Gus Meins
This article needs additional citations for verification. (November 2018) |
Gus Meins | |
---|---|
La Crescenta, California, US | |
Occupation | Film director |
Years active | 1922 - 1940 |
Gus Meins (March 6, 1893 – August 1, 1940), born Gustave Peter Ludwig Luley, was an American film director. He was born in Frankfurt, Germany.
Career
Meins started out in the ‘teens as a cartoonist for the Los Angeles Evening Herald before becoming a comedy writer for Fox Film in 1919.[1]
In the 1920s, Meins directed a number of
Death
In the summer of 1940, Meins faced prosecution on "morals charges", having been accused of sex offenses against six youths. The director swore his innocence but stated that the case would ruin his career, regardless of the outcome. He left home on the night of Thursday, August 1 telling his son, Douglas: "You probably won't see me again."
Meins was found dead in his car on August 4, reportedly having committed suicide by inhaling carbon monoxide days earlier.[3] Bizarrely, the circumstances of his death in a car from suffocation were reminiscent of the demise five years earlier of comedian Thelma Todd, whom he had frequently directed.
He was interred at Grand View Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.[4]
He was generally remembered as 'a cheerful, convivial gentleman'.[1] His son Douglas Meins (1918–1987) appeared in at least seven Republic and Warner films in the late 1930s and early 1940s; he then served in the U.S. Army Corps during World War II.
Selected filmography
Feature films:
- Babes in Toyland (1934), starring Laurel and Hardy
- His Exciting Night (1939)
- The Covered Trailer (1939)
ZaSu Pitts/Thelma Todd shorts:
- Sneak Easily (1933)
- Asleep in the Feet (1933)
- Maids à la Mode (1933)
- One Track Minds (1933)
Thelma Todd/Patsy Kelly shorts:
- Beauty and the Bus(1933)
- Backs to Nature(1933)
- Air Fright(1933)
- Babes in the Goods(1934)
- Soup and Fish (1934)
- Maid in Hollywood(1934)
- I'll Be Suing You(1934)
- Three Chumps Ahead(1934)
- One-Horse Farmers(1934)
- Done In Oil(1934)
- An All-American Toothache (1936)
- Hill-Tillies(1936)
Our Gang shorts:
- Second Childhood (1936)
- The Lucky Corner (1936)
- Our Gang Follies of 1936 (1935)
- Little Sinner (1935)
- Little Papa (1935)
- Sprucin' Up (1935)
- Teacher's Beau (1935)
- Beginner's Luck (1935)
- Anniversary Trouble (1935)
- Shrimps for a Day (1934)
- Mama's Little Pirate (1934)
- Mike Fright (1934)
- Honky Donkey (1934)
- The First Round-Up (1934)
- For Pete's Sake! (1934)
- Hi'-Neighbor! (1934)
References
- ^ a b c "Gus Meins". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
- ^ "Most Popular "Buster Brown Series" Titles". Internet Movie Database. IMDB.com. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
- ^ "Movie Director Named In Morals Case Suicide". Reading Eagle. Reading, California. AP. August 5, 1940. p. 15. Retrieved September 11, 2011.
- ISBN 9780786479924.
External links
- Gus Meins at IMDb
- Gus Meins at the TCM Movie Database
- Life, films and death of Gus Meins