George B. Seitz

George B. Seitz

George B. Seitz
Born George Brackett Seitz
(1888-01-03)January 3, 1888
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. He was the father of George B. Seitz Jr., who was a writer/director active in the 1940s and 1950s in films and television.

Filmography

Director

Poster for Velvet Fingers (1920)

References

  1. ↑ "NY Times: George B. Seitz". NY Times. Retrieved June 19, 2011.
  2. ↑ The Best of "Adventure", Volume One : 1910-1912,edited by Doug Ellis. Black Dog Books, 2010 (p. 13-14).
  3. ↑ Koszarski, Richard (2004), Fort Lee: The Film Town, Rome, Italy: John Libbey Publishing -CIC srl, ISBN 0-86196-653-8
  4. ↑ "Studios and Films". Fort Lee Film Commission. 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
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