# Howard Bretherton

Howard Bretherton (13 February 1890, in Tacoma, Washington – 12 April 1969, in San Diego, California) was an American film director and film editor.

## Career

He began his career as a propman and then became a film editor during the early 1920s for MGM. He directed his first film, While London Sleeps, in 1926, and thereafter spent more than three decades working mostly as a film director. Of the roughly 100 pictures he directed, most of them were westerns and action/adventure films. The final film he directed was Night Raiders in 1952. Afterwards, he occasionally worked as a director in television through 1958.

## Filmography
### As director

* While London Sleeps (1926)
* Hills of Kentucky (1927)
* The Black Diamond Express (1927)
* The Bush Leaguer (1927)
* One-Round Hogan (1927)
* The Silver Slave (1927)
* Across the Atlantic (1928)
* Turn Back the Hours (1928)
* The Chorus Kid (1928)
* Caught in the Fog (1928)
* The Greyhound Limited (1929)
* The Redeeming Sin (1929)
* From Headquarters (1929)
* The Time, the Place and the Girl (1929)
* The Argyle Case (1929)
* Second Choice (1930)
* Isle of Escape (1930)
* The Match King (1932)
* Ladies They Talk About (1933)
* Return of the Terror (1934)
* The Singer of Naples (1935)
* Dinky (1935)
* Hop-Along Cassidy (1935)
* The Eagle's Brood (1935)
* Bar 20 Rides Again (1935)
* The Leathernecks Have Landed (1936)
* Heart of the West (1936)
* Call of the Prairie (1936)
* Three on the Trail (1936)
* The Girl from Mandalay (1936)
* King of the Royal Mounted (1936)
* Wild Brian Kent (1936)
* Secret Valley (1937)
* It Happened Out West (1937)
* Western Gold (1937)
* County Fair (1937)
* Wanted by the Police (1938)
* Tough Kid (1938)
* Navy Secrets (1939)
* Star Reporter (1939)
* Undercover Agent (1939)
* Boys' Reformatory (1939)
* Irish Luck (1939)
* Sky Patrol (1939)
* Danger Flight (1939)
* Hidden Enemy (1940)
* Chasing Trouble (1940)
* The Showdown (1940)
* Midnight Limited (1940)
* On the Spot (1940)
* Laughing at Danger (1940)
* Up in the Air (1940)
* You're Out of Luck (1941)
* In Old Colorado (1941)
* Sign of the Wolf (1941)
* Twilight on the Trail (1941)
* Outlaws of the Desert (1941)
* Riders of the Badlands (1941)
* West of Tombstone (1942)
* Below the Border (1942)
* Ghost Town Law (1942)
* Down Texas Way (1942)
* Riders of the West (1942)
* West of the Law (1942)
* Pirates of the Prairie (1942)
* Rhythm Parade (1942)
* Dawn on the Great Divide (1942)
* Carson City Cyclone (1943)
* Santa Fe Scouts (1943)
* Riders of the Rio Grande (1943)
* Bordertown Gun Fighters (1943)
* Fugitive from Sonora (1943)
* Wagon Tracks West (1943)
* Beyond the Last Frontier (1943)
* The Man from the Rio Grande (1943)
* Whispering Footsteps (1943)
* Hidden Valley Outlaws (1944)
* Outlaws of Santa Fe (1944)
* The Girl Who Dared (1944)
* The San Antonio Kid (1944)
* Law of the Valley (1944)
* The Navajo Trail (1945)
* The Big Show-Off (1945)
* The Topeka Terror (1945)
* Gun Smoke (1945)
* The Monster and the Ape (1945)
* Renegades of the Rio Grande (1945)
* Who's Guilty? (1945)
* The Trap (1946)
* Ridin' Down the Trail (1947)
* Trail of the Mounties (1947)
* The Prince of Thieves (1948)
* Triggerman (1948)
* The Story of Birth (1948)
* Because of Eve (1948)
* Night Raiders (1952)

#### Short films

* More Sinned Against Than Usual (1930)
* A Matter of Ethics (1930)
* Model Women (1930)
* In Again, Out Again (1930)
* It's All Over (1930)
* Pulling a Bone (1931)
* Laugh It Off (1931)
* The Headache (1931)
* All for the Band (1931)
* Once Over, Light (1931)
* Thou Shalt Not (1931)
* The S.S. Malaria (1931)
* Via Express (1931)
* Cheaper to Rent (1931)
* Easy to Get (1931)
* Stop That Run (1932)
* Good Badminton (1934)
* Here Comes the Circus (1946)
* Where the North Begins (1947)

### As editor

* One Week of Love (1922)
* Children of Dust (1923)
* Beau Brummel (1924)
* A Self-Made Failure (1924)
* A Successful Calamity (1932)
* Heroes for Sale (1933)
* Baby Face (1933)
* The House on 56th Street (1933)
* Heat Lightning (1934)
* Smarty (1934) (uncredited)

### As associate producer

* Identity Unknown (1945)