A prolific writer/director of low-budget Westerns in the 1920s, Del Andrews (born Udell Endrows) (1894 - 1942) began his screen career as a film cutter and laboratory assistant for producer Thomas H. Ince. By the 1920s, he was helming low-budget oaters for both Universal and FBO, directing such stalwart screen cowboys as Hoot Gibson, Fred Thomson, and Bob Custer. Surprisingly, this specialist in inexpensive hayburners went on to win an Academy Award nomination for co-writing (with Maxwell Anderson) Universal's 1930 “All Quiet on the Western Front”. It was, alas, a sort of last hurrah for the veteran filmmaker, who quickly returned to the realm of B-Westerns. 1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... This article is about the year. ... Thomas Harper Ince (November 6, 1882–November 20, 1924) was an American film director. ... The current Universal Studios logo Universal Studios, a subsidiary of NBC Universal, has production studios and offices located at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, California, an unincorporated area of Los Angeles County between Los Angeles and Burbank. ... Acronym meaning: Office of Foreign Building Operations Fixed base operator Film Booking Office of America For the Benefit Of (e. ... Hoot Gibson (August 6, 1892 - August 23, 1962) was a rodeo champion and a pioneer cowboy film actor, director and producer. ... (James) Maxwell Anderson (15 December 1888 – 28 February 1959) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, author, poet, reporter and lyricist, and a founding member of The Playwrights Company (which included, at various times, Maxwell Anderson, S.N. Behrman, Elmer Rice, Robert E. Sherwood, Sidney Howard, Roger L. Stevens, John... 1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... All Quiet on the Western Front is a novel by Erich Maria Remarque, a German veteran of World War I, about the horrors of that war and also the deep detachment from German civilian life felt by many men returning from the front. ...