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George Archainbaud(1890-1959)

  • Director
  • Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
  • Writer
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George Archainbaud
French-born (Paris) George Archainbaud got his start in show business as an actor and stage manager in France. Emigrating to the US in 1915, he got work as an assistant director to fellow French expatriate Emile Chautard at William A. Brady's World Film Co. in Fort Lee, NJ. His directorial debut came in 1917 with As Man Made Her (1917). Archainbaud turned into a prolific director in both films and television, turning out more than 100 features over the next 35 years and numerous TV series episodes.

Although a good amount of his feature-film output was fairly routine, there was some first-rate work scattered among them, such as The Lost Squadron (1932), a gritty and dark tale of a group of former World War I aviators who find work as stunt fliers in war movies. It was a critical and financial success, earning accolades from critics for its exciting flying sequences.

The genre most associated with Archainbaud, however, is westerns. In the 1940s he turned out some fast-paced, exciting westerns, such as The Kansan (1943) and several entries in the Hopalong Cassidy series. When cowboy star Gene Autry went to television to star in his own series, he brought Archainbaud along with him and he became the principal director on the show and other Autry-produced series, such as Buffalo Bill, Jr. (1955), Annie Oakley (1954) and The Adventures of Champion (1955).

He died of a heart attack in Beverly Hills, CA, in 1959.
BornMay 7, 1890
DiedFebruary 20, 1959(68)
BornMay 7, 1890
DiedFebruary 20, 1959(68)
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  • Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy

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George Archainbaud and Lou Tellegen in Single Wives (1924)
Mary Astor, George Archainbaud, and Clive Brook in Enticement (1925)

Known for

Elaine Hammerstein and Conway Tearle in One Week of Love (1922)
One Week of Love
  • Director
  • 1922
Corinne Griffith and Conway Tearle in The Common Law (1923)
The Common Law
  • Director
  • 1923
Tom Keene and Lynne Roberts in Girls of the Big House (1945)
Girls of the Big House
5.2
  • Director
  • 1945
Evelyn Brent in Framed (1930)
Framed
6.1
  • Director
  • 1930

Credits

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Director

  • Karyn Kupcinet in Death Valley Days (1952)
    Death Valley Days
  • Rory Calhoun in The Texan (1958)
    The Texan
  • Jon Provost, Tommy Rettig, Lassie the Dog, and Lassie in Lassie (1954)
    Lassie
  • The Adventures of Jim Bowie (1956)
    The Adventures of Jim Bowie
  • Circus Boy (1956)
    Circus Boy
  • Preston Foster in Cavalcade of America (1952)
    Cavalcade of America
  • Gail Davis in Annie Oakley (1954)
    Annie Oakley
  • The Ford Television Theatre (1952)
    The Ford Television Theatre
  • Allan Lane, Louis Lettieri, and Elizabeth Slifer in Red Ryder (1951)
    Red Ryder
  • Chevron Hall of Stars (1956)
    Chevron Hall of Stars
  • Dickie Jones in Buffalo Bill, Jr. (1955)
    Buffalo Bill, Jr.
  • Barry Curtis and Champion in The Adventures of Champion (1955)
    The Adventures of Champion
  • The Gene Autry Show (1950)
    The Gene Autry Show
  • The Star and the Story (1955)
    The Star and the Story
  • Hal Baylor, Hans Conried, and Chuck Hicks in Schlitz Playhouse (1951)
    Schlitz Playhouse

Second Unit or Assistant Director

  • Randolph Scott, Nancy Olson, and Jane Wyatt in Canadian Pacific (1949)
    Canadian Pacific
  • Doris Kenyon and Robert Warwick in The Man Who Forgot (1917)
    The Man Who Forgot
  • Mollie King and Robert Warwick in All Man (1916)
    All Man
  • Robert Warwick in The Heart of a Hero (1916)
    The Heart of a Hero
  • Robert Warwick in Sudden Riches (1916)
    Sudden Riches

Writer

  • Corinne Griffith and Conway Tearle in The Common Law (1923)
    The Common Law
  • Elaine Hammerstein and Conway Tearle in One Week of Love (1922)
    One Week of Love

Personal details

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    • May 7, 1890
    • Paris, France
    • February 20, 1959
    • Beverly Hills, California, USA(heart attack)
    • Katherine JohnstonMay 18, 1921 - February 20, 1959 (his death)
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    Former actor and stage manager. In America from 1915, as full director from 1917. Under contract to Columbia (1929,1952-53); RKO (1930-34, 1950); 20th Century-Fox (1935); Paramount (1936-40); United Artists (1947-48). Best known as a director of "B" westerns, including the Hopalong Cassidy series.

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