Ray Nazarro

Ray Nazarro was born on Sep 25, 1902 in USA. Ray Nazarro's big-screen debut came with Runt Page directed by Ray Nazarro in 1932. Ray Nazarro is known for Junction City directed by Ray Nazarro, Charles Starrett stars as Steve Rollins and Smiley Burnette as Smiley. The upcoming new movie Ray Nazarro plays is Apache Territory which will be released on Sep 01, 1958.

Boston-born Ray Nazarro began his movie career in the silent-film era, where he often worked as an assistant director. He started his directing career in 1932, beginning with shorts and graduating to low-budget quickie features for Poverty Row studios. He alternated between directing shorts and an assistant director on features--often on westerns at Columbia--for years. By 1945 he fell into directing westerns for that studio, a genre and a studio in which Nazarro would spent the vast majority of his career. He worked steadily for the next 20 years, churning out dozens and dozens of Columbia's westerns, including many in the "Durango Kid" series with Charles Starrett, and was at the helm of a slew of Columbia's musical westerns and low-budget hillbilly musicals, which featured such acts as The Hoosier Hotshots. As the era of the B western ended, Nazarro journeyed to Europe, where he turned out some "spaghetti westerns" and was one of several directors to work on a bizarre and trouble-plagued Jayne Mansfield film, La Môme aux dollars (1964). He also returned to directing television series, a medium in which he had occasionally worked since the early 1950s -- again, mostly in westerns.