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George Fitzmaurice (13 February 1885 – 13 June 1940) was a French-born film director and producer.
George Fitzmaurice. Director: The Devil to Pay!. American director of French-Dutch ancestry, born in Paris. He studied the fine arts in Paris before resettling in America. As a set designer for stage productions, he was able to break into films in 1908 doing the same work.
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George Fitzmaurice (13 February 1885 – 13 June 1940) was a French-born film director and producer. Fitzmaurice's career first started as a set designer on stage. Beginning in 1914 until his death in 1940, he directed over 80 films, including several successful movies such as The Son of the Sheik, Raffles, Mata Hari, and Suzy.
George Fitzmaurice. Director: The Devil to Pay!. American director of French-Dutch ancestry, born in Paris. He studied the fine arts in Paris before resettling in America. As a set designer for stage productions, he was able to break into films in 1908 doing the same work.
- February 13, 1885
- June 13, 1940
A man who never fitted in with the Dublin literary scene of his time, George Fitzmaurice set all his plays in north Kerry, using the local people and their unique idiomatic English to great...
George Fitzmaurice was born in 1877 in the family home, Bedford House, just outside Listowel on the Ballylongford road. With his father’s death in 1891, the family was forced to move to a farmhouse in Kilcara, outside the village of Duagh.
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George Fitzmaurice (1877-1963) Life. b. Bedford Hse., nr. Listowel, North Co. Kerry; third son & tenth of twelve children of Protestant clergyman and namesake (d.1891) who married dg. of one his Catholic tenants, Winifred (née O’Connor; m. 1861); his father confined his mission to preaching at St. John’s, Listowel; family moved to cottage ...
