page_title: Hobart Henley
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Hobart Henley / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Illustration of a review in The Moving Picture World for the film Temptation and the Man (1916).
context_page_description: Hobart Henley was an American silent film actor, director, screenwriter and producer. He was involved in over 60 films either as an actor or director or both in his twenty-year career, between 1914 and 1934 when he retired from filmmaking.
context_section_description: Henley began his career as a stage actor, then moved to acting in silent films. He began dual duties of directing and acting in such films as The Gay Old Dog for Pathé in 1919. He continued directing films, many of which were star's debuts like Bette Davis in the Bad Sister (1931) with Humphrey Bogart, as well as those of Reginald Denny, Jimmy Durante, and Will Rogers.
  He started his own production company and later worked for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Warner Brothers, Paramount Pictures and Universal Pictures. He directed top stars, including Claudette Colbert, Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, and Maurice Chevalier. He retired in 1936.
caption: Henley on screen in Temptation and the Man (1916)
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