George B. Seitz

George B. Seitz
Born George Brackett Seitz
January 3, 1888(1888-01-03)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died July 8, 1944(1944-07-08) (aged 56)
Hollywood, California, U.S.
Occupation Actor, playwright, screenwriter, director
Years active 1913–1944

George Brackett Seitz (January 3, 1888 – July 8, 1944) was an American playwright, screenwriter, film actor and director.[1] He was known for his screenplays for action serials, including:

Seitz was born in Boston, Massachusetts, started his career as a playwright, and also wrote some fiction for "up-market" pulp magazines such as Adventure and People's Magazine.[2]

Seitz did much of his early work in Fort Lee, New Jersey when many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based there.[3][4][5] He was the director of 107 films, the writer of 31 screenplays, and an actor in 7 films. He worked at Columbia Pictures and at MGM where he directed 11 of the Andy Hardy series of films of the 1930s & 1940s. He died in Hollywood, California. Although an acquaintance of the cinematographer John F. Seitz, they were not related.

Filmography

As a director:

References

  1. ^ "NY Times: George B. Seitz". NY Times. http://movies.nytimes.com/person/110709/George-B-Seitz. Retrieved 2011-06-19. 
  2. ^ The Best of "Adventure", Volume One : 1910-1912,edited by Doug Ellis. Black Dog Books, 2010 (p. 13-14).
  3. ^ Kozarski, Ricchard (2004), Fort Lee: The Film Town, Rome, Italy: John Libbey Publishing -CIC srl, ISBN 0-86196-653-8, http://books.google.nl/books?id=5w0r8YKan04C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Fort+Lee:+the+film+town+Door+Richard+Koszarski&hl=nl&ei=fyO4TcjINoKeOpr32LsP&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false 
  4. ^ "Studios and Films". Fort Lee Film Commmission. http://www.fortleefilm.org/studios.html. Retrieved 2011-05-30. 
  5. ^ Fort Lee Film Commission (2006), Fort Lee Birthplace of the Motion Picture Industry, Arcadia Publishing, ISBN 0-7385-4501-5, http://books.google.com/books?id=ViR3b72xkK0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Fort+Lee+Birthplace+of+the+Motion+Picture+Industry&hl=nl&ei=ah3lTdmHMY7rObrH9bIG&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false 

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