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George B. Seitz is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Second Unit Director American born on 3 january 1888 at Boston (USA)
George Brackett Seitz (January 3, 1888 – July 8, 1944) was an American playwright, screenwriter, film actor and director. He was known for his screenplays for action serials, including:
The Perils of Pauline (1914)
The Exploits of Elaine (1914)
The Shielding Shadow (1916)
The Black Secret (1919)
The Iron Claw (1916)
The Phantom Foe (1920)
The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
Seitz was born in Boston, Massachusetts, started his career as a playwright, and also wrote some fiction for "up-market" pulp magazines such as Adventure and People's Magazine.
Seitz did much of his early work in Fort Lee, New Jersey when many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based there. He was the director of 107 films, the writer of 31 screenplays, and an actor in 7 films. He worked at Columbia Pictures and at MGM where he directed 11 of the Andy Hardy series of films of the 1930s & 1940s. He died in Hollywood, California. Although an acquaintance of the cinematographer John F. Seitz, they were not related. He was the father of George B. Seitz Jr., who was a writer/director active in the 1940s and 1950s in films and television.
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Birth name George Brackett Seitz
Nationality USA
Birth 3 january 1888 at Boston (USA)
Death 8 july 1944 (at 56 years) at Hollywood (USA)
Nationality USA
Birth 3 january 1888 at Boston (USA)
Death 8 july 1944 (at 56 years) at Hollywood (USA)
The Perils of Pauline (1914)
The Exploits of Elaine (1914)
The Shielding Shadow (1916)
The Black Secret (1919)
The Iron Claw (1916)
The Phantom Foe (1920)
The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
Seitz was born in Boston, Massachusetts, started his career as a playwright, and also wrote some fiction for "up-market" pulp magazines such as Adventure and People's Magazine.
Seitz did much of his early work in Fort Lee, New Jersey when many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based there. He was the director of 107 films, the writer of 31 screenplays, and an actor in 7 films. He worked at Columbia Pictures and at MGM where he directed 11 of the Andy Hardy series of films of the 1930s & 1940s. He died in Hollywood, California. Although an acquaintance of the cinematographer John F. Seitz, they were not related. He was the father of George B. Seitz Jr., who was a writer/director active in the 1940s and 1950s in films and television.
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Another Romance of Celluloid (1938)
, 11minutesDirected by Herman Hoffman
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about cities
Actors Freddie Bartholomew, Frank Capra, William H. Daniels, Clark Gable, Betty Ross Clarke, Myrna Loy
Roles Self (uncredited)
Rating60%
The film starts with a brief reprise of the previous film, before cutting to the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios in Culver City, California where assistant cameraman Bill Reilly picks up the film from the lab for Marie Antoinette (1938) which he passes on to cameraman William H. Daniels. Behind the scenes footage shows W.S. Van Dyke directing a scene between Norma Shearer and Robert Morley before the negative is taken to the lab to be developed, dried and polished by lab technician John M. Nickolaus. The test strips are then read and delivered to the print room for printing. A tram takes the viewer on a quick tour of the studio complete with behind the scenes footage of George B. Seitz directing Judge Hardy's Children (1938), Freddie Bartholomew training with elephants for the then unproduced Kim, Luise Rainer doing a costume test for The Toy Wife (1938), and candid footage of Clark Gable, Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy. The film concludes with a montage from trailers for coming MGM pictures and footage of Louis B. Mayer, Frank Capra, Luise Rainer and Louise Tracy at the 10th Academy Awards banquet.
The Sky Ranger (1921)
Directed by George B. Seitz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Themes Transport films, Aviation films
Actors George B. Seitz, June Caprice, Harry Semels, Spencer Gordon Bennet, Marguerite Courtot
Roles George Oliver Rockwell
George Rockwell (Seitz) is young and adventurous. He meets June (Elliott), a beautiful young girl on the road and decides she will be his wife. But Professor Elliott (Redman), June's father, has him thrown out the door. George does not give up and saves the Professor from his cousin Murdock (Cuny), who was trying to kill him.
