William Beaudine

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William Beaudine with actress Alice Maison (1921)

William Washington Beaudine , also William X. Crowley , (born January 15, 1892 in the Bronx , New York City , USA , † March 18, 1970 in Canoga Park , Los Angeles , USA ) was an American director .

Life

Beaudine has directed a wide variety of films of various genres for 50 years. He largely refrained from repeating recordings and was therefore nicknamed One-Shot after his death

In 1909 he started as an office messenger at the Biograph Company in New York and got work as a small actor and as a cameraman and assistant director at Mack Sennett . In 1914, the Kalem Film Company made him an offer to begin as an assistant director and to move to the director's chair after a year. After moving to California and marrying Marguerite Fleischer , he began his long career. In 1916 he switched to Universal and made numerous short films. He worked for various studios until 1921, then from 1921 for Warner Bros. , where he also made the move to full-length films, and from 1930 as a freelance director.

Beaudine was now the father of four children and so accepted every offer to support his family. Under the name William X. Crowley , he also made short films to circumvent work restrictions. In 1934 he went to Great Britain for four years when, despite the success of his WC Fields film The Old Fashioned Way, no offers were made.

On his return he had to shoot for the small studios on Poverty Row . So he came to be known as the man who said of his countless B-movies over the next 15 years, " Do you really think anyone out there is really waiting for these kinds of movies? " One of the most famous films was Mom and Dad (1945), which was enriched with color images of a birth.

From 1955 Beaudine also worked for television and there in particular for Walt Disney , for whose television programs he shot several episodes. By the middle of the following decade he made teen horror films on a shoestring budget, but mostly found employment in television, such as watching TV. B. for 49 episodes of the series Lassie . His list of works includes 351 films and 161 television episodes.

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personal data
SURNAME Beaudine, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beaudine, William Washington (full name); Crowley, William X.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American director
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Bronx , New York City , USA
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1970
Place of death Canoga Park , Los Angeles , USA