William Beaudine

Directing·Jan 14, 1892·New York City, New York, USA

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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.

Film	Credit
The Green Hornet2005 · Director	Director
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies1995 · Self (archive footage)	Self (archive footage)
Fury of the Dragon1976 · Director	Director
The Green Hornet1974 · Director	Director
Lassie: Peace Is Our Profession1972 · Producer	Producer
The Mickey Mouse Anniversary Show1968 · Director	Director
Lassie and the Flight of the Cougar1967 · Director	Director
Billy the Kid Versus Dracula1966 · Director	Director
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter1966 · Director	Director
Look Homeward1965 · Director	Director
Lassie: The Wayfarers1964 · Director	Director
Lassie's Greatest Adventure1963 · Director	Director
Lassie's Great Adventure1963 · Director	Director
Disneyland After Dark1962 · Director	Director
Moochie of Pop Warner Football1960 · Director	Director
Ten Who Dared1960 · Director	Director
Rapids Ahead/Bear Country1960 · Director	Director
Moochie of the Little League1959 · Director	Director
In the Money1958 · Director	Director
Up In Smoke1957 · Director	Director
Westward Ho, The Wagons!1956 · Director	Director
The Plausible Impossible1956 · Director	Director
3D Jamboree1956 · Director	Director
Design for Dreaming1956 · Director	Director
The Story of the Animated Drawing1955 · Director	Director
Jail Busters1955 · Director	Director
High Society1955 · Director	Director
CCity Story1954 · Director	Director
Pride of the Blue Grass1954 · Director	Director
Paris Playboys1954 · Director	Director
Yukon Vengeance1954 · Director	Director
Murder Without Tears1953 · Director	Director
Roar of the Crowd1953 · Director	Director
Born to the Saddle1953 · Director	Director
Jalopy1953 · Director	Director
No Holds Barred1952 · Director	Director
Feudin' Fools1952 · Director	Director
Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla1952 · Director	Director
Yukon Gold1952 · Director	Director
The Rose Bowl Story1952 · Director	Director
Here Come the Marines1952 · Director	Director
Jet Job1952 · Director	Director
Hold That Line1952 · Director	Director
Rodeo1952 · Director	Director
TThe Congregation1952 · Director	Director
Havana Rose1951 · Director	Director
Crazy Over Horses1951 · Director	Director
Let's Go Navy!1951 · Director	Director