Mack V. Wright
American actor and director (1894–1965)
Mack V. Wright (March 9, 1894 – August 14, 1965) was an American actor and film director. Active as a director from 1920 to the late 1940s, he also had an extensive career as an assistant director, second-unit director and production manager. His heyday was in the 1930s, when he directed or co-directed serials for Republic Pictures and made westerns for Monogram Pictures, often with John Wayne. He was also an actor, appearing in his first film in 1914 and his last in 1934, almost all of them westerns.
Selected filmography
Director
Wright also directed the following films that starred John Wayne:
Range Feud (1931)
Haunted Gold (1932)
The Man from Monterey (1933)
Somewhere in Sonora (1933)
Randy Rides Alone (1934)
Winds of the Wasteland (1936)
Production Manager
Spirit of Youth (1938)
Crime, Inc.
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