E.J. Babille (May 3, 1883 – February 18, 1970) was born Edward Julius Babille in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was an American assistant director in the
silent and early
sound film
A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades passed before ...
eras.
In the first twelve years of his career he would work almost exclusively with three directors:
E. Mason Hopper
E. Mason Hopper (December 6, 1885 – January 3, 1967) was an American film director of the silent era. He directed more than 70 films between 1911 and 1935.
Filmography Director
* ''The Regenerates'' (1917)
* ''The Hidden Spring'' (1917)
...
,
, and
Paul Stein
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People
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, who directed seventeen of the twenty-one films on which Babille was the assistant director. He left the film industry in 1939, and died on February 18, 1970.
Filmography
(Per
AFI database — all positions were as assistant director, unless otherwise noted)
* ''
One Wonderful Night'' (1914) (actor)
* ''All's Fair in Love'' (1921)
* ''
The Great White Way
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'' (1924)
* ''
Janice Meredith
''Janice Meredith'', also known as ''The Beautiful Rebel'', is a silent film starring Marion Davies, released in 1924 and based on the book and play of the same name written by Paul Leicester Ford and Edward Everett Rose. The play opened at the ...
'' (1924)
* ''
Paris at Midnight
''Paris at Midnight'' is a 1926 American silent drama film starring Jetta Goudal and Lionel Barrymore and was directed by E. Mason Hopper. It was distributed by Producers Distributing Corporation. It was based on the novel '' Le Père Goriot'' ...
'' (1926) (production manager)
* ''My Friend From India'' (1927)
* ''No Control'' (1927)
* ''The Wise Wife'' (1927)
* ''A Blonde for a Night'' (1928)
* ''Captain Swagger'' (1928)
* ''
Love Over Night'' (1928)
* ''Marked Money'' (1928)
* ''Her Private Affair'' (1929)
* ''The Office Scandal'' (1929)
* ''
Rich People'' (1929)
* ''The Shady Lady'' (1929)
* ''The Sophomore'' (1929)
* ''
This Thing Called Love'' (1929)
* ''
Sin Takes a Holiday'' (1930)
* ''
The Big Gamble'' (1931)
* ''
Lady with a Past'' (1932)
* ''
A Woman Commands'' (1932)
* ''
No More Ladies
''No More Ladies'' is a 1935 American romantic comedy film directed by Edward H. Griffith. The film stars Joan Crawford and Robert Montgomery, and co-stars Charlie Ruggles, Franchot Tone, and Edna May Oliver. The screenplay credited to Donald ...
'' (1935) (actor)
* ''
My Dear Miss Aldrich
''My Dear Miss Aldrich'' is a 1937 low-budget comedy film starring Maureen O'Sullivan, Walter Pidgeon, and Edna May Oliver about a young woman who inherits a New York City newspaper and decides to become a reporter rather than a publisher.
Plot
M ...
'' (1937)
* ''
You're Only Young Once
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'' (1937)
* ''
They All Come Out
''They All Come Out'' is a 1939 American crime film directed by Jacques Tourneur, written by John C. Higgins, and starring Rita Johnson, Tom Neal, Bernard Nedell, Edward Gargan, John Gallaudet and Addison Richards. It was released on August 4, ...
'' (1939)
References
Film directors from Wisconsin
American male film actors
1883 births
1970 deaths
Artists from Milwaukee
Male actors from Milwaukee
20th-century American male actors
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