Harold Huth

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Harold Huth (born January 20, 1892 in Huddersfield , United Kingdom , † October 26, 1967 in London ) was a British actor , film director and film producer .

Life

Huth, originally from northern England, worked as a car salesman at a young age before he was discovered for the film. He started his screen career at the age of 35. First he appeared with supporting roles in silent comedies, period dramas and war films. In the first years of the sound film, its roles gradually increased, and Huth often played elegant and cultured gentlemen, but several times also people from other cultures (French nobles, Egyptian doctors and the like). At times health problems forced him to retire from acting, and Huth earned his living as the casting director for the production company Gainsborough Pictures and the British subsidiary of MGM . In this capacity, Harold Huth was also involved in the ambitious productions Der Lausbub aus Amerika , Die Zitadelle and Auf Wiedersehen, Mr. Chips from 1937 to 1939 . In 1939 he returned to active film work and made his debut as a film director with “ Hell's Cargo ”, an “ adventure film promoting the Entente Cordiale idea”.

Immediately after the beginning of the Second World War , his old employer, MGM, hired him as a film producer (" Busman's Honeymoon "). Harold Huth subsequently alternated regularly between the activities of a director and producer and had his most successful period when he was appointed chief producer of Gainsborough Pictures in 1943. In the following years he produced very popular and cash-rich costume fabrics, historical romances and melodramas, which were often criticized in a malicious way, for the female audience in particular. Since the 1950s, Huth was also active as a director and producer for television and worked, for example, for Douglas Fairbanks ' production company as well as for Warwick Television Films Ltd. Huth's few theatrical productions were mostly dramatic stories without great depth or artistic ambition.

Filmography

as an actor
  • 1927: One of the Best
  • 1928: A South Sea Bubble
  • 1928: Sir or Madam
  • 1928: balaclava
  • 1928: The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel
  • 1929: The Silver King
  • 1929: Downstream
  • 1930: City of Play
  • 1930: An Obvious Situation
  • 1930: Leave it to Me
  • 1930: Guilt
  • 1930: bracelets
  • 1931: The Outsider
  • 1931: Down River
  • 1932: A Honeymoon Adventure
  • 1932: The First Mrs. Fraser
  • 1932: The Flying Squad
  • 1932: The World, the Flesh and the Devil
  • 1932: Rome Express ( Rome Express )
  • 1932: Sally Bishop
  • 1932: Discord
  • 1933: My Lucky Star
  • 1933: The Ghoul
  • 1934: The Camels Are Coming
  • 1937: Take My Tip
  • 1941: This Was Paris
  • 1950: Crimes Without Guilt ( Blackmailed )
  • 1952: Sing Along With Me
as a film producer, unless otherwise stated
  • 1939: Hell's Cargo (only direction)
  • 1940: Busman's Honeymoon
  • 1940: East of Piccadilly (director only)
  • 1941: Beach of Promise (co-director only)
  • 1944: Cornwall Rhapsody ( Love Story )
  • 1945: Three Marriages ( They Were Sisters )
  • 1946: Dangerous journey ( caravan )
  • 1947: The roots of all evil ( The Roots of All Evil )
  • 1947: Symbol of Luck ( The White Unicorn )
  • 1947: Night Beat (also director)
  • 1947: My Sister and I (also director)
  • 1948: It started in Rio ( Look Before You Love ) (also directed)
  • 1950: Crimes Without Guilt ( Blackmailed )
  • 1951: Sing Along With Me
  • 1955: Police Dog
  • 1956: The Hostage (director only)
  • 1958: The man without nerves ( The Man Inside )
  • 1958: The Bandit of Zhobe ( The Bandit of Zhobe )
  • 1959: Idol on Parade
  • 1960: Jazzboat
  • 1960: The Man with the Green Carnation ( The Trials of Oscar Wilde )
  • 1960: In the Nick
  • 1961: Take a seat to die ( The Hellions ) (also co-script)

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 4: H - L. Botho Höfer - Richard Lester. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 132.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 4: H - L. Botho Höfer - Richard Lester. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 132.
personal data
SURNAME Huth, Harold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor, film director and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Huddersfield , UK
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1967
Place of death London , England