Harold S. Bucquet(1891-1946)
- Director
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
After serving in the US Army during World War I, British-born Harold S.
Bucquet entered the film business, first as an extra and then as a set
designer. He became an assistant to director
Allen Holubar, and later was hired as an
assistant director at MGM--a studio where he was to spend the rest of
his career--in the shorts department and directed screen tests. He made
his first feature in 1938,
Young Dr. Kildare (1938). He
was entrusted with an "A" feature such as
Dragon Seed (1944) every so often,
but his output was mainly "B" pictures, though at MGM they were often
more polished and professional than many other studios' "A" pictures.
He had to leave his last film,
The Green Years (1946), because
of illness, and died not long afterward.
