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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.
Most Popular William Beaudine Trailers
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23 September 1944
Brash ladies' man James Dale and his partner, wisecracking Everett Northrup, are sent by Cartell & Co.
22 April 1944
Jimmy O'Brien (Robert Lowery)and Sammy Rubin (Sidney Miller), write jingle commercials for radio, and meet Mary Adams (Dona Drake), who wants to break into radio as a soloist for a band.
07 March 1948
Slip invites his cousin Jimmy to stay with his family after he is released from prison. However, Jimmy soon gets mixed up with an auto-theft ring.
06 February 1942
This drama chronicles the extreme measures taken by a determined young crime reporter to get an interview with a notorious convict.
10 August 1924
Silent film comedy drama...
13 August 1947
Slip and Sach are working for a local newspaper as a reporter and photographer, respectively. Slip wants to get the goods on a local gambling ring that is fixing sporting events, so he and Sach go undercover to expose the ring.
29 July 1951
The Bowery Boys join the Navy to catch some crooks who are posing as sailors.
22 October 1917
Artist Henry is wildly jealous of his girl Flossie so when he sees her in the arms of another man he overreacts and tries to end it all in a variety of over the top ways.
24 September 1943
A down-on-his luck actor teams up with a singing barber to do a vaudeville act. Its success eventually leads them to Broadway, but things start to go awry.
09 October 1942
Hollywood starlet foils an Axis plot to sabotage the L.A. infrastructure.
03 June 1944
Muggs and Glimpy, two East Side Kids in the army, return to their neighborhood, supposedly on furlough; actually, Muggs has been honorably discharged with a physical defect, but he tells no one of this.
29 April 1951
A ghost helps the Bowery Boys capture a gang of crooks led by a mad doctor.
28 February 1942
Two cut-rate private detectives are broke, hungry and down to their last nickel. They decide to hock their banjo in order to get some money for food, and while one partner is negotiating the deal, the other one falls asleep and dreams that a wealthy society matron has hired them to investigate a string of suitors.
09 November 1946
Sach is given a post-hypnotic suggestion that turns him into a championship prizefighter.
09 March 1952
Nancy Cartwright is determined to collect an $1,800 feed bill owed to her father Harry Cartwright by a rodeo association.
27 January 1929
Nightclub singer Alice Carroll is found in the office of club owner Al Barrow, who is lying dead on the floor.
25 November 1931
Acting on a tip from former stage actress Fern Madden, who is now working as a movie extra, Jimmy Burke, a Hollywood reporter, publishes an article revealing an independent film producer to have mob connections.
28 October 1935
A Smithfield porter becomes a butler, and later finds himself heir to a fortune.
19 January 1946
The story of Dr. Charles Randolph, a scientist dedicated to deciphering the secrets of life and death.
01 November 1950
Citizens of Fairview are outraged when they learn children from the "Patch", a squalid migrant camp on the outskirts of town, will soon be attending Fairview's school.
01 March 1935
The owner of a small Italian restaurant in central London is left a million pound inheritance, the only stipulation to the will being that he cannot speak or write anything for a period of one month.
27 June 1948
A man wins $50,000 in a card game with gamblers, but is soon found dead and the money missing. Slip and Sach find the money near where the body was discovered, and soon find themselves the target of both the police and the gamblers.
01 July 1935
Alec Smart, who is engaged teaching in a prison, applies for the job of headmaster at a nearby public school to replace the previous headmaster who has been convicted of writing forged cheques and has just been sent to prison.
15 February 1953
Slip has entered the Boys' rattletrap car in a souped-up jalopy race, but has no chance of winning until Satch, with the aid of a scientist acquaintance, comes up with a chemical concoction that acts as a super-fuel; but a rival entrant in the race learns of this and tries to get the formula for himself.
27 August 1920
Party-hearty college boys Bobby and Jimmy tone it down for Jimmy's dad when visiting, but when Jimmy's sister declares what she wants is a real cave man, Bobby jumps at the chance.
17 July 1949
A tale of three women who hang out in a bar and bend the ear of Harry the bartender. Kate Allison drinks to forget playboy Andy Emerson, whom she might have married if her husband, John Allison hadn't come home before the divorce was final, which is no big deal as actors Norris and Douglas were pretty much interchangeable anyway; Ruth Marshall is reunited with husband Richard Marshall on the pleas of their son in the divorce court of Judge Donnell; and Clair Dunning makes up with husband Bill Dunning after they meet in the bar.
29 June 1952
After Slip is drafted into the Marines, the rest of the gang volunteers so they can be with him. Sach discovers that the colonel knew his father and he is promoted.
07 March 1941
A test pilot and his weather observer develop a "robot" control so airplanes can be flown without pilots, but enemy agents get wind of it and try to steal it or destroy it.
