Gregory Lay

About Gregory Lay

Who is it?: Actor, Miscellaneous Crew, Producer
Birth Day: March 10, 1892
Birth Place:  Rochester, New York, United States
Died On: March 1, 1952(1952-03-01) (aged 59)\nMalibu, California
Birth Sign: Scorpio
Occupation: Film director

Gregory Lay Net Worth

Gregory Lay was born on March 10, 1892 in  Rochester, New York, United States, is Actor, Miscellaneous Crew, Producer. Gregory Lay, a graduate of Boston University Film School and The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater is a New York based actor, writer and producer. He grew up in Rochester, NY; West Hartford, CT and Paramus, New Jersey. He acts in film, television and on stage whenever fortunate enough to do so.
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💰 Net worth: Under Review

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Biography/Timeline

1913

Around 1913, he started doing odd jobs at the studio of Raoul Barré. By 1915, he was an Animator on the Animated Grouch Chasers series.

1915

Towards the end of 1915, william Randolph Hearst decided to create an animation studio to promote the comic strips printed in his newspapers. He called the new company International Film Service, and he hired La Cava to run it (for double what he was making with Barré). La Cava's first employee was his co-worker at the Barré Studio, Frank Moser. Another was his fellow student in Chicago, Grim Natwick (later to achieve fame at Disney). As he developed more and more of Hearst's comics into cartoon series, he came to put semi-independent units in charge of each, leading to the growth of individual styles.

1918

La Cava also had the significant advantage over other studios of an unlimited budget: Hearst's Business sense completely broke down when it came to his Hearst-Vitagraph News Pictorial and the "living comic strips" they contained. La Cava's main fault as a Producer and Director was that his cartoons were too clearly animated comic strips, hampered by speech balloons when rival Bray Studio was creating more effective series with original characters. He was apparently aware of this fault, and he had his animators study Charlie Chaplin films to improve their timing and characterization. But he didn't have time to achieve very much, because in July 1918, Hearst's Bankers caught up with him and International Film Service was shut down.

1922

By 1922, La Cava had become a live-action Director of two-reel comedies, the direct competitor to animated films. Among the actors he directed in the silent era are:

1930

La Cava worked his way up to feature films in the silent era, but it is for his work in sound films of the 1930s—especially comedies—that he is best known today. And though he did not always get credit, he also often had a hand in creating the screenplays for his films. Among the sound films he directed are:

1940

His output dropped severely in the 1940s, and he only officially directed one film after 1942, Living in a Big Way (1947).

1952

La Cava died nine days before his 60th birthday on March 1, 1952 in Malibu, California. His remains were buried at Chapel of the Pines Crematory.