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Director Born: September 14, 1900 in Paris, France Death: May 16, 1979 in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, CA Biography:Frenchman "Robert Florey" began to assistant direct, write, and act in Swiss one-reelers in 1919; that same year, he directed "Isidore A La Deveine". Back in France he assisted famed director "Louis Feuillade". After acting in his serial "L'Orpheline" in 1921, he came to America and was technical advisor on Monte Christo. Florey then began writing shorts for comic "Al St. John" and resumed acting. In 1923 he directed a comic two-reeler, "Fifty-Fifty", and began to assist several directors, including "Joseph von Sternberg", "King Vidor", and "Louis Gasnier". Florey finished the direction of his script for "That Model from Paris" after Gasnier took ill, and in 1927 directed his first feature. While keeping busy helming low-budget films, Florey also made a quartet of fascinating avant-garde shorts: "The Life and Death of 9413--A Hollywood Extra" (1928), "The Loves of Zero" (1928), "Johann the Coffin... Full Biography
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