George Fitzmaurice

Born: 1885-02-13 in Paris - France

Died: 1940-06-13

Known For: Directing

Biography

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.

Filmography

1936

Suzy ... (Director)
Petticoat Fever ... (Director)

1934

All Men Are Enemies ... (Director)

1932

As You Desire Me ... (Director)

1931

Mata Hari ... (Director)
The Unholy Garden ... (Director)
Strangers May Kiss ... (Director)

1930

The Devil to Pay! ... (Director)
Raffles ... (Director)
The Bad One ... (Director)
One Heavenly Night ... (Director)

1929

Tiger Rose ... (Director)
The Locked Door ... (Director)
The Man and the Moment ... (Director)
His Captive Woman ... (Director)

1928

Lilac Time ... (Director)
The Barker ... (Director)

1927

Rose of the Golden West ... (Director)
The Love Mart ... (Director)
The Night of Love ... (Director)
The Tender Hour ... (Director)

1926

The Son of the Sheik ... (Director)

1925

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
A Thief in Paradise ... (Executive Producer)
His Supreme Moment ... (Director)
The Dark Angel ... (Director)

1924

Cytherea ... (Director)
Tarnish ... (Director)

1923

Bella Donna ... (Director)
The Eternal City ... (Director)
The Cheat ... (Producer)

1922

To Have and to Hold ... (Director)
The Man From Home ... (Director)
Three Live Ghosts ... (Director)
Kick In ... (Director)

1921

Paying the Piper ... (Producer)
Experience ... (Director)
Forever ... (Director)

1920

The Right to Love ... (Director)
On with the Dance ... (Director)
Idols of Clay ... (Director)

1919

Our Better Selves ... (Director)
The Witness for the Defense ... (Director)
The Cry of the Weak ... (Director)
The Avalanche ... (Director)
A Society Exile ... (Director)
Counterfeit ... (Director)
The Profiteers ... (Director)
Common Clay ... (Director)

1918

A Japanese Nightingale ... (Director)
The Naulahka ... (Director)
The Narrow Path ... (Director)
Innocent ... (Director)
The Hillcrest Mystery ... (Director)

1917

Sylvia of the Secret Service ... (Director)
The On-the-Square Girl ... (Director)
Blind Man's Luck ... (Director)
The Mark of Cain ... (Director)
The Hunting of the Hawk ... (Director)
Vengeance Is Mine ... (Supervisor of Production Resources)
Kick In ... (Director)
The Recoil ... (Director)

1916

Arms and the Woman ... (Director)
Big Jim Garrity ... (Director)
The Romantic Journey ... (Director)
The Test ... (Director)

1915

The Commuters ... (Director)
Via Wireless ... (Director)
Who's Who in Society ... (Director)
Stop Thief! ... (Director)
At Bay ... (Director)

1914

The Bomb Boy ... (Director)
When Rome Ruled ... (Director)