Top Ten Contributors - Red Light (1949)
by milam_ogden | created - 10 Jul 2014 | updated - 10 Jul 2014 | PublicThis is an above average film noir with a very good cast. Stars include Raymond Burr, George Raft, Virginia Mayo and Gene Lockhart. Here are the top 10 contributors to bring this movie to the screen. It is listed in five of my top 10 lists for: Raft, Mayo, Lockhart, Burr and Harry Morgan.
1. Don 'Red' Barry
Actor | Jesse James' Women
Donald Barry went from the stage to the screen. After four years of playing villains and henchmen at various studios, Barry got the role that changed his image: Red Ryder in the Republic Pictures serial Adventures of Red Ryder (1940). Although he had appeared in westerns for two years or so, this ...
wrote the story "This Guy Gideon"
2. Roy Del Ruth
Director | It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Roy Del Ruth was born on Oct. 18, 1895, in Philadelphia, PA. He began his Hollywood career as a writer for Mack Sennett in 1915. He began directing in 1919 for Sennett with the two-reeler Hungry Lions and Tender Hearts (1920). In the early 1920s he moved over to features with such efforts as Asleep...
Directed because it was his own production company
3. George Callahan
Writer | Step by Step
George Callahan was born on May 17, 1902 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Step by Step (1946), Prisoners in Petticoats (1950) and This Island Earth (1955). He died on December 19, 1989 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
wrote screenplay along with Charles Grayson
4. Dimitri Tiomkin
Soundtrack | High Noon
Dimitri Tiomkin was a Russian Jewish composer who emigrated to America and became one of the most distinguished and best-loved music writers of Hollywood. He won a hallowed place in the pantheon of the most successful and productive composers in American film history, earning himself four Oscars ...
behind the music
5. Bert Glennon
Cinematographer | Stagecoach
While attending Stanford University in 1912, Bert Glennon was hired as an assistant cameraman, and, upon graduation, went into the film business full-time. Becoming a director of photography in 1916, Glennon became one of the industry's most respected craftsmen and worked often for such ...
behind the cameria
6. George Raft
Actor | Some Like It Hot
George Raft was born and grew up in a poor family in Hell's Kitchen, at the time one of the roughest, meanest areas of New York City. He was born George Ranft, and was the son of Eva (Glockner) and Conrad Ranft, a department store deliveryman. His parents were both of German descent. In his youth, ...
plays role of Johnny Torno
7. Virginia Mayo
Actress | White Heat
Virginia Clara Jones was born on November 30, 1920 in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of a newspaper reporter and his wife. The family had a rich heritage in the St. Louis area: her great-great-great-grandfather served in the American Revolution and later founded the city of East Saint Louis, ...
plays role of Carla North
8. Gene Lockhart
Actor | His Girl Friday
Gene Lockhart was born on July 18, 1891, in London, Ontario, Canada, the son of John Coates Lockhart and Ellen Mary (Delany) Lockhart. His father had studied singing and young Gene displayed an early interest in drama and music. Shortly after the 7-year-old danced a Highland fling in a concert ...
plays Warni Hazard
9. Raymond Burr
Actor | Rear Window
Born Raymond William Stacy Burr on 21 May 1917 in New Westminster, British Columbia, he spent most of his early life traveling. As a youngster, his father moved his family to China, where the elder Burr worked as a trade agent. When the family returned to Canada, Raymond's parents separated. He and...
plays villain Nick Cerney
10. Barton MacLane
Actor | The Maltese Falcon
Barton MacLane graduated from Wesleyan University, where he displayed a notable aptitude for sports, in particular football and basketball. Not surprisingly, his physical prowess led to an early role in The Quarterback (1926) with Richard Dix. MacLane once commented that, as an actor, he needed to ...
plays Detective Strecker
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