Joseph H. Lewis
film director (1907-2000)
0.56body-of-work score · ranked #1339 of 2631 directors · 2 films in our library
A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.
- Born
- April 6, 1907 · Brooklyn
- Died
- August 30, 2000 · Santa Monica
- Nationality
- United States
- Work
- film director, television director
Films in our library, ranked
Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.
- 1
1950 · United States · crime, film-noir, drama
National Film Registry (inducted 1998) · Edgar Wright's 1,000 favorite movies · Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema
0.453 citations - 20.111 citation
Complete filmography
All 40 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.
- 1937Courage of the West
- 1937Navy Spy
- 1938Border Wolves
- 1938The Last Stand
- 1938The Singing Outlaw
- 1938The Spy Ring
- 1939Two-Fisted Rangers
- 1940Blazing Six Shooters
- 1940Boys of the City
- 1940Pride of the Bowery
- 1940Texas Stagecoach
- 1940That Gang of Mine
- 1940The Man from Tumbleweeds
- 1940The Return of Wild Bill
- 1941Arizona Cyclone
- 1941Criminals Within
- 1941Invisible Ghost
- 1942Boss of Hangtown Mesa
- 1942Secrets of a Co-Ed
- 1942The Mad Doctor of Market Street
- 1942The Silver Bullet
- 1943Bombs Over Burma
- 1944Minstrel Man
- 1945My Name Is Julia Ross
- 1945The Falcon in San Francisco
- 1946So Dark the Night
- 1948The Return of October
- 1948The Swordsman
- 1950A Lady Without Passport
- 1950Gun Crazy
- 1950The Undercover Man
- 1952Desperate Search
- 1952Retreat, Hell!
- 1953Cry of the Hunted
- 1955A Lawless Street
- 1955Man on a Bus
- 1955The Big Combo
- 19567th Cavalry
- 1957The Halliday Brand
- 1958Terror in a Texas Town