One Touch of Venus
1948
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William Alfred Seiter (June 10, 1890 – July 26, 1964) was an American film director. Life and career. Seiter was born in New York City.
- Filmmaker
- William Alfred Seiter, June 10, 1890, New York City, US
- 1915–1954
- July 26, 1964 (aged 74), Beverly Hills, California, US
William A. Seiter. Director: The Cheerful Fraud. Originally a writer and artist, William A. Seiter entered films with Selig. He worked from 1915 as a stunt double and bit player at Keystone and quickly graduated to directing comedy shorts.
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- New York City, New York, USA
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- Beverly Hills, California, USA
William A. Seiter (born June 10, 1890, New York City, New York, U.S.—died July 26, 1964, Los Angeles, California) American director who made more than 100 feature film s and was especially noted for his musicals and light comedies. Seiter graduated from the Hudson River Military Academy, and by the early 1910s he was working in Hollywood.
- Michael Barson
William A. Seiter was an American film director who worked with many stars in the 1930s and 1940s. He directed comedies, dramas, and musicals, such as Sons of the Desert, Roberta, and You Were Never Lovelier. He died in 1964 at 74.
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., July 27 (UPI) — William A. Seiter, motion picture and television director whose credits include “Roberta” and “One Touch of Venus,” died yesterday at his home.
William Alfred Seiter was born on June 10, 1890, in New York, New York. He graduated from the Hudson River Military Academy in New York, and by the early 1910s he was working in Hollywood, California. At first he acted in short films, notably playing a Keystone Kop for Mack Sennett. In 1915 Seiter began directing comedy shorts, and he ...
William A. Seiter is an American film director. He was born in New York City. After attending Hudson River Military Academy, Seiter broke into films in 1915 as a bit player at Mack Sennett’s Keystone Studios, doubling a cowboy. He graduated to director in 1918. At Universal Studios in the mid-1920s, Seiter was principal director […]
