Howard Bretherton

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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.

Selected filmography

Beau Brummel (1924)(*editor)
A Self-Made Failure (1924)(*editor)
Across the Atlantic (1928)
The Redeeming Sin (1929)
Second Choice (1930)
Isle of Escape (1930)
The Match King (1932)
Ladies They Talk About (1933)
County Fair (1937)
Boys' Reformatory (1939)
Star Reporter (1939)
Beyond the Last Frontier (1943)
Gun Smoke (1945)
The Monster and the Ape (1945)
Who's Guilty? (1945)

The final film he directed was Night Raiders in 1952. Afterwards he occasionally worked as a director for television through 1958.

External links

Howard Bretherton at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Bretherton, Howard
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Short description	American film director
Date of birth	1890
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Date of death	1969
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