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

Howard Bretherton (13 February 1890 – 12 April 1969) was an American film director and editor.

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)

• More Sinned Against Than Usual (1930)

• A Matter of Ethics (1930)

• Model Women (1930)

• In Again, Out Again (1930)

• It's All Over (1930)

• Pulling a Bone (1931)

• Laugh It Off (1931)

• The Headache (1931)

• All for the Band (1931)

• Once Over, Light (1931)

• Thou Shalt Not (1931)

• The S.S. Malaria (1931)

• Via Express (1931)

• Cheaper to Rent (1931)

• Easy to Get (1931)

• Stop That Run (1932)

• Good Badminton (1934)

• Here Comes the Circus (1946)

• Where the North Begins (1947)