.3

A beautiful schemer sleeps her way to the top of a banking empire.

Smart Money

Smart Money

Alfred E. Green 1931 1h 21m 8.0

A Greek barber has uncommon skills in playing poker and soon rises in the seedy world of illegal gambling, but pretty blondes remain his Achilles' heel.

Sweet Kitty Bellairs

Sweet Kitty Bellairs

Alfred E. Green 1930 1h 3m 5.0

Kitty Bellairs, a flirtatious young woman of 18th Century England, cuts a swath of broken hearts and romantic conquests as she visits a resort with her sister.

Disraeli

Disraeli

Alfred E. Green 1929 1h 30m

Prime Minister of Great Britain Benjamin Disraeli outwits the subterfuge of the Russians and chicanery at home in order to secure the purchase of the Suez Canal.

Ella Cinders

Ella Cinders

Alfred E. Green 1926 1h 15m

Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of her dead-end life and go to Hollywood, where she is promised a job in the movies. When she arrives in Hollywood, she discovers that the contest was a scam and the job non-existent.

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