Nick Grindé

Nick Grindé (January 12, 1893 – June 19, 1979) was an American film director and screenwriter. He directed 57 filme between 1928 and 1945.

Born in Madison, Wisconsin, Grinde graduated from the University of Wisconsin. He became a Hollywood film writer and director in the late 1920s, and was often assigned to familiarize Broadway stage directors with the techniques of film-making. As a director, he is considered one of American cinema ' s early B-film specialists.

Throughout his career, Grinde was a popular writer of short stories, articles and columns usually about show-business and film making in early Hollywood. Prime examples include "Pictures for Peanuts" (Saturday Evening Post, Dec. 29, 1945), a humorous B-picture "how-to" and "Where' s Vaudeville At?" (Saturday Evening Post, Jan. 11, 1930).

Grinde died in Los Angeles, California in 1979 at the age of 86. In the mid 1930s, he had been married to actress Marie Wilson. Later, he married Korean-American actress Hazel Shon.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences houses the Nick Grinde Papers in its Special Collections.