Gilbert Pratt

{{Short description|American film director (1892–1954)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2020}} {{Infobox person | name = Gilbert Pratt | image = Gilbert Pratt - Feb 1926 EH.jpg | caption = From a 1926 magazine | birth_date = {{birth date|1892|2|16}} | birth_place = Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1954|12|10|1892|2|16}} | death_place = Los Angeles County, California, U.S. | years_active = 1917-1936 | occupation = Film director, actor }}

'''Gilbert Pratt''' (February 16, 1892 – December 10, 1954) was an American film director, actor, and writer.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WgV-DwAAQBAJ&q=%22Gilbert+Pratt%22+director&pg=PA32|title=The Hal Roach Comedy Shorts of Thelma Todd, ZaSu Pitts and Patsy Kelly|first=James L.|last=Neibaur|date=December 6, 2018|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9781476634319|accessdate=April 14, 2019|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AerTAAAAQBAJ&q=%22Gilbert+Pratt%22+director&pg=PA98|title=The Charley Chase Talkies: 1929-1940|first=James L.|last=Neibaur|date=September 5, 2013|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=9780810891623|accessdate=April 14, 2019|via=Google Books}}</ref> He directed 87 films between 1917 and 1936 and was often credited as '''Gil Pratt'''. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and died in Los Angeles, California.

==Selected filmography== {{Div col|colwidth=25em}}

* ''The Big Idea'' (1917) * ''Move On'' (1917) * ''We Never Sleep'' (1917) * ''Clubs Are Trump'' (1917) * ''Love, Laughs and Lather'' (1917) * ''From Laramie to London'' (1917) * ''Birds of a Feather'' (1917) * ''Lonesome Luke Loses Patients'' (1917) * ''Lonesome Luke's Wild Women'' (1917) * ''Lonesome Luke, Messenger'' (1917) * ''Stop! Luke! Listen!'' (1917) * ''Lonesome Luke, Plumber'' (1917) * ''Lonesome Luke's Honeymoon'' (1917) * ''Lonesome Luke on Tin Can Alley'' (1917) * ''Hear 'Em Rave'' (1918) * ''Bees in His Bonnet'' (1918) * ''Two Scrambled'' (1918) * ''That's Him'' (1918) * ''Are Crooks Dishonest?'' (1918) * ''Sic 'Em, Towser'' (1918) * ''The City Slicker'' (1918) * ''The Non-Stop Kid'' (1918) * ''It's a Wild Life'' (1918) * ''Beat It'' (1918) * ''Hit Him Again'' (1918) * ''The Lamb'' (1918) * ''The Tip'' (1918) * ''Flips and Flops'' (1919) * ''Going! Going! Gone!'' (1919) * ''Wanted - $5,000'' (1919) * ''Mud and Sand'' (1922) * ''The Egg'' (1922) * ''Keep Smiling'' (1925) * ''Partners in Crime'' (1928) * ''The Big Killing'' (1928) * ''Just Married'' (1928) * ''The Farmer's Daughter'' (1928) * ''Law of the North'' (1932) * ''Elmer and Elsie'' (1934) * ''Timothy's Quest'' (1936) * ''Boys Will Be Girls'' (1937) * ''Saps at Sea'' (1940) * ''If a Body Meets a Body'' (1945) * ''Beer Barrel Polecats'' (1946) {{Div col end}}

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==External links== *{{IMDb name|id=0695456|name=Gilbert Pratt}}

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