Name
Robert N. Bradbury
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1886-03-23
Deathday
1949-11-24 (63 years old)
Place of Birth
Walla Walla, Washington, USA
Biography
Robert N. Bradbury (March 23, 1886 – November 24, 1949) was an American film director and screenwriter who directed 125 movies between 1918 and 1941. He is most famous for directing early western films starring John Wayne in the 1930s, including Riders of Destiny (1933; an early singing cowboy movie), The Lucky Texan (1934), West of the Divide (1934), Blue Steel (1934), The Man From Utah (1934), The Star Packer (1934), The Trail Beyond (1934; co-starring Noah Beery, Sr. and Noah Beery, Jr.), The Lawless Frontier (1934), Texas Terror (1935), Rainbow Valley (1935), The Dawn Rider (1935), Westward Ho (1935), and Lawless Range (1935). These were inexpensively shot "Poverty Row" movies; many were also written by Bradbury and almost all of them featured character actor George "Gabby" Hayes. Bradbury also shot numerous similar films during this period starring his son Bob Steele or Johnny Mack Brown. Bradbury occasionally billed himself as "Robert North Bradbury", "R.N. Bradbury", or "Robert Bradbury".
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4.5
John Travers and Yak, his faithful Indian sidekick, pick up where a murdered sheriff leave...
5.2
Ted Hayden impersonates a wanted man and joins Gentry's gang only to learn later that Gent...
4.8
When Sheriff Jake sees a man at the safe and then finds the payroll gone, he trails him. J...
5.3
James Kincaid controls the local water supply and plans to do away with the other ranchers...
4.8
The Marshal sends John Weston to a rodeo to see if he can find out who is killing the rode...
4.8
Tobin is after the bandit Zanti who killed his parents. He finds him just as Zanti is abou...
4.9
Rod Drew hunts for a missing girl and finds himself in a fight over a goldmine as well....
5.4
Ballard's trail jumpers attack the Wyatt Company wagon train, killing young John's parents...
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Jerry Mason, a young Texan, and Jake Benson, an old rancher, become partners and strike it...
4.7
When John Mason's father is killed, John is wounded. Attracted to his nurse Alice, a confl...
- 1915 Colorado as Col. Kincaid (as Ronald Bradbury)
- 1925 North of Nome as Bruce McLaren
- 1916 To Have and to Hold as Jeremy Sparrow
- 1916 The Turquoise Mine Conspiracy as Jim Bliss
- 1916 The Fighting Heiress as Jim Bliss
- 1916 The Gun Runners as Arenzo
- 1916 The Poisoned Dart as Ripley
- 1918 The Woman in the Web as Baron Kovsky
- 1918 The Wild Strain as Col. Bull
- 1918 Cavanaugh of the Forest Rangers as Sam Gregg
- 1917 The Man from Tia Juana as Williams from Tia Juana
- 1917 A Bathtub Bandit as Jimmy the Monkey Wrench / Bath Tub Bandit
- 1916 The Target as Jack Taylor (as Ronald Bradbury)
- 1916 Tennessee's Pardner as Bill Kent
- 1916 The Girl from Frisco as multiple roles
- 1916 A Gutter Magdalene as Sheriff Barrett
