Edward Ludwig(1899-1982)
- Director
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Russian-born Edward Ludwig came to the U.S. as a child and was educated
in Canada and New York City. He entered the film business as an actor
in silents, then became a scenarist and screenwriter, and in the early
1930s turned to directing. Although most of his films were routine
second features, he showed a flair for action pictures, a good example
of which is a John Wayne war epic he
made for Republic,
The Fighting Seabees (1944),
one of Wayne's better--and most successful--films for that studio. In
the late 1950s he turned to directing TV series.
