Howard Bretherton

Howard Bretherton
Born	(1890-02-13)February 13, 1890 Tacoma, Washington, United States
Died	April 12, 1969(1969-04-12) (aged 79) San Diego, California, United States
Occupation	Film editor
Children	David Bretherton

Howard Bretherton (13 February 1890, in Tacoma, Washington – 12 April 1969, in San Diego, California) was an American film director and film editor.

Career

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.^[1] Afterwards, he occasionally worked as a director in television through 1958.

Filmography

As director

• While London Sleeps (1926)
• Hills of Kentucky (1927)
• The Black Diamond Express (1927)
• The Bush Leaguer (1927)
• One-Round Hogan (1927)
• The Silver Slave (1927)
• Across the Atlantic (1928)
• Turn Back the Hours (1928)
• The Chorus Kid (1928)
• Caught in the Fog (1928)
• The Greyhound Limited (1929)
• The Redeeming Sin (1929)
• From Headquarters (1929)
• The Time, the Place and the Girl (1929)
• The Argyle Case (1929)
• Second Choice (1930)
• Isle of Escape (1930)
• The Match King (1932)
• Ladies They Talk About (1933)
• Return of the Terror (1934)
• The Singer of Naples (1935)
• Dinky (1935)
• Hop-Along Cassidy (1935)
• The Eagle's Brood (1935)
• Bar 20 Rides Again (1935)
• The Leathernecks Have Landed (1936)
• Heart of the West (1936)
• Call of the Prairie (1936)
• Three on the Trail (1936)
• The Girl from Mandalay (1936)
• King of the Royal Mounted (1936)
• Wild Brian Kent (1936)
• Secret Valley (1937)
• It Happened Out West (1937)
• Western Gold (1937)
• County Fair (1937)
• Wanted by the Police (1938)
• Tough Kid (1938)
• Navy Secrets (1939)
• Star Reporter (1939)
• Undercover Agent (1939)
• Boys' Reformatory (1939)
• Irish Luck (1939)
• Sky Patrol (1939)
• Danger Flight (1939)
• Hidden Enemy (1940)
• Chasing Trouble (1940)
• The Showdown (1940)
• Midnight Limited (1940)
• On the Spot (1940)
• Laughing at Danger (1940)
• Up in the Air (1940)
• You're Out of Luck (1941)
• In Old Colorado (1941)
• Sign of the Wolf (1941)
• Twilight on the Trail (1941)
• Outlaws of the Desert (1941)
• Riders of the Badlands (1941)
• West of Tombstone (1942)
• Below the Border (1942)
• Ghost Town Law (1942)
• Down Texas Way (1942)
• Riders of the West (1942)
• West of the Law (1942)
• Pirates of the Prairie (1942)
• Rhythm Parade (1942)
• Dawn on the Great Divide (1942)
• Carson City Cyclone (1943)
• Santa Fe Scouts (1943)
• Riders of the Rio Grande (1943)
• Bordertown Gun Fighters (1943)
• Fugitive from Sonora (1943)
• Wagon Tracks West (1943)
• Beyond the Last Frontier (1943)
• The Man from the Rio Grande (1943)
• Whispering Footsteps (1943)
• Hidden Valley Outlaws (1944)
• Outlaws of Santa Fe (1944)
• The Girl Who Dared (1944)
• The San Antonio Kid (1944)
• Law of the Valley (1944)
• The Navajo Trail (1945)
• The Big Show-Off (1945)
• The Topeka Terror (1945)
• Gun Smoke (1945)
• The Monster and the Ape (1945)
• Renegades of the Rio Grande (1945)
• Who's Guilty? (1945)
• The Trap (1946)
• Ridin' Down the Trail (1947)
• Trail of the Mounties (1947)
• The Prince of Thieves (1948)
• Triggerman (1948)
• The Story of Birth (1948)
• Because of Eve (1948)
• Night Raiders (1952)

Short films

• More Sinned Against Than Usual (1930)
• A Matter of Ethics (1930)
• Model Women (1930)
• In Again, Out Again (1930)
• It's All Over (1930)
• Pulling a Bone (1931)
• Laugh It Off (1931)
• The Headache (1931)
• All for the Band (1931)
• Once Over, Light (1931)
• Thou Shalt Not (1931)
• The S.S. Malaria (1931)
• Via Express (1931)
• Cheaper to Rent (1931)
• Easy to Get (1931)
• Stop That Run (1932)
• Good Badminton (1934)
• Here Comes the Circus (1946)
• Where the North Begins (1947)

As editor

• One Week of Love (1922)
• Children of Dust (1923)
• 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

1. "Howard Bretherton". Turner Classic Movies. Archived from the original on September 28, 2011. Retrieved 2023-06-13.

Further reading

• Price, Michael H. (2003). Forgotten Horrors 3: Dr. Turner's House of Horrors. Midnight Marquee & BearManor Media. p. 181. ISBN 9781887664370. OCLC 53481193. Howard Bretherton was a silent-era veteran who became the favorite editor of directors including William Wellman, ... They collaborated on Heroes for Sale (1933).

External links

• Works by or about Howard Bretherton at the Internet Archive
• Howard Bretherton at IMDb