Walter Forde(1898-1984)
- Director
- Actor
- Writer
British director Walter Forde started his show-business career on the
stage of the music halls of northern England. He entered the film
business as a screenwriter but became an actor in 1920, in a series of
two-reel comedies he wrote himself. He spent some time in Hollywood,
but not much happened and he came back to Britain in 1925. He went to
work for Gainsborough and began directing. The studio was impressed
with the results, and began to hand him its "A"-list projects. Several
of his films, such as
The Ghost Train (1931) and
The Gaunt Stranger (1931), were well received
by critics. He worked in a variety of genres, mostly comedies, but he
turned out the occasional thriller or mystery. His star began to wane
during the war years, and his postwar films didn't live up to his
pre-war ones. He made his last film in 1949.
He died in 1987 at age 84 in Los Angeles, California.
He died in 1987 at age 84 in Los Angeles, California.
