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H. Bruce Humberstone

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H. Bruce Humberstone
  • Nickname:
    Lucky
  • Date of Birth:
    November 18, 1901
  • Zodiac Sign:
    Scorpio
  • Place of Birth:
    Buffalo, New York, USA
  • Place of Death:
    Woodland, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Date of Death:
    October 11, 1984
  • Cause of Death:
    Pneumonia
  • Sex:
    Male
  • Nationality:
    American

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H. Bruce Humberstone

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    H. Bruce Humberstone

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    H. Bruce Humberstone
    • He retired in 1962, and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
    • In the 1950s, Humberstone worked mostly on TV.
    • Humberstone is best known today for his work on some of the Charlie Chan films.
    • Humberstone did not specialize; he worked on comedies, dramas, and melodramas.
    • One of twenty-eight founders of the Directors Guild of America, Humberstone worked on several silent movie films for 20th Century Fox.
    • Was a movie actor (as a child), a script clerk, and later an assistant director, working with directors such as King Vidor, Edmound Golding and Allan Dwan.

    Biography

    H. Bruce Humberstone
    Last Updated: Tuesday, August 25, 2009
    A juvenile actor, Humberstone started his career as a script clerk, later serving as assistant director for the likes of King Vidor, Edmund Goulding and Allan Dwan. One of the twenty-eight founders of the Directors Guild of America, Humberstone worked in a number of capacities on several silent films. With no distinct directing style of his own, Humberstone was able to direct comedies, dramas, melodramas, without any problem.

    He's known for directing several Charlie Chan films at 20th Century-Fox and stumbled upon the technique of keeping star Warner Oland drunk so that Oland could deliver his lines in a tone that was required for the role of Chan. During the 1950s, Humberstone worked mainly for television and retired in 1962.

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