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George Fitzmaurice (13 February 1885 – 13 June 1940) was a French-born film director and producer.
George Fitzmaurice. Director: The Devil to Pay!. American director of French-Dutch ancestry, born in Paris. He studied the fine arts in Paris before resettling in America. As a set designer for stage productions, he was able to break into films in 1908 doing the same work.
George Fitzmaurice (13 February 1885 – 13 June 1940) was a French-born film director and producer. Fitzmaurice's career first started as a set designer on stage. Beginning in 1914 until his death in 1940, he directed over 80 films, including several successful movies such as The Son of the Sheik, Raffles, Mata Hari, and Suzy.
George Fitzmaurice was born in 1877 in the family home, Bedford House, just outside Listowel on the Ballylongford road. With his father’s death in 1891, the family was forced to move to a farmhouse in Kilcara, outside the village of Duagh.
Fitzmaurice enlisted in the British Army in 1916 and served in World War I and returned with neurastenia rendering him fearful of crowds; ceased attending the Abbey and visited music-hall instead; returned to stage after long absence with ’Twixt the Giltinans and the Carmodys (Abbey 1923); residing at 51 Leinster St., Phibsboro, in 1923; wrote T...
Arts and Culture. The work of George Fitzmaurice whose plays were staged at the Abbey Theatre in the early part of this century is now being appreciated by the wider world. George Fitzmaurice...
George Fitzmaurice. Director: The Devil to Pay!. American director of French-Dutch ancestry, born in Paris. He studied the fine arts in Paris before resettling in America. As a set designer for stage productions, he was able to break into films in 1908 doing the same work.
