William Beaudine
From Wikipedia
William Beaudine (January 15, 1892 – March 18, 1970) was an American film actor and director. He was one of Hollywood's most prolific directors, turning out films in remarkable numbers and in a wide variety of genres.
In 1915 he was hired as an actor and director by the Kalem Company. He was an assistant to director D.W. Griffith on The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance. By the time he was 23 Beaudine had directed his first picture, a short called Almost a King (1915). He would continue to direct shorts exclusively until 1922, when he shifted his efforts into making feature-length films.
Beaudine directed silent films for Goldwyn Pictures (before it became part of MGM), Metro Pictures (also before MGM), First National Pictures, Principal and Warner Brothers. In 1926 he made Sparrows, the story of orphans imprisoned in a swamp farm starring Mary Pickford. Beaudine had at least 30 pictures to his credit before the sound era began. Among his first sound films were short Mack Sennett comedies; he made at least one film for Sennett while contractually bound elsewhere, resulting in his adopting the pseudonym "William Crowley." He would occasionally use the pseudonym in later years, usually as "William X. Crowley."
He ground out several movies annually for Fox Films, Warner Brothers, Paramount, and Universal Pictures. His most famous credit of the early 1930s is The Old-Fashioned Way, a comedy about old-time show folks starring W. C. Fields.
Beaudine was one of a number of experienced directors (including Raoul Walsh and Allan Dwan) who were brought to England from Hollywood in the 1930s to work on what were in all other respects very British productions. Beaudine directed four films there starring Will Hay, including Boys Will Be Boys (1935) and Where There's a Will (1936).
Beaudine was often entrusted with series films, including the Torchy Blane, The East Side Kids, Jiggs and Maggie, The Shadow, Charlie Chan and The Bowery Boys series. His efficiency was so well known that Walt Disney hired him to direct some of his television projects of the 1950s and had him direct a feature western, Ten Who Dared (1960). Beaudine became even busier in TV, directing Naked City, The Green Hornet, and dozens of Lassie episodes.
His last two feature films, both released in 1966, were the horror-westerns Billy the Kid vs. Dracula (with John Carradine) and Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter. By the end of the decade he was the industry's oldest working professional, having started in 1909.
Beaudine died of uremic poisoning in 1970 in California and was interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood.
Crew
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
Director
The Mickey Mouse Anniversary Show
Director
Frisco Sally Levy
Director
Don't Gamble with Strangers
Director
Below the Deadline
Director
Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
Director
Murder Without Tears
Director
Moochie of Pop Warner Football
Director
The Panther's Claw
Director
Fury of the Dragon
Director
Ghosts on the Loose
Director
The Feathered Serpent
Director
The Shanghai Chest
Director
Billy the Kid Versus Dracula
Director
Detective Kitty O'Day
Director
Where There's a Will
Director, Screenplay
The Crime of the Century
Director
The Face of Marble
Director
Pride of the Blue Grass
Director
Little Annie Rooney
Director
Philo Vance Returns
Director
Boys Will Be Boys
Director
Windbag the Sailor
Director
Emergency Landing
Director
Adventures of Kitty O'Day
Director
Shadow of Suspicion
Director
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
Director
The Shadow Returns
Director
Dandy Dick
Director, Writer
Torchy Gets Her Man
Director
Torchy Blane in Chinatown
Director
The Great Junction Hotel
Director
The Inspector's Double
Director
When Damon Fell for Pythias
Director
Broadway Big Shot
Director
The Lady Who Dared
Director
Lassie's Great Adventure
Director
Feather Your Nest
Director
Federal Fugitives
Director
Mr. Washington Goes to Town
Director
Lassie: Peace Is Our Profession
Producer
Black Market Babies
Director
Here Come the Marines
Director
Leave It to the Irish
Director
Jiggs and Maggie in Court
Director
Lassie and the Flight of the Cougar
Director
Misbehaving Husbands
Director
For the Son of the House
Assistant Director
Why Wild Men Go Wild
Director
One Thrilling Night
Director
Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk
Director
Daughters of Pleasure
Director
The Life of Riley
Director
The Mad Parade
Producer, Director
A Hollywood Theme Song
Director
A Husband in Haste
Director
What a Man!
Screenplay, Director
Men of San Quentin
Director
Crazy Over Horses
Director
Up Jumped the Devil
Director
The Old-Fashioned Way
Director
Black and White
Scenario Writer
Hard Boiled Mahoney
Director
Follow the Leader
Director, Writer
Born to the Saddle
Director
Swingin' on a Rainbow
Director
One Exciting Week
Director
The Plausible Impossible
Director
Clancy Street Boys
Director
Spotlight Scandals
Director, Story
Duke of the Navy
Screenplay, Story, Director
The Other Man's Wife
Director of Photography
Gas House Kids Go West
Director
Westward Ho, The Wagons!
Director
The Rose Bowl Story
Director
Trail of the Yukon
Director
Mr. Muggs Steps Out
Screenplay, Director
Come Out Fighting
Director
Misbehaving Ladies
Director
Jiggs and Maggie Out West
Director
Said O'Reilly to McNab
Director
So You Won't Talk
Director
The Girl from Woolworth's
Director
Jiggs and Maggie in Jackpot Jitters
Director
Blue Grass of Kentucky
Director
Disneyland After Dark
Director
Transatlantic Trouble
Director
A Sanitarium Scandal
Director
The Narrow Street
Director
The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris
Director
A Broadway Butterfly
Director
Moochie of the Little League
Director
Heroes of the Street
Director
Oh, What a Night!
Director
Her Fatal Millions
Director
Fresh from the Farm
Director
The Story of the Animated Drawing
Director
The Printer's Devil
Director
Roar of the Crowd
Director
What'll We Do with Uncle?
Director
A Shadowed Shadow
Director
Wandering Husbands
Director
A Tribute to Joel Chandler Harris
Director
Rapids Ahead/Bear Country
Director
Reputation
Camera Operator
How Baxter Butted In
Director
The Suffragette Minstrels
Assistant Director
Fools of Fate
Assistant Camera
A Self-Made Failure
Director
Why They Left Home
Director
Lassie's Greatest Adventure
Director
