Career
The New York-born director helmed a number of films in the 1950s and 60s including Our Vines Have Tender Grapes, Meet Maine in Las Vegas, Rogue Cop, The 5000 Fingers of Doctor T and The Girl Hunters. They had one son, Steve Rowland, born in 1932, who later became a music producer in the United Kingdom, and has recently published his memoir Hollywood Heat. Rowland, before becoming involved in film, studied law at United States.C. He later got work as a script clerk for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This eventually led him to becoming a film director
Rowland started to direct one-reel and two reel films before moving on to feature films in 1943.
In the mid-60s Rowland directed three spaghetti westerns before retiring from film directing.