George Breakston
George Paul Breakston (January 22, 1920 – May 21, 1973) was a French-American actor, producer and film director, active in Hollywood from his days as a child actor in Andy Hardy films in the 1930s (where he played the character "Beezy"), to a period as an independent producer/director in the 1950s. Biography. Breakston was the son of the American actor Bernard Breiter, known as Bernie Breakston, and his French-born wife Jacqueline DuVal. George Breakston first entered the entertainment world by working in radio as a child actor from 1930. Hs came to the notice of Hollywood  and appeared in a variety of films. He made his stage debut in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and made his motion picture debut in "It Happened One Night" (1934). During World War II he was commissioned in the US Army Signal Corps through Officers Candidate School then served in the Pacific War as a photographer. When the war ended Breakston remained in Japan. He reentered the civilian film world by co-writing, producing, directing and starring in "Urubu: The Vulture People" filmed in location in the Mato Grosso, Brazil. He followed it up with the documentary "African Stampede" filmed  in the Belgian Congo and Kenya where he would later make his home. Returning to Japan, Breakston co-produced and wrote "Tokyo File 212" a 1951 American film credited as Hollywood's first feature film totally filmed in Japan. He followed it up by filming and directing "Oriental Evil" (1951) and "Geisha Girl" (1952) in Japan. He had planned a film, which according to "Los Angeles Times" had interested Errol Flynn. Breakston moved to Kenya filming several safari adventure feature films "The Scarlet Spear", "Golden Ivory", "Escape in the Sun", and "Woman and the Hunter". Many of these featured John  Bentley who starred in a television series produced by Breakston and filmed in Kenya, "African Patrol". Breakston also filmed another series in Kenya "Adventures of a Jungle Boy" (1957) and planned a third "Trader Horn". Breakston joined the horror bandwagon by making "The Manster" back in Japan, then made several films in Yugoslavia. He died in Paris in 1973.