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)
- The Dipsy Doodler ... (Director)
- Drafted in the Depot ... (Director)
1939
- At Home ... (Director)
- The Broadway Buckaroo ... (Director)
- On the Air ... (Director)
- Dave Apollon and His Club Casanova Orchestra ... (Director)
1938
- Hats and Dogs ... (Director)
- Saturday Night Swing Club ... (Director)
- The Great Library Misery ... (Director)
- Larry Clinton and His Orchestra with Carol Bruce ... (Director)
- Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra ... (Director)
- Sin-copation ... (Director)
- Freddie Rich and His Orchestra ... (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)
- While the Cat's Away ... (Director)
- Calling All Tars ... (Director)
- The Blonde Bomber ... (Director)
- The Choke's on You ... (Director)
- Rushin' Art ... (Director)
- Absorbing Junior ... (Director)
- The Good Old Plumbertime ... (Director)
- Nut Guilty ... (Director)
- For the Love of Pete ... (Director)
- Here's Howe ... (Director)
- Punch and Beauty ... (Director)
1935
- Two Boobs in a Balloon ... (Director)
- The Old Grey Mayor ... (Director)
- All American Drawback ... (Director)
- Double Exposure ... (Director)
- Watch the Birdie ... (Director)
- Why Pay Rent? ... (Director)
- On the Wagon ... (Director)
- The Officer's Mess ... (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)
- Busy Bodies ... (Director)
- Dirty Work ... (Director)
- Me and My Pal ... (Director)
1932
- Towed in a Hole ... (Assistant Director)
- Scram! ... (Assistant Director)
- The Knockout ... (Director)
- You're Telling Me ... (Director)
- Too Many Women ... (Director)
- Wild Babies! ... (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)