Directing

D. Ross Lederman

Born — Died

1894-12-12 — 1972-08-24

Place of birth

Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

The Return of the Whistler poster
6.0

When a woman goes missing on the eve of her wedding, her fiancee hires a detective to track her down

The Return of the Whistler

1948

Escape from Crime poster
5.5

Ex-con Red O'Hara becomes a daring news photographer, but his old ways get him into trouble.

Escape from Crime

1942

Strange Alibi poster
7.2

An undercover cop finds himself on the wrong side of the law when the mob discovers his true identity.

Strange Alibi

1941

The Phantom Thief poster
6.4

Boston Blackie, in the 11th film of the Columbia series, indulges in some wit-trading with a squirmy spiritualist who deals in blackmail, murder and the occult. "Blackie" out to help his pal, "Runt," recover some jewels, finds himself involved in the homicides, and also finds himself as the prime suspect, and now has to find the real culprit in order to clear himself. So "Blackie,", a man of many talents and already a proved magician from cases past, shows he knows a little bit about dancing skeletons, walking phantoms and spiritualism himself, and holds a séance to unmask the murderer.

The Phantom Thief

1946

Tarzan's Revenge poster
4.8

Eleanor and her parents are hunting big game, acompanied by her wimpish fiance.

Tarzan's Revenge

1938

The Notorious Lone Wolf poster
6.0

Ex-thief Lone Wolf and his valet don turbans to solve a museum jewel theft.

The Notorious Lone Wolf

1946

North of Shanghai poster
8.0

In this newspaper drama, a female reporter and a newsreel cameraman are both assigned to cover the Sino-Japanese war. They meet on the boat ride over and decide to team up. They are further assisted by a Chinese cameraman. The three of them manage to expose of spy ring operating out of the Shanghai office of the woman's newspaper.

North of Shanghai

1939

The Case of the Missing Man poster
7.0

After an argument with his newspaper's city editor, press-photographer Jimmy Hudson quits his job and takes up free-lancing as a street-photographer for a living. He stumbles across the robbing of a jewelry store and takes a picture of one of the robbers as he is leaving the scene-of-the-crime in which murder has also been committed. At the risk of his own life, over the protests of his sweetheart, he sets a trap to catch the crook.

The Case of the Missing Man

1935

Murder in the Clouds poster
5.1

A scientist carrying the secret to a new high-powered explosive must be safely escorted to Washington and ace pilot Bob "Three Star" Halsey is the best man for the job. Moments before takeoff, crooks take control of the flight and steal the formula. Halsey watches helplessly from the ground as the plane goes down in flames and the thieves esape by parachute. His sweetheart Judy, whose brother was also aboard, races to the crash site, only to be kidnapped by the villains. Halsey and his co-pilot Wings risk everything to save her, calling on their world-class flying skills in the film's terrifying finale.

Murder in the Clouds

1934

Jamboree poster
NR

While riding on horseback with fellow actor Bill Demarest near the vast Irvine Ranch in Southern California, Jimmy Stewart pauses to explain that Irvine will be the location of the 1953 Boy Scout Jamboree.

Jamboree

1954

Dinky poster
7.2

A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.

Dinky

1935

The Million Dollar Collar poster
8.0

Bill Holmes rescues Rinty from a car wreck not realizing that there is a stolen $50,000 diamond necklace hidden in the dog's collar.

The Million Dollar Collar

1929

Key Witness poster
4.8

A man takes over the identity of a dead man while on the lam from a crime he didn't commit.

Key Witness

1947

Alibi for Murder poster
6.5

A radio commentator named Perry Travis fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective. The cops wish he’d stick to his microphone and let them do the detecting. This proves impossible when a famed scientist is murdered in Perry’s studio, right in the middle of the interview. All evidence points to Perry, and he sets out to clear his name before the Shadow-like villain roaming the hallways of the radio station gets away with murder.

Alibi for Murder

1936

The Crime of Helen Stanley poster
5.6

An actress is murdered in the midst of shooting a dance sequence for her latest picture, with Inspector Steve Trent on the case.

The Crime of Helen Stanley

1934

Passage from Hong Kong poster
7.5

In this comedy, a crime novelist spins a yarn to impress the apple of his eye. He tells her that he has been involved in a murder.

Passage from Hong Kong

1941

Moonlight on the Prairie poster
6.8

A singing medicine-show cowboy and his magician partner catch a killer.

Moonlight on the Prairie

1935

Shadows of the Night poster
7.0

Gray plays a reporter trying to unravel a murder involving organized crime. Lorraine plays the heroine.

Shadows of the Night

1928

Shadows of the Night poster
7.0

Gray plays a reporter trying to unravel a murder involving organized crime. Lorraine plays the heroine.

Shadows of the Night

1928

Three of a Kind poster
7.0

Two vaudeville performers adopt the son of an actor friend.

Three of a Kind

1944

Adventure in Sahara poster
5.8

Agadez is a lonely French outpost baking under the desert sun and commanded by the cruel and oppressive Captain Savatt. To it comes, at his own request, Legionnaire Jim Wilson soon followed by his fiancée, Carla Preston, who has been tracing him from post to post. Legionnaires seize the fort and turn Savitt loose in the Arab-haunted desert with only a fraction of the water and food needed to get back to civilization. But Savitt gets through and returns to the fort at the head of an avenging troop of men. But Arabs surround Savitt and his men, and the mutineers, knowing that to leave the fort and aid them means their own death

Adventure in Sahara

1938

Pride of the Marines poster
8.0

A Marine sacrifices his adopted son and his girlfriend so that they might find a new and more prosperous life.

