William Keighley
Born: 1889-08-04 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 1984-06-24
Known For: Directing
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. William Jackson Keighley (August 4, 1889, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - June 24, 1984, New York, New York) was an American stage actor and Hollywood film director. After graduating from the Ludlum School of Dramatic Art, Keighley began acting at the age of 23. By the 1910s and 1920s, he was acting and directing on Broadway. With the advent of talking pictures, he relocated to Hollywood. He eventually signed with Warner Bros., where he proved adept at directing in a wide variety of genres. He was the initial director of The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Errol Flynn, but was replaced by Michael Curtiz. During World War II, he supervised the U.S. Army Signal Corp's motion picture unit. He retired in 1953 and moved to Paris with his actress wife Genevieve Tobin. Description above from the Wikipedia article William Keighley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Filmography
1953
- The Master of Ballantrae ... (Director)
1951
- Close to My Heart ... (Director)
1950
- Rocky Mountain ... (Director)
1948
- The Street with No Name ... (Director)
1947
- Honeymoon ... (Director)
1944
- Target for Today ... (Director)
1942
- George Washington Slept Here ... (Director)
1941
- Four Mothers ... (Director)
- The Man Who Came to Dinner ... (Director)
- The Bride Came C.O.D. ... (Director)
1940
- No Time for Comedy ... (Director)
- The Fighting 69th ... (Director)
- Torrid Zone ... (Director)
1939
- Each Dawn I Die ... (Director)
- Yes, My Darling Daughter ... (Director)
1938
- The Adventures of Robin Hood ... (Director)
- Brother Rat ... (Director)
- Valley of the Giants ... (Director)
- Secrets of an Actress ... (Director)
1937
- Varsity Show ... (Director)
- The Prince and the Pauper ... (Director)
- God's Country and the Woman ... (Director)
1936
- The Green Pastures ... (Director)
- The Singing Kid ... (Director)
- Bullets or Ballots ... (Director)
1935
- 'G' Men ... (Director)
- Special Agent ... (Director)
- The Right to Live ... (Director)
- Mary Jane's Pa ... (Director)
- Stars Over Broadway ... (Director)
1934
- Dr. Monica ... (Director)
- Journal of a Crime ... (Director)
- Big Hearted Herbert ... (Director)
- Kansas City Princess ... (Director)
- Babbitt ... (Director)
- Easy to Love ... (Director)
1933
- Picture Snatcher ... (Writer)
- Mary Stevens, M.D. ... (Dialogue)
- Ladies They Talk About as Man Getting a Shoeshine (uncredited)
1932
- Jewel Robbery ... (Assistant Director)
- The Cabin in the Cotton ... (Assistant Director)
- The Match King ... (Director)
- Scarlet Dawn ... (Assistant Director)
1931
- Resurrection as Captain Schoenbock
1926
- The Third Degree ... (Dialogue Coach)