Directing · b. 1888 · Abilene, Kansas, USA

Harry Beaumont

Biography

From Wikipedia Harry Beaumont (February 10, 1888 – December 22, 1966) was an American film director, actor, and screenwriter. He worked for a variety of production companies including Fox, Goldwyn, Metro, Warner Brothers, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Beaumont's greatest successes were during the silent film era, when he directed films including John Barrymore's Beau Brummel (1924) and the silent youth movie Our Dancing Daughters (1928), featuring Joan Crawford. He then directed MGM's first talkie musical, The Broadway Melody (1929). The latter film won the Best Picture Academy Award that year, ...

Directed
Alias a Gentleman 1948 Undercover Maisie 1947 Up Goes Maisie 1946 The Show-Off 1946 Twice Blessed 1945 Maisie Goes to Reno 1944 When's Your Birthday? 1937 The Girl on the Front Page 1936 Enchanted April 1935 Murder in the Private Car 1934 Should Ladies Behave 1933 Made on Broadway 1933 When Ladies Meet 1933 Are You Listening? 1932 Faithless 1932 Unashamed 1932 Laughing Sinners 1931 Dance, Fools, Dance 1931 The Great Lover 1931 West of Broadway 1931 Lord Byron of Broadway 1930 Our Blushing Brides 1930 The Florodora Girl 1930 Children of Pleasure 1930 Those Three French Girls 1930 The Broadway Melody 1929 Speedway 1929 A Single Man 1929 Our Dancing Daughters 1928 Forbidden Hours 1928 One Increasing Purpose 1927 Sandy 1926 Womanpower 1926 Recompense 1925 His Majesty, Bunker Bean 1925 Rose of the World 1925 Beau Brummel 1924 The Lover of Camille 1924 Babbitt 1924 A Lost Lady 1924 Don't Doubt Your Husband 1924 Main Street 1923 The Gold Diggers 1923 Crinoline and Romance 1923 Glass Houses 1922 June Madness 1922 Seeing's Believing 1922 The Fourteenth Lover 1922 Love in the Dark 1922 They Like 'Em Rough 1922 Lights of the Desert 1922 The Ragged Heiress 1922 Very Truly Yours 1922 Dollars and Sense 1920 Stop Thief 1920 Officer 666 1920 The Great Accident 1920 Going Some 1920 A Wild Goose Chase 1919 One of the Finest 1919 The Gay Lord Quex 1919 Lord and Lady Algy 1919 A Man And His Money 1919 Toby's Bow 1919 The Little Rowdy 1919 The City of Comrades 1919 Brown of Harvard 1918 Thirty a Week 1918 Go West, Young Man 1918 Skinner's Baby 1917 Skinner's Dress Suit 1917 Filling His Own Shoes 1917 The Little Samaritan 1916 Joyce's Strategy 1916 The Call of the City 1915
Acting
An Absent-Minded Mother 1914 Who Will Marry Mary? 1913 Over the Back Fence Charles - the Colonel's Nephew 1913 The Haunted Bedroom 1913 Alexia's Strategy Walter Young 1913 The Totville Eye Tom 1912 The Butler and the Maid Frank the Butler 1912 An Old Fashioned Elopement 1912 Ben Hall, the Notorious Bushranger Gilbert 1911 A Ticket in Tatts 1911 One Hundred Years Ago Burglar 1911
Other Credits
A Daughter of Australia Writer 1912
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