The Ghost Breaker (1922 film)
The Ghost Breaker is a 1922 American silent horror comedy film about haunted houses and ghosts.
It was produced by Famous Players- Lasky and distributed through Paramount Pictures.
It was directed by Alfred E. Green and starred Wallace Reid in one of his last screen roles.
The story, based on the 1909 play" The Ghost Breaker" by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard, had been released on film in 1914( bearing the same name), directed by Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar Apfel.
The 1922 version is now considered lost.
Two of the actors in this film, Snitz Edwards and Arthur Edmund Carewe, later appeared together in the 1925 Lon Chaney silent classic" The Phantom of the Opera".
Two uncredited" ghosts" in the cast, Mervyn LeRoy and Richard Arlen, later went on to successful film careers.
" The Ghost Breaker" would be remade in the sound era as" The Ghost Breakers"( 1940) with Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard, and later as" Scared Stiff"( 1953) starring Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin.
George Marshall (director)
George E. Marshall (December 29, 1891 – February 17, 1975) was an American actor, screenwriter, producer, film and television director, active through the first six decades of film history.
Relatively few of Marshall's films are well-known today, with "Destry Rides AgainThe Blue DahliaThe Sheepman", and "How the West Was Won" being the biggest exceptions.
Marshall co-directed "
How the West Was Won" with John Ford and Henry Hathaway, handling the railroad segment, which featured a celebrated buffalo stampede sequence.
While Marshall worked on almost all kinds of films imaginable, he started his career in the early silent period doing mostly Westerns, a genre he never completely abandoned.
In the 1930s, he established a reputation for comedy, directing Laurel and Hardy in three classic films, and also working on a variety of comedies for Fox (Many of his films at Fox were destroyed in a vault fire in 1937).
Later in his career, he was particularly sought after for comedies.
He did around half a dozen films each with Bob Hope and Jerry Lewis, and also worked with W. C. Fields, Jackie Gleason, and Will Rogers.
Julian Amyes
Julian Charles Becket Amyes( 9 August 1917 – 26 April 1992), known as Julian Amyes, was a British film and television director and producer.
Although primarily director and producer, Amyes also had acting roles in" High Treason"( 1951) and" Mandy"( 1952).
Amyes made his directorial début with a BBC" Sunday Night Theatre" version of Shakespeare's" The Merry Wives of Windsor" in 1952 and also directed a number of other productions for BBC before joining Granada Television in the early 1960s, where he was head of drama from 1963 until 1977.
Film credits( as director) include" A Hill in Korea"( 1956), and the Emeric Pressburger- written" Miracle in Soho"( 1957).
After 1977, he returned to directing predominantly in television directing( amongst other works) adaptations of" The Old Curiosity Shop"( 1979)," Great Expectations"( 1981) and" Jane Eyre"( 1983) for the BBC.
Amyes also worked on a number of independent productions, before acting as director on episodes of" The Bill"( 1990) and" Rumpole of the Bailey"( 1989–91) for Thames Television.
He was married to the actress/ writer Anne Allan.
They had two children; Sebastian a Professor at the University of Edinburgh and Isabelle, an Actress.
Julian
Amyes died of a stroke in 1992.
Henry Moore (cricketer)
Henry Walter Moore( 1849 – 20 August 1916) was an English- born first- class cricketer who spent most of his life in New Zealand.
A Hill in Korea
A Hill in Korea is a 1956 British war film based on Max Catto's 1953 novel of the same name.
The original name was Hell in Korea, but was changed for distribution reasons, except in the U.S. It was directed by Julian Amyes and the producer was Anthony Squire.
Incidental music was written by Malcolm Arnold.
It was the first major feature film to portray British troops in action during the Korean War and introduces Michael Caine (himself a veteran of the Korean War) in his first credited film role.
There are also early screen appearances by Stanley Baker, Robert Shaw and Roland Lewis.
Hartley Lobban
Hartley W Lobban (9 May 1926 – 15 October 2004) was a Jamaican-born first-class cricketer who played 17 matches for Worcestershire in the early 1950s.
The Ghost Breakers
The Ghost Breakers is a 1940 American horror comedy film directed by George Marshall and starring Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard.
The film was adapted by Walter DeLeon from the play" The Ghost Breaker" by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard.
Along with" Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein" and Hope and Goddard's own" The Cat and the Canary", it is cited as a prime example of the classic Hollywood horror- comedy.
John McMahon (Surrey and Somerset cricketer)
John William Joseph McMahon( 28 December 1917 – 8 May 2001) was an Australian- born first- class cricketer who played for Surrey and Somerset in England from 1947 to 1957.
The Ghost Breaker (1914 film)
The Ghost Breaker was a 1914 American silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar C. Apfel and based on the Broadway play of the same name by Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard.
The film was distributed by Paramount Pictures under the Famous Players- Lasky banner.
" The Ghost Breaker" was possibly the first film in a long line of haunted- house horror films with the same story.
A 1922 remake of the same name starred Wallace Reid and Lila Lee.
The original film was also remade as" The Ghost Breakers"( 1940) with Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard, and as" Scared Stiff"( 1953) with Martin and Lewis.
The film is now considered lost.
Wale Adebanwi
Wale Adebanwi( born 1969) is a Nigerian- born first Black Rhodes Professor at St Antony's College, Oxford.

Question: Which film whose director was born first, The Ghost Breakers or A Hill In Korea?
Answer: The Ghost Breakers