Howard Bretherton

• Name — Howard Bretherton • Born — February 13, 1890 • Birthplace — Tacoma, Washington, U.S. • Died — April 12, 1969 • Place of death — San Diego, California, U.S. • Occupation — Film director, editor • Children — David Bretherton

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.

• While London Sleeps (1926) • Hills of Kentucky (1927) • The Black Diamond Express (1927) • The Bush Leaguer (1927) • One-Round Hogan (1927) • The Silver Slave (1927) • Across the Atlantic (1928) • Turn Back the Hours (1928) • The Chorus Kid (1928) • Caught in the Fog (1928) • The Greyhound Limited (1929) • The Redeeming Sin (1929) • From Headquarters (1929) • The Time, the Place and the Girl (1929) • The Argyle Case (1929) • Second Choice (1930) • Isle of Escape (1930) • The Match King (1932) • Ladies They Talk About (1933) • Return of the Terror (1934) • The Singer of Naples (1935) • Dinky (1935) • Hop-Along Cassidy (1935) • The Eagle's Brood (1935) • Bar 20 Rides Again (1935) • The Leathernecks Have Landed (1936) • Heart of the West (1936) • Call of the Prairie (1936) • Three on the Trail (1936) • The Girl from Mandalay (1936) • King of the Royal Mounted (1936) • Wild Brian Kent (1936) • Secret Valley (1937) • It Happened Out West (1937) • Western Gold (1937) • County Fair (1937) • Wanted by the Police (1938) • Tough Kid (1938) • Navy Secrets (1939) • Star Reporter (1939) • Undercover Agent (1939) • Boys' Reformatory (1939) • Irish Luck (1939) • Sky Patrol (1939) • Danger Flight (1939) • Hidden Enemy (1940) • Chasing Trouble (1940) • The Showdown (1940) • Midnight Limited (1940) • On the Spot (1940) • Laughing at Danger (1940) • Up in the Air (1940) • You're Out of Luck (1941) • In Old Colorado (1941) • Sign of the Wolf (1941) • Twilight on the Trail (1941) • Outlaws of the Desert (1941) • Riders of the Badlands (1941) • West of Tombstone (1942) • Below the Border (1942) • Ghost Town Law (1942) • Down Texas Way (1942) • Riders of the West (1942) • West of the Law (1942) • Pirates of the Prairie (1942) • Rhythm Parade (1942) • Dawn on the Great Divide (1942) • Carson City Cyclone (1943) • Santa Fe Scouts (1943) • Riders of the Rio Grande (1943) • Bordertown Gun Fighters (1943) • Fugitive from Sonora (1943) • Wagon Tracks West (1943) • Beyond the Last Frontier (1943) • The Man from the Rio Grande (1943) • Whispering Footsteps (1943) • Hidden Valley Outlaws (1944) • Outlaws of Santa Fe (1944) • The Girl Who Dared (1944) • The San Antonio Kid (1944) • Law of the Valley (1944) • The Navajo Trail (1945) • The Big Show-Off (1945) • The Topeka Terror (1945) • Gun Smoke (1945) • The Monster and the Ape (1945) • Renegades of the Rio Grande (1945) • Who's Guilty? (1945) • The Trap (1946) • Ridin' Down the Trail (1947) • Trail of the Mounties (1947) • The Prince of Thieves (1948) • Triggerman (1948) • The Story of Birth (1948) • Because of Eve (1948) • Night Raiders (1952)

• 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)

• Identity Unknown (1945)