Howard Bretherton
American film director (1890–1969)
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Born | February 13, 1890 Tacoma, Washington, United States |
Died | April 12, 1969 San Diego, California, United States |
Occupation | Film editor |
Children | David Bretherton |
Howard Bretherton (13 February 1890, in Tacoma, Washington – 12 April 1969, in San Diego, California) was an American film director, film editor.
Career
He began his career as a propman and then became a film editor during the early 1920s for MGM. He directed his first film, While London Sleeps, in 1926, and thereafter spent more than three decades working mostly as a film director. Of the roughly 100 pictures he directed, most of them were westerns and action/adventure films. The final film he directed was Night Raiders in 1952.[1] Afterwards, he occasionally worked as a director in television through 1958.
Partial filmography
As director
- While London Sleeps (1926)
- The Black Diamond Express (1927)
- The Bush Leaguer (1927)
- One Round Hogan (1927) (lost)
- Turn Back the Hours (1928)
- Across the Atlantic (1928)
- The Greyhound Limited (1929)
- From Headquarters (1929)
- The Redeeming Sin (1929)
- The Time, the Place and the Girl (1929)
- The Argyle Case (1929)
- Second Choice (1930)
- Isle of Escape (1930)
- The Match King (1932) (co-directed with William Keighley)
- Ladies They Talk About (1933) (co-directed with Keighley)
- The Singer of Naples (1935) (co-directed with Moreno Cuyar)
- Dinky (1935) (co-directed with D. Ross Lederman)
- Hop-Along Cassidy (1935)
- Secret Valley (1937)
- It Happened Out West (1937)
- County Fair (1937)
- Star Reporter (1939)
- Undercover Agent (1939)
- Boys' Reformatory (1939)
- Irish Luck (1939)
- Sky Patrol (1939)
- Danger Flight (1939)
- Navy Secrets (1939)
- Hidden Enemy (1940)
- Chasing Trouble (1940)
- Laughing at Danger (1940)
- Up in the Air (1940)
- Pirates of the Prairie (1942)
- Rhythm Parade (1942)
- Dawn on the Great Divide (1942)
- Santa Fe Scouts (1943)
- Riders of the Rio Grande (1943)
- Beyond the Last Frontier (1943)
- Whispering Footsteps (1943)
- The San Antonio Kid (1944)
- Law of the Valley (1944)
- The Big Show-Off (1945)
- Gun Smoke (1945)
- The Monster and the Ape (1945)
- Renegades of the Rio Grande (1945)
- Who's Guilty? (1945 serial)
- The Trap (1946)
- Trail of the Mounties (1947)
- The Prince of Thieves (1948)
- Triggerman (1948)
- Night Raiders (1952)
As editor
- One Week of Love (1922)
- Children of Dust (1923)
- Beau Brummel (1924)
- A Self-Made Failure (1924)
- A Successful Calamity (1932)
- Heroes for Sale (1933)
- Baby Face (1933)
- The House on 56th Street (1933)
- Heat Lightning (1934)
- Smarty (1934) (uncredited)
As associate producer
- Identity Unknown (1945)
References
- ^ "Howard Bretherton". www.tcm.com. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
Further reading
- Price, Michael H. (2003). Forgotten Horrors 3: Dr. Turner's House of Horrors. Midnight Marquee & BearManor Media. p. 181. ISBN 9781887664370. OCLC 53481193.
Howard Bretherton was a silent-era veteran who became the favorite editor of directors including William Wellman, ...
They collaborated on Heroes for Sale (1933).
External links
- Works by or about Howard Bretherton at the Internet Archive
- Howard Bretherton at IMDb
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Films directed by Howard Bretherton
- Across the Atlantic
- The Argyle Case
- Bar 20 Rides Again
- Below the Border
- The Black Diamond Express
- Bordertown Gun Fighters
- Boys' Reformatory
- The Bush Leaguer
- Call of the Prairie
- Carson City Cyclone
- Caught in the Fog
- Chasing Trouble
- The Chorus Kid
- County Fair
- Danger Flight
- Dawn on the Great Divide
- Dinky
- Down Texas Way
- The Eagle's Brood
- Fugitive from Sonora
- Ghost Town Law
- The Girl from Mandalay
- The Girl Who Dared
- The Greyhound Limited
- Heart of the West
- Hidden Enemy
- Hidden Valley Outlaws
- Hills of Kentucky
- In Old Colorado
- Isle of Escape
- It Happened Out West
- King of the Royal Mounted
- Laughing at Danger
- Law of the Valley
- The Leathernecks Have Landed
- The Man from the Rio Grande
- The Match King
- Midnight Limited
- The Navajo Trail
- Night Raiders
- On the Spot
- One-Round Hogan
- Outlaws of Santa Fe
- Outlaws of the Desert
- Pirates of the Prairie
- The Prince of Thieves
- The Redeeming Sin
- Renegades of the Rio Grande
- Return of the Terror
- Rhythm Parade
- Riders of the Badlands
- Riders of the Rio Grande
- Riders of the West
- Ridin' Down the Trail
- The San Antonio Kid
- Santa Fe Scouts
- Second Choice
- The Showdown
- Sign of the Wolf
- The Silver Slave
- The Singer of Naples
- Sky Patrol
- Three on the Trail
- The Time, the Place and the Girl
- The Topeka Terror
- Tough Kid
- Trail of the Mounties
- The Trap
- Triggerman
- Turn Back the Hours
- Twilight on the Trail
- Up in the Air
- Wagon Tracks West
- Wanted by the Police
- West of the Law
- Western Gold
- While London Sleeps
- Who's Guilty?
- Wild Brian Kent
- You're Out of Luck