Howard Bretherton
Howard Bretherton (13 February 1890, Tacoma, Washington – 12 April 1969, San Diego, California) was an American film director, film editor, and the father of film editor David Bretherton.
He began his career as a propman and then became a film editor during the early 1920s for MGM. He directed his first film, While London Sleeps, in 1926, and thereafter spent more than the next three decades working mostly as a film director. Of the roughly 100 pictures he directed, most of them were westerns and action/adventure films. The final film he directed was Night Raiders in 1952. Afterwards, he occasionally worked as a director in television through 1958.
Partial filmography
As director
- While London Sleeps (1926)
- The Black Diamond Express (1927)
- The Bush Leaguer (1927)
- One Round Hogan (1927) (lost)
- Turn Back the Hours (1928)
- Across the Atlantic (1928)
- The Greyhound Limited (1929)
- The Redeeming Sin (1929)
- The Time, the Place and the Girl (1929)
- The Argyle Case (1929)
- Second Choice (1930)
- Isle of Escape (1930)
- The Match King (1932) (co-directed with William Keighley)
- Ladies They Talk About (1933) (co-directed with Keighley)
- The Singer of Naples (1935) (co-directed with Moreno Cuyar)
- Dinky (1935) (co-directed with D. Ross Lederman)
- Secret Valley (1937)
- County Fair (1937)
- Star Reporter (1939)
- Undercover Agent (1939)
- Boys' Reformatory (1939)
- Irish Luck (1939)
- Sky Patrol (1939)
- Danger Flight (1939)
- Chasing Trouble (1940)
- Up in the Air (1940)
- Pirates of the Prairie (1942)
- Dawn on the Great Divide (1942)
- Santa Fe Scouts (1943)
- Riders of the Rio Grande (1943)
- Beyond the Last Frontier (1943)
- Whispering Footsteps (1943)
- The San Antonio Kid (1944)
- The Big Show-Off (1945)
- Gun Smoke (1945)
- The Monster and the Ape (1945)
- Who's Guilty? (1945 serial)
- The Trap (1946)
- Trail of the Mounties (1947)
- The Prince of Thieves (1948)
- Night Raiders (1952)
As editor
- Beau Brummel (1924)
- A Self-Made Failure (1924)
- A Successful Calamity (1932)
- Heroes for Sale (1933)
- Baby Face (1933)
- The House on 56th Street (1933)
- Heat Lightning (1934)
- Smarty (1934) (uncredited)
As associate producer
- Identity Unknown (1945)
External links
- Works by or about Howard Bretherton at Internet Archive
- Howard Bretherton at the Internet Movie Database
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