British-born A. Edward ("Eddie") Sutherland started in vaudeville and
acted in films from 1914 at Keystone (he was one of the original
Keystone Cops). He became a director in
1925, first with Paramount (1925-31), then at United Artists (1931-32),
again with Paramount (1933, 1935-37), then Universal (1940-41) and RKO
(1942). He hit his stride in the 1930s and 1940s with a string of
well-received comedies starring
Laurel & Hardy and
W.C. Fields, but his
Abie's Irish Rose (1946), an
adaptation of the often-filmed stage play, which he also produced, was
such a critical and financial disaster that he could not find work as a
director in Hollywood again. In the 1950s he went to Britain and ended
his career directing episodic television.
International Detective(1959)
Overseas Press Club - Exclusive!(1957)
Bermuda Affair(1956)
Martin Kane, Private Eye(1949)
Sky Devils(1932)
The Gang Buster(1931)as Masher
The Dance of Life(1929)as Theater Attendant
The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln(1924)as William Scott
Girl from the West(1923)
A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate(1923)as Cook
Abie's Irish Rose(1946)
Zenobia(1939)
Gun the Man Down(1956)
Passport to Danger(1954)
So You Want to Hold Your Wife(1947)
The Gold Rush(1925)
The Kid(1921)
The War of the Worlds(1953)
The Hazards of Helen(1914)
Dick und Doof, die Unzertrennlichen(1968)
Screen Snapshots, Series 23, No. 9(1944)as Self
Unknown Chaplin(1983)as Self - Assistant
