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)
- Father Brown, Detective ... (Director)
- The Poor Rich ... (Director)
- Here Comes the Groom ... (Director)
1933
- What! No Beer? ... (Director)
- Saturday's Millions ... (Director)
- Horse Play ... (Director)
1932
- The Passionate Plumber ... (Director)
- Speak Easily ... (Director)
- Plumber in love ... (Director)
1931
- Parlor, Bedroom and Bath ... (Director)
- A Dangerous Affair ... (Director)
- The Big Shot ... (Director)
- Maker of Men ... (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)
- Slide, Kelly, Slide ... (Director)
- Spring Fever ... (Director)
1926
- Tin Hats ... (Director)
- Under Western Skies ... (Director)
- The Flaming Frontier ... (Director)
- The Runaway Express ... (Director)
- There You Are! ... (Director)
1925
- Two-Fisted Jones ... (Director)
- The Saddle Hawk ... (Director)
- Let 'er Buck ... (Director)
- Lorraine of the Lions ... (Director)
- The Hurricane Kid ... (Director)
1924
- Ride for Your Life ... (Director)
- Hook and Ladder ... (Director)
- The Sawdust Trail ... (Director)
- Broadway or Bust ... (Director)
- Hit and Run ... (Director)
- The Ridin' Kid from Powder River ... (Director)
- 40-Horse Hawkins as Stage Manager
1923
- Blinky ... (Director)
- Single Handed ... (Director)
- The Thrill Chaser as Himself - Cameo
- Out of Luck ... (Director)
- The Ramblin' Kid ... (Director)
- The Gentleman from America ... (Director)
- Shootin' for Love ... (Director)
- Romance Land ... (Director)
- Dead Game ... (Director)
- The First Degree ... (Director)
1922
- The Flaming Hour ... (Director)
- The Bear Cat ... (Director)
- Do and Dare ... (Director)
- Chasing the Moon ... (Story)
1921
- Bar Nothing ... (Director)
- The Rough Diamond ... (Writer)
1920
- Bride 13 ... (Scenario Writer)
- Sink or Swim as Robert Gilette
- The Face at Your Window ... (Scenario Writer)
1919
- The Winning Stroke ... (Writer)
- Checkers as Pete
1918
- Rough and Ready ... (Writer)
- Cheating the Public ... (Writer)
- Why I Would Not Marry as Undetermined Role (as Ed Sedgwick)
1917
- The Varmint as Butsey White
- The Haunted Pajamas as Jack Billings
- The Yankee Way as Robert Gillette
1916
- A Lucky Leap as Fatty
- Married a Year as The Husband
1914
- The Kid's Nap as Max Heimer (as Ed Sedgwick)