{{Short description|American film director (1890–1969)}} {{More citations needed|date=June 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = Howard Bretherton | birth_date = February 13, 1890 | birth_place = [[Tacoma, Washington]], U.S. | death_date = April 12, 1969 | death_place = [[San Diego, California]], U.S. | occupation = Film director, editor | children = [[David Bretherton]] }} '''Howard Bretherton''' (13 February 1890 – 12 April 1969) was an American film director and editor.
==Career== 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 three decades working mostly as a film director. Of the roughly 100 pictures he directed, most of them were westerns and action/adventure films. The final film he directed was ''[[Night Raiders (1952 film)|Night Raiders]]'' in 1952.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Howard Bretherton |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/21959%7C71190/Howard-Bretherton |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928160211/http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/21959%7C71190/Howard-Bretherton/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=September 28, 2011 |access-date=2023-06-13 |website=Turner Classic Movies |language=en}}</ref> Afterwards, he occasionally worked as a director in television through 1958.
==Filmography==
===As director=== {{Div col}} * ''[[While London Sleeps]]'' (1926) * ''[[Hills of Kentucky]]'' (1927) * ''[[The Black Diamond Express]]'' (1927) * ''[[The Bush Leaguer]]'' (1927) * ''[[One-Round Hogan]]'' (1927) * ''[[The Silver Slave]]'' (1927) * ''[[Across the Atlantic]]'' (1928) * ''[[Turn Back the Hours]]'' (1928) * ''[[The Chorus Kid]]'' (1928) * ''[[Caught in the Fog]]'' (1928) * ''[[The Greyhound Limited]]'' (1929) * ''[[The Redeeming Sin (1929 film)|The Redeeming Sin]]'' (1929) * ''[[From Headquarters (1929 film)|From Headquarters]]'' (1929) * ''[[The Time, the Place and the Girl (1929 film)|The Time, the Place and the Girl]]'' (1929) * ''[[The Argyle Case (1929 film)|The Argyle Case]]'' (1929) * ''[[Second Choice]]'' (1930) * ''[[Isle of Escape]]'' (1930) * ''[[The Match King]]'' (1932) * ''[[Ladies They Talk About]]'' (1933) * ''[[Return of the Terror]]'' (1934) * ''[[The Singer of Naples]]'' (1935) * ''[[Dinky (film)|Dinky]]'' (1935) * ''[[Hop-Along Cassidy]]'' (1935) * ''[[The Eagle's Brood]]'' (1935) * ''[[Bar 20 Rides Again]]'' (1935) * ''[[The Leathernecks Have Landed]]'' (1936) * ''[[Heart of the West (film)|Heart of the West]]'' (1936) * ''[[Call of the Prairie]]'' (1936) * ''[[Three on the Trail (film)|Three on the Trail]]'' (1936) * ''[[The Girl from Mandalay]]'' (1936) * ''[[King of the Royal Mounted (film)|King of the Royal Mounted]]'' (1936) * ''[[Wild Brian Kent]]'' (1936) * ''[[Secret Valley (film)|Secret Valley]]'' (1937) * ''[[It Happened Out West]]'' (1937) * ''[[Western Gold]]'' (1937) * ''[[County Fair (1937 film)|County Fair]]'' (1937) * ''[[Wanted by the Police]]'' (1938) * ''[[Tough Kid]]'' (1938) * ''[[Navy Secrets]]'' (1939) * ''[[Star Reporter]]'' (1939) * ''[[Undercover Agent]]'' (1939) * ''[[Boys' Reformatory]]'' (1939) * ''[[Irish Luck (1939 film)|Irish Luck]]'' (1939) * ''[[Sky Patrol]]'' (1939) * ''[[Danger Flight]]'' (1939) * ''[[Hidden Enemy]]'' (1940) * ''[[Chasing Trouble]]'' (1940) * ''[[The Showdown (1940 film)|The Showdown]]'' (1940) * ''[[Midnight Limited]]'' (1940) * ''[[On the Spot (film)|On the Spot]]'' (1940) * ''[[Laughing at Danger (1940 film)|Laughing at Danger]]'' (1940) * ''[[Up in the Air (1940 film)|Up in the Air]]'' (1940) * ''[[You're Out of Luck]]'' (1941) * ''[[In Old Colorado]]'' (1941) * ''[[Sign of the Wolf]]'' (1941) * ''[[Twilight on the Trail]]'' (1941) * ''[[Outlaws of the