William Keighley

Person Details

Birthday: 1889-08-04 17:14:11

Death: 1984-06-24 17:14:11

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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Movie Involvements: 45

TV Involvements: 0

Most Famous Work

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. William Jackson Keighley (August 4, 1889, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - June 24, 1984, New York, New York) was an American stage actor and Hollywood film director. After graduating from the Ludlum School of Dramatic Art, Keighley began acting at the age of 23. By the 1910s and 1920s, he was acting and directing on Broadway. With the advent of talking pictures, he relocated to Hollywood. He eventually signed with Warner Bros., where he proved adept at directing in a wide variety of genres. He was the initial director of The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Errol Flynn, but was replaced by Michael Curtiz. During World War II, he supervised the U.S. Army Signal Corp's motion picture unit. He retired in 1953 and moved to Paris with his actress wife Genevieve Tobin. Description above from the Wikipedia article William Keighley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Most Famous Work

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Acting

Year	Character	Movie/Tv
1931	Captain Schoenbock	Resurrection 1931-02-02 Movie
Year	Character	Movie/Tv

Directing

Year	Role	Movie/Tv
1953	Director	The Master of Ballantrae 1953-08-05 Movie
1951	Director	Close to My Heart 1951-10-01 Movie
1950	Director	Rocky Mountain 1950-01-01 Movie
1948	Director	The Street with No Name 1948-07-14 Movie
1947	Director	Honeymoon 1947-05-17 Movie
1944	Director	Target for Today 1944-01-02 Movie
1942	Director	George Washington Slept Here 1942-10-30 Movie
	Director	The Man Who Came to Dinner 1942-01-01 Movie
1941	Director	The Bride Came C.O.D. 1941-07-12 Movie
	Director	Four Mothers 1941-01-04 Movie
1940	Director	No Time for Comedy 1940-09-14 Movie
	Director	Torrid Zone 1940-05-18 Movie
	Director	The Fighting 69th 1940-01-27 Movie
1939	Director	Each Dawn I Die 1939-08-19 Movie
	Director	Yes, My Darling Daughter 1939-02-25 Movie
1938	Director	Brother Rat 1938-10-29 Movie
	Director	Secrets of an Actress 1938-10-07 Movie
	Director	Valley of the Giants 1938-09-17 Movie
	Director	The Adventures of Robin Hood 1938-05-13 Movie
1937	Director	Varsity Show 1937-09-04 Movie
	Director	The Prince and the Pauper 1937-05-08 Movie
	Director	God's Country and the Woman 1937-01-16 Movie
1936	Director	The Green Pastures 1936-08-01 Movie
	Director	Bullets or Ballots 1936-06-06 Movie
	Director	The Singing Kid 1936-04-10 Movie
1935	Director	Stars Over Broadway 1935-11-23 Movie
	Director	Special Agent 1935-09-14 Movie
	Director	'G' Men 1935-05-04 Movie
	Director	Mary Jane's Pa 1935-04-27 Movie
	Director	The Right to Live 1935-01-26 Movie
1934	Director	Babbitt 1934-12-08 Movie
	Director	Big Hearted Herbert 1934-10-03 Movie
	Director	Kansas City Princess 1934-09-14 Movie
	Director	Dr. Monica 1934-06-23 Movie
	Director	Journal of a Crime 1934-03-10 Movie
	Director	Easy to Love 1934-01-13 Movie
1933	Director	Ladies They Talk About 1933-02-04 Movie
1932	Director	The Match King 1932-12-31 Movie
	Assistant Director	Scarlet Dawn 1932-11-12 Movie
	Assistant Director	The Cabin in the Cotton 1932-09-26 Movie
	Assistant Director	Jewel Robbery 1932-07-08 Movie
Year	Role	Movie/Tv