Ernest B. Schoedsack
1893 - 1979Born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Schoedsack is probably best remembered for being the co-director of the 1933 film, King Kong.
His eyesight was severely damaged in World War II, yet he continued to direct films afterwards. He directed Mighty Joe Young at RKO in 1949, which was a reunion film of the main King Kong creative team (Cooper, Rose, and O'Brien).
He married screenwriter, Ruth Rose. They are interred together at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.
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King Kong
Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Robert Armstrong, Fay Wray
Adventurous filmmaker, Carl Denham, sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man. Denham captures the monster to displayed on Broadway as Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.
King Kong
Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life
Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
A silent documentary which follows a branch of the Bakhtiari tribe of Persia as they and their herds make their epic seasonal journey to better pastures.
Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life
The Most Dangerous Game
Irving Pichel, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Joel McCrea, Fay Wray
When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive and eccentric Count Zaroff. While he is very gracious at first, Zaroff eventually forces Rainsford and two other shipwreck survivors, brother and sister Eve and Martin Towbridge, to participate in a sadistic game of cat and mouse in which they are the prey and he is the hunter.
The Most Dangerous Game
Dr. Cyclops
Ernest B. Schoedsack
Albert Dekker, Thomas Coley
Four explorers are summoned to Peru by the brilliant physicist Dr Thorkel. They discover a rich source of radium and a half-mad Thorkel who shrinks them down to one-fifth their normal size when they threaten to stop his unorthodox experimentation.
Dr. Cyclops
The Last Days of Pompeii
Ernest B. Schoedsack
Preston Foster, Alan Hale
In this action-filled spectacle set in ancient Pompeii, a blacksmith becomes a Roman gladiator, though his rise to wealth and power is jeopardized by his son's Christianity and the eruption of Vesuvius.
The Last Days of Pompeii
Blind Adventure
Ernest B. Schoedsack
Robert Armstrong, Helen Mack
Richard Bruce, an American in fog bound London stumbles into the midst of international intrigue, with Rose Thorne, an innocent dupe. Together they try to unravel the mystery, enlisting the aid of a cat burglar named Holmes, who they bump into along the way.
Blind Adventure
Outlaws of the Orient
Ernest B. Schoedsack
Mae Clarke, James Bush
Johnny Eaton, trouble-shooter for an American oil company drilling in China, leaves his bride-to-be to head for the Orient and straighten out problems at the inland-concession site his company controls.
Outlaws of the Orient
