He directed a number of films in the 1950s and 1960s including Our Vines Have Tender Grapes, Meet Me in Las Vegas, Rogue Cop, The 5000 Fingers of Doctor T, and The Girl Hunters.
Roy Rowland was born in Brooklyn, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants.
[3] He graduated from the University of Southern California with a law degree before beginning his career at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) as a script clerk.
[1] He also directed musicals such as Hit the Deck (1955), Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956), and Seven Hills of Rome (1958).
[5] He directed Many Rivers to Cross with Robert Taylor[6] and Gun Glory (1957) with Stewart Granger and Rowland's son Steve.