Stephen Auer on AllMovie

The older brother of producer-director John H. Auer, Stephen Auer claimed to have worked in the Hungarian film industry prior to coming to America in 1921. Working mainly in the field of foreign-language talkies in the early '30s and as a freelance writer, Auer joined Republic Pictures as a staff writer in 1939 and remained with the company until his death in 1954. At first specializing in Republic's bread-and-butter Western films, including producing many of the Red Ryder oaters, Auer later produced a series of crime dramas meant to establish rugged newcomer Robert Rockwell.