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James W. Horne (1881–1942)

Director | Writer | Actor

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While other directors worked on some of Laurel and Hardy's English language films Hal Roach preferred James to work on the German, Spanish and French versions. See more trivia »

Born:

James Wesley Horne
in San Francisco, California, USA

Died:

(age 60) in Hollywood, California, USA
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1955 The Little Rascals (TV series) (short "When the Wind Blows")
 
1942 Perils of the Royal Mounted
 
1942 Captain Midnight
 
1941 Holt of the Secret Service
 
1941 The Iron Claw
 
1941 The Spider Returns
 
1941 White Eagle
 
1940 The Green Archer
 
1940 Deadwood Dick
 
1940 Terry and the Pirates
 
1940 The Shadow
 
1939 Flying G-Men
 
1938 The Spider's Web
 
1937 All Over Town (as James Horne)
 
1937 Way Out West
 
1936 The Bohemian Girl
 
1935 Hot Money (short) (as James Horne)
 
1935 Bonnie Scotland
 
1935 Thicker Than Water (short)
 
1935 Old Age Pension (short)
 
1935 Father Knows Best (short)
 
1935 I'm a Father (short) (as James Horne)
 
1935 His Old Flame (short)
 
1934 Henry's Social Splash (short)
 
1934 Sterling's Rival Romeo (short)
 
1934 Perfectly Mismated (short)
 
1934 Picnic Perils (short)
 
1934 Financial Jitters (short)
 
1934 Pleasing Grandpa (short)
 
1934 Beau Bashful (short)
 
1934 Just We Two (short)
 
1934 There Ain't No Justice (short)
 
1934 Good Time Henry (short)
 
1934 Ceiling Whacks (short)
 
1934 Born April First (short)
 
1934 Heartburn (short)
 
1934 Full Coverage (short)
 
1934 Where's Elmer? (short)
 
1934 A Trifle Backward (short)
 
1934 Palsie Walsie (short)
 
1933 Meeting Mazie (short)
 
1933 Pie for Two (short)
 
1933 Out of Gas (short)
 
1933 Open Sesame (short)
 
1933 Warren Doane's Brevities (short)
 
1933 Gleason's New Deal (short)
 
1933 His First Case (short)
 
1933 A Quiet Night (short)
 
1933 Mister Mugg (short)
 
1933 Pick Me Up (short)
 
1933 Alias the Professor (short)
 
1933 The Trail of Vince Barnett (short)
 
1933 Hunting Trouble (short)
 
1932 Oh! My Operation (short)
 
1932 Lights Out (short)
 
1932 Hesitating Love (short)
 
1932 Yoo-Hoo (short)
 
1932 Union Wages (short)
 
1932 Red Noses (short)
 
1932 Any Old Port! (short)
 
1932 Love Pains (short)
 
1932 The Tabasco Kid (short)
 
1932 Zwei Ritter ohne Furcht und Tadel (comedy shorts)
 
1931 Beau Hunks (short)
 
1931 One Good Turn (short)
 
1931 Come Clean (short)
 
1931 Our Wife (short)
 
1931 Politiquerías
 
1931 Los calaveras
 
1931 Laughing Gravy (short)
 
1931 El alma de la fiesta
 
1931 Chickens Come Home- (short)
 
1931 Be Big! (short) (unconfirmed)
 
1931 Thundering Tenors (short)
 
1931 Les carottiers
 
1930 High C's (short)
 
1930 Looser Than Loose (short)
 
1930 Dollar Dizzy (short)
 
1930 Locuras de amor
 
1930 Girl Shock (short)
 
1930 Fast Work (short)
 
1930 The King (short)
 
1930 Fifty Million Husbands (short)
 
1930 When the Wind Blows (short)
 
1930 Whispering Whoopee (short)
 
1930 Chercheuses d'or
 
1930 El príncipe del dólar
 
1930 Garde la bombe
 
1930 Una cana al aire (short)
 
1929 Big Business (short) (as J. Wesley Horne)
 
1929 Thin Twins (short)
 
1929 Off to Buffalo (short)
 
1929 Going Ga-ga (short)
 
1928 Black Butterflies
 
1928 The Big Hop
 
1927 College
 
1926 The Cruise of the Jasper B
 
1926 Kosher Kitty Kelly
 
1926 Don Key (Son of Burro) (short)
 
1926 Scared Stiff (short)
 
1926 Wife Tamers (short)
 
1925 Laughing Ladies (short) (as James Horne)
 
1925 Somewhere in Somewhere (short)
 
1925 There Goes the Bride (short)
 
1925 Madame Sans Jane (short)
 
1925 Daddy Goes a Grunting (short)
 
