Biography: A juvenile actor, Humberstone started his career as a script clerk, later serving as assistant director for the likes of King Vidor, Edmund Goulding and Allan Dwan. One of the twenty-eight founders of the Directors Guild of America, Humberstone worked in a number of capacities on several silent films. With no distinct directing style of his own, Humberstone was able to direct comedies, dramas, mel ... show all A juvenile actor, Humberstone started his career as a script clerk, later serving as assistant director for the likes of King Vidor, Edmund Goulding and Allan Dwan. One of the twenty-eight founders of the Directors Guild of America, Humberstone worked in a number of capacities on several silent films. With no distinct directing style of his own, Humberstone was able to direct comedies, dramas, melodramas, without any problem. He's known for directing several Charlie Chan films at 20th Century-Fox and stumbled upon the technique of keeping star Warner Oland drunk so that Oland could deliver his lines in a tone that was required for the role of Chan. During the 1950s, Humberstone worked mainly for television and retired in 1962. hide |
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