Frank R. Strayer


Frank Raymond Strayer was an actor, film writer, director and producer. He was active from the mid-1920s until the early 1950s. He directed a series of 14 Blondie! movies as well.

Biography

Strayer attended Carnegie Tech and then the Pennsylvania Military Academy. After graduation, he served in the Navy during World War I. After the War, he found work at Metro Studios, which would later become known as MGM. While there, he worked as an assistant director and also acted in a few films. During the 1920s, he moved on to Columbia Pictures. While there, he became a successful writer, director and producer.

Filmography

Writer

The Man Who

Director

Strayer is credited with having directed 86 films. These include 14 movies in a series based on the Blondie and Dagwood comic strip, dramas such as Manhattan Tower, starring Mary Brian and James Hall, and several horror films, including The Monster Walks. Unless otherwise noted, credits below are as listed in the AFI database.An Enemy Of Men The Fate of a Flirt The Lure of the Wild Rose of the World Steppin' Out Sweet Rosie O'Grady When the Wife's Away Pleasure Before Business The Bachelor's Baby Now We're in the Air Rough House Rosie Just Married Moran of the Marines Partners in Crime Acquitted The Fall of Eve Borrowed Wives Let's Go Places Anybody's Blonde Caught Cheating Dragnet Patrol Soul of the Slums Murder at Midnight The Monster Walks Dynamite Denny Manhattan Tower The Crusader Tangled Destinies Gorilla Ship Love in High Gear Behind Stone Walls La melodía prohibida El rey de los gitanos The Vampire Bat In the Money By Appointment Only Dance Girl Dance Las fronteras del amor La cruz y la espada Fugitive Road In Love with Life The Ghost Walks Cross Streets Fifteen Wives Port of Lost Dreams One in a Million Twin Husbands Condemned to Live Public Opinion Death from a Distance Symphony of Living Society Fever Sea Spoilers Hitch Hike to Heaven Laughing at Trouble Murder at Glen Athol The Jones Family in Big Business Off to the Races Borrowing Trouble Hot Water Blondie! Blondie Brings Up Baby Blondie Meets the Boss Blondie Takes a Vacation Blondie Has Servant Trouble Blondie on a Budget Blondie Plays Cupid Blondie Goes Latin Blondie in Society Go West, Young Lady Blondie for Victory Blondie Goes to College Blondie's Blessed Event Daring Young Man Footlight Glamour It's a Great Life Mama Loves Papa Senorita from the West I Ring Doorbells Messenger of Peace Reaching from Heaven The Sickle or the Cross The Pilgrimage Play

Producer

Footlight Glamour
  • ''It's a Great Life''

Actor