William Keighley

from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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Biography

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William Jackson Keighley  (August 4, 1889, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - June 24, 1984, New York, New York) was an American stage actor and Hollywood film director.

After graduating from the Ludlum School of Dramatic Art, Keighley began acting at the age of 23. By the 1910s and 1920s, he was acting and directing on Broadway. With the advent of talking pictures, he relocated to Hollywood. He eventually signed with Warner Bros., where he proved adept at directing in a wide variety of genres. He was the initial director of The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Errol Flynn, but was replaced by Michael Curtiz. During World War II, he supervised the U.S. Army Signal Corp's motion picture unit. He retired in 1953 and moved to Paris with his actress wife Genevieve Tobin.

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Timeline

1953Aged 64

  • Poster for The Master of Ballantrae

    Director

1951Aged 62

  • Poster for Close to My Heart

    Director

1950Aged 61

  • Poster for Rebecca

    Director

  • Poster for Rocky Mountain

    Director

1948Aged 59

  • Poster for The Street with No Name

    Director

1947Aged 58

  • Poster for Honeymoon

    Director

1944Aged 55

1942Aged 53

  • Poster for George Washington Slept Here

    Director

1941Aged 52

  • Poster for Four Mothers

    Director

  • Poster for The Bride Came C.O.D.

    Director

  • Poster for The Man Who Came to Dinner

    Director

1940Aged 51

  • Poster for The Fighting 69th

    Director

  • Poster for Torrid Zone

    Director

  • Poster for No Time for Comedy

    Director

1939Aged 50

  • Poster for Yes, My Darling Daughter

    Director

  • Poster for Each Dawn I Die

    Director

1938Aged 49

  • Poster for The Adventures of Robin Hood

    Director

  • Poster for Secrets of an Actress

    Director

  • Poster for Valley of the Giants

    Director

  • Poster for Brother Rat

    Director

1937Aged 48

  • Poster for God's Country and the Woman

    Director

  • Poster for The Prince and the Pauper

    Director

  • Poster for Varsity Show

    Director

1936Aged 47

  • Poster for The Singing Kid

    Director

  • Poster for Bullets or Ballots

    Director

  • Poster for The Green Pastures

    Director

1935Aged 46

  • Poster for The Right to Live

    Director

  • Poster for Mary Jane's Pa

    Director

  • Poster for 'G' Men

    Director

  • Poster for Special Agent

    Director

  • Poster for Stars Over Broadway

    Director

1934Aged 45

  • Poster for Easy to Love

    Director

  • Poster for Journal of a Crime

    Director

  • Poster for Dr. Monica

    Director

  • Poster for Kansas City Princess

    Director

  • Poster for Big Hearted Herbert

    Director

  • Poster for Babbitt

    Director

1933Aged 44

  • Poster for Ladies They Talk About

    Man Getting a Shoeshine (uncredited)

  • Poster for Picture Snatcher

    Dialogue Coach

  • Poster for Mary Stevens, M.D.

    Dialogue

1932Aged 43

  • Poster for Jewel Robbery

    Assistant Director

  • Poster for The Cabin in the Cotton

    Assistant Director

  • Poster for Scarlet Dawn

    Assistant Director

  • Poster for The Match King

    Director

1931Aged 42

  • Poster for Resurrection

    Captain Schoenbock

1926Aged 37

  • Poster for The Third Degree

    Dialogue Coach