Name Roy Rowland Role Film director | Spouse Ruth Cummings Children Steve Rowland | |
Died June 29, 1995, Orange, California, United States Education University of Southern California Movies The 5 - 000 Fingers of Dr T, Many Rivers to Cross, Gun Glory, Witness to Murder, Meet Me in Las Vegas Similar People Steve Rowland, Sergio Bergonzelli, Tommy Rettig, Peter Lind Hayes, Mary Healy | ||
Roy Rowland (December 31, 1910 – June 29, 1995) was an American film director. The New York-born director helmed a number of films in the 1950s and 1960s including Our Vines Have Tender Grapes, Meet Me in Las Vegas, Rogue Cop, The 5000 Fingers of Doctor T and The Girl Hunters. Rowland married Ruth Cummings, the niece of Louis B. Mayer and sister of Jack Cummings (MGM producer/director). They had one son, Steve Rowland, born in 1932, who later became a music producer in the UK, and has recently published his memoir Hollywood Heat.
Rowland, before becoming involved in film, studied law at U.S.C. He later got work as a script clerk for MGM. This eventually led him to becoming a film director. Rowland started to direct one-reel and two reel films before moving on to feature films in 1943. In the mid-1960s Rowland directed three spaghetti westerns before retiring from film directing.