Howard Bretherton (13 February 1890, in Tacoma, Washington – 12 April 1969, in San Diego, California) was an American film director, film editor, and the father of film editor David Bretherton.

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Career

He began his career as a propman and then became a film editor during the early 1920s for MGM. He directed his first film, While London Sleeps, in 1926, and thereafter spent more than three decades working mostly as a film director. Of the roughly 100 pictures he directed, most of them were westerns and action/adventure films. The final film he directed was Night Raiders in 1952. Afterwards, he occasionally worked as a director in television through 1958.

Partial filmography

As director

As editor

• One Week of Love (1922)
• Children of Dust (1923)
• Beau Brummel (1924)
• A Self-Made Failure (1924)
• A Successful Calamity (1932)
• Heroes for Sale (1933)
• Baby Face (1933)
• The House on 56th Street (1933)
• Heat Lightning (1934)
• Smarty (1934) (uncredited)

As associate producer

• Identity Unknown (1945)

External links

• Works by or about Howard Bretherton at Internet Archive
• Howard Bretherton at IMDb