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William Keighley

William Keighley

Director · Born 1889-08-04 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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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

Directed

  1. The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) — Director
  2. The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941) — Director
  3. 'G' Men (1935) — Director
  4. Each Dawn I Die (1939) — Director
  5. Bullets or Ballots (1936) — Director
  6. The Street with No Name (1948) — Director
  7. Ladies They Talk About (1933) — Director
  8. The Prince and the Pauper (1937) — Director
  9. The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941) — Director
  10. The Master of Ballantrae (1953) — Director
  11. The Fighting 69th (1940) — Director
  12. George Washington Slept Here (1942) — Director
  13. Rocky Mountain (1950) — Director
  14. The Green Pastures (1936) — Director
  15. Special Agent (1935) — Director
  16. Journal of a Crime (1934) — Director
  17. Torrid Zone (1940) — Director
  18. No Time for Comedy (1940) — Director
  19. Easy to Love (1934) — Director
  20. Varsity Show (1937) — Director
  21. Dr. Monica (1934) — Director
  22. The Right to Live (1935) — Director
  23. The Match King (1932) — Director
  24. Kansas City Princess (1934) — Director
  25. Four Mothers (1941) — Director
  26. Babbitt (1934) — Director
  27. Secrets of an Actress (1938) — Director
  28. Valley of the Giants (1938) — Director
  29. Honeymoon (1947) — Director
  30. God's Country and the Woman (1937) — Director
  31. Stars Over Broadway (1935) — Director
  32. Big Hearted Herbert (1934) — Director
  33. Mary Jane's Pa (1935) — Director
  34. Yes, My Darling Daughter (1939) — Director
  35. Close to My Heart (1951) — Director
  36. Target for Today (1944) — Director
  37. Brother Rat (1938) — Director
  38. The Singing Kid (1936) — Director
  39. Rebecca (1950) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Ladies They Talk About (1933) — Man Getting a Shoeshine (uncredited)
  2. Resurrection (1931) — Captain Schoenbock