1925 Thundering Landlords (short)
 
1925 Whose Baby Are You? (short)
 
1925 Youth and Adventure
 
1924 Laughing at Danger
 
1924 Stepping Lively
 
1924 American Manners
 
1924 In Fast Company
 
1924 The Yankee Consul
 
1924 Alimony
 
1924 Hail the Hero
 
1923 Blow Your Own Horn
 
1923 Itching Palms
 
1923 A Man of Action
 
1923 The Sunshine Trail
 
1923 Can a Woman Love Twice?
 
1922 The Hottentot
 
1922 The Forgotten Law
 
1922 Don't Doubt Your Wife
 
1922 Dangerous Pastime
 
1921 The Bronze Bell
 
1920 Occasionally Yours
 
1920 The Third Eye
 
1919 The Midnight Man
 
1918 Hands Up!
 
1917 Bull's Eye
 
1917 The Ghost of the Desert (short)
 
1917 The Golden Eagle Trail (short)
 
1917 The Man from Tia Juana (short)
 
1917 Sagebrush Law (short)
 
1917 The Door in the Mountain (short)
 
1917 The Pot o' Gold (short)
 
1917 The Man Hunt at San Remo (short)
 
1917 The Secret of Lost Valley (short)
 
1917 The Lost Legion of the Border (short)
 
1917 The Phantom Mine (short)
 
1917 The Black Rider of Tasajara (short)
 
1917 The Dominion of Fernandez (short)
 
1917 The Wolf of Los Alamos (short)
 
1917 The Homesteaders' Feud (short)
 
1917 The Resurrection of Gold Bar (short)
 
1917 The False Prophet (short)
 
1916 On the Brink of War (short)
 
1916 The Stain of Chuckawalla (short)
 
1916 The Poisoned Dart (short)
 
1916 Border Wolves (short)
 
1916 The Fight for Paradise Valley (short)
 
1916 The Mystery of the Brass Bound Chest (short)
 
1916 The Witch of the Dark House (short)
 
1916 The Son of Cain (short)
 
1916 The Harvest of Gold (short)
 
1916 The Yellow Hand (short)
 
1916 The Reformation of Dog Hole (short)
 
1916 The Web of Guilt (short)
 
1916 A Battle in the Dark (short)
 
1916 The Gun Runners (short)
 
1916 The Treasure of Cibola (short)
 
1916 The Ore Plunderers (short)
 
1916 Tigers Unchained (short)
 
1916 The Oil Field Plot (short)
 
1916 The Turquoise Mine Conspiracy (short)
 
1916 The Fighting Heiress (short)
 
1916 The Girl from Frisco
 
1916 Black Magic (short)
 
1916 The Corsican Sisters (short)
 
1916 The Social Pirates
 
1915 Stingaree
 
1915 The Pitfall
 
1915 The Dream Seekers (short)
 
1915 The Man in Irons (short)
 
1915 The Man on Watch (short)
 
1915 The Wolf's Prey (short)
 
1915 Under Oath (short)
 
1915 When Thieves Fall Out (short)
 
1915/I The False Clue (short)
 
1915 A Double Identity (short)
 
1915/I The Barnstormers
 
1915 The Substituted Jewel (short)
 
1915 The Riddle of the Rings (short)
 
1915 The Secret Code (short)
 
1915 The Disappearing Necklace (short)
 
1915 Mysteries of the Grand Hotel
 
1915 The Strangler's Cord
 
1915 The Straight and Narrow Path (short)
 
1915/II The Frame-Up (short)
 
1915 The Accomplice (short)
 
1915/I The Vivisectionist (short)
 
1915 The Vanishing Vases (short)
 
1915 The Money Leeches (short)
 
1915 The Secret Well (short)
 
1915 The Figure in Black (short)
 
1915 The Closed Door (short)
 
1915 Scotty Weed's Alibi (short)
 
1915 The Clairvoyant Swindlers (short)
 
1915 The Tattooed Hand (short)
 
1915 Mike Donegal's Escape (short)
 
1915 The Voice from the Taxi (short)
 
1915 The Thumb Prints on the Safe (short)
 
1915 The Writing on the Wall (short)
 
1915 The Diamond Broker (short)
 
1915 The Trap Door (short)
 
1915 Following a Clue (short)
 
1915 Jared Fairfax's Millions (short)
 
1915 Old Isaacson's Diamonds (short)
 
1915 The Mystery of the Tea Dansant (short)
 
1915 The Disappearance of Harry Warrington (short)
 
1915 The Apartment House Mystery (short)
 
1915 The Affair of the Deserted House (short)
 
1915 The Girl Detective
 
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1940 The Green Archer (screenplay)
 
