George B. Seitz
American film director / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Brackett Seitz (January 3, 1888 ā July 8, 1944) was an American playwright, screenwriter, film actor and director.[1] He was known for his screenplays for action serials, such as The Perils of Pauline (1914) and The Exploits of Elaine (1914).
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Born | George Brackett Seitz (1888-01-03)January 3, 1888 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Died | July 8, 1944(1944-07-08) (aged 56) Hollywood, California, U.S. |
Occupation(s) | Actor, playwright, screenwriter, director |
Years active | 1913ā1944 |
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.[2]
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.[3][4][5] He was the director of more than one hundred films, the writer of more than thirty screenplays, and an actor in seven films. He worked at Columbia Pictures and at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer where he directed eleven films in the Andy Hardy series of the 1930s & 1940s. He died in Hollywood, California in 1944. 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.