William Beaudine

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1892-01-14

Deathday 1970-03-18 (78 years old)

Place of Birth New York City, New York, USA

Also Known As William Washington Beaudine, William "One-Shot" Beaudine, William Beaudine Sr., W.W. Beaudine, William X. Crowley, William Crowley

William Beaudine

Biography

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.

Known For

Director

2005
The Green Hornet

as Director

1976
Fury of the Dragon

as Director

1974
The Green Hornet

as Director

1966
The Green Hornet

as Director

1965
Look Homeward

as Director

1963
1962
1960
Ten Who Dared

as Director

1958
In the Money

as Director

1958
Naked City

as Director

1957
Up In Smoke

as Director

1956
3D Jamboree

as Director

1956
1956
1956
1956
Broken Arrow

as Director

1956
1955
High Society

as Director

1955
Jail Busters

as Director

1955
TV Reader's Digest

as Director

1954
1954
Paris Playboys

as Director

1954
City Story

as Director

1954
Yukon Vengeance

as Director

1954
Lassie

as Director

1953
1953
Jalopy

as Director

1953
Born to the Saddle

as Director

1953
Roar of the Crowd

as Director

1952
Hold That Line

as Director

1952
No Holds Barred

as Director

1952
Feudin' Fools

as Director

1952
1952
Jet Job

as Director

1952
Rodeo

as Director

1952
The Congregation

as Director

1952
1952
Yukon Gold

as Director

1951
Ghost Chasers

as Director

1951
Let's Go Navy!

as Director

1951
Bowery Battalion

as Director

1951
Crazy Over Horses

as Director

1951
Cuban Fireball

as Director

1951
Havana Rose

as Director

1951
Racket Squad

as Director

1950
Blues Busters

as Director

1950
Second Chance

as Director

1950
Blonde Dynamite

as Director

1950
Lucky Losers

as Director

1950
A Wonderful Life

as Director

1950
County Fair

as Director

1950
1950
Again Pioneers

as Director

1949
Tough Assignment

as Director

1949
Tuna Clipper

as Director

1949
The Lawton Story

as Director

1949
Trail of the Yukon

as Director

1949
Forgotten Women

as Director

1948
Incident

as Director

1948
1948
Shanghai Chest

as Director

1948
Jinx Money

as Director

1948
The Golden Eye

as Director

1948
Kidnapped

as Director

1948
Angels' Alley

as Director

1948
Smuggler's Cove

as Director

1947
The Chinese Ring

as Director

1947
Bowery Buckaroos

as Director

1947
1947
Too Many Winners

as Director

1947
1947
1947
News Hounds

as Director

1947
Killer at Large

as Director

1946
Below the Deadline

as Director

1946
Spook Busters

as Director

1946
The Face of Marble

as Director

1946
Behind the Mask

as Director

1946
The Shadow Returns

as Director

1946
Girl on the Spot

as Director

1946
Mr. Hex

as Director

1946
One Exciting Week

as Director

1945
Fashion Model

as Director

1945
1945
Mom and Dad

as Director

1945
1945
Blonde Ransom

as Director

1945
Come Out Fighting

as Director

1944
Voodoo Man

as Director

1944
1944
1944
Crazy Knights

as Director

1944
1944
What a Man!

as Director

1944
Hot Rhythm

as Director

1944
Follow the Leader

as Director

1944
Bowery Champs

as Director

1944
Oh, What a Night!

as Director

1943
The Ape Man

as Director

1943
1943
Here Comes Kelly

as Director

1943
Clancy Street Boys

as Director

1943
Spotlight Scandals

as Director

1943
1942
The Living Ghost

as Director

1942
The Panther's Claw

as Director

1942
Lucky Ghost

as Director

1942
Foreign Agent

as Director

1942
Phantom Killer

as Director

1942
Broadway Big Shot

as Director

1942
1942
Men of San Quentin

as Director

1942
Professor Creeps

as Director

1942
Duke of the Navy

as Director

1942
Gallant Lady

as Director

1941
Emergency Landing

as Director

1941
Federal Fugitives

as Director

1941
Mr. Celebrity

as Director

1941
The Miracle Kid

as Director

1941
Blonde Comet

as Director

1941
Desperate Cargo

as Director

1941
1940
1940
Four Shall Die

as Director

1938
1937
Feather Your Nest

as Director

1937
1937
1936
1936
Windbag the Sailor

as Director

1936
Educated Evans

as Director

1935
Boys Will Be Boys

as Director

1935
Dandy Dick

as Director

1935
1935
Get Off My Foot

as Director

1935
So You Won't Talk

as Director

1934
The Big Idea

as Director

1934
1933
1933
Dream Stuff

as Director

1933
See You Tonight

as Director

1933
Her Bodyguard

as Director

1932
Make Me a Star

as Director

1932
Three Wise Girls

as Director

1931
One Yard to Go

as Director

1931
1931
The Lady Who Dared

as Director

1931
Men in Her Life

as Director

1931
Penrod and Sam

as Director

1931
The Mad Parade

as Director

1931
Misbehaving Ladies

as Director

1931
Father's Son

as Director

1930
Road to Paradise

as Director

1930
1930
Those Who Dance

as Director

1929
Wedding Rings

as Director

1929
Two Weeks Off

as Director

1929
Fugitives

as Director

1929
Hard to Get

as Director

1928
Heart to Heart

as Director

1928
Give and Take

as Director

1928
Home, James

as Director

1927
Frisco Sally Levy

as Director

1927
The Life of Riley

as Director

1926
Sparrows

as Director

1926
The Canadian

as Director

1926
That's My Baby

as Director

1925
1925
The Narrow Street

as Director

1925
1925
1924
Lovers' Lane

as Director

1924
Daring Youth

as Director

1924
1924
Cornered

as Director

1924
Wandering Husbands

as Director

1923
Penrod and Sam

as Director

1923
The Country Kid

as Director

1923
Boy of Mine

as Director

1923
Her Fatal Millions

as Director

1923
1922
Catch My Smoke

as Director

1922
Strictly Modern

as Director

1922
Watch Your Step

as Director

1922
Punch the Clock

as Director

1922
Step Forward

as Director

1922
1921
1920
A Home Spun Hero

as Director

1920
1920
A Husband in Haste

as Director

1919
Easy Payments

as Director

1917
Won By a Fowl

as Director

1917
1917
Uneasy Money

as Director

1916
1916
A Shadowed Shadow

as Director

1913
For the Son of the House

as Assistant Director

Writer

1944
What a Man!

as Screenplay

1944
1943
1943
Mr. Muggs Steps Out

as Screenplay

1942
Duke of the Navy

as Screenplay

1942
1936
Where There's a Will

as Screenplay

1935
Dandy Dick

as Writer

1913
1913
Black and White

as Scenario Writer

Actor

1931
Forgotten Women

as Director

1931
Movie-Town

as William Beaudine - Director

1913
Papa's Baby

as Young Father

1912
Hot Stuff

as Cigar Store Owner

1912

Producer

1931
The Mad Parade

as Producer

Camera

1919
The Other Man's Wife

as Director of Photography

1917
Reputation

as Camera Operator