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
- Faithless ... (Director)
- Are You Listening? ... (Director)
- Unashamed ... (Director)
1931
- Dance, Fools, Dance ... (Director)
- The Great Lover ... (Director)
- West of Broadway ... (Director)
- Laughing Sinners ... (Director)
1930
- Lord Byron of Broadway ... (Director)
- Our Blushing Brides ... (Director)
- Children of Pleasure ... (Director)
- Those Three French Girls ... (Director)
- The Florodora Girl ... (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
- Sandy ... (Director)
- Womanpower ... (Director)
1925
- Recompense ... (Director)
- Rose of the World ... (Director)
- His Majesty, Bunker Bean ... (Director)
1924
- Babbitt ... (Director)
- A Lost Lady ... (Director)
- The Lover of Camille ... (Director)
- Don't Doubt Your Husband ... (Director)
- Beau Brummel ... (Director)
1923
- Crinoline and Romance ... (Director)
- The Gold Diggers ... (Director)
- Main Street ... (Director)
1922
- June Madness ... (Writer)
- They Like 'Em Rough ... (Director)
- Lights of the Desert ... (Director)
- Glass Houses ... (Director)
- The Fourteenth Lover ... (Director)
- The Ragged Heiress ... (Director)
- Love in the Dark ... (Director)
- Very Truly Yours ... (Director)
- Seeing's Believing ... (Director)
1920
- Stop Thief ... (Director)
- Going Some ... (Director)
- Dollars and Sense ... (Director)
- Officer 666 ... (Director)
- The Great Accident ... (Director)
1919
- A Wild Goose Chase ... (Director)
- Lord and Lady Algy ... (Director)
- One of the Finest ... (Director)
- Toby's Bow ... (Director)
- The City of Comrades ... (Director)
- The Gay Lord Quex ... (Director)
- A Man And His Money ... (Director)
- The Little Rowdy ... (Director)
1918
- Go West, Young Man ... (Director)
- Thirty a Week ... (Director)
- Brown of Harvard ... (Director)
1917
- Skinner's Dress Suit ... (Director)
- Skinner's Baby ... (Director)
- Filling His Own Shoes ... (Director)
1916
- Joyce's Strategy ... (Director)
- The Truant Soul ... (Director)
- The Little Samaritan ... (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
- An Old Fashioned Elopement
- The Totville Eye as Tom
- A Daughter of Australia
1911
- One Hundred Years Ago as Burglar
- A Ticket in Tatts
- Ben Hall, the Notorious Bushranger as Gilbert