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)
- Rebecca ... (Director)
1948
- The Street with No Name ... (Director)
1947
- Honeymoon ... (Director)
1944
- Target for Today ... (Director)
1942
- George Washington Slept Here ... (Director)
1941
- The Man Who Came to Dinner ... (Director)
- The Bride Came C.O.D. ... (Director)
- Four Mothers ... (Director)
1940
- The Fighting 69th ... (Director)
- Torrid Zone ... (Director)
- No Time for Comedy ... (Director)
1939
- Each Dawn I Die ... (Director)
- Yes, My Darling Daughter ... (Director)
1938
- The Adventures of Robin Hood ... (Director)
- Valley of the Giants ... (Director)
- Brother Rat ... (Director)
- Secrets of an Actress ... (Director)
1937
- The Prince and the Pauper ... (Director)
- God's Country and the Woman ... (Director)
- Varsity Show ... (Director)
1936
- Bullets or Ballots ... (Director)
- The Green Pastures ... (Director)
- The Singing Kid ... (Director)
1935
- 'G' Men ... (Director)
- Special Agent ... (Director)
- Mary Jane's Pa ... (Director)
- The Right to Live ... (Director)
- Stars Over Broadway ... (Director)
1934
- Dr. Monica ... (Director)
- Babbitt ... (Director)
- Kansas City Princess ... (Director)
- Big Hearted Herbert ... (Director)
- Journal of a Crime ... (Director)
- Easy to Love ... (Director)
1933
- Mary Stevens, M.D. ... (Dialogue)
- Picture Snatcher ... (Writer)
- Ladies They Talk About as Man Getting a Shoeshine (uncredited)
1932
- Scarlet Dawn ... (Assistant Director)
- The Cabin in the Cotton ... (Assistant Director)
- Jewel Robbery ... (Assistant Director)
- The Match King ... (Director)
1931
- Resurrection as Captain Schoenbock
1926
- The Third Degree ... (Dialogue Coach)