B: circa 1887 in Toronto, Ontario
D: June 30, 1931 in Hollywood, California.
William James Craft began his career in film as a cameraman and rose to become a mainstay of action films at Universal. His specialty seems to have been two-reel Westerns and pre-television series, which are known as serials in the film world. Just two that he worked on were With Stanley in Africa (1922) and Beast of Paradise (1923). Switching from B-Westerns to comedy in the late 1920s, Craft directed several of the then-popular “Cohens and Kelly” farces. He died from injuries when his car ran off a cliff in Pacific Palisades, California. |
Features & TV Movies: Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Pawnee Bill’s Far East (1910) The White Rider (1920) Little Accident (1930) Credits as a Screenwriter: |