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.
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
(Director)
The Mickey Mouse Anniversary Show
(Director)
Frisco Sally Levy
(Director)
Voodoo Man
(Director)
Catch My Smoke
(Director)
The Living Ghost
(Director)
The Ape Man
(Director)
Don't Gamble with Strangers
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Below the Deadline
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Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
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Incident
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Murder Without Tears
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Moochie of Pop Warner Football
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The Chinese Ring
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The Panther's Claw
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Sparrows
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Fury of the Dragon
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Ghosts on the Loose
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Shanghai Chest
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Billy the Kid Versus Dracula
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The Feathered Serpent
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Jinx Money
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Fashion Model
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The Golden Eye
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Detective Kitty O'Day
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Lucky Ghost
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Spook Busters
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Bowery Buckaroos
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Foreign Agent
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Kidnapped
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Where There's a Will
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The Crime of the Century
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The Face of Marble
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Angels' Alley
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3D Jamboree
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Pride of the Blue Grass
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Ghost Chasers
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Little Annie Rooney
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Philo Vance Returns
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Windbag the Sailor
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Boys Will Be Boys
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Tough Assignment
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The Canadian
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Hold That Line
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Phantom Killer
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Jalopy
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Paris Playboys
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Emergency Landing
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Adventures of Kitty O'Day
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Shadow of Suspicion
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The Mystery of the 13th Guest
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Let's Go Navy!
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Make Me a Star
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Here Comes Kelly
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No Holds Barred
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Feudin' Fools
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The Shadow Returns
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Behind the Mask
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City Story
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In the Money
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Road to Paradise
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Won By a Fowl
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A Home Spun Hero
(Director)
Dandy Dick
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One Yard to Go
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Torchy Gets Her Man
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Torchy Blane in Chinatown
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The Great Junction Hotel
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Girl on the Spot
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High Society
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Dream Stuff
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The Inspector's Double
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The Big Idea
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Bowery Battalion
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Blues Busters
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Jail Busters
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When Damon Fell for Pythias
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Broadway Big Shot
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The Lady Who Dared
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Ten Who Dared
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Lassie's Great Adventure
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Feather Your Nest
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Federal Fugitives
(Director)
Mr. Celebrity
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The Miracle Kid
(Director)
Mr. Washington Goes to Town
(Director)
Three Wise Girls
(Director)
Lassie: Peace Is Our Profession
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Wedding Rings
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Tuna Clipper
(Director)
Blonde Comet
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Black Market Babies
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Here Come the Marines
(Director)
Crazy Knights
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Second Chance
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Leave It to the Irish
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Jiggs and Maggie in Court
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Lassie and the Flight of the Cougar
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Men in Her Life
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Blonde Dynamite
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Desperate Cargo
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Misbehaving Husbands
(Director)
For the Son of the House
(Assistant Director)
Why Wild Men Go Wild
(Director)
Strictly Modern
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Watch Your Step
(Director)
Almost a Wild Man
(Writer)
Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk
(Director)
Penrod and Sam
(Director)
One Thrilling Night
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Jet Job
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Rodeo
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Heart to Heart
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Mom and Dad
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Too Many Winners
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Daring Youth
(Director)
Daughters of Pleasure
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Lovers' Lane
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The Life of Riley
(Director)
Give and Take
(Director)
The Mad Parade
(Producer)
The Mad Parade
(Director)
Where There's a Will
(Screenplay)
Lucky Losers
(Director)
Look Homeward
(Director)
A Wonderful Life
(Director)
A Hollywood Theme Song
(Director)
A Husband in Haste
(Director)
What a Man!
(Screenplay)
What a Man!
(Director)
Men of San Quentin
(Director)
Hot Rhythm
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Mr. Hex
(Director)
Up In Smoke
(Director)
Crazy Over Horses
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Up Jumped the Devil
(Director)
Professor Creeps
(Director)
The Old-Fashioned Way
(Director)
Get Off My Foot
(Director)
Black and White
(Scenario Writer)
Design for Dreaming
(Director)
Hard Boiled Mahoney
(Director)
Follow the Leader
(Writer)
Follow the Leader
(Director)
Born to the Saddle
(Director)
Swingin' on a Rainbow
(Director)
One Exciting Week
(Director)
The Plausible Impossible
(Director)
Those Who Dance
(Director)
The Green Hornet
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The Congregation
(Director)
Clancy Street Boys
(Director)
Blonde Ransom
(Director)
Smuggler's Cove
(Director)
Spotlight Scandals
(Director)
The Lawton Story
(Director)
Spotlight Scandals
(Story)
Four Shall Die
(Director)
Duke of the Navy
(Screenplay)
Duke of the Navy
(Director)
Duke of the Navy
(Story)
The Other Man's Wife
(Director of Photography)
Gas House Kids Go West
(Director)
Westward Ho, The Wagons!
(Director)
Cuban Fireball
(Director)
The Rose Bowl Story
(Director)
Trail of the Yukon
(Director)
Mr. Muggs Steps Out
(Director)
Come Out Fighting
(Director)
Bowery Champs
(Director)
Mr. Muggs Steps Out
(Screenplay)
News Hounds
(Director)
Killer at Large
(Director)
Father's Son
(Director)
Misbehaving Ladies
(Director)
Jiggs and Maggie Out West
(Director)
Yukon Gold
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Said O'Reilly to McNab
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That's My Baby
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Yukon Vengeance
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Two Weeks Off
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Educated Evans
(Director)
See You Tonight
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So You Won't Talk
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The Girl from Woolworth's
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County Fair
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Jiggs and Maggie in Jackpot Jitters
(Director)
Blue Grass of Kentucky
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Forgotten Women
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Again Pioneers
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Disneyland After Dark
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Home, James
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Her Bodyguard
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Transatlantic Trouble
(Director)
Gallant Lady
(Director)
A Sanitarium Scandal
(Director)
Step Forward
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Punch the Clock
(Director)
Havana Rose
(Director)
Penrod and Sam
(Director)
The Country Kid
(Director)
The Narrow Street
(Director)
The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris
(Director)
A Broadway Butterfly
(Director)
Dandy Dick
(Writer)
Boy of Mine
(Director)
Cornered
(Director)
Moochie of the Little League
(Director)
Fugitives
(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)
Hard to Get
(Director)
What'll We Do with Uncle?
(Director)
The Green Hornet
(Director)
A Shadowed Shadow
(Director)
Wandering Husbands
(Director)
Easy Payments
(Director)
A Tribute to Joel Chandler Harris
(Director)
Rapids Ahead/Bear Country
(Director)
Reputation
(Camera Operator)
Lassie
(Director)
Naked City
(Director)
The Wonderful World of Disney
(Director)
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
(Director)
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
(Director)
Broken Arrow
(Director)
Racket Squad
(Director)
TV Reader's Digest
(Director)
The Green Hornet
(Director)
Adventure in Dairyland
(Director)
Corky and White Shadow
(Director)
Corky and White Shadow
(Writer)