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George Nicholls, Jr. (1897-1939), also known as George Nichols, Jr., was an American director and editor during the 1930s. Born to show business parents, he entered the film industry at the tail end of the silent film era, working as an editor for the Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation. After moving to RKO Pictures in 1933, Nicholls shortly began directing films by the end of the year. His career was cut short when he died in a car accident while driving to the location of his final film. ==Life and career== Born George Alberti Nicholls on May 5, 1897 in San Francisco, his father was the American actor and director George Nichols, and his mother was the actress Viola Alberti. While his father was working at Biograph Studios, Nicholls made his film debut, acting in shorts during the 1910s. In 1912, as a child actor he had the lead in the comedy short ''Pa's Medicine'' at the Thanhouser Film Corporation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=Internet Movie Database )〕 He returned to the film industry behind the camera in 1928, as the editor on the Paramount film ''Wife Savers'', directed by Ralph Ceder, and starring Wallace Beery, Raymond Hatton, ZaSu Pitts.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Wife Savers: Detail View )〕 For the next five years he worked primarily at Paramount as an editor. While at Paramount, he went by George Nichols, Jr. When he moved to RKO in 1933, he began using the original spelling of his last name, and became known as George Nicholls, Jr. His first film at his new studio was ''Sweepings'', directed by John Cromwell.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Sweepings: Detail View )〕 By the end of the year he was tapped to be an associate director to Thornton Freeland on ''Flying Down to Rio'', the first film to team Fred Astaire with Ginger Rogers.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Flying Down to Rio: Detail View )〕 The following year he would make his directorial debut, co-directing ''Finishing School'' with Wanda Tuchock (who was also directing her first film).〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Finishing School: Detail View )〕 For the remainder of the decade, he worked consistently as a director at RKO, although occasionally loaned out to other studios such as Republic and 20th-Century. He directed several notable films, including: ''Anne of Green Gables'' (1934), starring Anne Shirley (who took her stage name from this point on from the character she portrayed in this film) and Tom Brown;〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Anne of Green Gables: Detail View )〕 1935's ''The Return of Peter Grimm'', starring Lionel Barrymore, Helen Mack, Edward Ellis, and Donald Meek;〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=The Return of Peter Grimm: Detail View )〕 the 1936 sound remake of the 1918 silent film of the same name, ''M'liss'', starring Anne Shirley again, this time with John Beal;〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=M'liss: Detail View )〕 and the 1939 Western, ''Man of Conquest'', starring Richard Dix.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Man of Conquest: Detail View )〕 Nicholls directed the retakes on the John Ford film, ''The Plough and the Stars'' in 1937.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=The Plough and the Stars: Detail View )〕 In 1939 he was working on the action film ''The Marines Fly High''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Marines Fly High: Detail View )〕 On November 13, while driving to the film's location shoot at Lake Sherwood, his car ran off the road on Coldwater Canyon Drive, killing him instantly. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Nicholls, Jr.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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