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Albert de Courville(1887-1960)

  • Director
  • Writer
  • Producer
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Albert de Courville began his career as a stage director in Great Britain before turning to films in the 1930s. He directed several Jesse Mathews musicals, including There Goes the Bride (1932), and a Constance Cummings comedy, Strangers on a Honeymoon (1936). In the 1940s he journeyed to New York and got back to his theatrical roots, directing several Broadway plays.
BornMarch 26, 1887
DiedMarch 15, 1960(72)
BornMarch 26, 1887
DiedMarch 15, 1960(72)
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Known for

Cicely Courtneidge and William Gargan in Things Are Looking Up (1935)
Things Are Looking Up
6.1
  • Director
  • 1935
Wild Boy (1934)
Wild Boy
5.9
  • Director
  • 1934
Charing Cross Road (1936)
Charing Cross Road
6.3
  • Director
  • 1936
Jessie Matthews and Owen Nares in There Goes the Bride (1932)
There Goes the Bride
6.7
  • Director
  • 1932

Credits

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Director



  • Mad Men of Europe (1940)
    Mad Men of Europe
    6.1
    • Director
    • 1940
  • Me and My Girl (1939)
    Me and My Girl
    6.6
    • Director
    • 1939
  • The Rebel's Son (1938)
    The Rebel's Son
    5.9
    • Director (uncredited)
    • 1938
  • Lilli Palmer and Tom Walls in The Man with 100 Faces (1938)
    The Man with 100 Faces
    6.2
    • Director
    • 1938
  • John Clements, Otto Kruger, and Gertrude Michael in The Hidden Menace (1938)
    The Hidden Menace
    6.0
    • Director
    • 1938
  • Oh Boy! (1938)
    Oh Boy!
    5.8
    • Director
    • 1938
  • Clothes and the Woman
    • Director
    • 1937
  • Noah Beery, Constance Cummings, Beatrix Lehmann, and Hugh Sinclair in Strangers on a Honeymoon (1936)
    Strangers on a Honeymoon
    • Director
    • 1936
  • Doomed Cargo (1936)
    Doomed Cargo
    6.7
    • Director
    • 1936
  • Charing Cross Road (1936)
    Charing Cross Road
    6.3
    • Director
    • 1936
  • Cicely Courtneidge and William Gargan in Things Are Looking Up (1935)
    Things Are Looking Up
    6.1
    • Director
    • 1935
  • The Case of Gabriel Perry (1935)
    The Case of Gabriel Perry
    4.5
    • Director
    • 1935
  • Wild Boy (1934)
    Wild Boy
    5.9
    • Director
    • 1934
  • Binnie Hale and Gordon Harker in This Is the Life (1933)
    This Is the Life
    • Director
    • 1933
  • Midshipmaid Gob (1932)
    Midshipmaid Gob
    6.1
    • Director
    • 1932

Writer



  • Cicely Courtneidge and William Gargan in Things Are Looking Up (1935)
    Things Are Looking Up
    6.1
    • story
    • 1935
  • Wild Boy (1934)
    Wild Boy
    5.9
    • story
    • 1934

Producer



  • Gene Tierney, Victor Mature, Phyllis Brooks, Walter Huston, and Ona Munson in The Shanghai Gesture (1941)
    The Shanghai Gesture
    6.5
    • associate producer
    • 1941

Personal details

  • Born
    • March 26, 1887
    • London, England, UK
  • Died
    • March 15, 1960
    • London, England, UK
  • Spouses
      Shirley Kellogg(divorced)
  • Other works
    Stage: Directed / produced / wrote (w/Wal Pink, Edgar Wallace) "Pins and Needles" on Broadway. Musical revue. Lyrics by Ballard MacDonald, Rupert Hazel and Irving Caesar. Music by James F. Hanley and Frederick W. Chappelle. Orchestra under the direction of Charles Previn. Shubert Theatre: 1 Feb 1922-11 Mar 1922 (46 performances). Cast: Josephine Blythe, Phyllis Bryan, Muriel Cort, Elizabeth Coyle, Maisie Gay, Edith Kelly Gould, Rupert Hazell, Nan C. Hearne, May Hern, Teddy Knox (as "Performer"), Pamela Leroy, Geneva Marlowe, Tess Mayer, Florence McGuire, Joan Morris, Jack Morrison, Tommy Mostol, Jimmy Nervo (as "Performer"), Mary Philips, Harry Pilcer, Alice Pollard, Ewart Scott, Lillian Smith, Jane Taylor, Frances Upton, Amy Verity, Louise Wayne, Phyllis Wolmer. Produced by Albert De Courville.
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