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.
Directed 55
1940s
- 1942
Mail Trouble
Director
- 1940
All Girl Revue
Director
The Dipsy Doodler
Director
1930s
- 1939
On the Air
Director
At Home
Director
- 1938
Hats and Dogs
Director
Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra
Director
The Great Library Misery
Director
Freddie Rich and His Orchestra
Director
- 1937
A Neckin' Party
Director
Double Talk
Director
Taking the Count
Director
Kick Me Again
Director
- 1936
The Blonde Bomber
Director
Nut Guilty
Director
The Choke's on You
Director
Punch and Beauty
Director
Here's Howe
Director
Absorbing Junior
Director
Calling All Tars
Director
For the Love of Pete
Director
While the Cat's Away
Director
Rushin' Art
Director
- 1935
Double Exposure
Director
The Officer's Mess
Director
All American Drawback
Director
On the Wagon
Director
Serves You Right
Director
Two Boobs in a Balloon
Director
Why Pay Rent?
Director
The Old Grey Mayor
Director
His First Flame
Director
- 1934
A Peach of a Pair
Director
Dizzy & Daffy
Director
So You Won't T-T-T-Talk
Director
Smoked Hams
Director
Oliver the Eighth
Director
- 1933
Dirty Work
Director
Busy Bodies
Director
The Midnight Patrol
Director
Me and My Pal
Director
- 1932
Towed in a Hole
Assistant Director
Scram!
Assistant Director
Wild Babies!
Director
Too Many Women
Director
The Knockout
Director
1920s
- 1929
Big Business
Assistant Director
That's My Wife
Director
Wrong Again
Assistant Director
Liberty
First Assistant Director
- 1928
Early to Bed
Assistant Director
Should Married Men Go Home?
Assistant Director
- 1924
Rupert of Hee-Haw
Assistant Director
Wrote 2
1940s
- 1942
Private Snuffy Smith
Screenplay
- 1941
An Ache in Every Stake
Writer