Robert Dillon


Biography

Filmography

 

Director (Feature Film)

The Lost City (1935)
Director
Phantom Police (1926)
Director
The Flame Fighter (1925)
Director
The Santa Fe Trail (1923)
Director

Cast (Feature Film)

Down to the Sea in Ships (1949)
Crew member
Skybound (1935)
Patrol flyer

Writer (Feature Film)

Waking the Dead (2000)
Screenwriter
Flight of the Intruder (1991)
Screenwriter
Revolution (1985)
Screenplay
The River (1984)
Screenplay
The River (1984)
Story By
The River (1984)
From Story
French Connection II (1975)
Screenwriter
French Connection II (1975)
From Unpublished Story
99 and 44/100% Dead (1974)
Screenplay
Prime Cut (1972)
Writer
Bikini Beach (1964)
Writer
Muscle Beach Party (1964)
Screenwriter
Muscle Beach Party (1964)
Story
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)
Screenwriter
The Old Dark House (1963)
Screenwriter
13 Frightened Girls (1963)
Screenwriter
Safe at Home! (1962)
Screenwriter
City of Fear (1959)
Writer
Parole! (1936)
Contract Writer
Postal Inspector (1936)
Contract Writer
Parole! (1936)
Idea suggested by
Fighting Youth (1935)
Contr to Screenplay const
Orchids to You (1935)
Original Story
The Lost City (1935)
Original Story
Thundering Thompson (1929)
Story
Divine Sinner (1928)
Scen
Divine Sinner (1928)
Story
The Devil's Skipper (1928)
Adaptation
Ham and Eggs at the Front (1927)
Scen
The Range Riders (1927)
Scen
A Million Bid (1927)
Scen
Riders of the West (1927)
Scen
The Fortune Hunter (1927)
Scen
Three Keys (1925)
Scen
South of the Equator (1924)
Scen
The Oregon Trail (1923)
From Story
The Radio King (1922)
From Story
In the Days of Buffalo Bill (1922)
Screenwriter
In the Days of Buffalo Bill (1922)
From Story
The Radio King (1922)
Screenwriter
The Lamplighter (1921)
Scen
Partners of Fate (1921)
Scen

Producer (Feature Film)

Muscle Beach Party (1964)
Producer
Beach Party (1963)
Associate Producer

Life Events

Videos

Movie Clip

Old Dark House, The (1963) -- (Movie Clip) You're Very Brave To Come American car salesman Tom (Poston), let in through the trap-door after the car he delivered was crushed by statues, with Potiphar (Mervyn Johns) who updates him on his customer Casper (Peter Bull) before Cecily (Janette Scott) appears, in William Castle's The Old Dark House, 1963
Old Dark House, The (1963) -- (Movie Clip) The Morgan The Pirate? The Femms (Robert Morley as Roderick, Janette Scott as Cecily, Fenella Fielding as Morgana, Joyce Grenfell as Agatha) explain to American Tom (Poston) that they don't believe he's been sent to their English home by accident, in William Castle's re-make The Old Dark House, 1963.
Muscle Beach Party (1963) -- (Movie Clip) Surfer's Holiday Arriving at the beach, Frankie (Avalon) and Annette Funicello (as Dee Dee) lead the gang in a song by Roger Christian, Gary Usher and Beach Boy Brian Wilson, Dick Dale’s Del-Tones featured, opening the second American International Pictures “Beach Party” feature, Muscle Beach Party, 1963.
Muscle Beach Party (1963) -- (Movie Clip) I Would Keep That Quiet Italian zillionaire-ess Julie (Luciana Paluzzi) choppers in from her yacht, Buddy Hackett her assistant, hunting the hunkiest body builder (Peter Lupus, here billed as Rock Stevens) at Don Rickles’ gym, Frankie (Avalon) and Dee Dee (Annette Funicello) observing, in the second “Beach Party” feature, Muscle Beach Party, 1963.
Muscle Beach Party (1963) -- (Movie Clip) Little Stevie Wonder The gang, featuring Annette Funicello as Dee Dee, catch “Little” Stevie Wonder, backed by Dick Dale’s band, for “Happy Street,” by Beach Party series songwriters Guy Hemric and Jerry Styner, Frankie (Avalon) joining to apologize for his latest misadventure, in Muscle Beach Party, 1963.
X: The Man With The X-Ray Eyes -- (1963) -- (Movie Clip) I'm Closing In On The Gods After a gory prologue, two static shots of a disembodied eyeball, producer and director Roger Corman offers graphics with a Saul Bass inflection, and we meet star Ray Milland as eye-doctor Xavier, Harold J. Stone his skeptical colleague, in X: The Man With The X-Ray Eyes, 1963.
X: The Man With The X-Ray Eyes -- (1963) -- (Movie Clip) I Like Men Who Look Urgent Dr. Fairfax (Diana Van Der Vlis), convinced that x-ray vision researcher Xavier (Ray Milland) has been working too hard, brings him to a party, where regular AIP eye-candy gal Lorie Summers approaches, and he finds out the effects have't worn off, in X: The Man With The X-Ray Eyes, 1963.
X: The Man With The X-Ray Eyes -- (1963) -- (Movie Clip) I Can See Through It Driven only by his curiosity, Dr. Xavier (Ray Milland) has persuaded colleague Dr. Brant (Harold J. Stone) to assist, as he tries out his miracle x-ray eyedrops, heretofore used only on animals, on himself, the first special effects, in AIP and Roger Corman’s X: The Man With The X-Ray Eyes, 1963.
X: The Man With The X-Ray Eyes -- (1963) -- (Movie Clip) The Monkey's Been Conditioned Having just cracked her administrative whip over his research funding, Dr. Fairfax (Diana Van Der Vlis) gets a demo from maybe-renegade doctor Xavier (Ray Milland), with a monkey, smoking together after science, early in producer-director Roger Corman’s X: The Man With The X-Ray Eyes, 1963.
X: The Man With The X-Ray Eyes -- (1963) -- (Movie Clip) What Are You Dick Tracy? Don Rickles is the insult comic carnival barker, whom we meet after researcher Xavier (Ray Milland) has gone underground, having inexplicably murdered a colleague, and discovered that his experimental vision enhancement is permanent, in Roger Corman's X: The Man With The X-Ray Eyes, 1963, and the heckler is Dick Miller, star of A Bucket Of Blood, 1959.
Old Dark House, The (1963) -- (Deleted Scene) Last Chance! Tom Poston, Joyce Grenfell and the unhappy Robert Morley in William Castle's 1963 version of The Old Dark House, one of eight titles in the new William Castle Film Collection, available on DVD October 20th.
13 Frightened Girls -- (Alternate Scene) -- French Girl Opening The "French Girl" version of the opening to William Castle's 13 Frightened Girls, 1963, all of which are seen on the new William Castle Film Collection DVD set, available October 20th.

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