
Robert Florey
Robert Florey (14 September 1900 – 16 May 1979) was a French-American director, screenwriter, film journalist and actor. Born as Robert Fuchs in Paris, he became an orphan at an early age and was then raised in Switzerland. In 1920 he worked at first as a film journalist, then as an assistant and extra in featurettes from Louis Feuillade. Florey moved to the United States in 1921. As a director, Florey's most productive decades were the 1930s and 1940s, working on relatively low-budget fillers for Paramount and Warner Brothers. His reputation is balanced between his avant-garde expressionist style, most evident in his early career, and his work as a fast, reliable studio-system director called on to finish troubled projects, such as 1939's Hotel Imperial. Florey directed more than 50 films, the best known likely being the Marx Brothers first feature, The Cocoanuts (1929). His 1932 foray ...
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The Donald Duck Story
The Disneyland Story
The Walt Disney Christmas Show
Operation Wonderland
Charlie's Haunt
Johnny One-Eye
The Vicious Years
Outpost in Morocco
The Crooked Way
Rogues' Regiment
Tarzan and the Mermaids
The Beast with Five Fingers
Danger Signal
God Is My Co-Pilot
Man from Frisco
Roger Touhy, Gangster
The Desert Song
Lady Gangster
Two in a Taxi
Meet Boston Blackie
The Face Behind the Mask
Dangerously They Live
Women Without Names
Parole Fixer
The Magnificent Fraud
Hotel Imperial
Disbarred
Death of a Champion
King of Alcatraz
Dangerous to Know
King of Gamblers
Outcast
This Way Please
Daughter of Shanghai
Mountain Music
Hollywood Boulevard
Till We Meet Again
The Preview Murder Mystery
Don't Bet on Blondes
Going Highbrow
The Florentine Dagger
The Payoff
The Woman in Red
Ship Cafe
I Sell Anything
Smarty
Registered Nurse
Bedside
I Am a Thief
Girl Missing
Ex-Lady
The House on 56th Street
Those We Love
The Man Called Back- 5050-50
Murders in the Rue Morgue
Black and White
Love Songs- ELEl amor solfeando
The Road Is Fine
Battle of Paris
The Hole in the Wall
The Cocoanuts
Face Value
The Romantic Age
One Hour of Love



