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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 ...
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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.
Movies (Cast)
To Save Her Soul
The Engagement Ring
Hot Stuff
Movie-Town
Fools of Fate
Series (Cast)
Directed
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
Voodoo Man
The Living Ghost
The Ape Man
Don't Gamble with Strangers
Below the Deadline
Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
Incident
Murder Without Tears
Moochie of Pop Warner Football
The Chinese Ring
The Panther's Claw
Sparrows
Fury of the Dragon
Ghosts on the Loose
The Feathered Serpent
The Shanghai Chest
Billy the Kid Versus Dracula
Jinx Money
Fashion Model
The Golden Eye
Detective Kitty O'Day
Lucky Ghost
Spook Busters
Foreign Agent
Bowery Buckaroos
Kidnapped
Where There's a Will
The Crime of the Century
The Face of Marble
Angels' Alley
Ghost Chasers
Little Annie Rooney
Philo Vance Returns
Boys Will Be Boys
Windbag the Sailor
Tough Assignment
Hold That Line
The Canadian
Phantom Killer
Jalopy
Paris Playboys
Emergency Landing
Adventures of Kitty O'Day
Shadow of Suspicion
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
Let's Go Navy!
Make Me a Star
Here Comes Kelly
No Holds Barred
Behind the Mask
The Shadow Returns
Feudin' Fools
In the Money
Road to Paradise
Dandy Dick
Torchy Gets Her Man
Torchy Blane in Chinatown
High Society
Dream Stuff
The Inspector's Double
The Big Idea
Bowery Battalion
Blues Busters
Jail Busters
The Lady Who Dared
Ten Who Dared
Lassie's Great Adventure
Federal Fugitives
Mr. Celebrity
The Miracle Kid
Mr. Washington Goes to Town
Three Wise Girls
Tuna Clipper
Blonde Comet
Black Market Babies
Here Come the Marines
Crazy Knights
Leave It to the Irish
Lassie and the Flight of the Cougar
Men in Her Life
Blonde Dynamite
Desperate Cargo
Misbehaving Husbands
Why Wild Men Go Wild
One Thrilling Night
Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk
Penrod and Sam
Jet Job
Too Many Winners
Mom and Dad
The Mad Parade
Lucky Losers
A Husband in Haste
Hot Rhythm
Mr. Hex
Up In Smoke
Crazy Over Horses
The Old-Fashioned Way
Hard Boiled Mahoney
Follow the Leader
Born to the Saddle
One Exciting Week
Those Who Dance
The Green Hornet
Clancy Street Boys
Smuggler's Cove
Spotlight Scandals
Duke of the Navy
Gas House Kids Go West
Westward Ho, The Wagons!
Cuban Fireball
The Rose Bowl Story
Trail of the Yukon
Come Out Fighting
Bowery Champs
News Hounds
Jiggs and Maggie Out West
Yukon Gold
Said O'Reilly to McNab
Yukon Vengeance
See You Tonight
Again Pioneers
Gallant Lady
Punch the Clock
Penrod and Sam
Moochie of the Little League
A Shadowed Shadow
Wandering Husbands
Easy Payments
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