Roland D. Reed | |
Birth Date: | July 7, 1894 |
Birth Place: | New York, New York, United States |
Death Date: | July 15, 1972 |
Death Place: | Los Angeles, California, United States |
Occupation: | Editor, producer, director |
Yearsactive: | 1923-1963 (film) |
Roland D. Reed (July 7, 1894–July 15, 1972) was an American film editor, producer and director.[1] He worked on many films for the low-budget Chesterfield Pictures and later started Roland Reed Productions, Inc. that shut down in November 1956. In addition to TV series, Reed made industrial and Christian films as well as television commercials that were filmed at Hal Roach Studios.[2]
The son of Daniel Morton Reed and Ella G. Hulse, Roland Daniel Reed was born in Middletown, New York. He had three wives, Laura Muzzio (1913). Dorothy Venita Smith (1930) and Dorothy Belle Eddy (1935).