Search results
After directing several Tarzan films in the late 1950s, Humberstone began working in television, directing episodes of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, The Smothers Brothers Show, and Daniel Boone. During this time, he returned to the big screen for Madison Avenue (1962), which proved to be his final movie.
- Michael Barson
H. Bruce "Lucky" Humberstone (November 18, 1901 – October 11, 1984) was an American film director. He was previously a movie actor (as a child), a script clerk, and an assistant director, working with directors such as King Vidor, Edmund Goulding, and Allan Dwan.
A juvenile actor, Bruce 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 28 founders of the Directors Guild of America, Humberstone worked in a number of capacities on several silent films.
- November 18, 1901
- October 11, 1984
A juvenile actor, Bruce 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 28 founders of the Directors Guild of America, Humberstone worked in a number of capacities on several silent films.
- H. Bruce Humberstone
- October 11, 1984
- November 18, 1901
- Wim Wenders
- Ingmar Bergman
- Mike Leigh
- Dario Argento
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Wong Kar-Wai
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Werner Herzog
- François Truffaut
- John Cassavetes
He graduated from high school in Oberhausen in the Ruhr area. He then studied medicine (1963–64) and philosophy (1964–65) in Freiburg and Düsseldorf. However, he dropped out of university studies and moved to Paris in October 1966 to become a painter. Wendersfailed his entry test at France’s national film school IDHEC (now La Fémis), and instead be...
In 1937, he entered Stockholm University College (later renamed Stockholm University), to study art and literature. He spent most of his time involved in student theatre and became a “genuine movie addict”. Bergman’s film career began in 1941 with his rewriting of scripts, but his first major accomplishment was in 1944 when he wrote the screenplay ...
He studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and studied further at the Camberwell School of Art and the Central School of Art and Design. He began as a theatre director and playwright in the mid 1960s. In the 1970s and 1980s his career moved between work for the theatre and making films for BBC Television, many of which were characteri...
He began his career in film as a critic, writing for various magazines while still attending high school. Argentodid not attend college, electing rather to take a job as a columnist at the newspaper Paese Sera. While working at the newspaper, Argento also began working as a screenwriter. His most notable work was for Sergio Leone; he and Bernardo B...
After graduating, he became a draftsman and advertising designer with a cable company called Henley’s. It was while working at Henley’s that he first started to dabble creatively. Upon the formation of the company’s in-house publication The Henley Telegraph in 1919, Hitchcockstarted to submit short articles, eventually becoming one of its most prol...
After graduating from Hong Kong Polytechnic College in graphic design in 1980, he enrolled in the Production Training Course organized by Hong Kong Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) and became a full-time television screenwriter. In the mid-1980s, he became a screenwriter/director at The Wing Scope Co. and In-gear Film Production Company, the pro...
Godardattended school in Nyon, Switzerland, and at the Lycée Rohmer, and the University of Paris. During his time at the Sorbonne, he became involved with the young group of filmmakers and film theorists that gave birth to the New Wave. After attending school in Nyon, Godard returned to Paris in 1948. It was there, in the Latin Quarter just prior t...
When he was 12, he and his family moved back to Munich. His father had abandoned the family early in his youth. Wernerwould later drop his mother’s surname for the German “Herzog”. The same year, Herzog was told to sing in front of his class at school and he adamantly refused. He was almost expelled for this and until the age of 18 listened to no m...
It was the cinema that offered him the greatest escape from an unsatisfying home life. He was eight years old when he saw his first movie, Abel Gance’s Paradis Perdufrom 1939. It was there that his obsession began. He frequently played truant from school and would sneak into theaters because he didn’t have enough money for admission. After being ex...
After graduating in 1950, he continued acting in the theater, took small parts in films and began working on television in anthology series such as Alcoa Theatre. By 1956, Cassaveteshad begun teaching method acting in his own workshop in New York City. An improvisation exercise in his workshop inspired the idea for his writing and directorial debut...
H. Bruce 'Lucky' Humberstone (b. November 18, 1901, Buffalo, New York - d. October 11, 1984, Los Angeles, California) was a movie actor (as a child), a script clerk, an assistant director, working with directors such as King Vidor, Edmund Goulding and Allan Dwan and, ultimately, a director.
People also ask
When did John Humberstone start directing?
Who is John Humberstone?
Who is Bruce Humberstone?
Who was Lucky Humberstone?
Director Born Nov. 18, 1901 in Buffalo, N.Y. Died Oct. 11, 1984 of cancer in Motion Picture and Television Country House, CA. O ne of Hollywood's most versatile and commercially successful...
