Richard Schayer


Screenwriter

About

Also Known As
Richard Shayer, Richard E. Schayer, E. Richard Schayer
Birth Place
Washington, Washington D.C., USA
Born
December 13, 1880
Died
March 15, 1956

Biography

Filmography

 

Writer (Feature Film)

Arizona Raiders (1965)
Story (see note)
Apache Rifles (1964)
Story
Sword of Lancelot (1963)
Screenwriter
Gun Fight (1961)
Screenwriter
Five Guns to Tombstone (1961)
Screenwriter
Gun Brothers (1956)
Screenwriter
Top Gun (1955)
Screenwriter
The Lone Gun (1954)
Screenwriter
Khyber Patrol (1954)
Story
Bandits of Corsica (1953)
Screenwriter
Gun Belt (1953)
Screenwriter
The Steel Lady (1953)
Screenwriter
Cripple Creek (1952)
Writer
Indian Uprising (1952)
Story
Indian Uprising (1952)
Screenwriter
The Texas Rangers (1951)
Screenwriter
Kim (1951)
Screenwriter
Lorna Doone (1951)
Screenwriter
The Iroquois Trail (1950)
Screenwriter
Davy Crockett, Indian Scout (1950)
Screenwriter
Black Magic (1949)
Addl scenes and dial
The Black Arrow (1948)
Screenwriter
Northwest Passage (Book I--Rogers' Rangers) (1940)
Contract Writer
Dangerous Waters (1936)
Screenwriter
The Devil Is a Sissy (1936)
Screenwriter
The Devil-Doll (1936)
Contr to dial
The Winning Ticket (1935)
Screenwriter
The Meanest Gal in Town (1934)
Screenwriter
She Made Her Bed (1934)
Adaptation
Private Jones (1933)
Story
Cocktail Hour (1933)
Screenwriter
Cocktail Hour (1933)
Additional Dialogue
Night World (1932)
Screenwriter
The Impatient Maiden (1932)
Screenwriter
Racing Youth (1932)
Scen Editor
The Texas Bad Man (1932)
Scen Editor
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
Scen Editor
The Mummy (1932)
Story
Fast Companions (1932)
Scen Editor
The All American (1932)
Original Story
Rider of Death Valley (1932)
Scen Editor
Unexpected Father (1932)
Scen Editor
The Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood (1932)
Scen Editor
Law and Order (1932)
Scen Editor
Destry Rides Again (1932)
Scen Editor
Buster se marie (1931)
Dialogue et scenario de [Dial and scr]
Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931)
Dial cont
Trader Horn (1931)
Screenwriter
The Spirit of Notre Dame (1931)
Screenwriter
Dance, Fools, Dance (1931)
Cont
Waterloo Bridge (1931)
Scen Supervisor
Nice Women (1931)
Scen Editor
Private Lives (1931)
Scen
Just a Gigolo (1931)
Adapted and dial
Frankenstein (1931)
Scen Editor
Lasca of the Rio Grande (1931)
Scen Supervisor
East of Borneo (1931)
Scen Supervisor
The Homicide Squad (1931)
Scen Supervisor
Monsieur Le Fox (1930)
Diálogo y arreglo cinematográfico por [Dial and scr]
¡De frente, marchen! (1930)
Arreglo [Scr]
Doughboys (1930)
Scen
Free and Easy (1930)
Scen
Children of Pleasure (1930)
Scen
Men of the North (1930)
Cont
Doughboys (1930)
Dial
Men of the North (1930)
Dial
Estrellados (1930)
Argumento de [Story]
Monsieur la Volpe (1930)
Dialogo [Dial]
The Flying Fleet (1929)
Screenwriter
Where East Is East (1929)
Scen
Devil-May-Care (1929)
Adaptation
Wild Orchids (1929)
Cont
Hallelujah (1929)
Trmt
Spite Marriage (1929)
Cont
Across to Singapore (1928)
Cont
The Law of the Range (1928)
Scen
Honeymoon (1928)
Adaptation
The Actress (1928)
Scen
Circus Rookies (1928)
Cont
The Cameraman (1928)
Cont
On ze Boulevard (1927)
Screenwriter
Tell It to the Marines (1927)
Scen
Tell It to the Marines (1927)
Story
The Seventh Bandit (1926)
Scen
The Scrappin' Kid (1926)
Scen
The Frontier Trail (1926)
Story and scen
The Terror (1926)
Scen
The Unknown Soldier (1926)
Scen
Rustlers' Ranch (1926)
Scen
The Terror (1926)
Story
The Scrappin' Kid (1926)
Story
The Man in Blue (1925)
Scen
The Hurricane Kid (1925)
Scen
The Calgary Stampede (1925)
Story
Silk Stocking Sal (1924)
Scen
The Ridin' Kid From Powder River (1924)
Scen
Ridgeway of Montana (1924)
Scen
Hook And Ladder (1924)
Scen
The Sawdust Trail (1924)
Scen
Silk Stocking Sal (1924)
Story
The Dangerous Flirt (1924)
Adaptation
Ride for Your Life (1924)
Adaptation
The Victor (1923)
Scen
The Ramblin' Kid (1923)
Scen
The Thrill Chaser (1923)
Scen
My Dad (1922)
Scen
The Gray Dawn (1922)
Scen
The Glory of Clementina (1922)
Scen
The Man of the Forest (1921)
Scen
The Killer (1921)
Scen
Beach of Dreams (1921)
Scen
Black Roses (1921)
Story and scen
The Lure of Egypt (1921)
Scen
Li Ting Lang (1920)
Scen
An Arabian Knight (1920)
Scen
The Woman in Room 13 (1920)
Scen
The Beggar Prince (1920)
Scen
The Cup of Fury (1920)
Scen
The Spenders (1920)
Scen
The Beggar Prince (1920)
Story
The Brand of Lopez (1920)
Story
The Tong-Man (1919)
Scen
Flame of the Desert (1919)
Scen
The Illustrious Prince (1919)
Scen
The Westerners (1919)
Scen
A Man's Country (1919)
Scen
When a Man Loves (1919)
Scen
Brothers Divided (1919)
Scen
The House of Intrigue (1919)
Scen
The Dragon Painter (1919)
Scen
The One Woman (1918)
Scen
Blindfolded (1918)
Story
Rasputin, the Black Monk (1917)
Scen
Sudden Riches (1916)
Scen

