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Hugh E. Dierker (1890 – 1975) was an American film director and producer.
Hugh E. Dierker (1890 – 1975) was an American film director and producer.
Biography
Dierker worked atPathé
Pathé or Pathé Frères (, styled as PATHÉ!) is the name of various French people, French businesses that were founded and originally run by the Pathé Brothers of France starting in 1896. In the early 1900s, Pathé became the world's largest ...
. By 1920 he had established his own production company, Hugh Dierker Productions.
Junior Coghlan
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wrote about him in his autobiography. A photograph of him and Bebe Daniels
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appeared in the ''Los Angeles Herald
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'' April 14, 1922 in connection with a showing of his production '' When Dawn Came''. His wife authored the story and is given a dedication on the associated songbook.
In 1912 he contracted for a garage building in Los Angeles.
Filmography
*'' When Dawn Came'' (1920) *'' The Other Side'' (1922) *'' Cause for Divorce'' (1923) * ''False Pride
''False Pride'' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Hugh Dierker and starring Owen Moore, Faire Binney, Ruth Stonehouse, and J. Barney Sherry.
Plot
As described in a film magazine review, a young man who prefers legal practice to a ...
'' (1925)
*''Camille of the Barbary Coast
''Camille of the Barbary Coast'' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Hugh Dierker that starred Mae Busch, Owen Moore, and Fritzi Brunette
Fritzi Brunette (born Florence Brunet; May 27, 1890 – September 28, 1943) was an American ...
'' (1925)
*''The Wrongdoers
''The Wrongdoers'' is a 1925 American silent drama film directed by Hugh Dierker and starring Lionel Barrymore, Anne Cornwall, and Henry Hull
Henry Watterson Hull (October 3, 1890 – March 8, 1977) was an American character actor perhaps be ...
'' (1925) with Lionel Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blythe; April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in ''A Free Soul'' (1931) ...
*'' Broken Homes'' (1926)
* ''Things Wives Tell
''Things Wives Tell'' is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Hugh Dierker and starring Gaston Glass, Edna Murphy and George Hackathorne.Munden p.799
Cast
* Gaston Glass as Carl Burgess
* Edna Murphy as Elaine Mackay
* Harlan Knight ...
'' (1926)
Further reading
*"The True Story Is the Thing; Thinks Hugh Dierker, the Director," MW, September 19, 1925References
External links
* Silent film directors American filmmakers {{DEFAULTSORT:Dierker, Hugh