George Archainbaud

George Archainbaud

director, second unit director or assistant director, writer

George Archainbaud was born on May 07, 1890 in France. George Archainbaud's big-screen debut came with Sudden Riches directed by Emile Chautard in 1916. George Archainbaud is known for Hideaway Girl directed by George Archainbaud, Shirley Ross stars as Toni Ainsworth and Robert Cummings as Mike Winslow. The upcoming new movie George Archainbaud plays is Sinister Journey which will be released on Jan 17, 1963.

French-born (Paris) George Archainbaud got his start in show business as an actor and stage manager in France. Emigrating to the US in 1915, he got work as an assistant director to fellow French expatriate Emile Chautard at William A. Brady's World Film Co. in Fort Lee, NJ. His directorial debut came in 1917 with As Man Made Her (1917). Archainbaud turned into a prolific director in both films and television, turning out more than 100 features over the next 35 years and numerous TV series episodes.Although a good amount of his feature-film output was fairly routine, there was some first-rate work scattered among them, such as 4 de l'aviation (1932), a gritty and dark tale of a group of former World War I aviators who find work as stunt fliers in war movies. It was a critical and financial success, earning accolades from critics for its exciting flying sequences.The genre most associated with Archainbaud, however, is westerns. In the 1940s he turned out some fast-paced, exciting westerns, such as Le cavalier du Kansas (1943) and several entries in the Hopalong Cassidy series. When cowboy star Gene Autry went to television to star in his own series, he brought Archainbaud along with him and he became the principal director on the show and other Autry-produced series, such as Buffalo Bill, Jr. (1955), Annie Oakley (1954) and The Adventures of Champion (1955).He died of a heart attack in Beverly Hills, CA, in 1959.

  • Birthday

    May 07, 1890
  • Place of Birth

    Paris, France

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