Del Lord
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Born | Delmer Lord October 7, 1894 Grimsby, Ontario, Canada |
Died | March 23, 1970 Calabasas, California, United States | (aged 75)
Occupation(s) | Film director, actor |
Delmer "Del" Lord (October 7, 1894 – March 23, 1970) was a
Career
Delmer Lord was born in the small town of
Given a chance to direct, Del Lord became a specialist in automotive gags, rigging cars to explode, crash, fall apart, or dangle in precarious positions. Lord was responsible for a number of very successful comedies for Keystone and directed two feature films for
From 1935 to 1945, Lord directed some of Columbia's fastest and funniest two-reelers and is credited with developing the unique comic style of the
In 1936 a Canadian law required that American studios would have to release a certain quota of Canadian-made films in order to distribute their own Hollywood productions in Canada.[2] Columbia sent some of its actors and crew members to Canada, including its Canadian-born employees. Del Lord made one feature film there, What Price Vengeance (1937).
Columbia promoted Lord to feature films in 1944. Curiously, most of Lord's Columbia features are action melodramas rather than slapstick comedies; he may have gotten these assignments based on his handling of his one previous Columbia feature, What Price Vengeance.
Lord worked briefly for Monogram Pictures in 1946, and returned to Columbia in 1948. In 1952 he directed Buster Keaton in an industrial featurette, A Paradise for Buster. Del Lord can be seen in an episode of TV's This Is Your Life, honoring Lord's old boss Mack Sennett.
Death
Del Lord died on March 23, 1970, in
Popular culture
Two rock bands took their names from the Stooges' frequently credited director: the Del-Lourds (of New Jersey, 1963) and the Del Lords (of New York, 1983-90 and 2010-13).
Selected filmography
- Lizzies of the Field (1924)[3]
- Topsy and Eva (1927)
- Lost at the Front (1927)
- Barnum Was Right (1929)
- The Loud Mouth (1932)
- Oh, My Nerves (1935)
- Three Stoogesshorts (1935–1948, more than three dozen films)
- Trapped by Television (1936)
- Vengeance(1937)
- Kansas City Kitty (1944)
- Let's Go Steady (1945)
- I Love a Bandleader (1945)
- Rough, Tough and Ready (1945)
- Singin' in the Corn (1946)
- In Fast Company (1946)
- It's Great to Be Young (1946)
See also
References
- ISBN 1-882766-00-8
- ^ Ted Magder, Piers Handling, Peter Morris, "Canadian Film History: 1896 to 1938," The Canadian Encyclopedia, January 10, 2012.
- ^ Lizzies of the Field - Del Lord, 1924 VOSE, YouTube
External links
- "Del Lord". Motion picture director. Find a Grave. July 14, 2002. Retrieved July 1, 2011.
- Del Lord at IMDb