Finis Fox — Biographical Sketch (1927) 🇺🇸

There are few screen writers qualified to handle as wide a range of screen subjects as is Finis Fox, who for the past ten years has been preparing stories for the screen. He is a rare combination of business man, newspaper man, adventurer and state legislator, and withal he succeeded in acquiring a college education.

The career of Mr. Fox has been a colorful one. Born and raised in Oklahoma he ran up against many of the rough edges of life in his youth, and he has been studying life ever since. He had four years of college and university training after returning from the Spanish-American War, in which he served at the age of fifteen. He was a newspaper editor at nineteen and a state legislator at twenty-one.

When Mr. Fox decided to enter the motion picture industry as a writer he had a world of confidence in himself, for he gave up a lucrative position as general manager of a national manufacturing company. He is a mixture of Scotch, Irish and English stock, with a pronounced strain of Chickasaw Indian blood. And that type perseveres.

He was not long in gaining success as a screen writer, and he has contributed many stories from which some of the best pictures have been made. In his ten years of screen endeavor he has written original stories, adaptations and screen plays for more than fifty leading screen stars.

Among the most recent cinema successes contributed by Mr. Fox were “Resurrection” and “Ramona,” starring Dolores Del Río, and released by United Artists. While he has confined his time largely to the writing of plays for the screen, he has also directed and produced six pictures. Among these was “A Woman Who Sinned,” with Mae Busch, Irene Rich and Rex Lease, which was acclaimed by press and exhibitors as a dramatic sensation.

Mr. Fox has two brothers well known as motion picture directors. They are Edwin Carewe and Wallace Fox. He is happily married and is a devotee of such sports as tennis, swimming, riding and fishing.

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Finis Fox

Screen Dramatist

Current Releases

• Resurrection

and

• Ramona

United Artists

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