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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.
Known For
Voodoo Man
(1944)
Director
The Ape Man
(1943)
Director
Ghosts on the Loose
(1943)
Director
Full Filmography
Directing
For the Son of the House
(1913)
Assistant Director
A Shadowed Shadow
(1916)
Director
The Inspector's Double
(1916)
Director
Won By a Fowl
(1917)
Director
A Sanitarium Scandal
(1917)
Director
What'll We Do with Uncle?
(1917)
Director
When Damon Fell for Pythias
(1917)
Director
Easy Payments
(1919)
Director
A Home Spun Hero
(1920)
Director
Why Wild Men Go Wild
(1920)
Director
A Husband in Haste
(1920)
Director
Fresh from the Farm
(1921)
Director
Watch Your Step
(1922)
Director
Punch the Clock
(1922)
Director
Step Forward
(1922)
Director
Heroes of the Street
(1922)
Director
Catch My Smoke
(1922)
Director
Strictly Modern
(1922)
Director
Penrod and Sam
(1923)
Director
The Country Kid
(1923)
Director
Boy of Mine
(1923)
Director
Her Fatal Millions
(1923)
Director
The Printer's Devil
(1923)
Director
Lovers' Lane
(1924)
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Daring Youth
(1924)
Director
Daughters of Pleasure
(1924)
Director
Cornered
(1924)
Director
Wandering Husbands
(1924)
Director
Little Annie Rooney
(1925)
Director
A Broadway Butterfly
(1925)
Director
The Narrow Street
(1925)
Director
Sparrows
(1926)
Director
The Canadian
(1926)
Director
That's My Baby
(1926)
Director
The Life of Riley
(1927)
Director
Frisco Sally Levy
(1927)
Director
Heart to Heart
(1928)
Director
Give and Take
(1928)
Director
Home, James
(1928)
Director
The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris
(1928)
Director
Two Weeks Off
(1929)
Director
The Girl from Woolworth's
(1929)
Director
Fugitives
(1929)
Director
Hard to Get
(1929)
Director
Wedding Rings
(1929)
Director
Road to Paradise
(1930)
Director
Those Who Dance
(1930)
Director
A Hollywood Theme Song
(1930)
Director
The Lady Who Dared
(1931)
Director
Men in Her Life
(1931)
Director
Father's Son
(1931)
Director
Penrod and Sam
(1931)
Director
The Mad Parade
(1931)
Director
Misbehaving Ladies
(1931)
Director
One Yard to Go
(1931)
Director
The Great Junction Hotel
(1931)
Director
Make Me a Star
(1932)
Director
Three Wise Girls
(1932)
Director
The Crime of the Century
(1933)
Director
Dream Stuff
(1933)
Director
Her Bodyguard
(1933)
Director
See You Tonight
(1933)
Director
The Big Idea
(1934)
Director
The Old-Fashioned Way
(1934)
Director
Boys Will Be Boys
(1935)
Director
Dandy Dick
(1935)
Director
Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk
(1935)
Director
Get Off My Foot
(1935)
Director
So You Won't Talk
(1935)
Director
Where There's a Will
(1936)
Director
Windbag the Sailor
(1936)
Director
Educated Evans
(1936)
Director
Feather Your Nest
(1937)
Director
Said O'Reilly to McNab
(1937)
Director
Torchy Gets Her Man
(1938)
Director
Torchy Blane in Chinatown
(1939)
Director
Misbehaving Husbands
(1940)
Director
Four Shall Die
(1940)
Director
Emergency Landing
(1941)
Director
Mr. Celebrity
(1941)
Director
Federal Fugitives
(1941)
Director
The Miracle Kid
(1941)
Director
Blonde Comet
(1941)
Director
Desperate Cargo
(1941)
Director
Up Jumped the Devil
(1941)
Director
The Living Ghost
(1942)
Director
The Panther's Claw
(1942)
Director
Lucky Ghost
(1942)
Director
Foreign Agent
(1942)
Director
Phantom Killer
(1942)
Director
Broadway Big Shot
(1942)
Director
One Thrilling Night
(1942)
Director
Men of San Quentin
(1942)
Director
Duke of the Navy
(1942)
Director
Gallant Lady
(1942)
Director
Mr. Washington Goes to Town
(1942)
Director
Professor Creeps
(1942)
Director
The Ape Man
(1943)
Director
Ghosts on the Loose
(1943)
Director
The Mystery of the 13th Guest
(1943)
Director
Here Comes Kelly
(1943)
Director
Clancy Street Boys
(1943)
Director
Spotlight Scandals
(1943)
Director
Mr. Muggs Steps Out
(1943)
Director
Voodoo Man
(1944)
Director
Detective Kitty O'Day
(1944)
Director
Shadow of Suspicion
(1944)
Director
Crazy Knights
(1944)
Director
Leave It to the Irish
(1944)
Director
What a Man!
