William Beaudine
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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.
Fotos
Filme (241)
The Green Hornet
2005 · Director
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
1995 · Self (archive footage)
Fury of the Dragon
1976 · Director
D.W. Griffith: An American Genius
1975 · Self
The Green Hornet
1974 · Director
Lassie: Peace Is Our Profession
1972 · Producer
The Mickey Mouse Anniversary Show
1968 · Director
Lassie and the Flight of the Cougar
1967 · Director
Billy the Kid Versus Dracula
1966 · Director
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
1966 · Director
Look Homeward
1965 · Director
Lassie: The Wayfarers
1964 · Director
Lassie's Greatest Adventure
1963 · Director
Lassie's Great Adventure
1963 · Director
Disneyland After Dark
1962 · Director
Moochie of Pop Warner Football
1960 · Director
Ten Who Dared
1960 · Director
Rapids Ahead/Bear Country
1960 · Director
Moochie of the Little League
1959 · Director
In the Money
1958 · Director
Up In Smoke
1957 · Director
Westward Ho, The Wagons!
1956 · Director
The Plausible Impossible
1956 · Director
3D Jamboree
1956 · Director
Design for Dreaming
1956 · Director
The Story of the Animated Drawing
1955 · Director
Jail Busters
1955 · Director
High Society
1955 · Director
City Story
1954 · Director
Pride of the Blue Grass
1954 · Director
Paris Playboys
1954 · Director
Yukon Vengeance
1954 · Director
Murder Without Tears
1953 · Director
Roar of the Crowd
1953 · Director
Born to the Saddle
1953 · Director
Jalopy
1953 · Director
No Holds Barred
1952 · Director
Feudin' Fools
1952 · Director
Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
1952 · Director
Yukon Gold
1952 · Director
The Rose Bowl Story
1952 · Director
Here Come the Marines
1952 · Director
Jet Job
1952 · Director
Hold That Line
1952 · Director
Rodeo
1952 · Director
The Congregation
1952 · Director
Havana Rose
1951 · Director
Crazy Over Horses
1951 · Director
Let's Go Navy!
1951 · Director
Ghost Chasers
1951 · Director
Cuban Fireball
1951 · Director
Bowery Battalion
1951 · Director
Again Pioneers
1950 · Director
Blues Busters
1950 · Director
Second Chance
1950 · Director
A Wonderful Life
1950 · Director
County Fair
1950 · Director
Lucky Losers
1950 · Director
Jiggs and Maggie Out West
1950 · Director
Blonde Dynamite
1950 · Director
Blue Grass of Kentucky
1950 · Director
Tough Assignment
1949 · Director
Jiggs and Maggie in Jackpot Jitters
1949 · Director
Trail of the Yukon
1949 · Director
Forgotten Women
1949 · Director
Tuna Clipper
1949 · Director
The Lawton Story
1949 · Director
The Feathered Serpent
1948 · Director
Jiggs and Maggie in Court
1948 · Director
Kidnapped
1948 · Director
Incident
1948 · Director
Smuggler's Cove
1948 · Director
The Golden Eye
1948 · Director
The Shanghai Chest
1948 · Director
Jinx Money
1948 · Director
Angels' Alley
1948 · Director
The Chinese Ring
1947 · Director
Bowery Buckaroos
1947 · Director
News Hounds
1947 · Director
Gas House Kids Go West
1947 · Director
Killer at Large
1947 · Director
Too Many Winners
1947 · Director
Hard Boiled Mahoney
1947 · Director
Philo Vance Returns
1947 · Director
Mr. Hex
1946 · Director
Spook Busters
1946 · Director
Below the Deadline
1946 · Director
Don't Gamble with Strangers
1946 · Director
One Exciting Week
1946 · Director
Behind the Mask
1946 · Director
The Shadow Returns
1946 · Director
The Face of Marble
1946 · Director
Girl on the Spot
1946 · Director
Black Market Babies
1945 · Director
Come Out Fighting
1945 · Director
Swingin' on a Rainbow
1945 · Director
Blonde Ransom
1945 · Director
Fashion Model
1945 · Director
Adventures of Kitty O'Day
1945 · Director
Mom and Dad
1945 · Director
Crazy Knights
1944 · Director
Bowery Champs
1944 · Director
Shadow of Suspicion
1944 · Director
Oh, What a Night!
1944 · Director
Leave It to the Irish
1944 · Director
Follow the Leader
1944 · Writer, Director
Detective Kitty O'Day
1944 · Director
Hot Rhythm
1944 · Director
Voodoo Man
1944 · Director
What a Man!
