Robert F. McGowan

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1882-07-11 (73 years old)

Deathday

1955-01-27

Place of Birth

Denver, Colorado, USA

Robert F. McGowan

Biography

Robert Francis McGowan (July 11, 1882 – January 27, 1955) was an American film director and producer, best known as the senior director of the Our Gang short subjects film series from 1922 until 1933. McGowan died of cancer in Santa Monica, California, on January 27, 1955, at the age of 72. His nephew, screenwriter and director Robert A. McGowan, died five months later. From Wikipedia.

Acting

1929

Railroadin'

as Man who stumbles on the Limited

Production

1948

1940

1926

Thundering Fleas

as Director

1947

Curley

as Producer

1936

Frontier Justice

as Director

1929

Boxing Gloves

as Producer

1929

Lazy Days

as Director

1929

Lazy Days

as Producer

1933

Wild Poses

as Director

1929

Railroadin'

as Director

1929

Railroadin'

as Producer

1929

Small Talk

as Producer

1929

Small Talk

as Director

1932

Birthday Blues

as Director

1933

Mush and Milk

as Director

1933

Forgotten Babies

as Director

1930

Pups Is Pups

as Director

1931

Dogs Is Dogs

as Director

1932

Choo-Choo!

as Director

1932

A Lad an' a Lamp

as Director

1932

Free Wheeling

as Director

1932

1932

Spanky

as Director

1932

The Pooch

as Director

1933

1933

Fish Hooky

as Director

1931

1931

Love Business

as Director

1931

Bargain Day

as Director

1931

Little Daddy

as Director

1931

Fly My Kite

as Director

1929

Wiggle Your Ears

as Director

1931

Big Ears

as Director

1929

Bouncing Babies

as Director

1930

A Tough Winter

as Director

1936

Too Many Parents

as Director

1930

Bear Shooters

as Director

1930

1930

School's Out

as Director

1930

Teacher's Pet

as Director

1926

Buried Treasure

as Director

1926

Monkey Business

as Director

1926

1926

Shivering Spooks

as Director

1926

Baby Clothes

as Director

1926

War Feathers

as Director

1926

Good Cheer

as Director

1922

Fire Fighters

as Director

1922

Our Gang

as Director

1922

Young Sherlocks

as Director

1922

A Quiet Street

as Director

1922

One Terrible Day

as Director

1922

Saturday Morning

as Director

1923

Dogs of War!

as Director

1923

The Champeen

as Director

1923

No Noise

as Director

1923

The Big Show

as Director

1923

Giants vs. Yanks

as Director

1928

The Smile Wins

as Director

1923

Sunday Calm

as Director

1923

July Days

as Director

1923

Derby Day

as Director

1928

Spook Spoofing

as Director

1923

Lodge Night

as Director

1923

Back Stage

as Director

1923

Stage Fright

as Director

1923

1947

Curley

as Story

1924

Seein' Things

as Director

1924

1924

Fast Company

as Director

1924

Cradle Robbers

as Director

1924

It's a Bear

as Director

1924

Big Business

as Director

1924

Jubilo, Jr.

as Director

1924

Commencement Day

as Director

1924

The Buccaneers

as Director

1924

Tire Trouble

as Director

1924

1924

High Society

as Director

1936

Divot Diggers

as Director

1925

1925

1925

Dog Days

as Director

1925

The Love Bug

as Director

1925

Better Movies

as Director

1925

1925

Ask Grandma

as Director

1925

Circus Fever

as Director

1925

One Wild Ride

as Director

1925

The Big Town

as Director

1925

Shootin' Injuns

as Director

1925

1926

The Fourth Alarm

as Director

1940

Tomboy

as Director

1928

Crazy House

as Director

1938

1927

Seeing the World

as Director

1927

1928

The Spanking Age

as Director

1929

Little Mother

as Director

1929

1929

Bouncing Babies

as Producer

1940

Haunted House

as Director

1932

Hook and Ladder

as Director

1931

Love Fever

as Director

1931

Helping Grandma

as Director

1929

1927

Love My Dog

as Director

1920

Kids Is Kids

as Scenario Writer

1927

Heebee Jeebees

as Director

1929

1931

Dogs Is Dogs

as Producer

1926

Telling Whoppers

as Director

1929

Noisy Noises

as Director

1928

School Begins

as Producer

1927

The Old Wallop

as Director

1931

Helping Grandma

as Producer

1933

Bedtime Worries

as Director

1932

Hook and Ladder

as Producer

1931

Little Daddy

as Producer

1932

The Pooch

as Producer

1932

Choo-Choo!

as Producer

1933

Wild Poses

as Producer

1929

1930

Shivering Shakespeare

as Supervising Producer

1930

1930

1934

One Too Many

as Director

1930

1930

Bear Shooters

as Producer

1929

1927

Yale vs. Harvard

as Director

1933

Bedtime Worries

as Producer

1933

Crook's Tour

as Director

1928

Fair and Muddy

as Supervising Producer

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