George M. Merrick
{{short description|American film editor, film director, producer and screenwriter (1883–1964)}}
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|birth_date = February 2, 1883
|birth_place = Buffalo, New York, U.S.
|death_date = December 16, 1964 (age 81)
|death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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|known_for = Work with Frank Buck
|occupation = Editor, director, producer, screenwriter
|nationality = American
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George Martin Merrick (February 2, 1883 – December 16, 1964) was an American film editor, film director, film producer, and sceenwriter,
He was a screenwriter of the 1937 serial film Jungle Menace, starring Frank Buck .{{cite book
| last = Lehrer
| first = Steven
| title = Bring 'Em Back Alive: The Best of Frank Buck
| publisher = Texas Tech University Press
| year = 2006
| pages = x-xi
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=UNnhbq9gwTUC&q=frank+buck+steven+lehrer
| isbn = 0-89672-582-0
}}
Early life
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George Merrick was the son of Michael Merrick, a French-born laborer (in the 1900 US census), and Mary Merrick, a Canadian immigrant.
Career
Merrick wrote, edited, directed and produced many films, including:Quigley, Eileen S. ''International Motion Picture Almanac, Volume 48. Quigley Publications, 1938.
- The Revenge of Tarzan (1920) co-director
- Rough Riding Ranger (1935) producer, writer
- Pals of the Range (1935) producer, co-writer
- Cyclone of the Saddle (1935) producer, co-writer
- Custer's Last Stand (1936) serial; editor
- The Mysterious Pilot (1937) serial; writer
- The Secret of Treasure Island (1938) serial; producer, writer
- Secrets of a Model (1940) editor
- City of Missing Girls (1941) producer
- I'll Sell My Life (1941) producer
- Miss V from Moscow (1942) producer
- A Yank in Libya (1942) producer
- The Dawn Express (1942) producer
- Submarine Base (1943) writer
- Shake Hands with Murder (1944)
- Sweethearts of the U.S.A. (1944)
- The White Gorilla (1945) producer
- Swing, Cowboy, Swing (1946)
Work with Frank Buck
In 1937, Merrick was a writer of the Frank Buck serial film Jungle Menace, and film editor of Buck's 1944 movie Tiger Fangs.
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0581200}}
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