Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Known Credits

Gender

Male

Birthday

1900-01-11

Deathday

1950-05-24 (50 years old)

Place of Birth

San Francisco, California, USA

Also Known As

Lloyd A. French

Lloyd French

Biography

Lloyd French (January 11, 1900 – May 24, 1950) was an American director of short films, most of them comedies. His best remembered films are several Laurel and Hardy comedies in the 1930s. He also made several musical short films featuring many bandleaders of the day; in the 1940s he also directed several shorts starring Edgar Kennedy and Leon Errol; he made his last film in 1946.

French was born in San Francisco, California and died in Beverly Hills, California of heart disease.

Known For

7.0%

Sons of the Desert

Dec 29, 1933

6.7%

Big Business

Apr 20, 1929

7.3%

Busy Bodies

Oct 7, 1933

7.0%

Towed in a Hole

Dec 31, 1932

6.8%

Dirty Work

Nov 25, 1933

7.1%

Scram!

Sep 10, 1932

6.5%

The Midnight Patrol

Aug 3, 1933

6.4%

Me and My Pal

Apr 22, 1933

7.1%

Oliver the Eighth

Jan 13, 1934

6.7%

Wrong Again

Feb 23, 1929

6.7%

That's My Wife

Mar 23, 1929

6.4%

Should Married Men Go Home?

Sep 8, 1928

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Directing

1943

Hold Your Temper as Director

1942

Mail Trouble as Director

1940		Drafted in the Depot as Director
1940		All Girl Revue as Director
1940		The Dipsy Doodler as Director

1939		On the Air as Director
1939		The Broadway Buckaroo as Director
1939		Dave Apollon and His Club Casanova Orchestra as Director
1939		At Home as Director

1938		Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra as Director
1938		The Great Library Misery as Director
1938		Larry Clinton and His Orchestra with Carol Bruce as Director
1938		Saturday Night Swing Club as Director
1938		Freddie Rich and His Orchestra as Director
1938		Sin-copation as Director

1937		Mal Hallett and His Orchestra as Director
1937		A Neckin' Party as Director
1937		Double Talk as Director
1937		Taking the Count as Director
1937		Kick Me Again as Director

1936		The Blonde Bomber as Director
1936		Nut Guilty as Director
1936		The Choke's on You as Director
1936		Punch and Beauty as Director
1936		The Good Old Plumbertime as Director
1936		Here's Howe as Director
1936		Absorbing Junior as Director
1936		Calling All Tars as Director
1936		For the Love of Pete as Director
1936		Shop Talk as Director
1936		While the Cat's Away as Director
1936		Rushin' Art as Director

1935		Double Exposure as Director
1935		The Officer's Mess as Director
1935		All American Drawback as Director
1935		On the Wagon as Director
1935		Watch the Birdie as Director
1935		Serves You Right as Director
1935		Two Boobs in a Balloon as Director
1935		Why Pay Rent? as Director
1935		The Old Grey Mayor as Director
1935		His First Flame as Director

1934		A Peach of a Pair as Director
1934		Dizzy & Daffy as Director
1934		So You Won't T-T-T-Talk as Director
1934		Smoked Hams as Director
1934		Oliver the Eighth as Director

1933		Sons of the Desert as Assistant Director
1933		Dirty Work as Director
1933		Busy Bodies as Director
1933		The Midnight Patrol as Director
1933		Me and My Pal as Director

1932		Towed in a Hole as Assistant Director
1932		Scram! as Assistant Director
1932		Wild Babies! as Director
1932		Too Many Women as Director
1932		You're Telling Me as Director
1932		The Knockout as Director

1929		Big Business as Assistant Director
1929		That's My Wife as Director
1929		Wrong Again as Assistant Director

1928		Early to Bed as Assistant Director
1928		Should Married Men Go Home? as Assistant Director

1924

Rupert of Hee-Haw as Assistant Director

Writing

1942

Private Snuffy Smith as Screenplay

1941

An Ache in Every Stake as Writer