Rowland V. Lee

For other people with a similar name, see Rowland Lee (disambiguation).

Rowland V. Lee
File:Rowland V Lee 1921.jpg Promotional photo (1921)
Born	(1891-09-06)September 6, 1891 Findlay, Ohio
Died	Palm Desert, California
Occupation	Actor

Rowland Vance Lee (September 6, 1891 in Findlay, Ohio – December 21, 1975 in Palm Desert, California) was an American film director, writer and producer. In 1929, he directed The Wolf of Wall Street featuring George Bancroft.

Lee directed The Son of Monte Cristo (1940), starring Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett and George Sanders. He was one of the 11 co-directors of Paramount Pictures' all-star revue Paramount on Parade (1930). He made creative use of the then-new sound medium in the near-fantasy treatment of Zoo in Budapest (1933).

He also directed The Guilty Generation (1931), Son of Frankenstein (1939), The Tower of London (1939) and The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944).

He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Lee was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, in Glendale, California.

Selected filmography

Actor

• Polly Ann (1917)
• His Own Law (1920)

Director

• The Sea Lion (1921)
• Gentle Julia (1923)
• In Love with Love (1924)
• Barbed Wire (1927)
• Three Sinners (1928)
• The Wolf of Wall Street (1929)
• Paramount on Parade (1930)
• The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu (1930)
• The Guilty Generation (1931)
• That Night in London (1932)
• Zoo in Budapest (1933)
• The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)
• Cardinal Richelieu (1935)
• The Three Musketeers (1935)
• One Rainy Afternoon (1936)
• Love from a Stranger (1937) aka Night of Terror
• Service de Luxe (1938)
• The Sun Never Sets (1939)
• The Son of Frankenstein (1939)
• Tower of London (1939)
• The Son of Monte Cristo (1940)
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944)
• Captain Kidd (1945)

External links

• Rowland V. Lee at the Internet Movie Database
• Rowland V. Lee at Virtual History