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Motion Picture Director, Actor, Author. He was a pioneer in Hollywood's film industry. Known for his musicals and light comedies, he wrote 4 screenplays, producer of 9 films. In 1920, he directed his first feature, The Kentucky General. In 1933, he had a role in Sons of the Desert, a comedy that is considered by many...
(1890–1964). American director William A. Seiter made more than 100 feature films. He was especially noted for his musicals and light comedies. William Alfred Seiter was born on June 10, 1890, in New York, New York. He graduated from the Hudson River Military Academy in New York, and by the early 1910s he was working in Hollywood, California.
Former Keystone Cop who graduated to assistant director and screenwriter before making his directorial debut in 1918. Seiter developed into a proficient and prolific technician in a number of genres and was especially adept at light, breezy fare, such as the wonderful Laurel and Hardy romp,...
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., July 27 (UPI) — William A. Seiter, motion picture and television director whose credits include “Roberta” and “One Touch of Venus,” died yesterday at his home.
William A. Seiter is an American film director. He was born in New York City. After attending Hudson River Military Academy, Seiter broke into films in 1915 as a bit player at Mack Sennett’s Keystone Studios, doubling a cowboy. He graduated to director in 1918. At Universal Studios in the mid-1920s, Seiter was principal director […]
THE MOON'S OUR HOME, director William A. Seiter watches Henry Fonda, Margaret Sullavan playing checkers on set, 1936 BELLE OF THE YUKON, costume designer Don Loper, producer William Goetz ...
Feb 16, 2022 · "Although it’s often compared to The Marx Brothers’ Duck Soup (1933), which came out the same year, Diplomaniacs (1933) proves a far more difficult picture for a modern viewer to engage, and that difficulty helps to explain why The Marx Brothers are icons while Wheeler and Woolsey have been relegated to obscurity. This wild - and wildly inappropriate - satire of international politics ...