Pride of the Marines

1936

Boston Blackie and the Law poster
6.6

Blackie performs in a magic show at a women's prison, which gives an inmate an opportunity to escape.

Boston Blackie and the Law

1946

The Lone Wolf in Mexico poster
6.0

In this entry in the enduring series, the suave jewel thief finds himself helping the police break up a ring of diamond smugglers. Along the way, he winds up accused of both robbery and murder.

The Lone Wolf in Mexico

1947

Busses Roar poster
6.6

A sergeant saves the day when Axis agents plant a bomb on a bus bound for California oil fields.

Busses Roar

1942

The Texas Ranger poster
9.0

Taylor has his men burning out the ranchers. When they kill Clayton, his daughter Helen and her men turn outlaw. The Rangers send Logan, and posing as a cowhand he joins her gang. But Nevada eventually remembers him as a Ranger and they set out to hang him.

The Texas Ranger

1931

Panic on the Air poster
5.8

A sports announcer and a friend investigate after a pitcher misses a series. When they discover that gangsters are trying to find a hidden fortune, they use the radio show to foil the plan.

Panic on the Air

1936

Two-Fisted Law poster
4.8

Rancher Tim Clark borrows money from Bob Russell, who then rustles Clark's cattle so he will be unable to repay the money. Thus Russell is able to cheat Clark out of his ranch. Clark becomes a prospector for silver and ultimately comes to settle accounts with Russell and crooked deputy Bendix.

Two-Fisted Law

1932

The Range Feud poster
5.2

Clint Turner is arrested for the murder of his girlfriend Judy's father, a rival rancher who was an enemy of his own father, and his best friend, Sheriff Buck Gordon sets out to find the real killer in the face of pressure for a quick lynching of Clint.

The Range Feud

1931

Shadows on the Stairs poster
5.2

Occupants of a London boarding house become suspects as a string of murders are discovered.

Shadows on the Stairs

1941

Girl in Danger poster
8.0

Inspector Steve Trent tracks the stolen Cortez emerald, last pilfered by a murdered gangster.

Girl in Danger

1934

Racketeers of the Range poster
6.7

A large packing company is trying to obtain a monopoly by taking over the last small independent meat packer. Barney O'Dell, owner of the largest ranch, is trying to stop them. When the owner agrees to sell, Barney get a delay by forcing the small company to declare bankruptcy and having himself made receiver. Now the large company has to deal with Larry and when he refuses they resort to rustling.

Racketeers of the Range

1939

Dangerous Business poster
9.0

Two young lawyers open an office together. They are hired to defend a utilities magnate who claims he has been framed. He is kidnapped by a gangster, and a battle royal ensues when the lawyers try to rescue him.

Dangerous Business

1946

The Phantom of the West poster
9.0

A young man's father is murdered and the man convicted of the crime escapes prison, leaving a note intimating that seven local men know the real killer's true identity. The murdered man's son sets out to locate the seven men and find his father's slayer in this ten episode serial.

The Phantom of the West

1930

A Dog of the Regiment poster
10.0

During World War I, Rin-Tin-Tin finds that he must rescue his master, a fighter pilot, from his wrecked aircraft. He also has to help him escape his rival, who has ordered him shot so he can have the girl they're competing for all to himself.

A Dog of the Regiment

1927

The Game That Kills poster
6.2

Ferguson is a rough-and-tumble hockey player who discovers that his chosen profession is nothing more than a racket, a plaything for game-fixing racketeers. When his brother is killed in a highly suspicious accident, Ferguson and team trainer Holland join forces to bring the killers to justice.

The Game That Kills

1937

Silent Men poster
9.0

In prison for a crime he didn't commit, Tim Richards has escaped and is now a cattle inspector. He is after the Wilder brothers who he thinks are rustling cattle.

Silent Men

1933

Find the Blackmailer poster
6.7

A private eye is hired by a mayoral candidate to prevent any sort of adverse publicity. It seems that, somewhere in town, there's a talking blackbird who insists upon saying that the candidate will commit a murder. When the killing occurs, the candidate is implicated, and the detective is off on a hectic pursuit of the incriminating crow and the actual murderer.

Find the Blackmailer

1943

Motor Madness poster
10.0

After winning a qualifying trial for a big speed-boat race in Santa Monica, California, Joe Dunn is offered a bribe, by gamblers, not to take part in the race and is so incensed that he starts a fight which lands him in jail. The girl he loves, Peggy McNeil, takes his place, but crashes into a buoy and is seriously injured---and Joe goes to desperate lengths to raise money for the services of a famous surgeon.

Motor Madness

1937

Hell Bent for Love poster
10.0

As a result of arresting a nightclub singer, Millie Garland, for speeding, Tim Daley, of the California Highway Patrol, incurs the enmity of the gangster, "Trigger" Talano, who frames him and brings about his disgrace; but Tim organizes a band ox ex-criminals and turns the table on the racketeer with a vengeance.

Hell Bent for Love

1934