Richard Schayer (December 13, 1880 – March 13, 1956)
was an American screenwriter. He wrote for more than 100 films between 1916 and 1956. He was born in
Washington, D.C.
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, son of Col. George Frederick Schayer and writer
Julia Schayer, and died in
Hollywood, California
Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California. Its name has come to be a shorthand reference for the U.S. film industry and the people associated with it. Many notable film studios, such as Columbia Pictures, ...
. He was one of seven studio executives who worked at
Universal Pictures
Universal Pictures (legally Universal City Studios LLC, also known as Universal Studios, or simply Universal; common metonym: Uni, and formerly named Universal Film Manufacturing Company and Universal-International Pictures Inc.) is an Ameri ...
during the golden age of
Laemmle management.
Selected filmography
* ''
Blindfolded'' (1918)
* ''
The Dragon Painter
''The Dragon Painter'' is a 1919 English language silent romance drama film. It is based on the novel of the same name, written by Mary McNeil Fenollosa. It stars Sessue Hayakawa as a young painter who believes that his fiancée (played by Hayak ...
'' (1919)
* ''
The Tong Man
''The Tong Man'' is a 1919 American thriller film directed by William Worthington and produced by Haworth Pictures Corporation.
''The Tong Man'' survives and is available on home video. The film has long been preserved by the Library of Congress ...
'' (1919)
* ''
The Westerners
''The Westerners'' is a 1919 American silent Western film directed by Edward Sloman and starring Roy Stewart, Robert McKim and Wilfred Lucas.Goble, p. 499.
Plot
Cast
* Roy Stewart as Cheyenne Harry
* Robert McKim as Michael 'Black Mike' La ...
'' (1919)
* ''
When a Man Loves
''When a Man Loves'' is a 1927 American silent historical drama film directed by Alan Crosland and produced and distributed by Warner Bros. The picture stars John Barrymore and features Dolores Costello in the frequently filmed story of Abbe P ...
'' (1919)
* ''
An Arabian Knight
''An Arabian Knight'' is a 1920 American drama film directed by Charles Swickard and produced by Sessue Hayakawa's Haworth Pictures Corporation. Its survival status is classified as unknown, which suggests that it is a lost film.
Plot
As describ ...
'' (1920)
* ''
The Killer'' (1921)
* ''
The Spenders
''The Spenders'' is a 1921 American silent comedy film directed by Jack Conway and starring Claire Adams, Robert McKim and Joseph J. Dowling.Goble p.963
Plot
Cast
* Claire Adams as Avice Milbrey
* Robert McKim as Rulon Shepler
* Joseph J ...
'' (1921)
* ''
Beach of Dreams
''Beach of Dreams'' is a 1921 American silent adventure film directed by William Parke and starring Edith Storey, Noah Beery and Jack Curtis.St. Romain p.110 It is based on the 1919 novel '' The Beach of Dreams'' by Henry De Vere Stacpoole.
...
'' (1921)
* ''
The Man of the Forest
''Man of the Forest'' is a 1921 American silent film, silent Western (genre), Western film directed by Howard Hickman and starring Carl Gantvoort, Claire Adams and Robert McKim (actor), Robert McKim.Munden, p. 484.
Plot
Cast
* Carl Gantvoort ...
'' (1921)
* ''
The Lure of Egypt
''The Lure of Egypt'' is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by Howard C. Hickman and starring Robert McKim, Claire Adams and Joseph J. Dowling.Munden p.468
Plot
‘’The Lure of Egypt’’ is an adaptation of the novel ‘’There ...
'' (1921)
* ''
Black Roses'' (1921)
* ''
The Glory of Clementina
''The Glory of Clementina'' is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Emile Chautard and starring Pauline Frederick, Edward Martindel and George Cowl.Munden p.298 It is based on the 1911 novel '' The Glory of Clementina Wing'' by British a ...
'' (1922)
* ''
The Ramblin' Kid
''The Ramblin' Kid'' is a 1923 American silent Western film directed by Edward Sedgwick and featuring Hoot Gibson and Laura La Plante. '' (1923)
* ''
The Victor'' (1923)
* ''
The Thrill Chaser
''The Thrill Chaser'' is a 1923 American silent Western film directed by Edward Sedgwick and featuring Hoot Gibson.
Plot
As described in a film magazine, Omar K. Jenkins' (Gibson) only inheritance from an eccentric father is a copy of the ''Ru ...
'' (1923)
* ''
Hook and Ladder'' (1924)
* ''
Ride for Your Life
''Ride for Your Life'' is a 1924 American silent Western film directed by Edward Sedgwick and featuring Hoot Gibson.
Plot
As described in a film magazine review, Bud Watkins is in love with Betsy Burke. However, she shows a preference for The ...
'' (1924)
* ''
Ridgeway of Montana
''Ridgeway of Montana'' is a 1924 American silent film, silent Western (genre), Western film directed by Clifford Smith (director), Clifford Smith and starring Jack Hoxie, Olive Hasbrouck, and Herbert Fortier.
Plot
As described in a film magazi ...
'' (1924)
* ''
The Dangerous Flirt
''The Dangerous Flirt'' (also released as ''A Dangerous Flirtation'') is a 1924 American melodrama directed by Tod Browning and starring Evelyn Brent and Edward Earle.
