
From Wikipedia 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.

Bowery Battalion

Adventure in Dairyland

The Wonderful World of Disney

Windbag the Sailor

The Story of the Animated Drawing

The Plausible Impossible

The Green Hornet

The Old-Fashioned Way

雀

The Canadian

Let's Go Navy!

In the Money

Bowery Champs

Come Out Fighting

Disneyland After Dark

Further Adventures of Spin and Marty

Little Annie Rooney

Where There's a Will

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin

The Green Hornet

Mr. Hex

Ghost Chasers

Moochie of Pop Warner Football

Bowery Buckaroos

Tuna Clipper

Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk

Hard Boiled Mahoney

The Crime of the Century

Penrod and Sam

Boys Will Be Boys

Road to Paradise

The Adventures of Spin and Marty

Lassie

The Shanghai Chest

Lucky Losers

The Panther's Claw

Hold That Line

Shadow of Suspicion

Torchy Blane in Chinatown

Jail Busters

Here Come the Marines

Penrod and Sam

The Mad Parade

One Exciting Week

Those Who Dance

Gas House Kids Go West

Trail of the Yukon

News Hounds

Moochie of the Little League

Racket Squad

Corky and White Shadow

Men in Her Life

The Feathered Serpent

Emergency Landing

Dandy Dick

Clancy Street Boys

Ten Who Dared

Tough Assignment

Torchy Gets Her Man

Kidnapped

Make Me a Star

Blues Busters

Too Many Winners

Up In Smoke

Crazy Over Horses

Westward Ho, The Wagons!

Her Bodyguard

裸の町

The Golden Eye

Lucky Ghost

The Mystery of the 13th Guest

Federal Fugitives

The Shadow Returns

Murder Without Tears

Fury of the Dragon

One Thrilling Night

Three Wise Girls

Don't Gamble with Strangers

Incident

Philo Vance Returns

No Holds Barred

Behind the Mask

High Society

The Lady Who Dared

The Miracle Kid

Blonde Comet

Black Market Babies

Why Wild Men Go Wild

Jet Job

Mom and Dad

A Husband in Haste

Born to the Saddle

Duke of the Navy

Gallant Lady

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

Voodoo Man

The Chinese Ring

Jinx Money

Spook Busters

Adventures of Kitty O'Day

Misbehaving Husbands

Hot Rhythm

Smuggler's Cove

Jalopy

Crazy Knights

Detective Kitty O'Day

Phantom Killer

Lassie's Great Adventure

Blonde Dynamite

The Face of Marble

Below the Deadline

Yukon Vengeance

The Ape Man

Ghosts on the Loose

The Living Ghost

Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter

Billy the Kid Versus Dracula

Angels' Alley

Paris Playboys

Feudin' Fools

Mr. Celebrity

Yukon Gold

Again Pioneers

Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla

The Big Idea

Leave It to the Irish

Fashion Model

Mr. Washington Goes to Town

Spotlight Scandals

The Rose Bowl Story

Design for Dreaming

Follow the Leader

Desperate Cargo

Lassie and the Flight of the Cougar

Jiggs and Maggie Out West

Wandering Husbands

The Mickey Mouse Anniversary Show

Frisco Sally Levy

Catch My Smoke

3D Jamboree

Pride of the Blue Grass

A Home Spun Hero

The Great Junction Hotel

Girl on the Spot

Broadway Big Shot

Feather Your Nest

Wedding Rings

Second Chance

Jiggs and Maggie in Court

Watch Your Step

Rodeo

Heart to Heart

Daring Youth

Daughters of Pleasure

The Life of Riley

Look Homeward

A Hollywood Theme Song

What a Man!

Men of San Quentin

Up Jumped the Devil

Professor Creeps

Swingin' on a Rainbow

The Lawton Story

Four Shall Die

Mr. Muggs Steps Out

Killer at Large

Father's Son

Misbehaving Ladies

Two Weeks Off

So You Won't Talk

The Girl from Woolworth's

Jiggs and Maggie in Jackpot Jitters

Blue Grass of Kentucky

Forgotten Women

Home, James

Havana Rose

The Country Kid

The Narrow Street

The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris

A Broadway Butterfly

Cornered

Boy of Mine

Fugitives

Heroes of the Street

Oh, What a Night!

The Printer's Devil

Roar of the Crowd

Hard to Get

Le Frelon vert

A Tribute to Joel Chandler Harris

Rapids Ahead/Bear Country

How Baxter Butted In

Do Your Duty

Lassie's Greatest Adventure

The Irresistible Lover

The Social Highwayman

Hold That Lion!