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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1885-02-13 (140 years old)

Place of Birth

Paris - France

George Fitzmaurice

Biography:

From Wikipedia

George Fitzmaurice (13 February 1885 – 13 June 1940) was a French-born film director and producer.

Fitzmaurice's career first started as a set designer on stage. Beginning in 1914 until his death in 1940, he directed over 80 films, including several successful movies such as The Son of the Sheik, Raffles, Mata Hari, and Suzy.

At the beginning of his directorial career, Fitzmaurice was astute at directing stage actresses in their initial films with the first wave of great Broadway stars that migrated to motion pictures during the World War I era, including Mae Murray, Elsie Ferguson, Fannie Ward, Helene Chadwick, Irene Fenwick, Gail Kane, and Edna Goodrich.

Son of the Sheik is his most famous extant silent film, no doubt aided by the sudden death of its star, Rudolph Valentino. Lilac Time is a classic war/romance film. Fitzmaurice however directed scores of silent films of which the majority of them are lost to the ravages of decompostion. Recent discoveries in Gosfilmofond in Russia include 1919's Witness for the Defense with Elsie Ferguson and 1923's Kick In with Bert Lytell. A restoration of his 1928 part talkie hybrid The Barker is winning praise from many film buffs. Rumours of other Fitzmaurice films in Gosfilmofond include 1920s Idols of Clay (with Mae Murray) and Three Live Ghosts with Norman Kerry, Anna Q. Nilsson, Cyril Chadwick, and Edmund Goulding.

Known For

Acting

1961

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino as Self (archive footage)

1925

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)

Directing

1940

1938

Vacation from Love as Director

1936

Suzy as Director
Petticoat Fever as Director

1934

1932

As You Desire Me as Director

1931

Mata Hari as Director
The Unholy Garden as Director
Strangers May Kiss as Director

1930

Raffles as Director
The Devil to Pay! as Director
One Heavenly Night as Director
The Bad One as Director

1929

The Locked Door as Director
His Captive Woman as Director
Tiger Rose as Director

1928

The Barker as Director
Lilac Time as Director

1927

The Night of Love as Director
The Love Mart as Director
The Tender Hour as Director

1926

1925

The Dark Angel as Director
His Supreme Moment as Director

1924

Cytherea as Director
Tarnish as Director

1923

The Eternal City as Director
Bella Donna as Director
The Cheat as Director

1922

The Man From Home as Director
Three Live Ghosts as Director
Kick In as Director

1921

Paying the Piper as Director
Experience as Director
Forever as Director

1920

The Right to Love as Director
On with the Dance as Director
Idols of Clay as Director

1919

Our Better Selves as Director
The Avalanche as Director
Counterfeit as Director
A Society Exile as Director
Common Clay as Director
The Profiteers as Director

1918

The Naulahka as Director
The Narrow Path as Director
Innocent as Director

1917

The Recoil as Director
Kick In as Director
Blind Man's Luck as Director
The Mark of Cain as Director

1916

Big Jim Garrity as Director
Arms and the Woman as Director
The Test as Director

1915

Via Wireless as Director
At Bay as Director
The Commuters as Director
Stop Thief! as Director

1914

When Rome Ruled as Director
The Bomb Boy as Director

Production

1932

As You Desire Me as Producer

1931

Mata Hari as Producer
The Unholy Garden as Producer
Strangers May Kiss as Producer

1930

The Devil to Pay! as Producer

1929

The Locked Door as Producer

1928

Lilac Time as Producer

1925

A Thief in Paradise as Executive Producer

1923

The Cheat as Producer

1921

Paying the Piper as Producer

Writing

1915

Who's Who in Society as Scenario Writer

Crew

1917

Vengeance Is Mine as Supervisor of Production Resources