William Nigh

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Biography

American film director, writer and actor

  • Primary profession
  • Director·actor·writer
  • Country
  • United States
  • Nationality
  • American
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 12 October 1881
  • Place of birth
  • Berlin· Wisconsin
  • Death date
  • 1955-11-27
  • Death age
  • 74
  • Place of death
  • Burbank· California

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American writer/director, who started in films as an actor in 1911 and later advanced to directing comedy shorts for Mack Sennett. He worked in the rarefied atmosphere of MGM from 1926-29, but his career took a dive when sound came in and he wound up as one of the more prolific and longest-lasting (20-year-long career) directors of "B"-grade (and lower) films for such Poverty Row studios as Monogram and PRC.

An original member of the Keystone Kops.

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