Biography
George Archainbaud (May 7, 1890 β February 20, 1959) was a French-American film and television director. In the beginning of his career he worked on stage as an actor and manager. He came to the United States in January 1914, and started his film career as an assistant director to Emile Chautard at the World Film Company in Fort Lee, New Jersey. In 1917 he made his own directorial debut As Man Made Her. During the next three and a half decades he directed over one hundred films. After the beginning of the 1950s he moved to television.
While working at RKO Radio Pictures in the beginning of the 1930s, he showed some artistic and skillful eye with many of his films. The finest examples include Thirteen Women (1932), a story of ethnic discrimination and revenge, with Myrna Loy as a half-caste Hindu; The Lost Squadron (1932), a memorable thriller about Hollywood stunt flyers, who risk their lives under the direction of monstrous Erich von Stroheim; Penguin Pool Murder (1932) and Murder on the Blackboard (1934), the first two films of the RKO trilogy starring Edna May Oliver as Miss Hildegarde Withers, a teacher and amateur investigator created by American writer Stuart Palmer; and later in his career the RKO drama Hunt the Man Down (1950), a film noir starring Gig Young which seems more concerned in showing the post-war transformation of seven characters since 1938, than the investigation to solve a murder case.
Although Archainbaud directed films of all genres, he is nowadays mainly linked with westerns. In fact, it was not until the last decade of his directorial career until he specialized in them. With the producer Harry Sherman he made several Hopalong Cassidy oaters. Later he was also one of the principal directors of Gene Autry's Flying A Productions, at which he made several episodes for such weekly television series as Buffalo Bill, Jr., Annie Oakley and The Adventures of Champion.
In 1921 he married actress Katherine Johnston (1890 β 1969), whose last film was The Flapper (1920). He died in 1959 and is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale).
Filmography
all 112
Director 112
Movies 100
TV Shows 12
The Texan (1958)
Circus Boy (1956)
The Adventures of Jim Bowie (1956)
The Adventures of Champion (1955)
Lassie (1954)
Annie Oakley (1954)
Last of the Pony Riders (1953)
Saginaw Trail (1953)
Pack Train (1953)
Goldtown Ghost Riders (1953)
On Top of Old Smoky (1953)
I'm the Law (1953)
Winning of the West (1953)
Blue Canadian Rockies (1952)
Cavalcade of America (1952)
Wagon Team (1952)
The Old West (1952)
Hopalong Cassidy (1952)
Barbed Wire (1952)
Apache Country (1952)
Night Stage to Galveston (1952)
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars (1951)
Hunt the Man Down (1950)
Border Treasure (1950)
The Gene Autry Show (1950)
The Lone Ranger (1949)
Strange Gamble (1948)
False Paradise (1948)
Borrowed Trouble (1948)
Sinister Journey (1948)
The Dead Don't Dream (1948)
Silent Conflict (1948)
Hoppy's Holiday (1947)
The Marauders (1947)
The Millerson Case (1947)
Dangerous Venture (1947)
Unexpected Guest (1947)
King of the Wild Horses (1947)
The Devil's Playground (1946)
Fool's Gold (1946)
Girls of the Big House (1945)
The Big Bonanza (1944)
Alaska (1944)
Mystery Man (1944)
Texas Masquerade (1944)
The Woman of the Town (1943)
False Colors (1943)
The Kansan (1943)
Hoppy Serves a Writ (1943)
Flying with Music (1942)
Comin' Round the Mountain (1940)
Untamed (1940)
Opened by Mistake (1940)
Night Work (1939)
Some Like It Hot (1939)
Boy Trouble (1939)
Thanks for the Memory (1938)
Campus Confessions (1938)
Her Jungle Love (1938)
Thrill of a Lifetime (1937)
Blonde Trouble (1937)
Hotel Haywire (1937)
Clarence (1937)
Hideaway Girl (1936)
The Return of Sophie Lang (1936)
My Marriage (1936)
Thunder in the Night (1935)
Murder on the Blackboard (1934)
Keep 'Em Rolling (1934)
After Tonight (1933)
The Big Brain (1933)
Penguin Pool Murder (1932)
Thirteen Women (1932)
State's Attorney (1932)
The Lost Squadron (1932)
Men of Chance (1931)
Three Who Loved (1931)
The Lady Refuses (1931)
The Silver Horde (1930)
Shooting Straight (1930)
Alias French Gertie (1930)
Framed (1930)
The Broadway Hoofer (1929)
Broadway Scandals (1929)
The College Coquette (1929)
The Voice Within (1929)
The Tragedy of Youth (1928)
Easy Pickings (1927)
The Silent Lover (1926)
Men of Steel (1926)
Puppets (1926)
Scarlet Saint (1925)
What Fools Men (1925)
The Necessary Evil (1925)
Enticement (1925)
Christine of the Hungry Heart (1924)
The Shadow of the East (1924)
The Common Law (1923)
The Power of a Lie (1923)
One Week of Love (1922)
Evidence (1922)
Clay Dollars (1921)
The Girl from Nowhere (1921)
The Miracle of Manhattan (1921)
The Wonderful Chance (1920)
What Women Want (1920)
In Walked Mary (1920)
A Damsel in Distress (1919)
The Cross Bearer (1918)
The Awakening (1917)
The Brand of Satan (1917)
Yankee Pluck (1917)
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1890-05-07
Deathday1959-02-20 (68 years old)
Birth Place10th arrondissement of Paris, France
CitizenshipsFrance, United States of America
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