death_place death_date birth_place birth_date yearsactive article_title name occupation
los angeles california 24 july 1960 new york city 11 september 1886 1913 - 1938 jacques jaccard
 jacques jaccard film director screenwriter
jacques jaccard

jacques jaccard -lrb- september 11 , 1886 -- july 24 , 1960 -rrb- was an american film director , writer and actor whose achievements in cinema were mostly in silent film .
jaccard was born in new york city .
he directed 86 films and wrote the scripts for almost 80 films .
the best-known of his films as a director was `` the diamond from the sky '' -lrb- 1915 -rrb- .
jaccard began his movie career in 1913 as an actor .
while working as an actor , he also worked as an assistant director .
he began working for universal pictures and specialized in western and action films .
in the mid-1920s he began working for lower-rent studios such as goodwill pictures , syndicate pictures and arrow pictures .
when movies with sound became popular , jaccard 's career went downhill until he directed his last film , señor jim , in 1936 .
after that he worked as a screenwriter and dialogue director .
in 1940 he rejoined universal 's serial department as a dialogue coach , working on such popular serials as `` gang busters '' and `` adventures of the flying cadets '' .
jaccard retired in 1944 and died in los angeles , california , 1960 .