(1944)
Director
Hot Rhythm
(1944)
Director
Follow the Leader
(1944)
Director
Bowery Champs
(1944)
Director
Oh, What a Night!
(1944)
Director
Fashion Model
(1945)
Director
Adventures of Kitty O'Day
(1945)
Director
Black Market Babies
(1945)
Director
Mom and Dad
(1945)
Director
Swingin' on a Rainbow
(1945)
Director
Blonde Ransom
(1945)
Director
Come Out Fighting
(1945)
Director
Below the Deadline
(1946)
Director
Don't Gamble with Strangers
(1946)
Director
Spook Busters
(1946)
Director
The Face of Marble
(1946)
Director
The Shadow Returns
(1946)
Director
Behind the Mask
(1946)
Director
Girl on the Spot
(1946)
Director
Mr. Hex
(1946)
Director
One Exciting Week
(1946)
Director
The Chinese Ring
(1947)
Director
Bowery Buckaroos
(1947)
Director
Philo Vance Returns
(1947)
Director
Too Many Winners
(1947)
Director
Hard Boiled Mahoney
(1947)
Director
Gas House Kids Go West
(1947)
Director
News Hounds
(1947)
Director
Killer at Large
(1947)
Director
Incident
(1948)
Director
Shanghai Chest
(1948)
Director
The Feathered Serpent
(1948)
Director
Jinx Money
(1948)
Director
The Golden Eye
(1948)
Director
Angels' Alley
(1948)
Director
Kidnapped
(1948)
Director
Jiggs and Maggie in Court
(1948)
Director
Smuggler's Cove
(1948)
Director
Tough Assignment
(1949)
Director
Tuna Clipper
(1949)
Director
The Lawton Story
(1949)
Director
Trail of the Yukon
(1949)
Director
Jiggs and Maggie in Jackpot Jitters
(1949)
Director
Forgotten Women
(1949)
Director
Blues Busters
(1950)
Director
Blonde Dynamite
(1950)
Director
Lucky Losers
(1950)
Director
Jiggs and Maggie Out West
(1950)
Director
County Fair
(1950)
Director
Blue Grass of Kentucky
(1950)
Director
Again Pioneers
(1950)
Director
Second Chance
(1950)
Director
A Wonderful Life
(1950)
Director
Ghost Chasers
(1951)
Director
Let's Go Navy!
(1951)
Director
Bowery Battalion
(1951)
Director
Crazy Over Horses
(1951)
Director
Cuban Fireball
(1951)
Director
Havana Rose
(1951)
Director
Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
(1952)
Director
Hold That Line
(1952)
Director
No Holds Barred
(1952)
Director
Feudin' Fools
(1952)
Director
Here Come the Marines
(1952)
Director
The Rose Bowl Story
(1952)
Director
Yukon Gold
(1952)
Director
Rodeo
(1952)
Director
Jet Job
(1952)
Director
The Congregation
(1952)
Director
Murder Without Tears
(1953)
Director
Jalopy
(1953)
Director
Born to the Saddle
(1953)
Director
Roar of the Crowd
(1953)
Director
Pride of the Blue Grass
(1954)
Director
Paris Playboys
(1954)
Director
Yukon Vengeance
(1954)
Director
City Story
(1954)
Director
High Society
(1955)
Director
Jail Busters
(1955)
Director
The Story of the Animated Drawing
(1955)
Director
Design for Dreaming
(1956)
Director
The Plausible Impossible
(1956)
Director
Westward Ho, The Wagons!
(1956)
Director
3D Jamboree
(1956)
Director
Up In Smoke
(1957)
Director
In the Money
(1958)
Director
Moochie of the Little League
(1959)
Director
Moochie of Pop Warner Football
(1960)
Director
Ten Who Dared
(1960)
Director
Disneyland After Dark
(1962)
Director
Lassie's Great Adventure
(1963)
Director
Look Homeward
(1965)
Director
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
(1966)
Director
Billy the Kid Versus Dracula
(1966)
Director
Lassie and the Flight of the Cougar
(1967)
Director
The Mickey Mouse Anniversary Show
(1968)
Director
The Green Hornet
(1974)
Director
Fury of the Dragon
(1976)
Director
The Green Hornet
(2005)
Director
Acting
To Save Her Soul
(1909)
The Engagement Ring
(1912)
In Park
Hot Stuff
(1912)
Cigar Store Owner
The Tenderfoot's Money
(1913)
In Bar
Papa's Baby
(1913)
Young Father
Movie-Town
(1931)
William Beaudine - Director
Forgotten Women
(1931)
Director
Writing
Black and White
(1913)
Scenario Writer
Almost a Wild Man
(1913)
Writer
Dandy Dick
(1935)
Writer
Where There's a Will
(1936)
Screenplay
Duke of the Navy
(1942)
Story and Screenplay
Spotlight Scandals
(1943)
Story
Mr. Muggs Steps Out
(1943)
Screenplay
What a Man!
(1944)
Screenplay
Follow the Leader
(1944)
Writer
Camera
Production