Producer (Feature Film)

The Spirit of Notre Dame (1931)
Associate Producer

Life Events

Videos

Movie Clip

Trader Horn (1931) -- (Movie Clip) They Have A Telegraph Early business, MGM getting its money's worth out of location shooting, in African states then known as Tanganyika and Congo, then Harry Carey (title character) and sidekick Peru (Duncan Renaldo) arriving, in Trader Horn, 1931.
Trader Horn (1931) -- (Movie Clip) You Made Her No Promise Horn (Harry Carey) and sidekick Peru (Duncan Renaldo) find the remains of missionary Edith (Olive Golden, Carey's wife) but resolve to carry on, on location at noisy Murchison Falls on the Nile in modern-day Uganda, in MGM's Trader Horn, 1931.
Trader Horn (1931) -- (Movie Clip) We're White, Like Herself! Now captives of an especially hungry East African tribe, Horn (Harry Carey) and Peru (Duncan Renaldo) meet Nina (Edwina Booth), the captive they planned to rescue, who has become the chief, in MGM's Trader Horn, 1931.
Hallelujah! (1929) -- (Movie Clip) Ain't No Nothin' To Buy Director King Vidor's on-location opening, introducing the Johnsons including Zekiel (Daniel L. Haynes) and Mammy (Fanny Belle DeKnight), dialogue likely by Ransom Rideout, the African-American playwright Vidor hired, in the MGM "all-colored" musical Hallelujah!, 1929.
Hallelujah! (1929) -- (Movie Clip) And Zekiel Became A Preacher Zekiel (Daniel L. Haynes) in a wrathful public mourning, over the death of his brother brought about by his own sinful behavior, Harry Gray as Pappy the preacher, ending with the spiritual by Henry Thacker Burleigh, from King Vidor's Hallelujah, 1929.
Hallelujah! (1929) -- (Movie Clip) Waiting At The End Of The Road Leading man Daniel L. Haynes (as "Zekiel") with the younger brother he calls "Spunk" (Everett McGarrity), in another of director King Vidor's impressive location shots, with another Irving Berlin original, the Dixie Jubilee Singers also credited, early in MGM's Hallelujah!, 1929.
Black Magic (1949) -- (Movie Clip) His Cunning Gypsy Mind We know from narration (by Berry Kroeger as Alexandre Dumas) that gypsy Balsamo (Orson Welles) is a prodigiously gifted hypnotist, seen here just after he’s been discovered and bailed out of a Vienna jail by the professionally interested Dr. Mesmer (Charles Goldner), in Black Magic, 1949.
Mummy, The (1932) -- (Movie Clip) What Fools We Look Eleven years following the hairy prologue, bothered Englishmen Whemple (David Manners) and Professor Pearson (Leonard Mudie) are lamenting their lousy dig when an un-credentialed Egyptian who calls himself Ardeth Bey (Boris Karloff) drops by, in Universal's original The Mummy, 1932.
Mummy, The (1932) -- (Movie Clip) Closed For The Night Mysterious Egyptian "Ardeth Bay" (Boris Karloff) has his hands now on his prized scroll, incanting over it the name of the long dead princess of the character he's pretending not to be, somehow reaching Anglo-Egyptian Helen (Zita Johann) at the museum party, in Universal's The Mummy, 1932.
Black Magic (1949) -- (Movie Clip) He Hypnotized Half The World! Producer Edward Small wringing every drop of historical gravitas from his even-then out-of-copyright literary source, Gregory Ratoff directing Berry Kroeger and Raymond Burr as Dumas père and fils, opening Black Magic, 1949, starring Orson Welles.
Black Magic (1949) -- (Movie Clip) The Words Within Your Own Soul Now renowned throughout Europe, hypnotist “Cagliostro” (Orson Welles) has just recognized his parents’ murderer (Stephen Bekassy), who needs him to revive catatonic Lorenza (Nancy Guild), in whose flashback we meet handsome Gilbert (Frank Latimore), Gregory Ratoff directing, in Black Magic, 1949.
Black Magic (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Long Live Cagliostro! Gifted gypsy Balsamo (Orson Welles) has just learned that his powers of hypnotism will have great currency in European society, his crew (Akim Tamiroff, Valentina Cortese) enthralled as Berry Kroeger in the voice of Alexandre Dumas narrates his ascendance, in Black Magic, 1949.

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