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