Bretaigne Windust

Bretaigne Windust

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ernest Bretaigne Windust (January 20, 1906 – March 19, 1960) was a US-based French-born theater, film, and television director. Career Planning to become an actor, Windust co-founded with Charles Leatherbee the University Players in 1928 on Cape Cod in Falmouth, Massachusetts. The company lasted five years and included later luminaries Joshua Logan, Henry Fonda, James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, Mildred Natwick, Eleanor Phelps, Barbara O'Neil, Myron McCormick, Kent Smith, and Aleta Freel. Windust directed more often than he acted. Though he began his association with the Theatre Guild in Manhattan as an assistant stage manager in 1929, he maintained his position as a director of the University Players in the off-season when they performed on Cape Cod through the summer of 1932. Indeed, he quit the Theatre Guild briefly during the winter season of 1931-32 to direct the University Players through its 18-week winter season in Baltimore. Windust's first major Broadway hit was Life With Father, the Russel Crouse/Howard Lindsay play based on the memoirs of Clarence Day, Jr., a distant relative on Windust's mother's side. (At 3,224 performances, it held the record for the longest-running Broadway production for many years.) In quick succession, he followed with Arsenic and Old Lace and Strip for Action, giving him three hits running on Broadway at the same time. In 1947, Windust relocated to Hollywood, where he worked as the dialogue director on Stallion Road starring Ronald Reagan. His film directing career included two 1948 Bette Davis vehicles, the melodramatic Winter Meeting and the screwball comedy June Bride. The latter part of his career was spent working in the television division of Universal, directing episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Wagon Train, Leave It to Beaver, and Bachelor Father, in addition to the Thanksgiving 1957 special The Pied Piper of Hamelin, later released as a feature film.

  • Title: Bretaigne Windust
  • Popularity: 1.551
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1906-01-20
  • Place of Birth: Paris, France
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Bretaigne Windust Movies

  • 1951
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    The Enforcer

    The Enforcer

    7.1 1951 HD

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  • 1948
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    Winter Meeting

    Winter Meeting

    6.5 1948 HD

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  • 1950
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    Perfect Strangers

    Perfect Strangers

    6.2 1950 HD

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  • 1948
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    June Bride

    June Bride

    7.2 1948 HD

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  • 1957
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    The Pied Piper of Hamelin

    The Pied Piper of Hamelin

    5.6 1957 HD

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  • 1950
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    Pretty Baby

    Pretty Baby

    6 1950 HD

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  • 1952
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    Face to Face

    Face to Face

    5.7 1952 HD

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  • 1954
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    Casino Royale

    Casino Royale

    5.3 1954 HD

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  • 1993
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    La femme à abattre

    La femme à abattre

    1 1993 HD

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  • 1970
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    Bachelor Father is an American sitcom starring John Forsythe, Noreen Corcoran, and Sammee Tong. The series first premiered on CBS in September 1957...

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  • 1970
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    6 1970 HD

    Markham is a CBS drama television series starring Ray Milland, which aired during the 1958-1959 and 1959-1960 seasons following Gunsmoke on Saturday...

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  • 1970
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    5.2 1970 HD

    Lt. Frank Ballinger is a no-nonsense plain clothes cop in the elite M Squad Division. The Squad's task is to root out organised crime and corruption...

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  • 1970
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    7 1970 HD

    Leave It to Beaver is an American television situation comedy about an inquisitive and often naïve boy named Theodore "The Beaver" Cleaver and...

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  • 1970
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    7.7 1970 HD

    A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

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  • 1970
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    6 1970 HD

    Startime is an anthology show of drama, comedy, and variety, and was one of the first American television shows broadcast in color. The program was...

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