William Beaudine
William Beaudine (January 15, 1892 – March 18, 1970) was an American film actor and director. He was one of Hollywood's most prolific directors, turning out films in remarkable numbers and in a wide variety of genres. Born in New York City, Beaudine began his career as an actor in 1909 with American Mutoscope and Biograph Company. He married Marguerite Fleischer in 1914, to whom he stayed married until his death. In 1915 he was hired as an actor and director by the Kalem Company. He was an assistant to director D.W. Griffith on The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance. By the time he was 23 Beaudine had directed his first picture, a short called Almost a King (1915). He would continue to direct shorts exclusively until 1922, when he shifted his efforts into making feature-length films. Beaudine directed silent films for Goldwyn Pictures (before it became part of MGM), Metro Pictures (also before MGM), First National Pictures, Principal and Warner Brothers. In 1926 he made Sparrows, the story of orphans imprisoned in a swamp farm starring Mary Pickford. Beaudine had at least 30 pictures to his credit before the sound era began.
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A Home Spun Hero
An Al Christie production starring Bobby Vernon and featuring Helen Darling, George Ford and Vera Steadman. Bobby Vernon was a talented comic actor during the silent era, who became a writer and comedy supervisor at Paramount for W.C. Fields and Bing Crosby, when the sound era...Watch Movie -
Won by a Fowl
This Keystone-Triangle three-reeler, produced by silent comedy maestro Mack Sennett's company and the shorter-lived major studio that briefly flourished in the late-1910s, features a cast of lesser-remembered players. It's a sunny day, which some choose to spend at the park kissing babies or...Watch Movie -
The Ape Man
Bela Lugosi really throws himself into an atypical role as a mad scientist whose over-successful experiments have somehow resulted in him sporting the most impressive mutton-chop sideburns this side of the Wolfman and spending most of his time in a cage with an actual gorilla (or, rather, a man...Watch Movie

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