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William Keighley
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Director Born: August 4, 1889 in Philadelphia, PA Death: June 24, 1984 in New York City, NY Biography:After working his way through the Ludlum School of Dramatic Art, "William Keighley" inaugurated his acting career at the age of 23. Keighley spent the teens and twenties as a Broadway actor/director, travelling west to Hollywood when the call went out for dialogue experts during the early-talkie era. Signing on at Warner Bros., Keighley directed his first film, "The Match King", in collaboration with "Howard Bretherton" in 1932. A good team player, Keighley was up to the challenge of any type of film his studio assigned him: gangster pictures ("G-Men", "Each Dawn I Die"), musicals ("The Singing Kid"), costume epics ("The Prince and the Pauper"), war flicks ("The Fighting 69th") and screwball comedy ("The Bride Came COD", "The Man Who Came to Dinner"). He was also an able studio troubleshooter, helping Broadway director "Marc Connelly" over the cinematic rough spots in the 1936 filmization of Connelly's... Full Biography
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