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)
- The Great Lover ... (Director)
- Laughing Sinners ... (Director)
- West of Broadway ... (Director)
1930
- Lord Byron of Broadway ... (Director)
- The Florodora Girl ... (Director)
- Our Blushing Brides ... (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
- Sandy ... (Director)
- Womanpower ... (Director)
1925
- Recompense ... (Director)
- Rose of the World ... (Director)
- His Majesty, Bunker Bean ... (Director)
1924
- A Lost Lady ... (Director)
- Babbitt ... (Director)
- Don't Doubt Your Husband ... (Director)
- Beau Brummel ... (Director)
- The Lover of Camille ... (Director)
1923
- Crinoline and Romance ... (Director)
- Main Street ... (Editor)
- The Gold Diggers ... (Director)
1922
- June Madness ... (Director)
- Glass Houses ... (Director)
- The Fourteenth Lover ... (Director)
- Very Truly Yours ... (Director)
- They Like 'Em Rough ... (Director)
- Lights of the Desert ... (Director)
- The Ragged Heiress ... (Director)
- Love in the Dark ... (Director)
- Seeing's Believing ... (Director)
1920
- Going Some ... (Director)
- Dollars and Sense ... (Director)
- The Great Accident ... (Director)
- Stop Thief ... (Director)
- Officer 666 ... (Director)
1919
- One of the Finest ... (Director)
- A Wild Goose Chase ... (Director)
- The City of Comrades ... (Director)
- Toby's Bow ... (Director)
- The Little Rowdy ... (Director)
- A Man And His Money ... (Director)
- The Gay Lord Quex ... (Director)
- Lord and Lady Algy ... (Director)
1918
- Go West, Young Man ... (Director)
- Thirty a Week ... (Director)
- Brown of Harvard ... (Scenario Writer)
1917
- Skinner's Dress Suit ... (Director)
- Skinner's Baby ... (Director)
- Filling His Own Shoes ... (Director)
1916
- Joyce's Strategy ... (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
- The Haunted Bedroom
- Alexia's Strategy as Walter Young
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