William Beaudine
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- January 14, 1892
- Died
- March 18, 1970 (aged 78)
- Birthplace
- New York City, New York, USA
Biography
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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Filmography
A Janitor’s Vendetta
Movie · Director
The Green Hornet
Movie · Director
Fury of the Dragon
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The Green Hornet
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The Mickey Mouse Anniversary Show
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Lassie and the Flight of the Cougar
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Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter
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Billy the Kid Versus Dracula
Movie · Director
The Green Hornet
TV · Director · 4 eps
Look Homeward
Movie · Director
Lassie: The Wayfarers
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Lassie's Great Adventure
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Lassie's Greatest Adventure
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Disneyland After Dark
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Moochie of Pop Warner Football
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Ten Who Dared
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Rapids Ahead/Bear Country
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Moochie of the Little League
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In the Money
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Naked City
TV · Director · 4 eps
Up In Smoke
Movie · Director
3D Jamboree
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The Plausible Impossible
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Westward Ho, The Wagons!
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Design for Dreaming
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Broken Arrow
TV · Director · 7 eps
Adventure in Dairyland
TV · Director · 8 eps
Corky and White Shadow
TV · Director · 17 eps
Further Adventures of Spin and Marty
TV · Director · 3 eps
High Society
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Jail Busters
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The Story of the Animated Drawing
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TV Reader's Digest
TV · Director · 1 ep
The Adventures of Spin and Marty
TV · Director · 2 eps
Pride of the Blue Grass
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Paris Playboys
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City Story
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Yukon Vengeance
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Lassie
TV · Director · 31 eps
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV · Director · 4 eps
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
TV · Director · 158 eps
Murder Without Tears
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Jalopy
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Born to the Saddle
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Roar of the Crowd
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Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla
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Hold That Line
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No Holds Barred
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Feudin' Fools
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Here Come the Marines
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Jet Job
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Rodeo
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The Congregation
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The Rose Bowl Story
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Yukon Gold
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Ghost Chasers
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Let's Go Navy!
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Bowery Battalion
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Crazy Over Horses
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Cuban Fireball
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Havana Rose
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The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok
TV · Director · 13 eps
Racket Squad
TV · Director · 5 eps
Blues Busters
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Second Chance
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Blonde Dynamite
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Lucky Losers
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A Wonderful Life
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Jiggs and Maggie Out West
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County Fair
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Blue Grass of Kentucky
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Again Pioneers
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Tough Assignment
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Tuna Clipper
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The Lawton Story
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Trail of the Yukon
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Jiggs and Maggie in Jackpot Jitters
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Forgotten Women
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Incident
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The Shanghai Chest
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The Feathered Serpent
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Jinx Money
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The Golden Eye
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Kidnapped
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Angels' Alley
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Jiggs and Maggie in Court
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Smuggler's Cove
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The Chinese Ring
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Bowery Buckaroos
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Philo Vance Returns
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Too Many Winners
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Hard Boiled Mahoney
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Gas House Kids Go West
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News Hounds
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Killer at Large
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Don't Gamble with Strangers
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Below the Deadline
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Spook Busters
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The Face of Marble
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The Shadow Returns
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Behind the Mask
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Girl on the Spot
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Mr. Hex
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One Exciting Week
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Fashion Model
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Adventures of Kitty O'Day
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Black Market Babies
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Mom and Dad
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Swingin' on a Rainbow
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Blonde Ransom
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Come Out Fighting
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Voodoo Man
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Detective Kitty O'Day
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Shadow of Suspicion
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Crazy Knights
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Leave It to the Irish
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What a Man!
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Hot Rhythm
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Follow the Leader
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Bowery Champs
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Oh, What a Night!
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The Ape Man
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Ghosts on the Loose
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The Mystery of the 13th Guest
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Here Comes Kelly
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Clancy Street Boys
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Spotlight Scandals
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Mr. Muggs Steps Out
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The Living Ghost
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The Panther's Claw
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Lucky Ghost
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Foreign Agent
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Phantom Killer
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Broadway Big Shot
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Mr. Washington Goes to Town
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One Thrilling Night
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Men of San Quentin
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Professor Creeps
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Duke of the Navy
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Gallant Lady
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Emergency Landing
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Federal Fugitives
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Mr. Celebrity
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The Miracle Kid
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Blonde Comet
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Desperate Cargo
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Up Jumped the Devil
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Misbehaving Husbands
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Four Shall Die
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Torchy Blane in Chinatown
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Torchy Gets Her Man
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Feather Your Nest
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Said O'Reilly to McNab
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Transatlantic Trouble
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Where There's a Will
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Windbag the Sailor
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Educated Evans
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Boys Will Be Boys
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Dandy Dick
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Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk
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Get Off My Foot
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So You Won't Talk
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The Big Idea
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The Old-Fashioned Way
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The Crime of the Century
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Dream Stuff
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See You Tonight
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Her Bodyguard
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Make Me a Star
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Three Wise Girls
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One Yard to Go
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The Great Junction Hotel
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The Lady Who Dared
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Men in Her Life
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Penrod and Sam
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The Mad Parade
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Father's Son
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Misbehaving Ladies
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Road to Paradise
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A Hollywood Theme Song
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Those Who Dance
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Wedding Rings
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Two Weeks Off
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The Girl from Woolworth's
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Fugitives
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Hard to Get
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Heart to Heart
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Give and Take
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Home, James
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The Cohens and the Kellys in Paris
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Do Your Duty
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Frisco Sally Levy
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The Life of Riley
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The Irresistible Lover
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Sparrows
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The Canadian
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That's My Baby
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The Social Highwayman
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Hold That Lion!
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Little Annie Rooney
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The Narrow Street
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A Broadway Butterfly
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How Baxter Butted In
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My Swedie
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Daring Youth
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Daughters of Pleasure
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Lovers' Lane
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Cornered
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Wandering Husbands
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A Self-Made Failure
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Penrod and Sam
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The Country Kid
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Boy of Mine
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Her Fatal Millions
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The Printer's Devil
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Catch My Smoke
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Strictly Modern
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Watch Your Step
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Step Forward
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Punch the Clock
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Heroes of the Street
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Fresh from the Farm
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A Home Spun Hero
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Why Wild Men Go Wild
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A Husband in Haste
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Easy Payments
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Won By a Fowl
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When Damon Fell for Pythias
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A Sanitarium Scandal
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What'll We Do with Uncle?
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Uneasy Money
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A Desert Dilemma
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His Fatal Beauty
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Why They Left Home
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Who Done It?
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The Inspector's Double
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A Shadowed Shadow
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For the Son of the House
Movie · Assistant Director
The Suffragette Minstrels
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