Jitterbugs
1943
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Mal St. Clair is perhaps best known as the director of four Laurel and Hardy comedies, released by Fox between June 1943 and May 1945. Fox closed its B unit in December 1944, [3] leaving St. Clair inactive until 1948, when he directed two low-budget features for Fox release. In 1950, he wanted to direct Buster Keaton in a television series, but ...
- May 17, 1897
- Yankee Doodle in Berlin
- June 1, 1952 (aged 55)
- Film director, writer, producer, and actor.
Malcolm St. Clair. Director: Side Street. The son of a famous architect, California-born and -educated Mal St.Clair worked as a cartoonist for the Los Angeles Express before his first movie job as an extra and gagman at Keystone in 1915.
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- Los Angeles, California, USA
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- Pasadena, California, USA
Malcolm St. Clair. Director: Side Street. The son of a famous architect, California-born and -educated Mal St.Clair worked as a cartoonist for the Los Angeles Express before his first movie job as an extra and gagman at Keystone in 1915. After service in World War I, he returned to the film business, this time as a director alternating between Fox and Mack Sennett. He proved to have a talent ...
- May 17, 1897
- June 1, 1952
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Malcolm St. Clair is known as an Director, Actor, Writer, and Producer. Some of his work includes The Goat, The Blacksmith, The Big Noise, Jitterbugs, The Canary Murder Case, The Dancing Masters, The Bullfighters, and Welcome Danger.
Malcolm Saint Clair (usually billed as Mal St. Clair) inaugurated his film career in 1915, when he joined Mack Sennett's Keystone studio as a bit player and gag writer. Graduating to director in 1919, St. Clair left Sennett in 1921 to join Buster Keaton's production company as co-director, writer, and (when the need arose) supporting actor.
- May 17, 1897
- June 1, 1952
St. Clair directed several Sennett and Keaton comedies and a handful of routine Rin Tin Tin actioners before scoring his finest achievement with the sophisticated "Are Parents People?" (1925). His career tailed off with the advent of sound.
Birthday: May 17, 1897. Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA. St. Clair directed several Sennett and Keaton comedies and a handful of routine Rin Tin Tin actioners before scoring his finest ...
