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| birth_name = H. Bruce Humberstone |
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1901|11|18}} |
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| birth_place = Buffalo, New York, USA |
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| death_date = {{Death date and age|1984|10|11|1901|11|18}} |
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| death_place = Los Angeles, California, USA |
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| nationality = American |
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| other_names = Lucky Humberstone |
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| occupation = [[Film director]] |
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| years_active = 1924–1966 |
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| employer = [[20th Century Fox]] |
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| notable_works = [[Sun Valley Serenade]]<br />[[I Wake Up Screaming]]<br />[[To the Shores of Tripoli]] |
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'''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. |
'''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. |
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H. Bruce Humberstone | |
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| Born | H. Bruce Humberstone November 18, 1901 Buffalo, New York, USA |
| Died | October 11, 1984 (aged 82) Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Lucky Humberstone |
| Occupation | Film director |
| Years active | 1924–1966 |
| Employer | 20th Century Fox |
| Notable work | Sun Valley Serenade I Wake Up Screaming To the Shores of Tripoli |
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.
One of twenty-eight founders of the Directors Guild of America, Humberstone worked on several silent movie films for 20th Century Fox. Humberstone did not specialize; he worked on comedies, dramas, and melodramas. Humberstone is best known today for his work on some of the Charlie Chan films. In the 1950s, Humberstone worked mostly on TV.
He retired in 1962, and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He died in 1984, aged 82.
Partial filmography
Films directed by Humberstone include:
- The Crooked Circle (1932)
- If I Had a Million (1932) ("The Forger" segment)
- Goodbye Love (1933)
- Charlie Chan at the Race Track (1936)
- Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936)
- Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937)
- Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938)
- Lucky Cisco Kid (1940)
- I Wake Up Screaming (1941)
- Sun Valley Serenade (1941)
- Iceland (1942)
- To the Shores of Tripoli (1942)
- Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943)
- Pin Up Girl (1944)
- Wonder Man (1945)
- Three Little Girls in Blue (1946)
- Fury at Furnace Creek (1948)
- Happy Go Lovely (1952) British
- Tarzan and the Lost Safari (1957)
- Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958)