Jack Conway

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1887-07-16 (65 years old)

Deathday

1952-10-11

Place of Birth

Graceville, Minnesota, USA

Jack Conway

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia He was born as Hugh Ryan Conway, on July 17, 1887, in Graceville, Minnesota, US. Conway started out as an actor, joining a repertory theater group straight out of high school. He then moved into films and, in 1911, became a member of D.W. Griffith's stock company, appearing primarily in westerns. Four years later, he made his mark as a director and gained valuable experience at Universal (1916–17 and 1921–23), before moving on to MGM in 1925. He remained there until 1948, often helming prestige assignments featuring the studio's top male star, Clark Gable: Boom Town (1940), Honky Tonk (1941), The Hucks...

Acting

1911

Kit Carson's Wooing

as Kit Carson

1914

The Folly of Anne

as The Heartless Publisher

1914

The Chechako

as Smoke Bellew

1910

Her Indian Mother

as Stephen Moore

1916

Macbeth

as Lennox

1913

The Twelfth Juror

as Clarence Morton

1935

1912

Her Indian Hero

as Hal Benton

1917

The Little Orphan

as David Clark

1914

Even Unto Death

as Walter Gordon

1921

The Killer

as William Sanborn

1914

The Mistress of the Air

as Dick - the Hero

Production

1941

Love Crazy

as Director

1936

Libeled Lady

as Director

1938

1930

The Unholy Three

as Director

1942

Crossroads

as Director

1934

Viva Villa!

as Director

1922

1937

Saratoga

as Director

1935

1948

Julia Misbehaves

as Director

1940

Boom Town

as Director

1922

Step on It!

as Director

1941

Honky Tonk

as Director

1932

Red-Headed Woman

as Director

1933

1934

1947

The Hucksters

as Director

1944

Dragon Seed

as Director

1920

The U.P. Trail

as Director

1929

1939

1933

The Nuisance

as Director

1931

The Easiest Way

as Director

1926

Brown of Harvard

as Director

1932

Arsène Lupin

as Director

1928

1932

1928

The Smart Set

as Director

1939

Let Freedom Ring

as Director

1929

Untamed

as Director

1931

Just a Gigolo

as Director

1934

The Gay Bride

as Director

1933

Hell Below

as Director

1947

High Barbaree

as Director

1943

1923

Lucretia Lombard

as Director

1935

1947

Desire Me

as Director

1930

New Moon

as Director

1934

1920

1923

1922

Don't Shoot

as Director

1918

1923

The Prisoner

as Director

1925

The Only Thing

as Director

1921

1928

1924

1924

The Heart Buster

as Director

1927

Twelve Miles Out

as Director

1928

1923

Quicksands

as Director

1938

A Yank at Oxford

as Director

1925

The Hunted Woman

as Director

1919

Lombardi, Ltd.

as Director

1912

His Only Son

as Director

1928

The Smart Set

as Producer

1912

Her Indian Hero

as Director

1917

Polly Redhead

as Director

1916

1915

The Birth of a Nation

as Assistant Director

1921

1924

The Roughneck

as Director

1916

1917

1916

1917

1917

The Charmer

as Director

1921

The Millionaire

as Director

1917

Bond of Fear

as Director

1916

The Mainspring

as Director

1917

Come Through

as Director

1921

The Killer

as Director

1921

The Kiss

as Director

1916

1922

1922

The Long Chance

as Director

1916

1929

1918

Her Decision

as Director

1917

A Jewel in Pawn

as Director

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