1944 · Screenplay, Director
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
1943 · Director
Mr. Muggs Steps Out
1943 · Director, Screenplay
Spotlight Scandals
1943 · Director, Story
Here Comes Kelly
1943 · Director
Ghosts on the Loose
1943 · Director
Clancy Street Boys
1943 · Director
The Ape Man
1943 · Director
Foreign Agent
1942 · Director
Phantom Killer
1942 · Director
The Living Ghost
1942 · Director
One Thrilling Night
1942 · Director
Gallant Lady
1942 · Director
Men of San Quentin
1942 · Director
Mr. Washington Goes to Town
1942 · Director
The Panther's Claw
1942 · Director
Professor Creeps
1942 · Director
Lucky Ghost
1942 · Director
Broadway Big Shot
1942 · Director
Duke of the Navy
1942 · Screenplay, Director, Story
Blonde Comet
1941 · Director
The Miracle Kid
1941 · Director
Mr. Celebrity
1941 · Director
Desperate Cargo
1941 · Director
Federal Fugitives
1941 · Director
Emergency Landing
1941 · Director
Up Jumped the Devil
1941 · Director
Misbehaving Husbands
1940 · Director
Four Shall Die
1940 · Director
Torchy Blane in Chinatown
1939 · Director
Torchy Gets Her Man
1938 · Director
Said O'Reilly to McNab
1937 · Director
Feather Your Nest
1937 · Director
Transatlantic Trouble
1937 · Director
Windbag the Sailor
1936 · Director
Educated Evans
1936 · Director
Where There's a Will
1936 · Director, Screenplay
Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk
1935 · Director
Get Off My Foot
1935 · Director
Boys Will Be Boys
1935 · Director
Dandy Dick
1935 · Director, Writer
So You Won't Talk
1935 · Director
The Old-Fashioned Way
1934 · Director
The Big Idea
1934 · Director
Her Bodyguard
1933 · Director
See You Tonight
1933 · Director
Dream Stuff
1933 · Director
The Crime of the Century
1933 · Director
Make Me a Star
1932 · Director
Three Wise Girls
1932 · Director
Forgotten Women
1931 · Director
Men in Her Life
1931 · Director
The Great Junction Hotel
1931 · Director
Penrod and Sam
1931 · Director
The Mad Parade
1931 · Producer, Director
Movie-Town
1931 · William Beaudine - Director
The Lady Who Dared
1931 · Director
Misbehaving Ladies
1931 · Director
Father's Son
1931 · Director
One Yard to Go
1931 · Director
A Hollywood Theme Song
1930 · Director
Road to Paradise
1930 · Director
Those Who Dance
1930 · Director
Wedding Rings
1929 · Director
The Girl from Woolworth's
1929 · Director
Hard to Get
1929 · Director
Two Weeks Off
1929 · Director
Fugitives
1929 · Director
Give and Take
1928 · Director
Do Your Duty
1928 · Director
Home, James
1928 · Director
Heart to Heart
1928 · Director
The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris
1928 · Director
The Irresistible Lover
1927 · Director
The Life of Riley
1927 · Director
Frisco Sally Levy
1927 · Director
The Canadian
1926 · Director
Sparrows
1926 · Director
Hold That Lion!
1926 · Director
The Social Highwayman
1926 · Director
That's My Baby
1926 · Director
My Swedie
1925 · Director
Little Annie Rooney
1925 · Director
How Baxter Butted In
1925 · Director
A Broadway Butterfly
1925 · Director
The Narrow Street
1925 · Director
Lovers' Lane
1924 · Director
Cornered
1924 · Director
A Self-Made Failure
1924 · Director
Daughters of Pleasure
1924 · Director
Wandering Husbands
1924 · Director
Daring Youth
1924 · Director
Boy of Mine
1923 · Director
The Country Kid
1923 · Director
The Printer's Devil
1923 · Director
Penrod and Sam
1923 · Director
Her Fatal Millions
1923 · Director
Catch My Smoke
1922 · Director
Heroes of the Street
1922 · Director
Strictly Modern
1922 · Director
Punch the Clock
1922 · Director
Step Forward
1922 · Director
Watch Your Step
1922 · Director
Fresh from the Farm
1921 · Director
A Home Spun Hero
1920 · Director
Why Wild Men Go Wild
1920 · Director
A Husband in Haste
1920 · Director
The Other Man's Wife
1919 · Director of Photography
Easy Payments
1919 · Director
A Sanitarium Scandal
1917 · Director
Won By a Fowl
1917 · Director
What'll We Do with Uncle?
1917 · Director
Who Done It?
1917 · Director
Reputation
1917 · Camera Operator
His Fatal Beauty
1917 · Director
A Desert Dilemma
1917 · Director
Uneasy Money
1917 · Director
When Damon Fell for Pythias
1917 · Director
Why They Left Home
1917 · Director
A Shadowed Shadow
1916 · Director
The Inspector's Double
1916 · Director
For the Son of the House
1913 · Assistant Director
Black and White
1913 · Scenario Writer
The Suffragette Minstrels
1913 · Assistant Director
Papa's Baby
1913 · Young Father
Almost a Wild Man
1913 · Writer
The Tenderfoot's Money
1913 · In Bar
Hot Stuff
1912 · Cigar Store Owner
The Engagement Ring
1912 · In Park
To Save Her Soul
1909
Fools of Fate
1909 · Extra (uncredited), Assistant Camera
A Janitor’s Vendetta
· Director
Serien (13)
The Green Hornet
1966 · Director
Naked City
1958 · Director
Further Adventures of Spin and Marty
1956 · Director
Adventure in Dairyland
1956 · Director
Broken Arrow
1956 · Director
Corky and White Shadow
1956 · Director, Writer
The Adventures of Spin and Marty
1955 · Director
TV Reader's Digest
1955 · Director
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954 · Director
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
1954 · Director
Lassie
1954 · Director
Racket Squad
1951 · Director
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951 · Director