13 December 1935
Old Mr. Cohen (Paul Graetz) simply walks away from his London department store, leaving his sons to run it.
11 May 1929
Frances, a salesgirl, is planning a summer vacation at the beach with a girlfriend, who also works at her store.
23 March 1952
The Bowery Boys are enrolled in a fancy college by a pair of rich snobs who think they can turn the Boys into classy guys.
07 March 1954
Sach is the exact double of a famous French scientist who has invented a powerful rocket fuel. Enemy agents, mistaking Sach for the scientist, attempt to kidnap him and get the formula for the fuel.
14 June 1953
A man hires someone to murder his wife and use a legal loophole to get away with it.
03 September 1927
Silent comedy film directed by William Beaudine..
02 March 1945
When two employees of a clothing factory are murdered, the shadow of suspicion falls upon a lowly stock boy.
09 September 1951
The boys get mixed up with a race horse & crooked gamblers
25 November 1944
Copy boys Muggs and Glimpy investigate a murder. They locate the ex-wife of the murdered man and become convinced she is innocent.
07 May 1920
Jack (Earle Rodney) wants to marry Betty (Helen Darling) but inadvertently offends her parents, who demand “anybody in the world but that whippersnapper!” With the help of an “old time actor friend” (Eddie Barry), he makes his prospective in-laws rue their words.
30 July 1950
"Ma" Ryan, who runs a burger stand at the county fair, asks daughter Loretta to put a bet on a horse that Loretta's boyfriend Tommy is riding.
20 December 1956
The pioneering trail to Oregon was littered with constant danger. Yet, the hope of the "promised land" keeps American families westward bound despite overwhelming odds.
12 December 1948
Maggie is resentful of being pointed out and laughed at in public because she resembles the cartoon character in the George McManus comic strip "Bringing Up Father.
27 October 1929
Daisy, a clerk at Woolworth's, loves to sing. She meets Bill, a guard on the subway, at a party and they're both attracted to each other, but each tells the other that they have a different job than they actually do.
05 March 1951
Cuban Fireball is a vehicle for the combustible talents of Estelita Rodriguez, here cast as "herself.
15 November 1949
A meddlesome reporter sporting a young bride takes on a gang of modern day cattle rustlers.
Donald "Red" Barry plays Dan Reilly, a newspaper reporter just returned to LA with his wife, photographer Margie (Marjorie Steele).
24 January 1951
Slip, Sach and the gang think an air-raid test is for real and join the Army.
23 June 1917
Stuck in the desert ZaSu pratfalls her way out.
29 October 1950
The Bowery Boys open a nightclub after Sach has his tonsils out and wakes up with a singing voice.
11 May 1933
Walter Catlett is the cousin to some squeaky voiced Dagwood Bumstead type who can't get a girl. Can he browbeat his cousin into swiping pretty girl from accomplished gunman, boxer, and horseman Franklin Pangborn (!?
14 May 1950
Slip and Sach's boss, David J. Thurston, has allegedly committed suicide. Slip finds a book of matches with the name of a local nightclub on his boss' desk and finds out from Gabe that a gambling casino is being run out of it.
24 August 1952
The newly crowned Rose Bowl Princess and a tough but tender football player find the California Rose Bowl is an area for their budding romance.
01 October 1931
Best pals Penrod and Sam are leaders of a super-secret neighborhood society, the In-Or-In Boys Club. Troubles arise when a pompous prig tries to join the club and when the boys lose their clubhouse in a land sale.
02 October 1942
Well-known philanthropist and deaf-mute John G. Harrison is identified leaving the scene of several murders but evades successful prosecution as there are hundreds of witnesses who have also seen him emceeing benefits at the exact same time as the murders.
10 October 1948
Slip and Sach are working as cleaners in a high rise building. They enter an office to clean it when a messenger hears them use Slip's given name, Terrance Mahoney.
21 March 1912
Hank (Mack Sennett) loses his girl (Mabel Normand) to another guy (Dell Henderson) so he decides to get even with some hot sauce.
16 February 1958
The Bowery Boys tangle with Scotland Yard, diamond smugglers and a gem-toting canine during an ocean cruise.
01 March 1935
The Very Reverend Richard Jedd has a problem: the church spire, now in a parlous state of repair, will cost nearly £1,000 to fix.
10 October 1941
A couple attempts to win custody of their orphaned grandson, who's being raised by his veterinarian uncle in a racetrack environment.
21 July 1933
The "sugar daddy" of a Broadway star hires a bodyguard to protect her from thieves out to steal the jewels he's given her and also from the attentions of other men, most notably the producer of the show in which she's starring.
13 April 1922
The conductor of a one-man streetcar has to deal with getting passengers on and off, getting tickets, making sure no one tries to ride for free and operating the car all at the same time.
