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.
235 directing credits · 8 acting credits
Directing · 235
Lassie
1954
Naked City
1958
The Green Hornet
1966
The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
1951
Racket Squad
1951
Broken Arrow
1956
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
1954
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
The Adventures of Spin and Marty
1955
Further Adventures of Spin and Marty
1956
The Green Hornet
1974
TV Reader's Digest
1955
Three Wise Girls
1932
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
1966
Corky and White Shadow
1956
Adventure in Dairyland
1956
Westward Ho, The Wagons!
1956
Philo Vance Returns
1947
Sparrows
1926
Fury of the Dragon
1976
Voodoo Man
1944
Kidnapped
1948
Billy the Kid Versus Dracula
1966
Mom and Dad
1945
Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
1952
Her Bodyguard
1933
Blonde Ransom
1945
The Chinese Ring
1947
Phantom Killer
1942
Rodeo
1952
Feudin' Fools
1952
Little Annie Rooney
1925
Paris Playboys
1954
The Shanghai Chest
1948
Incident
1948
Forgotten Women
1949
The Golden Eye
1948
Fugitives
1929
Moochie of Pop Warner Football
1960
Pride of the Blue Grass
1954
Havana Rose
1951
Detective Kitty O'Day
1944
Here Come the Marines
1952
Torchy Blane in Chinatown
1939
Torchy Gets Her Man
1938
Misbehaving Ladies
1931
The Crime of the Century
1933
The Miracle Kid
1941
Oh, What a Night!
1944
Emergency Landing
1941
Tuna Clipper
1949
The Ape Man
1943
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
1943
Tough Assignment
1949
Up In Smoke
1957
Jinx Money
1948
Behind the Mask
1946
Lucky Losers
1950
Ten Who Dared
1960
Daring Youth
1924
Penrod and Sam
1931
Men in Her Life
1931
Lassie's Great Adventure
1963
The Face of Marble
1946
Crazy Knights
1944
Yukon Vengeance
1954
Hold That Line
1952
Jail Busters
1955
One Exciting Week
1946
Foreign Agent
1942
Jet Job
1952
Spook Busters
1946
Dandy Dick
1935
The Rose Bowl Story
1952
Bowery Champs
1944
Girl on the Spot
1946
Hard Boiled Mahoney
1947
Make Me a Star
1932
Ghost Chasers
1951
The Story of the Animated Drawing
1955
The Shadow Returns
1946
Cornered
1924
Heroes of the Street
1922
Broadway Big Shot
1942
Father's Son
1931
The Old-Fashioned Way
1934
Home, James
1928
Desperate Cargo
1941
Wedding Rings
1929
Bowery Buckaroos
1947
The Big Idea
1934
The Panther's Claw
1942
One Thrilling Night
1942
Mr. Hex
1946
Let's Go Navy!
1951
Boys Will Be Boys
1935
Too Many Winners
1947
The Living Ghost
1942
The Canadian
1926
Here Comes Kelly
1943
City Story
1954
High Society
1955
Road to Paradise
1930
Mr. Celebrity
1941
Lassie and the Flight of the Cougar
1967
Shadow of Suspicion
1944
Blonde Dynamite
1950
Follow the Leader
1944
Born to the Saddle
1953
Don't Gamble with Strangers
1946
Adventures of Kitty O'Day
1945
The Great Junction Hotel
1931
Second Chance
1950
Professor Creeps
1942
Angels' Alley
1948
Ghosts on the Loose
1943
Smuggler's Cove
1948
Jiggs and Maggie Out West
1950
Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk
1935
Easy Payments
1919
Trail of the Yukon
1949
Bowery Battalion
1951
Moochie of the Little League
1959
Where There's a Will
1936
Blue Grass of Kentucky
1950
The Girl from Woolworth's
1929
Mr. Muggs Steps Out
1943
Roar of the Crowd
1953
Do Your Duty
1928
A Wonderful Life
1950
Crazy Over Horses
1951
Gallant Lady
1942
Strictly Modern
1922
The Green Hornet
2005
Four Shall Die
1940
In the Money
1958
Clancy Street Boys
1943
Again Pioneers
1950
Get Off My Foot
1935
Her Fatal Millions
1923
Disneyland After Dark
1962
Fashion Model
1945
The Feathered Serpent
1948
Lovers' Lane
1924
The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris
1928
Jalopy
1953
News Hounds
1947
Mr. Washington Goes to Town
1942
Men of San Quentin
1942
A Broadway Butterfly
1925
Below the Deadline
1946
Swingin' on a Rainbow
1945
Blues Busters
1950
The Lawton Story
1949
Penrod and Sam
1923
When Damon Fell for Pythias
1917
Rapids Ahead/Bear Country
1960
Transatlantic Trouble
1937
The Mad Parade
1931
Jiggs and Maggie in Jackpot Jitters
1949
His Fatal Beauty
1917
That's My Baby
1926
Misbehaving Husbands
1940
Wandering Husbands
1924
Murder Without Tears
1953
The Country Kid
1923
No Holds Barred
1952
Up Jumped the Devil
1941
What a Man!
1944
Windbag the Sailor
1936
Daughters of Pleasure
1924
Watch Your Step
1922
Federal Fugitives
1941
Spotlight Scandals
1943
Hard to Get
1929
Black Market Babies
1945
Heart to Heart
1928
Two Weeks Off
1929
Catch My Smoke
1922
Jiggs and Maggie in Court
1948
Look Homeward
1965
Hot Rhythm
1944
Duke of the Navy
1942
County Fair
1950
What'll We Do with Uncle?
1917
So You Won't Talk
1935
Those Who Dance
1930
Leave It to the Irish
1944
The Congregation
1952
Cuban Fireball
1951
Punch the Clock
1922
Gas House Kids Go West
1947
The Plausible Impossible
1956
The Lady Who Dared
1931
The Social Highwayman
1926
How Baxter Butted In
1925
Yukon Gold
1952
Boy of Mine
1923
The Inspector's Double
1916
Educated Evans
1936
A Hollywood Theme Song
1930
Lucky Ghost
1942
Give and Take
1928
Lassie: The Wayfarers
1964
Step Forward
1922
Said O'Reilly to McNab
1937
3D Jamboree
1956
Come Out Fighting
1945
Blonde Comet
1941
Dream Stuff
1933
Frisco Sally Levy
1927
Why Wild Men Go Wild
1920
Hold That Lion!
1926
The Narrow Street
1925
Fresh from the Farm
1921
The Mickey Mouse Anniversary Show
1968
My Swedie
1925
Killer at Large
1947
Lassie's Greatest Adventure
1963
Feather Your Nest
1937
The Printer's Devil
1923
See You Tonight
1933
Why They Left Home
1917
A Husband in Haste
1920
The Irresistible Lover
1927
Uneasy Money
1917
One Yard to Go
1931
A Self-Made Failure
1924
The Life of Riley
1927
A Desert Dilemma
1917
A Shadowed Shadow
1916
Design for Dreaming
1956
A Sanitarium Scandal
1917
A Home Spun Hero
1920
Won By a Fowl
1917
