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Vincent Sherman
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Director, Screenwriter Born: July 16, 1906 in Vienna, GA Death: June 18, 2006 in Woodland Hills, CA Biography:Born Abram Orovitz, the Vienna, GA native "Vincent Sherman" became a professional actor not long after he graduated from Oglethorpe University. Like many other Broadway regulars, "Sherman" arrived in Hollywood in the early talkie years, where he appeared in such films as Counsellor-at-Law (1933). In 1938, "Sherman" signed on at Warner Bros. as a director; he received his first directorial credit for the 1939 Return of Dr. X, starring "Humphrey Bogart".
"Sherman" began at the studio's B-unit, and quickly built a reputation for his ability to take any script, no matter how weak or mediocre, and turn it into a five-star blockbuster; this inveterate talent yielded increasingly bankable projects over time, and by 1942 "Sherman" was helming such A-list pictures as "Humphrey Bogart"'s "All Through the Night" (1942), "Bette Davis"' "Old Acquaintance" (1943) and "Mr. Skeffington" (1944), and "Joan... Full Biography
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