Edward Sedgwick
Born: 1891-11-07 in Galveston, Texas, USA
Died: 1953-05-07
Known For: Directing
Biography
Edward Sedgwick was an American director, actor, writer, and producer whose career spanned the silent era through early television. Born in Galveston, Texas, to stage-performer parents, he began in vaudeville and entered films as a comic actor in 1915, often playing energetic baseball characters. He moved into directing in 1921, initially making serials and Westerns—including films with Tom Mix and Hoot Gibson—before becoming best known as a comedy specialist.
Filmography
1953
- I Love Lucy: The Movie ... (Director)
1951
- Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm ... (Director)
1948
- A Southern Yankee ... (Director)
1943
- Air Raid Wardens ... (Director)
1940
- So You Won't Talk? ... (Director)
1939
- Beware Spooks! ... (Director)
- Burn 'Em Up O'Connor ... (Director)
1938
- The Gladiator ... (Director)
1937
- Fit for a King ... (Director)
- Pick a Star ... (Director)
- Riding on Air ... (Director)
1936
- Mister Cinderella ... (Director)
1935
- Murder in the Fleet ... (Director)
- The Virginia Judge ... (Director)
1934
- I'll Tell the World ... (Director)
- Death on the Diamond ... (Director)
- Here Comes the Groom ... (Director)
- The Poor Rich ... (Director)
- Father Brown, Detective ... (Director)
1933
- What! No Beer? ... (Director)
- Saturday's Millions ... (Director)
- Horse Play ... (Writer)
1932
- The Passionate Plumber ... (Director)
- Speak Easily ... (Director)
- Plumber in Love ... (Director)
1931
- Parlor, Bedroom and Bath ... (Director)
- A Dangerous Affair ... (Director)
- Maker of Men ... (Director)
- The Big Shot ... (Director)
1930
- Free and Easy ... (Director)
- Doughboys as Guggleheimer the Camp Cook (uncredited)
- Remote Control ... (Director)
- Estrellados ... (Director)
- Forward, March! ... (Director)
1929
- Spite Marriage ... (Director)
1928
- The Cameraman ... (Director)
- West Point ... (Director)
- Circus Rookies ... (Director)
1927
- The Bugle Call ... (Director)
- Spring Fever ... (Director)
- Slide, Kelly, Slide ... (Director)
1926
- Tin Hats ... (Director)
- The Flaming Frontier ... (Director)
- There You Are! ... (Director)
- The Runaway Express ... (Director)
- Under Western Skies ... (Story)
1925
- Two-Fisted Jones ... (Director)
- Lorraine of the Lions ... (Director)
- The Saddle Hawk ... (Director)
- Let 'er Buck ... (Story)
- The Hurricane Kid ... (Director)
1924
- Ride for Your Life ... (Director)
- The Ridin' Kid from Powder River ... (Director)
- The Sawdust Trail ... (Director)
- Hook and Ladder ... (Story)
- Broadway or Bust ... (Director)
- 40-Horse Hawkins as Stage Manager
- Hit and Run ... (Director)
1923
- Single Handed ... (Director)
- Blinky ... (Writer)
- The Gentleman from America ... (Director)
- Out of Luck ... (Story)
- The Thrill Chaser as Himself - Cameo
- The Ramblin' Kid ... (Director)
- Shootin' for Love ... (Director)
- Dead Game ... (Director)
- Romance Land ... (Director)
- The First Degree ... (Director)
1922
- The Bear Cat ... (Director)
- The Flaming Hour ... (Director)
- Chasing the Moon ... (Story)
- Do and Dare ... (Director)
1921
- Bar Nothing ... (Director)
- The Rough Diamond ... (Director)
1920
- Bride 13 ... (Scenario Writer)
- The Face at Your Window ... (Scenario Writer)
- Sink or Swim as Robert Gilette
1919
- Checkers as Pete
- The Winning Stroke ... (Writer)
1918
- Why I Would Not Marry as Undetermined Role (as Ed Sedgwick)
- Cheating the Public ... (Writer)
- Rough and Ready ... (Writer)
1917
- The Yankee Way as Robert Gillette
- The Varmint as Butsey White
- The Haunted Pajamas as Jack Billings
1916
- A Lucky Leap as Fatty
- Married a Year as The Husband
1914
- The Kid's Nap as Max Heimer (as Ed Sedgwick)