Howard Bretherton

Howard Bretherton (13 February 1890, in Tacoma, Washington – 12 April 1969, in San Diego, California) was an American film director, film editor.

Career
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.

As director

 * While London Sleeps (1926)
 * The Black Diamond Express (1927)
 * The Bush Leaguer (1927)
 * One Round Hogan (1927) (lost)
 * Turn Back the Hours (1928)
 * Across the Atlantic (1928)
 * The Greyhound Limited (1929)
 * From Headquarters (1929)
 * The Redeeming Sin (1929)
 * The Time, the Place and the Girl (1929)
 * The Argyle Case (1929)
 * Second Choice (1930)
 * Isle of Escape (1930)
 * The Match King (1932) (co-directed with William Keighley)
 * Ladies They Talk About (1933) (co-directed with Keighley)
 * The Singer of Naples (1935) (co-directed with Moreno Cuyar)
 * Dinky (1935) (co-directed with D. Ross Lederman)
 * Hop-Along Cassidy (1935)
 * Secret Valley (1937)
 * It Happened Out West (1937)
 * County Fair (1937)
 * Star Reporter (1939)
 * Undercover Agent (1939)
 * Boys' Reformatory (1939)
 * Irish Luck (1939)
 * Sky Patrol (1939)
 * Danger Flight (1939)
 * Navy Secrets (1939)
 * Hidden Enemy (1940)
 * Chasing Trouble (1940)
 * Laughing at Danger (1940)
 * Up in the Air (1940)
 * Pirates of the Prairie (1942)
 * Rhythm Parade (1942)
 * Dawn on the Great Divide (1942)
 * Santa Fe Scouts (1943)
 * Riders of the Rio Grande (1943)
 * Beyond the Last Frontier (1943)
 * Whispering Footsteps (1943)
 * The San Antonio Kid (1944)
 * Law of the Valley (1944)
 * The Big Show-Off (1945)
 * Gun Smoke (1945)
 * The Monster and the Ape (1945)
 * Renegades of the Rio Grande (1945)
 * Who's Guilty? (1945 serial)
 * The Trap (1946)
 * Trail of the Mounties (1947)
 * The Prince of Thieves (1948)
 * Triggerman (1948)
 * Night Raiders (1952)

As editor

 * 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)

As associate producer

 * Identity Unknown (1945)