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
- Up Goes Maisie ... (Director)
- The Show-Off ... (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)
- Unashamed ... (Director)
- Are You Listening? ... (Director)
1931
- Laughing Sinners ... (Director)
- West of Broadway ... (Director)
- The Great Lover ... (Director)
- Dance, Fools, Dance ... (Director)
1930
- Lord Byron of Broadway ... (Director)
- Children of Pleasure ... (Director)
- Those Three French Girls ... (Director)
- Our Blushing Brides ... (Director)
- The Florodora Girl ... (Director)
1929
- Speedway ... (Director)
- The Broadway Melody ... (Director)
- A Single Man ... (Director)
1928
- Forbidden Hours ... (Director)
- Our Dancing Daughters ... (Director)
1927
- One Increasing Purpose ... (Director)
1926
- Womanpower ... (Director)
- Sandy ... (Director)
1925
- Recompense ... (Director)
- His Majesty, Bunker Bean ... (Director)
- Rose of the World ... (Director)
1924
- Babbitt ... (Director)
- The Lover of Camille ... (Director)
- A Lost Lady ... (Director)
- Beau Brummel ... (Director)
- Don't Doubt Your Husband ... (Director)
1923
- Main Street ... (Director)
- Crinoline and Romance ... (Director)
- The Gold Diggers ... (Director)
1922
- Glass Houses ... (Director)
- They Like 'Em Rough ... (Director)
- Seeing's Believing ... (Director)
- The Fourteenth Lover ... (Director)
- Love in the Dark ... (Director)
- June Madness ... (Writer)
- Lights of the Desert ... (Director)
1920
- Officer 666 ... (Director)
- Dollars and Sense ... (Director)
- Stop Thief ... (Director)
1919
- Lord and Lady Algy ... (Director)
- A Man And His Money ... (Director)
- Toby's Bow ... (Director)
- One of the Finest ... (Director)
- A Wild Goose Chase ... (Director)
- The Gay Lord Quex ... (Director)
- The Little Rowdy ... (Director)
- The City of Comrades ... (Director)
1918
- Brown of Harvard ... (Director)
- Thirty a Week ... (Director)
- Go West, Young Man ... (Director)
1917
- Skinner's Baby ... (Director)
1916
- Joyce's Strategy ... (Director)
- The Little Samaritan ... (Director)
1915
- The Call of the City ... (Director)
1913
- Alexia's Strategy as Walter Young
- Who Will Marry Mary?
- Over the Back Fence as Charles - the Colonel's Nephew
- The Haunted Bedroom
1912
- A Daughter of Australia
- The Totville Eye as Tom
- An Old Fashioned Elopement
- The Butler and the Maid as Frank the Butler
1911
- Ben Hall, the Notorious Bushranger as Gilbert
- A Ticket in Tatts
- One Hundred Years Ago as Burglar