Howard Bretherton (13 February 1890, in Tacoma, Washington – 12 April 1969, in San Diego, California) was an American film director, film editor.

Career[edit]

He began his career as a propman and then became a film editor during the early 1920s for MGM. He directed his first film, While London Sleeps, in 1926, and thereafter spent more than three decades working mostly as a film director. Of the roughly 100 pictures he directed, most of them were westerns and action/adventure films. The final film he directed was Night Raiders in 1952.^[1] Afterwards, he occasionally worked as a director in television through 1958.

Partial filmography[edit]

As director[edit]

As editor[edit]

• One Week of Love (1922)
• Children of Dust (1923)
• Beau Brummel (1924)
• A Self-Made Failure (1924)
• A Successful Calamity (1932)
• Heroes for Sale (1933)
• Baby Face (1933)
• The House on 56th Street (1933)
• Heat Lightning (1934)
• Smarty (1934) (uncredited)

As associate producer[edit]

• Identity Unknown (1945)

References[edit]

Further reading[edit]

• Price, Michael H. (2003). Forgotten Horrors 3: Dr. Turner's House of Horrors. Midnight Marquee & BearManor Media. p. 181. ISBN 9781887664370. OCLC 53481193. Howard Bretherton was a silent-era veteran who became the favorite editor of directors including William Wellman, ... They collaborated on Heroes for Sale (1933).

External links[edit]

• Works by or about Howard Bretherton at Internet Archive
• Howard Bretherton at IMDb