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
- Private Snuffy Smith ... (Screenplay)
- Mail Trouble ... (Director)
1941
- An Ache in Every Stake ... (Writer)
1940
- Drafted in the Depot ... (Director)
- All Girl Revue ... (Director)
- The Dipsy Doodler ... (Director)
1939
- At Home ... (Director)
- Dave Apollon and His Club Casanova Orchestra ... (Director)
- The Broadway Buckaroo ... (Director)
- On the Air ... (Director)
1938
- Saturday Night Swing Club ... (Director)
- The Great Library Misery ... (Director)
- Hats and Dogs ... (Director)
- Freddie Rich and His Orchestra ... (Director)
- Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra ... (Director)
- Larry Clinton and His Orchestra with Carol Bruce ... (Director)
- Sin-copation ... (Director)
1937
- Taking the Count ... (Director)
- Double Talk ... (Director)
- A Neckin' Party ... (Director)
- Kick Me Again ... (Director)
- Mal Hallett and His Orchestra ... (Director)
1936
- Shop Talk ... (Director)
- While the Cat's Away ... (Director)
- For the Love of Pete ... (Director)
- The Choke's on You ... (Director)
- Punch and Beauty ... (Director)
- The Good Old Plumbertime ... (Director)
- The Blonde Bomber ... (Director)
- Calling All Tars ... (Director)
- Nut Guilty ... (Director)
- Rushin' Art ... (Director)
- Here's Howe ... (Director)
- Absorbing Junior ... (Director)
1935
- Two Boobs in a Balloon ... (Director)
- The Old Grey Mayor ... (Director)
- The Officer's Mess ... (Director)
- On the Wagon ... (Director)
- Serves You Right ... (Director)
- Watch the Birdie ... (Director)
- Why Pay Rent? ... (Director)
- Double Exposure ... (Director)
- His First Flame ... (Director)
- All American Drawback ... (Director)
1934
- Oliver the Eighth ... (Director)
- A Peach of a Pair ... (Director)
- So You Won't T-T-T-Talk ... (Director)
- Smoked Hams ... (Director)
- Dizzy & Daffy ... (Director)
1933
- Sons of the Desert ... (Assistant Director)
- The Midnight Patrol ... (Director)
- Me and My Pal ... (Director)
- Dirty Work ... (Director)
- Busy Bodies ... (Director)
1932
- Towed in a Hole ... (Assistant Director)
- Too Many Women ... (Director)
- You're Telling Me ... (Director)
- Scram! ... (Assistant Director)
- The Knockout ... (Director)
- Wild Babies! ... (Director)
1929
- That's My Wife ... (Director)
- Wrong Again ... (Assistant Director)
- Big Business ... (Assistant Director)
- Liberty ... (First Assistant Director)
1928
- Should Married Men Go Home? ... (Assistant Director)
- Early to Bed ... (Assistant Director)
1924
- Rupert of Hee-Haw ... (Assistant Director)