Lindsley Parsons

Lindsley Parsons
Born	September 12, 1905 Tacoma, Washington United States
Died	October 8, 1992 (aged 87) Los Angeles, California United States
Other names	Leonard Herman Leonard W. Herman
Occupation(s)	Editor Producer
Years active	1933–1969

Lindsley Parsons (1905–1992) was an American film producer and screenwriter. He worked throughout his career at the low-budget Monogram Pictures and its successor, Allied Artists. He generally produced cheap gangster, action and Western films. He was the father of film producer Lindsley Parsons Jr.

Selected filmography

Producer

• Frontier Town (1938)
• The Gang's All Here (1941)
• King of the Zombies (1941)
• Campus Rhythm (1943)
• The Crime Smasher (1943)
• Detective Kitty O'Day (1944)
• Adventures of Kitty O'Day (1945)
• South of the Rio Grande (1945)
• The Lonesome Trail (1945)
• Ginger (1946)
• Louisiana (1947)
• Tuna Clipper (1949)
• The Wolf Hunters (1949)
• Trail of the Yukon (1949)
• Call of the Klondike (1950)
• Snow Dog (1950)
• Yukon Manhunt (1951)
• Northwest Territory (1951)
• Fangs of the Arctic (1953)
• Tangier Incident (1953)
• Mexican Manhunt (1953)
• Northern Patrol (1953)
• Jack Slade (1953)
• Dragoon Wells Massacre (1957)

Screenwriter

• The Man from Utah (1934) starring John Wayne and George "Gabby" Hayes
• The Trail Beyond (1934) starring John Wayne, Noah Beery Sr. and Noah Beery Jr.
• The Desert Trail (1935) starring John Wayne
• Trouble in Texas (1937) starring Tex Ritter and Rita Hayworth (original story by Lindsley Parsons)

Bibliography

• Ashdown, Paul & Caudill, Edward, The Mosby Myth: A Confederate Hero in Life and Legend. Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.

External links

• Lindsley Parsons at IMDb