A. EDWARD SUTHERLAND

'A. Edward Sutherland' (January 5, 1895 - December 31, 1973) was a movie director who acted in 37 known films early in his career, beginning as a Keystone Cop in 1914's ''Tillie's Punctured Romance'' opposite Charles Chaplin, and directed over 50 movies between 1925 and 1956. Frequently billed as "Eddie Sutherland," he is often noted for having an especially hard time working with Stan Laurel ("I'd rather eat a tarantula than work with Laurel again"), whom he disliked, while becoming close friends with the more famously acerbic W.C. Fields, with whom he established a lifelong friendship.
As an actor, he was directed by Charles Chaplin in ''A Woman of Paris'' in 1923, two years before Sutherland began his directing career. Sutherland was married to actress Louise Brooks from July 1926 to June 1928.

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Partial Filmography as Director

Partial Filmography as Director

★ ''Coming Through'' (1925) with Wallace Beery

★ ''A Regular Fellow'' (1925) with Tyrone Power, Sr.

★ ''Behind the Front'' (1926) with Wallace Beery

★ ''It's the Old Army Game'' (1926) with W. C. Fields and Louise Brooks

★ ''We're in the Navy Now'' (1926) with Wallace Beery

★ ''Fireman, Save My Child'' (1927) with Wallace Beery

★ ''Tillie's Punctured Romance'' (1928) with W.C. Fields (completely different from the 1914 film)

★ ''Pointed Heels'' (1929) with William Powell and Fay Wray

★ ''Up Pops the Devil'' (1931) with Carole Lombard

★ ''Palmy Days'' (1931) with Eddie Cantor

★ ''Sky Devils'' (1932) with Spencer Tracy

★ ''Mr. Robinson Crusoe'' (1932) with Douglas Fairbanks

★ ''Too Much Harmony'' (1933) with Bing Crosby

★ ''Mississippi'' with Bing Crosby and W.C. Fields

★ ''Every Day's a Holiday'' (1937) with Mae West

★ ''The Flying Deuces'' (1939) with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy

★ ''The Invisible Woman'' (1940) with John Barrymore

★ ''Dixie'' (1943) with Bing Crosby

★ ''Follow the Boys'' (1944) with George Raft

★ ''Bermuda Affair'' (1956) with Kim Hunter
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