Harry L. Fraser
Born: 1889-03-31 in San Francisco, California, USA
Died: 1974-04-08
Known For: Directing
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Harry L. Fraser (31 March 1889 - 8 April 1974) was an American film director. He directed over 80 films between 1925 and 1951, including the 1934 John Wayne film Randy Rides Alone and the Frank Buck cliffhanger serial Jungle Menace (1937). He had a small acting role in the John Wayne film 'Neath the Arizona Skies. He also wrote screenplays, including Chick Carter, Detective (1946). In his autobiography, Fraser described filming the scene in Jungle Menace during which a boa constrictor attacks the heroine Dorothy (Charlotte Henry). The villain has tied Dorothy hand and foot and she thrashes about wildly, terrified when she suddenly sees the huge snake: "The snake was in no hurry. Slowly he slithered across the girl's body, while she screamed and struggled. He turned, looking for a spot to slip under her to make his first wrap. I motioned to the reptile crew to get ready, and a split-second later gave them the signal to move in. But now, the maddened snake fought them and did its best to coil around one of the men. Before that happened, however, I had cut, and we had a good cliff-hanger with our terror-stricken heroine to close the episode." Description above from the Wikipedia article Harry L. Fraser, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
1957
- The Cyclops ... (Assistant Director)
1952
- Chained for Life ... (Director)
1951
- Abilene Trail ... (Screenplay)
1950
- Short Grass ... (Assistant Director)
1949
- Stampede ... (Assistant Director)
- Stallion Canyon ... (Director)
1948
- Tex Granger: Midnight Rider of the Plains ... (Screenplay)
1946
- Six Gun Man ... (Writer)
- Chick Carter, Detective ... (Screenplay)
- Thunder Town ... (Director)
- Son of the Guardsman ... (Screenplay)
- Ambush Trail ... (Screenplay)
- Jungle Terror ... (Director)
- The People's Choice ... (Director)
1945
- Navajo Kid ... (Director)
- Frontier Fugitives ... (Director)
- The White Gorilla ... (Director)
- Enemy of the Law ... (Director)
- Flaming Bullets ... (Director)
- Three in the Saddle ... (Director)
1944
- Captain America ... (Screenplay)
- I Accuse My Parents ... (Screenplay)
- Brand of the Devil ... (Director)
- Dead or Alive ... (Writer)
- Gunsmoke Mesa ... (Director)
- Outlaw Roundup ... (Director)
- The Whispering Skull ... (Screenplay)
1943
- Batman ... (Writer)
- Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground ... (Story)
1942
- The Old Chisholm Trail ... (Story)
- The Valley of Vanishing Men ... (Screenplay)
1941
- The Spider Returns ... (Story)
- Jungle Man ... (Director)
1940
- The Range Busters ... (Story)
- Phantom Rancher ... (Director)
- Lightning Strikes West ... (Director)
1939
- Lure of the Wasteland ... (Story)
1938
- Songs and Saddles ... (Director)
- Spirit of Youth ... (Director)
- Six Shootin' Sheriff ... (Director)
1937
- Galloping Dynamite ... (Director)
- Jungle Menace ... (Director)
- Heroes of the Alamo ... (Director)
- Dark Manhattan ... (Director)
1936
- Aces Wild ... (Director)
- Wildcat Saunders ... (Director)
- Hair-Trigger Casey ... (Director)
- Ghost Town ... (Story)
- Cavalcade of the West ... (Director)
- Fury Below ... (Director)
- Romance Rides the Range ... (Director)
- The Riding Avenger ... (Director)
- Feud of the West ... (Director)
1935
- Social Error ... (Director)
- Fighting Pioneers ... (Director)
- Saddle Aces ... (Director)
- The Last of the Clintons ... (Director)
- Wild Mustang ... (Screenplay)
- Rustler's Paradise ... (Story)
- The Pecos Kid ... (Director)
- Wagon Trail ... (Story)
- The Reckless Buckaroo ... (Director)
1934
- Randy Rides Alone ... (Writer)
- 'Neath the Arizona Skies as Henchman in the Brush
- Gunfire ... (Screenplay)
- Fighting Thru ... (Screenplay)
- The Drifter ... (Director)
- The Tonto Kid ... (Director)
1933
- The Wolf Dog ... (Director)
- The Return of Casey Jones ... (Adaptation)
- The Gallant Fool ... (Dialogue)
- The Fighting Parson ... (Director)
- Galloping Romeo ... (Adaptation)
- Diamond Trail ... (Director)
- Breed of the Border ... (Story)
- The Fugitive ... (Director)
- Ranger's Code ... (Adaptation)
- Trailing North ... (Story)
- Rainbow Ranch ... (Director)
- Sucker Money ... (Assistant Director)
1932
- The Savage Girl ... (Director)
- Texas Pioneers ... (Story)
- Border Devils ... (Scenario Writer)
- The Man from Arizona ... (Director)
- Broadway to Cheyenne ... (Director)
- The Reckoning ... (Director)
- Mason of the Mounted ... (Director)
- Without Honor ... (Screenplay)
- Vanishing Men ... (Director)
- Law of the North ... (Director)
- Honor of the Mounted ... (Story)
- The Night Rider ... (Story)
- Ghost City ... (Director)
1931
- Land of Wanted Men ... (Story)
- The Montana Kid ... (Director)
- Oklahoma Jim ... (Director)
1930
- The Lone Defender ... (Screenplay)
- Wings of Adventure ... (Screenplay)
1929
- Cross Country Run ... (Director)
1927
- Soft Cushions as The Citizen (as Harry Jones)
- Perils of the Jungle ... (Story)
- Cactus Trails ... (Scenario Writer)
1926
- General Custer at the Little Big Horn ... (Director)
- The Silent Trailer ... (Story)
1925
- The Wildcat ... (Director)
1923
- Luck as Phillip Rushford - Lawyer
1921
1916
- The Iron Claw as The Laughing Mask