Albert Rogell — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸

Albert Rogell is one of the youngest successful directors in motion pictures. He is a go-getter and his indomitable will to succeed has brought him success. He is 26 years of age and has been identified with the picture industry in various capacities since he was 18.

There was no good reason why Rogell should have become interested in pictures in the first place. Graduating from the high school at the place of his birth, Oklahoma City, and also from the School of Music, he had had no experience in a business way when he turned his attention to pictures, nor had any member of his family been identified with motion pictures or the theatre.

Just how Rogell landed in Portland, Ore., is not clear, but it was there he got his first picture experience. It was with a company recruited from local stock players, and with the completion of the production he proceeded directly to Hollywood, determined to make a place for himself. Like many others there he found, temporarily, there was no place for him.

Young Rogell stuck to it however, and it was not long before he was a producer, but on the proverbial shoestring. It was perhaps but natural, coming from Oklahoma, that he should turn his attention to westerns, and he has had a good part of his success with them.

Since his advent into the picture industry there are few angles of it he has not turned his attention to, and consequently he now has a wide knowledge of its many phases. He has been producer, director, scenic artist, grip, transportation department — or what have you.

Rogell has been identified on the production end with Sol Lesser, F. B. O., Universal and First National. He first filmed a series of short subjects and was successful in selling them. He then directed Fred Thomson and Ken Maynard from the time the latter started. Among his most successful pictures were “The Sunset Derby,” “The Kid Raiders,” “Somewhere in Sonora,” “Senor Daredevil” and “The Shepherd of the Hills.”

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Albert Rogell — Director

• “The Shepherd of the Hills” by Harold Bell Wright

First National-Chas. R. Rogers Special

Box Office Winners

• The Sunset Derby
• Ken Maynards
• Fred Thomsons

Collection: Motion Picture News, October 1927 (Booking Guide and Studio Directory)