William Nigh

William Nigh
William Nigh in 1916
Born	Emil Kreuske (1881-10-12)October 12, 1881 Berlin, Wisconsin
Died	November 27, 1955(1955-11-27) (aged 74) Burbank, California
Occupation(s)	Director, screenwriter, actor
Years active	1913–1948

William Nigh (October 12, 1881 – November 27, 1955) was an American film director, writer, and actor. His film work sometimes lists him as either "Will Nigh" or "William Nye".

Biography

Nigh was born Emil Kreuske in Berlin, Wisconsin. He began his film career as an actor, appearing in 17 films in 1913 and 1914; he also directed one of these, Salomy Jane. He acted in eight more films in the 1910s and two more in the 1920s, but he is known mainly as a director, and an extremely prolific one at that, with a total output of 119 films, the last in 1948. Most of his directorial output was in the "B"-movie category, and he worked mainly for lower-rung studios such as Monogram Pictures (where he directed several "Charlie Chan" and "East Side Kids" films) and Producers Releasing Corporation, although he did occasionally work for such "majors" as RKO Pictures and such "mini-majors" and "minors" as Universal and Republic Pictures. His film-writing credits numbered 18, mostly concentrated early in his career.

His films included Mr. Wise Guy, Thunder, Black Dragons, Corregidor, Mr. Wong, Detective, The Mystery of Mr. Wong, Mr. Wong in Chinatown, Lady from Chungking, The Fatal Hour, The Ape, Doomed to Die, Lord Byron of Broadway, and Casey of the Coast Guard.

Nigh died in Burbank, California at the age of 74.

Partial filmography

• Mary Magdalene (1914)
• Salomy Jane (1914)
• Mignon (1915)
• The Kiss of Hate (1916)
• The Child of Destiny (1916)
• Wife Number Two (1917)
• The Rainbow Trail (1918)
• My Four Years in Germany (1918)
• The Little Giant (1926)
• The Nest (1927)
• The Fire Brigade (1927)
• Across to Singapore (1928)
• Desert Nights (1929)
• The Single Sin (1931)
• Men Are Such Fools (1932)
• City Limits (1934)
• Mystery Liner (1934)
• School for Girls
• The Headline Woman (1935)
• Without Children (1935)
• She Gets Her Man (1935)
• Bill Cracks Down (1937)
• The 13th Man (1937)
• Rose of the Rio Grande (1938)
• Female Fugitive (1938)
• The Kid from Kansas (1941)
• Secret Evidence (1941)
• The Strange Case of Doctor Rx (1942)
• Allotment Wives (1945)
• Forever Yours (1945)
• The Gay Cavalier (1946)

External links

• William Nigh at IMDb
• William Nigh at Find a Grave