Plot
As described in a review in a film magazine, Sheila Fairfax (Brent), r ...
'' (1924)
* ''
Silk Stocking Sal
''Silk Stocking Sal'' is a 1924 American drama film directed by Tod Browning and starring Evelyn Brent.
Plot
As described in a review in a film magazine, member of an underworld gang Sal (Brent), while robbing a safe in a house, is surprised by ...
'' (1924)
* ''
The Ridin' Kid from Powder River
''The Ridin' Kid from Powder River'' is a 1924 American silent Western film directed by Edward Sedgwick and starring Hoot Gibson. It was based on a novel by Henry Herbert Knibbs and produced and distributed by Universal Pictures.
Plot
As des ...
'' (1924)
* ''
The Man in Blue'' (1925)
* ''
The Calgary Stampede
''The Calgary Stampede'' is a 1925 American silent Western film directed by Herbert Blaché and starring Hoot Gibson. It was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures.
Plot
As described in a film magazine, Dan Malloy (Gibson), an Ameri ...
'' (1925)
* ''
Beauty and the Bad Man
''Beauty and the Bad Man'' is a 1925 American silent Western film directed by William Worthington and starring Mabel Ballin, Forrest Stanley, and Russell Simpson.
Plot
As described in a film magazine review, Cassie, an orphan with vocal abil ...
'' (1925)
* ''
The Seventh Bandit
''The Seventh Bandit'' is a 1926 American silent Western film featuring Harry Carey.
Plot
Cast
* Harry Carey
* James Morrison as Paul Scanlon
* Harriet Hammond as Dr. Shirley Chalmette
* John Webb Dillion as Jim Gresham
* Trilby Clark as A ...
'' (1926)
* ''
The Frontier Trail
''The Frontier Trail'' is a lost 1926 American silent Western film directed by Scott R. Dunlap and starring Harry Carey.
Plot
Cast
* Harry Carey - Jim Cardigan
* Mabel Julienne Scott - Dolly Mainard
* Ernest Hilliard - Captain Blackwell
* ...
'' (1926)
* ''
Rustlers' Ranch
''Rustlers' Ranch'' is a 1926 American silent Western film directed by Clifford Smith and starring Art Acord, Olive Hasbrouck and Duke R. Lee.Munden, p. 673
Plot
Cast
* Art Acord as Lee Crush
* Olive Hasbrouck as Lois Shawn
* Duke R. Le ...
'' (1926)
* ''
The Terror
The Reign of Terror (french: link=no, la Terreur) was a period of the French Revolution when, following the creation of the First Republic, a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place in response to revolutionary fervour, ...
'' (1926)
* ''
Devil-May-Care
Devil May Care may refer to:
Music
* ''Devil May Care'', an album by Bob Dorough, 1956
** "Devil May Care", the title song, covered by Jamie Cullum on ''Pointless Nostalgic'', 2002
* ''Devil May Care'' (album), by Teri Thornton, 1961
* ''Devil M ...
'' (1929)
* ''
Where East Is East
''Where East Is East'' is a 1929 American silent drama film starring Lon Chaney as an animal trapper in Laos. The motion picture is Chaney's penultimate silent film and the last of his collaborations with director Tod Browning. While this film ...
'' (1929)
* ''
Hallelujah!'' (1929)
* ''
Trader Horn'' (1931)
* ''
Private Lives
''Private Lives'' is a 1930 comedy of manners in three acts by Noël Coward. It concerns a divorced couple who, while honeymooning with their new spouses, discover that they are staying in adjacent rooms at the same hotel. Despite a perpetuall ...
'' (1931)
* ''
Night World
''Night World'' is a series of nine young adult fiction, young adult fantasy novels by American author L. J. Smith (author), L. J. Smith. In the series, vampires, witches, Werewolf, werewolves, and shape-shifters live among humans without their ...
'' (1932)
* ''
The Black Arrow
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'' (1948)
* ''
The Iroquois Trail
''The Iroquois Trail'' is a 1950 American Western film directed by Phil Karlson starring George Montgomery and Brenda Marshall. It is set during the French-Indian War. It is an adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's 1826 work ''The Last of ...
'' (1950)
* ''
Kim
Kim or KIM may refer to:
Names
* Kim (given name)
* Kim (surname)
** Kim (Korean surname)
*** Kim family (disambiguation), several dynasties
**** Kim family (North Korea), the rulers of North Korea since Kim Il-sung in 1948
** Kim, Vietnamese f ...
'' (1950)
* ''
Children of Pleasure
''Children of Pleasure '' is a 1930 American pre-Code MGM musical comedy film directed by Harry Beaumont, originally released with Technicolor sequences. It was adapted from Crane Wilbur's 1929 play, ''The Song Writer''.
Plot
Danny, an acclai ...
'' (1930)
* ''
Indian Uprising'' (1952)
* ''
Khyber Patrol'' (1954)
References
External links
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1880 births
1956 deaths
American male screenwriters
People from Washington, D.C.
Screenwriters from Washington, D.C.
20th-century American male writers
20th-century American screenwriters
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