Al Rockett
Al Rockett, born Albert L. Rockett, was a movie producer.[1] His 1924 film Abraham Lincoln, produced with his brother Ray Rockett, was a major production.[2][3] It won the Photoplay Medal of Honor for 1924 from Photoplay Magazine,[4] the most prestigious American film award of the time. He was born in Vincennes, Indiana,[5] and played piano in a nickelodeon theater for five years.[6] He worked for First National Pictures and Fox Film Corporation.
Filmography
[edit]- Keeping Up with Lizzie (1921)[1]
- Handle with Care (1922)
- Abraham Lincoln (1924)
- Subway Sadie (1926)
- The Girl from Coney Island (1926), also known as Just Another Blond
- Puppets (1926)
- The Patent Leather Kid (1927)
- An Affair of the Follies (1927)
- The Barker (1928)
- Cheer Up and Smile (1930)
- Wild Company (1930)
- High Society Blues (1930)
- The Princess and the Plumber (1930)
- Soup to Nuts, a Three Stooges film
- Their Mad Moment (1931)
- Business and Pleasure (1932)
- Shanghai Madness (1933)[7]
- She Was a Lady (film) (1934)
- Hell in the Heavens (1934)
- Such Women Are Dangerous (1934)
- Lottery Lover (1935)
References
[edit]- ^ a b Rockette, John Franklin (October 6, 1981). "Rockett, Carpenter, Millican, Wise, Stevens, Selman, Ware, Abernathy, Rhodes Families, 1681-1981 and Seventy-six Connected Kins-men". Gateway Press – via Google Books.
- ^ "American Cinematographer". ASC Holding Corporation. October 6, 1922 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Vincennes Stars – Al and Ray Rockett". Boomer Magazine.
- ^ "Awards for The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln (1924)". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
- ^ "The American Magazine". Crowell-Collier Publishing Company. October 6, 1924 – via Google Books.
- ^ Spears, Jack (July 3, 1977). The Civil War on the screen, and other essays. A. S. Barnes. ISBN 9780498017285 – via Google Books.
- ^ Kinnard, Roy; Crnkovich, Tony (July 11, 2015). The Films of Fay Wray. McFarland. ISBN 9781476604152 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Al Rockett". BFI. Archived from the original on October 6, 2019.