William Beaudine

🎂 Jan 14, 1892 — 🕯️ Mar 18, 1970 (78 years) New York City, New York, USA

William Beaudine is a director born in New York City, New York, USA. They directed The Inspector's Double in 1916.

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Lassie

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

Corky and White Shadow

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Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla

Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter

Billy the Kid Versus Dracula

The Crime of the Century

The Feathered Serpent

Detective Kitty O'Day

1944

⭐ 7.0

Torchy Blane in Chinatown

1939

⭐ 5.8

Westward Ho, The Wagons!

The Mystery of the 13th Guest

TV Shows

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin

Corky and White Shadow

1956

⭐ 5.3

The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok

1951

⭐ 8.0

Adventure in Dairyland

Further Adventures of Spin and Marty

1956

⭐ 6.6

The Adventures of Spin and Marty

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To Save Her Soul

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The Mickey Mouse Anniversary Show

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1968

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Lassie and the Flight of the Cougar

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Billy the Kid Versus Dracula

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1966

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Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is William Beaudine still alive?

William Beaudine passed away on March 18, 1970 at age 78.

What are the most famous roles of William Beaudine?

William Beaudine is best known for directing Billy the Kid Versus Dracula, Voodoo Man, The Ape Man.

How many movies has William Beaudine directed?

Over a 57-year career (since 1913), William Beaudine has directed or written 224 films and worked on 13 TV shows.

What was William Beaudine's first movie?

The career of William Beaudine began with Almost a Wild Man (1913).

What is William Beaudine's most recent movie or series?

William Beaudine's most recent release is The Green Hornet, which premiered on January 6, 2005.

What TV shows has William Beaudine created or directed?

On television, William Beaudine has appeared in The Green Hornet, Lassie, The Wonderful World of Disney, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin.

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.

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