Harry Beaumont
Born: 1888-02-10 in Abilene, Kansas, USA
Died: 1966-12-22
Known For: Directing
Biography
From Wikipedia Harry Beaumont (February 10, 1888 – December 22, 1966) was an American film director, actor, and screenwriter. He worked for a variety of production companies including Fox, Goldwyn, Metro, Warner Brothers, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Beaumont's greatest successes were during the silent film era, when he directed films including John Barrymore's Beau Brummel (1924) and the silent youth movie Our Dancing Daughters (1928), featuring Joan Crawford. He then directed MGM's first talkie musical, The Broadway Melody (1929). The latter film won the Best Picture Academy Award that year, and Beaumont was nominated for Best Director. Beaumont was married to actress Hazel Daly. The couple had twin daughters Anne and Geraldine, born in 1922. On December 22, 1966, Beaumont died at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica, California.[4] He was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale.
Filmography
1948
- Alias a Gentleman ... (Director)
1947
- Undercover Maisie ... (Director)
1946
- The Show-Off ... (Director)
- Up Goes Maisie ... (Director)
1945
- Twice Blessed ... (Director)
1944
- Maisie Goes to Reno ... (Director)
1937
- When's Your Birthday? ... (Director)
1936
- The Girl on the Front Page ... (Director)
1935
- Enchanted April ... (Director)
1934
- Murder in the Private Car ... (Director)
1933
- When Ladies Meet ... (Director)
- Made on Broadway ... (Director)
- Should Ladies Behave ... (Director)
1932
- Are You Listening? ... (Director)
- Faithless ... (Director)
- Unashamed ... (Director)
1931
- Dance, Fools, Dance ... (Director)
- West of Broadway ... (Director)
- Laughing Sinners ... (Director)
- The Great Lover ... (Director)
1930
- Lord Byron of Broadway ... (Director)
- Our Blushing Brides ... (Director)
- The Florodora Girl ... (Director)
- Children of Pleasure ... (Director)
- Those Three French Girls ... (Director)
1929
- The Broadway Melody ... (Director)
- Speedway ... (Director)
- A Single Man ... (Director)
1928
- Forbidden Hours ... (Director)
- Our Dancing Daughters ... (Director)
1927
- One Increasing Purpose ... (Director)
1926
- Womanpower ... (Director)
- Sandy ... (Director)
1925
- Rose of the World ... (Director)
- Recompense ... (Director)
- His Majesty, Bunker Bean ... (Director)
1924
- Babbitt ... (Director)
- Beau Brummel ... (Director)
- Don't Doubt Your Husband ... (Director)
- A Lost Lady ... (Director)
- The Lover of Camille ... (Director)
1923
- Main Street ... (Director)
- The Gold Diggers ... (Director)
- Crinoline and Romance ... (Director)
1922
- The Ragged Heiress ... (Director)
- June Madness ... (Writer)
- Glass Houses ... (Director)
- Very Truly Yours ... (Director)
- Lights of the Desert ... (Director)
- The Fourteenth Lover ... (Director)
- They Like 'Em Rough ... (Director)
- Seeing's Believing ... (Director)
- Love in the Dark ... (Director)
1920
- Going Some ... (Director)
- Stop Thief ... (Director)
- The Great Accident ... (Director)
- Dollars and Sense ... (Director)
- Officer 666 ... (Director)
1919
- Toby's Bow ... (Director)
- The City of Comrades ... (Director)
- A Man And His Money ... (Director)
- The Little Rowdy ... (Director)
- Lord and Lady Algy ... (Director)
- One of the Finest ... (Director)
- The Gay Lord Quex ... (Director)
- A Wild Goose Chase ... (Director)
1918
- Go West, Young Man ... (Director)
- Brown of Harvard ... (Director)
- Thirty a Week ... (Director)
1917
- Skinner's Baby ... (Director)
- Skinner's Dress Suit ... (Director)
- Filling His Own Shoes ... (Director)
1916
- The Little Samaritan ... (Director)
- Joyce's Strategy ... (Director)
1915
- The Call of the City ... (Director)
1913
- Who Will Marry Mary?
- Over the Back Fence as Charles - the Colonel's Nephew
- Alexia's Strategy as Walter Young
- The Haunted Bedroom
1912
- The Butler and the Maid as Frank the Butler
- The Totville Eye as Tom
- An Old Fashioned Elopement
- A Daughter of Australia
1911
- One Hundred Years Ago as Burglar
- Ben Hall, the Notorious Bushranger as Gilbert
- A Ticket in Tatts