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