Alfred Santell

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Alfred "Al" Santell (born September 14, 1895 in San Francisco , California , United States , † June 19, 1981 in Salinas , California) was an American film director .

Life

Alfred 'Al' Santell had studied architecture at the University of Los Angeles and also tried his hand at writing short stories. Not yet 20 years old, Santell was already writing scripts for slapstick short films. Shortly thereafter, the Lubin Manufacturing Company hired him, for which he briefly appeared in front of the camera as an actor. The American Manufacturing Company hired Al Santell as a director in the middle of World War I. A little later, the Californian switched to the Kalem Company and finally to the producer Mack Sennett (until 1918), who specializes in slapstick comedies .

From 1920 onwards, Santell made a considerable number of full-length entertainment films in the next quarter of a century, with which he turned out to be a solid craftsman without too much ambition. Among his works, two literary adaptations (" Winterset", " The Hairy Ape ") received attention as well as a number of maudlin fancy films (" Daddy Long Legs", "Tess of the Storm Country", "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm "). With the medical melodrama “ Assistant doctor Dr. Kilder ”, Alfred Santell brought one of his most commercially successful productions to the cinemas in 1937. In 1946, Alfred Santell ended his career in the cinema and switched to television.

Filmography

  • 1915: My Valet
  • 1917: Beloved Rogues (also screenwriter)
  • 1917: Out of the Bag
  • 1918: Home James
  • 1918: Vamping the Vamp
  • 1920: It Might Happen to You (also screenplay)
  • 1922: Wildcat Jordan
  • 1923: Lights Out
  • 1923: Fools in the Dark
  • 1924: The Battle with the Shadow ( Empty Hearts )
  • 1924: Paris Nights ( Parisian Nights )
  • 1925: A Class Girl ( Classified )
  • 1925: Bluebeard's Seven Wives
  • 1925: The Dancer of Paris
  • 1926: Sweet Daddies
  • 1926: The Bride at the Crossroads ( Subway Sadie )
  • 1927: Miss - please join us! ( Orchids and Ermine )
  • 1927: The World in Flames ( The Patent Leather Kid )
  • 1927: The Gorilla ( The Gorilla )
  • 1928: The Trial against X ( Wheel of Chance )
  • 1928: The girl from the Varieté ( Show Girl )
  • 1929: My kingdom of heaven ( This is Heaven )
  • 1929: Twin Beds
  • 1929: Manuela (Romance of the Rio Grande)
  • 1930: The Arizona Kid
  • 1930: The Sea Wolf
  • 1930: Body and Soul
  • 1931: Daddy Long Legs
  • 1931: Polly of the Circus
  • 1932: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
  • 1933: bondage
  • 1933: The Right to Romance
  • 1934: The Life of Vergie Winters
  • 1935: People Will Talk
  • 1935: A Feather in Her Hat
  • 1936: winter set
  • 1937: Assistant doctor Dr. Kilder (Internal Can't Take Money)
  • 1937: Cocoanut Grove
  • 1938: The Arkansas Traveler
  • 1938: Our Leading Citizen
  • 1941: Aloma, the daughter of the South Seas (Aloma of the South Seas)
  • 1942: Mabok, the horror of the jungle (Beyond the Blue Horizon)
  • 1943: Jack London
  • 1944: The Hairy Ape
  • 1945: Mexicana (also production)
  • 1946: That Brennan Girl (also production)

literature

  • The world encyclopedia of film, assoc. editors: Tim Cawkwell & John M. Smith. London 1972, p. 246

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personal data
SURNAME Santell, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Santell, Al (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film director
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco , California , United States
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1981
Place of death Salinas , California