Lew Landers

Rivaling 'Sam Newfield' (qv) and 'William Beaudine' (qv) as one of the American film industry's most prolific directors, 'Lew Landers' (qv) began directing features in the mid-'30s under his real name of Louis Friedlander, but changed it to 'Lew Landers' (qv) after several films. His first effort, _The Raven (1935)_ (qv), with 'Boris Karloff' (qv) and 'Bela Lugosi' (qv), was probably his best. Landers worked for just about every studio in Hollywood during his long career, but spent a lot of time at RKO and Columbia turning out low-budget adventure epics, thrillers and westerns. In the 1950s he turned to series television, as many of his fellow B directors did, and alternated between that and features for the remainder of his career.::frankfob2@yahoo.com