George Sherman

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1908-07-14 (83 years old)

Deathday

1991-03-15

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

George Sherman

Biography

American second feature director who arrived in California aboard the SS Mongolia (bound from New York) on which he served as a bellboy. Sherman began his career in the movie business in the mail room at Warner Brothers before working his way up to assistant director. By 1937, he had graduated to directing in his own right under contract with Republic. Sherman specialised almost exclusively in B-westerns, (including the "Three Mesqueteers" series, which featured a young John Wayne), with occasional forays into action and horror themes. He often achieved a sense of style over substance. Indeed, as to his handling of the 'Mesqueteers',...

Production

1955

1961

The Comancheros

as Producer

1971

Big Jake

as Director

1948

Larceny

as Director

1969

Hello Down There

as Producer

1950

1953

War Arrow

as Director

1952

1951

Tomahawk

as Director

1951

The Raging Tide

as Director

1955

1939

New Frontier

as Director

1939

1943

The Mantrap

as Director

1938

1950

1956

Comanche

as Director

1944

1965

Murieta

as Director

1939

1954

Border River

as Director

1954

Johnny Dark

as Director

1958

1938

1938

Red River Range

as Director

1943

1948

River Lady

as Director

1960

1943

1939

The Night Riders

as Director

1948

Black Bart

as Director

1957

The Hard Man

as Director

1949

Red Canyon

as Director

1954

Dawn at Socorro

as Director

1939

Wyoming Outlaw

as Director

1940

One Man's Law

as Director

1964

1938

1956

Reprisal!

as Director

1941

1948

Relentless

as Director

1942

X Marks the Spot

as Director

1939

1953

The Lone Hand

as Director

1938

1943

A Scream in the Dark

as Associate Producer

1964

1939

In Old Monterey

as Screenplay

1946

Renegades

as Director

1940

1938

1937

Hollywood Cowboy

as Director

1951

Target Unknown

as Director

1959

1938

1937

Wild Horse Rodeo

as Director

1952

1937

Park Avenue Logger

as Assistant Director

1949

1952

Steel Town

as Director

1966

Smoky

as Director

1958

1958

1960

1939

Mexicali Rose

as Director

1942

Arizona Terrors

as Director

1942

Arizona Terrors

as Associate Producer

1941

1941

The Apache Kid

as Director

1939

1942

Jesse James, Jr.

as Director

1941

Citadel of Crime

as Director

1946

Personality Kid

as Director

1951

The Golden Horde

as Director

1942

1942

Stagecoach Express

as Associate Producer

1936

The Border Patrolman

as Assistant Director

1935

Sunset Range

as Assistant Director

1961

1943

The Purple V

as Director

1943

1938

1939

1940

1940

1940

1940

1953

1961

1941

1964

Panic Button

as Director

1942

The Cyclone Kid

as Director

1940

1940

Texas Terrors

as Director

1940

The Tulsa Kid

as Director

1960

1941

Two Gun Sheriff

as Director

1941

Desert Bandit

as Director

1941

Kansas Cyclone

as Director

1942

The Sombrero Kid

as Director

1941

Wyoming Wildcat

as Director

1944

Storm Over Lisbon

as Associate Producer

1978

Little Mo

as Producer

1947

1960

1950

Spy Hunt

as Director

1939

Colorado Sunset

as Director

1944

The Lady and the Monster

as Associate Producer

1937

Manhattan Merry-Go-Round

as Assistant Director

1943

False Faces

as Director

1946

1943

The West Side Kid

as Associate Producer

1943

Mystery Broadcast

as Associate Producer

1958

1956

Cry Justice

as Director

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