
From Wikipedia George Fitzmaurice (13 February 1885 – 13 June 1940) was a French-born film director and producer. Fitzmaurice's career first started as a set designer on stage. Beginning in 1914 until his death in 1940, he directed over 80 films, including several successful movies such as The Son of the Sheik, Raffles, Mata Hari, and Suzy. At the beginning of his directorial career, Fitzmaurice was astute at directing stage actresses in their initial films with the first wave of great Broadway stars that migrated to motion pictures during the World War I era, including Mae Murray, Elsie Ferguson, Fannie Ward, Helene Chadwick, Irene Fenwick, Gail Kane, and Edna Goodrich. Son of the Sheik is his most famous extant silent film, no doubt aided by the sudden death of its star, Rudolph Valentino. Lilac Time is a classic war/romance film. Fitzmaurice however directed scores of silent films of which the majority of them are lost to the ravages of decompostion. Recent discoveries in Gosfilmofond in Russia include 1919's Witness for the Defense with Elsie Ferguson and 1923's Kick In with Bert Lytell. A restoration of his 1928 part talkie hybrid The Barker is winning praise from many film buffs. Rumours of other Fitzmaurice films in Gosfilmofond include 1920s Idols of Clay (with Mae Murray) and Three Live Ghosts with Norman Kerry, Anna Q. Nilsson, Cyril Chadwick, and Edmund Goulding.

The Barker

The Unholy Garden

As You Desire Me

The Bad One

The Witness for the Defense

マタ・ハリ

Lilac Time

The Man From Home

The Son of the Sheik

Raffles

The Eternal City

A Thief in Paradise

His Captive Woman

Three Live Ghosts

The Locked Door

Arsène Lupin Returns

放蕩息子

Suzy

Petticoat Fever

Adventure in Diamonds

One Heavenly Night

Live, Love and Learn

Strangers May Kiss

The Night of Love

The Man and the Moment

The Emperor's Candlesticks

On with the Dance

Big Jim Garrity

Our Better Selves

The Hunting of the Hawk

The Recoil

The On-the-Square Girl

The Avalanche

A Society Exile

Counterfeit

Vacation from Love

The Hillcrest Mystery

Cytherea

Arms and the Woman

Kick In

Via Wireless

Bella Donna

Paying the Piper

The Right to Love

The Naulahka

Tiger Rose

Experience

Common Clay

The Cheat

The Dark Angel

His Supreme Moment

Rose of the Golden West

The Love Mart

Forever

Tarnish

Idols of Clay

A Japanese Nightingale

When Rome Ruled

The Narrow Path

All Men Are Enemies

The Commuters

To Have and to Hold

Kick In

The Test

Stop Thief!

Who's Who in Society

The Profiteers

The Cry of the Weak

Innocent

Blind Man's Luck

The Mark of Cain

The Romantic Journey

Sylvia of the Secret Service