JT
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American stunt performer
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Male
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Birth:
8 May 1889(Seattle)
Death:
14 May 1967(Los Angeles)
The details
Biography
Introduction
James Tinling (May 8, 1889 in Seattle - May 14, 1967 in Los Angeles) was an American film director. He worked during the silent period as a prop boy and stuntman and directed primarily for 20th Century Fox in the 1930s and 1940s. He has been cited as one of the best B-film directors for Fox, known for directing numerous westerns and light-hearted films, including Charlie Chan in Shanghai (1935).
Selected filmography
- Don't Marry (1928)
- Words and Music (1929)
- Arizona to Broadway (1933)
- Under the Pampas Moon (1935)
- Charlie Chan in Shanghai (1935)
- The Holy Terror (1937)
- 45 Fathers (1937)
- Sundown Jim (1942)
- Cosmo Jones, Crime Smasher (1943)
- Roses Are Red (1947)
- Trouble Preferred (1948)
- Tales of Robin Hood (May 1951)