Robert Florey

Birthday: 9/14/1900
Deathday: 5/16/1979
Place of birth: Paris, France
Fame for: Directing
Also known as: Florian Roberts

Biography

Robert Florey (14 September 1900 – 16 May 1979) was a French-American director, screenwriter, film journalist and actor. Born as Robert Fuchs in Paris, he became an orphan at an early age and was then raised in Switzerland. In 1920 he worked at first as a film journalist, then as an assistant and extra in featurettes from Louis Feuillade. Florey moved to the United States in 1921.