Lloyd French
Born: 1900-01-11 in San Francisco, California, USA
Died: 1950-05-24
Known For: Directing
Biography
Lloyd French (January 11, 1900 – May 24, 1950) was an American director of short films, most of them comedies. His best remembered films are several Laurel and Hardy comedies in the 1930s. He also made several musical short films featuring many bandleaders of the day; in the 1940s he also directed several shorts starring Edgar Kennedy and Leon Errol; he made his last film in 1946. French was born in San Francisco, California and died in Beverly Hills, California of heart disease.
Filmography
1943
- Hold Your Temper ... (Director)
1942
- Mail Trouble ... (Director)
- Private Snuffy Smith ... (Screenplay)
1941
- An Ache in Every Stake ... (Writer)
1940
- The Dipsy Doodler ... (Director)
- All Girl Revue ... (Director)
- Drafted in the Depot ... (Director)
1939
- At Home ... (Director)
- On the Air ... (Director)
- Dave Apollon and His Club Casanova Orchestra ... (Director)
- The Broadway Buckaroo ... (Director)
1938
- Freddie Rich and His Orchestra ... (Director)
- Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra ... (Director)
- Hats and Dogs ... (Director)
- Saturday Night Swing Club ... (Director)
- The Great Library Misery ... (Director)
- Sin-copation ... (Director)
- Larry Clinton and His Orchestra with Carol Bruce ... (Director)
1937
- Mal Hallett and His Orchestra ... (Director)
- A Neckin' Party ... (Director)
- Taking the Count ... (Director)
- Kick Me Again ... (Director)
- Double Talk ... (Director)
1936
- Nut Guilty ... (Director)
- Absorbing Junior ... (Director)
- Rushin' Art ... (Director)
- Shop Talk ... (Director)
- For the Love of Pete ... (Director)
- Punch and Beauty ... (Director)
- While the Cat's Away ... (Director)
- Here's Howe ... (Director)
- The Choke's on You ... (Director)
- Calling All Tars ... (Director)
- The Good Old Plumbertime ... (Director)
- The Blonde Bomber ... (Director)
1935
- The Old Grey Mayor ... (Director)
- His First Flame ... (Director)
- Serves You Right ... (Director)
- All American Drawback ... (Director)
- On the Wagon ... (Director)
- Watch the Birdie ... (Director)
- Double Exposure ... (Director)
- Why Pay Rent? ... (Director)
- Two Boobs in a Balloon ... (Director)
- The Officer's Mess ... (Director)
1934
- Dizzy & Daffy ... (Director)
- A Peach of a Pair ... (Director)
- Oliver the Eighth ... (Director)
- Smoked Hams ... (Director)
- So You Won't T-T-T-Talk ... (Director)
1933
- Dirty Work ... (Director)
- Busy Bodies ... (Director)
- Sons of the Desert ... (Assistant Director)
- The Midnight Patrol ... (Director)
- Me and My Pal ... (Director)
1932
- Scram! ... (Assistant Director)
- Wild Babies! ... (Director)
- The Knockout ... (Director)
- Too Many Women ... (Director)
- Towed in a Hole ... (Assistant Director)
- You're Telling Me ... (Director)
1929
- Big Business ... (Assistant Director)
- Liberty ... (First Assistant Director)
- Wrong Again ... (Assistant Director)
- That's My Wife ... (Director)
1928
- Should Married Men Go Home? ... (Assistant Director)
- Early to Bed ... (Assistant Director)
1924
- Rupert of Hee-Haw ... (Assistant Director)