1938 Home on the Rage (short) (story and screenplay)
 
1937 Way Out West (contributing writer - uncredited)
 
1936 The Bohemian Girl (uncredited)
 
1935 Bonnie Scotland (uncredited)
 
1935 Father Knows Best (short)
 
1934 Henry's Social Splash (short) (screenplay)
 
1934 Sterling's Rival Romeo (short) (original screenplay)
 
1934 Financial Jitters (short)
 
1934 Pleasing Grandpa (short)
 
1934 Beau Bashful (short)
 
1934 There Ain't No Justice (short)
 
1934 Good Time Henry (short)
 
1934 Ceiling Whacks (short)
 
1934 Born April First (short)
 
1934 Heartburn (short)
 
1934 Full Coverage (short)
 
1934 A Trifle Backward (short)
 
1934 Palsie Walsie (short)
 
1933 Pie for Two (short) (writer)
 
1933 Not the Marrying Kind (short) (writer)
 
1933 Open Sesame (short) (writer)
 
1933 Stung Again (short) (writer)
 
1933 Warren Doane's Brevities (short) (writer)
 
1933 Gleason's New Deal (short) (writer)
 
1933 His First Case (short) (writer)
 
1933 A Quiet Night (short) (writer)
 
1933 Mister Mugg (short) (writer)
 
1933 Room Mates (short) (story)
 
1933 Pick Me Up (short) (writer)
 
1933 Alias the Professor (short) (writer)
 
1933 The Trail of Vince Barnett (short) (writer)
 
1933 Should Crooners Marry (short) (writer)
 
1933 Hunting Trouble (short) (writer)
 
1933 Rock-a-Bye Cowboy (short) (writer)
 
1933 Family Troubles (short) (writer)
 
1932 Hesitating Love (short)
 
1932 Who, Me? (short)
 
1919 The Midnight Man (story)
 
1917 Bull's Eye (story)
 
1915 Stingaree
 
1914 The Derelict (short) (story)
 
1914 The Smugglers of Lone Isle (short) (story)
 
1914 The Rajah's Vow (short) (story)
 
1914 The Chief of Police (short) (story)
 
1914/II The Quicksands (short) (story)
 
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1931 Beau Hunks (short)
Chief of the Riff Raff (as Abdul Kasim K'Horne)
 
1915 Stingaree
Oswald
 
1915 The Pitfall
Jack Green - Westcott's Secretary
 
1915/I The False Clue (short)
Jenkins - a Bellboy
 
1915 The Affair of the Deserted House (short)
Blaney - the Counterfeiter's Confederate (as James Horne)
 
1915 The Girl Detective
(Episode #1)
 
1914 The Smugglers of Lone Isle (short)
Steve - Nellie's Brother
 
1914 The Invisible Power
Piano player
 
1914 Micky Flynn's Escapade (short)
Mickey Flynn - a Crook
 
1914 The Master Rogue (short)
Buddy - Frank's Pal
 
1914 The Imp Abroad (short) (as James Horne)
 
1913 Perils of the Sea (short)
David Langdon
 
1913 The Closed Door (short)
 
1913 The Invaders (short)
Uncle Billy
 
1913 The Girl and the Gangster (short)
Con (as James Horne)
 
1913 On the Brink of Ruin (short)
Fred's Old Friend
 
1913 The Poet and the Soldier (short)
 
1913 The Cheyenne Massacre (short)
Bob Simmons
 
Show ShowMiscellaneous Crew (2 titles)
1929 Liberty (short) (director: re-takes)
 
1926 A Punch in the Nose (short) (director: re-takes)
 
Show ShowProducer (1 title)
1915 Stingaree (producer)
 

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Alternate Names:

J. Wesley Horne | James Horne | Abdul Kasim K'Horne
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Trivia:

While other directors worked on some of Laurel and Hardy's English language films Hal Roach preferred James to work on the German, Spanish and French versions. See more »

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