Quick Facts
Biography
Andrew L. Stone (July 16, 1902, Oakland, California – June 9, 1999, Los Angeles, California) was an American screenwriter, director, and producer.
Career
Best known for his hard-hitting, realistic films, Stone frequently collaborated with his wife, editor and producer Virginia Lively Stone (credited as Virginia L. Stone). Though few of his films achieved mainstream success, Stone was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his 1956 thriller Julie.
Stone's stories frequently featured characters called Cole, Pringle and Pope, usually in law enforcement and interchangeably played by the same actors--Jack Kruschen, Barney Phillips and John Gallaudet. Roles with those names were included in A Blueprint for Murder, The Night Holds Terror, Julie, Cry Terror!, and The Decks Ran Red.
Selected filmography
- Shadows of Glory (1930)
- With Words and Music (1937; director)
- The Great Victor Herbert (1939; director)
- Stormy Weather (1943; director)
- Hi Diddle Diddle (1943; director, producer, original story)
- Sensations of 1945 (1944; director and writer)
- The Bachelor's Daughters (1946; director, writer, and producer)
- Fun on a Weekend (1947; director)
- Highway 301 (1950; director and writer)
- The Steel Trap (1952; director and writer)
- A Blueprint for Murder (1953; director and writer)
- The Night Holds Terror (1955; director, writer, and producer)
- Julie (1956; director and writer)
- Cry Terror! (1958; director, writer, and producer)
- The Decks Ran Red (1958; director, writer, and producer)
- The Last Voyage (1960; director, writer, and producer)
- Ring of Fire (1961; director, writer, and producer)
- The Password Is Courage (1962; director, writer, and producer)
- Never Put It in Writing (1964; director, writer, and producer)
- The Secret of My Success (1965)
- Song of Norway (1970)
- The Great Waltz (1972)