{{short description|American film producer}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Al Rockett | image = Albert Louis Rockett (1889–1960).png | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Albert Louis Rockett | birth_date = {{Birth date|1889|9|24}} | birth_place = Vincennes, Indiana, US | death_date = {{Death date and age|1960|8|30|1889|9|24}} | death_place = Beverly Hills, California, US | burial_place = | occupation = Film producer | awards = | spouse = Laura E. Rockett | children = | education = | signature = | party = }} '''Albert Louis Rockett''' (1889–1960) was an American movie producer.<ref name=liz/> His 1924 film ''Abraham Lincoln'', produced with his brother Ray Rockett, was a major production.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S08_AAAAYAAJ&q=al+rockett&pg=RA2-PA173|title=American Cinematographer|date=October 6, 1922|publisher=ASC Holding Corporation|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://boomermagonline.com/?p=1781|title=Vincennes Stars – Al and Ray Rockett|website=Boomer Magazine}}</ref> It won the Photoplay Medal of Honor for 1924 from ''Photoplay Magazine'',<ref>{{cite web|title=Awards for The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln (1924)|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0014644/awards|publisher=Internet Movie Database|accessdate=24 September 2013}}</ref> the most prestigious American film award of the time. He was born in Vincennes, Indiana,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qykaAQAAMAAJ&q=%22al+rockett%22|title=The American Magazine|date=October 6, 1924|publisher=Crowell-Collier Publishing Company|via=Google Books}}</ref> and played piano in a nickelodeon theater for five years.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zWNZAAAAMAAJ&q=%22al+rockett%22|title=The Civil War on the screen, and other essays|first=Jack|last=Spears|date=July 3, 1977|publisher=A. S. Barnes|isbn=9780498017285|via=Google Books}}</ref> He worked for First National Pictures and Fox Film Corporation.
==Biography== Al Rockett was born in Vincennes, Indiana on September 24, 1889.<ref name=Hoosiers>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/hoosiersinhollyw0000smit/page/383/mode/1up |title=Hoosiers in Hollywood |first=David L. |last=Smith |publisher=Indiana Historical Society Press |isbn=9780871951946 |pages=383–384 |date=2006 |access-date=2025-02-15 |via=Internet Archive |url-access=registration}}</ref>
He died in Beverly Hills, California on August 30, 1960, after a long illness.<ref name=Hoosiers/>
==Filmography== * ''Keeping Up with Lizzie'' (1921)<ref name=liz>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aWBPAAAAMAAJ&q=%22al+rockett%22|title=Rockett, Carpenter, Millican, Wise, Stevens, Selman, Ware, Abernathy, Rhodes Families, 1681-1981 and Seventy-six Connected Kins-men|first=John Franklin|last=Rockette|date=October 6, 1981|publisher=Gateway Press|via=Google Books}}</ref> *''Handle with Care'' (1922) *''Abraham Lincoln'' (1924) *''Subway Sadie'' (1926) *''The Girl from Coney Island'' (1926), also known as ''Just Another Blond'' *''Puppets'' (1926) *''The Patent Leather Kid'' (1927) *''An Affair of the Follies'' (1927) *''The Barker'' (1928) *''Cheer Up and Smile'' (1930) *''Wild Company'' (1930) *''High Society Blues'' (1930) *''The Princess and the Plumber'' (1930) *''Soup to Nuts'', a Three Stooges film *''Their Mad Moment'' (1931) *''Business and Pleasure'' (1932) *''Shanghai Madness'' (1933)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eyOCpuGkuykC&q=%22al+rockett%22&pg=PA107|title=The Films of Fay Wray|first1=Roy|last1=Kinnard|first2=Tony|last2=Crnkovich|date=July 11, 2015|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476604152|via=Google Books}}</ref> *''She Was a Lady (film)'' (1934) *''Hell in the Heavens'' (1934) *''Such Women Are Dangerous'' (1934) *''Lottery Lover'' (1935) <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba9566e58|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191006152833/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2ba9566e58|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 6, 2019|title=Al Rockett|website=BFI}}</ref>
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