George Fitzmaurice
From Wikipedia George Fitzmaurice (13 February 1885 – 13 June 1940) was a French-born film director and producer. Fitzmaurice's career first started as a set designer on stage. Beginning in 1914 until his death in 1940, he directed over 80 films, including several successful movies such as The Son of the Sheik, Raffles, Mata Hari, and Suzy. At the beginning of his directorial career, Fitzmaurice was astute at directing stage actresses in their initial films with the first wave of great Broadway stars that migrated to motion pictures during the World War I era, including Mae Murray, Elsie Ferguson, Fannie Ward, Helene Chadwick, Irene Fenwick, Gail Kane, and Edna Goodrich. Son of the Sheik is his most famous extant silent film, no doubt aided by the sudden death of its star, Rudolph Valentino. Lilac Time is a classic war/romance film. Fitzmaurice however directed scores of silent films of which the majority of them are lost to the ravages of decompostion. Recent discoveries in Gosfilmofond in Russia include 1919's Witness for the Defense with Elsie Ferguson and 1923's Kick In with Bert Lytell. A restoration of his 1928 part talkie hybrid The Barker is winning praise from many film buffs. Rumours of other Fitzmaurice films in Gosfilmofond include 1920s Idols of Clay (with Mae Murray) and Three Live Ghosts with Norman Kerry, Anna Q. Nilsson, Cyril Chadwick, and Edmund Goulding.
Big Jim Garrity
(Director)
Our Better Selves
(Director)
The Hunting of the Hawk
(Director)
The Recoil
(Director)
Mata Hari
(Director)
The Locked Door
(Director)
Suzy
(Director)
The Emperor's Candlesticks
(Director)
The Son of the Sheik
(Director)
The Unholy Garden
(Director)
The Barker
(Director)
Lilac Time
(Director)
Raffles
(Director)
The Devil to Pay!
(Director)
Strangers May Kiss
(Director)
Arsène Lupin Returns
(Director)
The On-the-Square Girl
(Director)
As You Desire Me
(Director)
Petticoat Fever
(Director)
Adventure in Diamonds
(Director)
Live, Love and Learn
(Director)
The Avalanche
(Director)
A Society Exile
(Director)
Counterfeit
(Director)
Vacation from Love
(Director)
The Hillcrest Mystery
(Director)
Mata Hari
(Producer)
One Heavenly Night
(Director)
As You Desire Me
(Producer)
The Eternal City
(Director)
Cytherea
(Director)
A Thief in Paradise
(Director)
A Thief in Paradise
(Executive Producer)
The Night of Love
(Director)
The Devil to Pay!
(Producer)
The Unholy Garden
(Producer)
His Captive Woman
(Director)
Arms and the Woman
(Director)
Kick In
(Director)
Via Wireless
(Director)
Bella Donna
(Director)
The Bad One
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Paying the Piper
(Director)
Paying the Piper
(Producer)
The Right to Love
(Director)
Lilac Time
(Producer)
The Naulahka
(Director)
The Man and the Moment
(Director)
The Man From Home
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Three Live Ghosts
(Director)
The Locked Door
(Producer)
Tiger Rose
(Director)
Experience
(Director)
Common Clay
(Director)
The Cheat
(Director)
The Cheat
(Producer)
The Dark Angel
(Director)
On with the Dance
(Director)
His Supreme Moment
(Director)
Rose of the Golden West
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The Love Mart
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At Bay
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Forever
(Director)
Tarnish
(Director)
Idols of Clay
(Director)
A Japanese Nightingale
(Director)
When Rome Ruled
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The Narrow Path
(Director)
All Men Are Enemies
(Director)
Strangers May Kiss
(Producer)
The Commuters
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To Have and to Hold
(Director)
Kick In
(Director)
The Tender Hour
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The Witness for the Defense
(Director)
The Test
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Stop Thief!
(Director)
Who's Who in Society
(Director)
Who's Who in Society
(Scenario Writer)
The Bomb Boy
(Director)
The Profiteers
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The Cry of the Weak
(Director)
Innocent
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Blind Man's Luck
(Director)
Vengeance Is Mine
(Supervisor of Production Resources)