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Howard Bretherton

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Name
  
Howard Bretherton

Role
  
Film director

Children
  
David Bretherton


Died
  
April 12, 1969, San Diego, California, United States

Spouse
  
Dorothea Bretherton (m. 1916–1969)

Movies
  
Ladies They Talk About, The Prince of Thieves, The Trap, The Monster and the A, Bar 20 Rides Again

Similar People
  
William Keighley, Frankie Darro, James Ellison, Mantan Moreland, Buck Jones

Dawn on the Great Divide (1942) THE ROUGH RIDERS


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.

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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 three decades working mostly as a film director. Of the roughly 100 pictures he directed, most of them were westerns and action/adventure films. The final film he directed was Night Raiders in 1952. Afterwards, he occasionally worked as a director in television through 1958.

As editor

  • Beau Brummel (1924)
  • A Self-Made Failure (1924)
  • A Successful Calamity (1932)
  • Heroes for Sale (1933)
  • Baby Face (1933)
  • The House on 56th Street (1933)
  • Heat Lightning (1934)
  • Smarty (1934) (uncredited)
  • As associate producer

  • Identity Unknown (1945)
  • References

    Howard Bretherton Wikipedia