Fred Paul

{{Short description|British actor and director (1880–1967)}} {{Citation style|date=March 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Fred Paul''' (1880–1967) was a Swiss-born British actor and film director.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/5168 |title=BFI | Film & TV Database | PAUL, Fred |access-date=2011-05-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023081736/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/5168 |archive-date=2012-10-23 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was born in Lausanne in 1880 but moved to Britain at a young age. He was a prolific actor and director in the 1910s and 1920s, but his career dramatically declined with the arrival of sound films.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/574720/|title=BFI Screenonline: Paul, Fred (1880-1967) Biography}}</ref>

==Selected filmography== '''Director''' * ''The Dop Doctor'' (1915) * ''Infelice'' (1915) * ''The Second Mrs Tanqueray'' (1916) * ''The Vicar of Wakefield'' (1916) * ''Lady Windermere's Fan'' (1916) * ''Her Greatest Performance'' (1916) * ''The Lyons Mail'' (1916) * ''The Duchess of Seven Dials'' (1920) * ''The House on the Marsh'' (1920) * ''Lady Tetley's Decree'' (1920) * ''The Little Welsh Girl'' (1920) * ''The English Rose'' (1920) * ''Uncle Dick's Darling'' (1920) * ''A Woman Misunderstood'' (1921) * ''If Four Walls Told'' (1922) * ''The Recoil'' (1924) * ''The Last Witness'' (1925) * ''Safety First'' (1926) * ''Thou Fool'' (1926) * ''The Luck of the Navy'' (1927) * ''The Broken Melody'' (1929) * ''In a Lotus Garden'' (1931) * ''Romany Love'' (1931)

'''Actor''' * ''East Lynne'' (1913) * ''Sixty Years a Queen'' (1913) * ''Lights of London'' (1914) * ''The Dop Doctor'' (1915) * ''Infelice'' (1915) * ''The Rogues of London'' (1915) * ''A Cinema Girl's Romance'' (1915) * ''John Halifax, Gentleman'' (1915) * ''If Four Walls Told'' (1922) * ''The Right to Strike'' (1923) * ''The Last Witness'' (1925)

''Producer'' * ''Dombey and Son'' (1917)

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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0666835}}

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