Howard Bretherton
Film director
1890 – 1969
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Who was Howard Bretherton?
Howard Bretherton was an American film director, film editor, and the father of film editor David Bretherton.
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 the next three decades working mostly as a film director. Of the roughly 100 pictures he directed, most of them were westerns and action/adventure films.
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- Born
- Feb 13, 1890
Tacoma - Also known as
- Howard P. Bretherton
- H.P. Bretherton
- Howard J. Bretherton
- H.P. Breatherton
- Spouses
- Dorothea Bretherton
(1916 - 1969/04/12)
- Dorothea Bretherton
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Apr 12, 1969
San Diego
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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