Desert]]'' (1941) * ''[[Riders of the Badlands]]'' (1941) * ''[[West of Tombstone]]'' (1942) * ''[[Below the Border]]'' (1942) * ''[[Ghost Town Law]]'' (1942) * ''[[Down Texas Way]]'' (1942) * ''[[Riders of the West]]'' (1942) * ''[[West of the Law]]'' (1942) * ''[[Pirates of the Prairie]]'' (1942) * ''[[Rhythm Parade]]'' (1942) * ''[[Dawn on the Great Divide]]'' (1942) * ''[[Carson City Cyclone]]'' (1943) * ''[[Santa Fe Scouts]]'' (1943) * ''[[Riders of the Rio Grande]]'' (1943) * ''[[Bordertown Gun Fighters]]'' (1943) * ''[[Fugitive from Sonora]]'' (1943) * ''[[Wagon Tracks West]]'' (1943) * ''[[Beyond the Last Frontier]]'' (1943) * ''[[The Man from the Rio Grande (1943 film)|The Man from the Rio Grande]]'' (1943) * ''[[Whispering Footsteps]]'' (1943) * ''[[Hidden Valley Outlaws]]'' (1944) * ''[[Outlaws of Santa Fe]]'' (1944) * ''[[The Girl Who Dared]]'' (1944) * ''[[The San Antonio Kid]]'' (1944) * ''[[Law of the Valley]]'' (1944) * ''[[The Navajo Trail]]'' (1945) * ''[[The Big Show-Off]]'' (1945) * ''[[The Topeka Terror]]'' (1945) * ''[[Gun Smoke (1945 film)|Gun Smoke]]'' (1945) * ''[[The Monster and the Ape]]'' (1945) * ''[[Renegades of the Rio Grande]]'' (1945) * ''[[Who's Guilty?]]'' (1945) * ''[[The Trap (1946 film)|The Trap]]'' (1946) * ''[[Ridin' Down the Trail]]'' (1947) * ''[[Trail of the Mounties]]'' (1947) * ''[[The Prince of Thieves]]'' (1948) * ''[[Triggerman (film)|Triggerman]]'' (1948) * ''[[The Story of Birth]]'' (1948) * ''[[Because of Eve]]'' (1948) * ''[[Night Raiders (1952 film)|Night Raiders]]'' (1952) {{div col end}} ====Short films==== {{Div col}} * ''[[More Sinned Against Than Usual]]'' (1930) * ''[[A Matter of Ethics]]'' (1930) * ''[[Model Women]]'' (1930) * ''[[In Again, Out Again (1930 film)|In Again, Out Again]]'' (1930) * ''[[It's All Over (film)|It's All Over]]'' (1930) * ''[[Pulling a Bone]]'' (1931) * ''[[Laugh It Off (1931 film)|Laugh It Off]]'' (1931) * ''[[The Headache]]'' (1931) * ''[[All for the Band]]'' (1931) * ''[[Once Over, Light]]'' (1931) * ''[[Thou Shalt Not (1931 film)|Thou Shalt Not]]'' (1931) * ''[[The S.S. Malaria]]'' (1931) * ''[[Via Express]]'' (1931) * ''[[Cheaper to Rent]]'' (1931) * ''[[Easy to Get (1931 film)|Easy to Get]]'' (1931) * ''[[Stop That Run]]'' (1932) * ''[[Good Badminton]]'' (1934) * ''[[Here Comes the Circus]]'' (1946) * ''[[Where the North Begins (1947 film)|Where the North Begins]]'' (1947) {{div col end}}
===As editor=== * ''[[One Week of Love]]'' (1922) * ''[[Children of Dust]]'' (1923) * ''[[Beau Brummel (1924 film)|Beau Brummel]]'' (1924) * ''[[A Self-Made Failure]]'' (1924) * ''[[A Successful Calamity]]'' (1932) * ''[[Heroes for Sale (film)|Heroes for Sale]]'' (1933) * ''[[Baby Face (film)|Baby Face]]'' (1933) * ''[[The House on 56th Street]]'' (1933) * ''[[Heat Lightning (film)|Heat Lightning]]'' (1934) * ''[[Smarty (film)|Smarty]]'' (1934) (uncredited)
===As associate producer=== * ''[[Identity Unknown (1945 film)|Identity Unknown]]'' (1945)
== References == {{Reflist}} == Further reading == *{{cite book |title=Forgotten Horrors 3: Dr. Turner's House of Horrors |last=Price |first=Michael H. |publisher=Midnight Marquee & BearManor Media |page=181 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cX5SDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT181 |date=2003 |isbn=9781887664370 |oclc=53481193 |quote=Howard Bretherton was a silent-era veteran who became the favorite editor of directors including William Wellman, ...}} They collaborated on ''Heroes for Sale'' (1933).
==External links== * {{Internet Archive author |sname=Howard Bretherton |sopt=t}} *{{IMDb name|id=0107854|name=Howard Bretherton}} {{Howard Bretherton}} {{Authority control}}
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