About Arthur Varney
Lived 1893 – 1960 (aged 66–67). Arthur Varney was a screenwriter, film director and film producer.
Arthur Varney was an Italian-born American screenwriter and film director. Born as Amerigo Serrao in 1893 to the sculptor Luella A. Varney Serrao and her husband Teodoro Serrao, he emigrated to the United States and became a naturalized citizen. In the 1930s he found work on the British film industry as Arthur Varney, and occasionally also used the credit of Grover Lee. He died in 1960.
Selected filmography Director Winds of the Pampas (1927) The Road to Fortune (1930) The Wrong Mr. Perkins (1931) The Eternal Feminine (1931) Almost a Divorce (1931) Get That Venus (1933)
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screenwriter
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Arthur Varney was born in 1893 in Italy.
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Arthur Varney died on 22 November 1960 in New Jersey.
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Arthur Varney was a screenwriter, film director and film producer.
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