Pirate Gold (1920)
Directed by George B. Seitz
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Pirate films
Actors Marguerite Courtot, George B. Seitz, Harry Semels, Matthew Betz
Roles Ivanhoe 'Hoey' Tuttle
Rogues and Romance (1920)
, 1h1Directed by George B. Seitz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors June Caprice, George B. Seitz, Harry Semels, Marguerite Courtot
Roles Reginald Van Ransen
Rating50%
Velvet Fingers (1920)
Directed by George B. Seitz
Origin USA
Actors Marguerite Courtot, George B. Seitz, Harry Semels, Edward Elkas
Roles Velvet Fingers
Rating54%
The Black Secret (1919)
Directed by George B. Seitz
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Actors Pearl White, Walter McGrail, Wallace McCutcheon Jr., George B. Seitz, Harry Semels
Roles German spy
Rating15%
Bound and Gagged (serial) (1919)
Directed by George B. Seitz
Origin USA
Actors Marguerite Courtot, George B. Seitz, Harry Semels
Roles Archibald A. Barlow
The Fatal Ring (1917)
Directed by George B. Seitz
Origin USA
Genres Action
Actors Pearl White, Earle Foxe, Warner Oland, Cesare Gravina, George B. Seitz, Floyd Buckley
Roles Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Rating21%
The Iron Claw (1916)
Directed by George B. Seitz, Edward José
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure
Actors Pearl White, Creighton Hale, Sheldon Lewis, Harry L. Fraser, Edward José, George B. Seitz
Rating64%
The Romance of Elaine (1915)
Directed by George B. Seitz, Leopold Wharton, Theodore Wharton
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Pearl White, Creighton Hale, Lionel Barrymore, Warner Oland, George B. Seitz, Louis Wolheim
Rating68%
The Exploits of Elaine (1914)
Directed by George B. Seitz, Leopold Wharton, Theodore Wharton, Louis Gasnier
Origin USA
Genres Action, Crime
Actors Pearl White, Sheldon Lewis, Creighton Hale, Arnold Daly, Lionel Barrymore, Edwin Arden
Rating62%
Une riche héritière, Elaine Dodge, lutte contre l'assassin de son père, le criminel « la Main qui étreint », avec l'aide du détective Craig Kennedy.
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Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble (1944)
, 1h47Directed by George B. Seitz, John E. Burch
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Fay Holden, Sara Haden, Herbert Marshall, Bonita Granville
Rating64%
Blonde Trouble picks up from the previous installment of the Andy Hardy saga with Andy on a train to begin his college career at Wainwright College. While on the train, he meets Kay Wilson (Bonita Granville), and learns that Wainright College has just become a coeducational institution. The Dean of Wainwright College (and soon to be Andy's faculty advisor), Dr. Standish (Herbert Marshall) is also on the train. Dr. Standish's identity is not revealed to Andy until later.
Andy Hardy's Double Life (1942)
, 1h32Directed by George B. Seitz
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Ann Rutherford, Fay Holden, Esther Williams
Rating64%
Preparing himself for college life, Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) promises himself to put an end to his flirting ways and attempts to organize his finances by selling his old car. Things become complicated when his love interest Polly (Ann Rutherford) introduces him to a seductive psychology student (Esther Williams), while his friends continue to delay the payment for his automobile. Andy also tries his best to help his sister Marian (Cecilia Parker) with her own relationship problems and takes an interest in assisting his father Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) with a complicated case involving an injured boy (Bobby Blake).
Pierre of the Plains (1942)
Directed by George B. Seitz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Actors Evelyn Ankers, Sheldon Leonard, Henry Travers, Ruth Hussey, Bruce Cabot, John Carroll
Rating51%
The film follows the story of "Pierre" (portrayed by actor John Carroll), a singing French-Canadian trapper who behaves as a non-commissioned law enforcement officer, punishing traveling salesman "Clerou" (portrayed by future television producer Sheldon Leonard) for "selling whiskey to Indians." When his intrusive nature gets him into trouble with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, he is brought to the station. In order to avoid incarceration, he claims that he is engaged to be married to the lovely Daisy Denton (Hussey), a popular barmaid who runs the local saloon, but who is actually engaged to "Jap" Durkin (Cabot). After Pierre's shrewd planning destroys the possibly of a marriage to Daisy, Durkin vows revenge on Pierre. Meanwhile, Pierre spends his time romancing Daisy and simultaneously getting into scrapes with the mounties. While riding horseback en route to town and back to his rural campsite, he often breaks into the song "Saskatchewan.
The Courtship of Andy Hardy (1942)
, 1h35Directed by George B. Seitz
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Cecilia Parker, Donna Reed, Ann Rutherford, Fay Holden
Rating65%
When Carvel teenager and new tow truck-owner Andy Hardy is stopped by a policeman for driving without a license plate, a radio report implicates him in stealing the car he is towing.