H. Bruce Humberstone (Director)

Reviews of movies from director H. Bruce Humberstone

Looking for reviews of films directed by H. Bruce Humberstone? Cinafilm has a total of 148 reviews across 16 movies directed by H. Bruce Humberstone.

Movies from this director have generally received positive reviews and hold an average rating of 61%.

Sun Valley Serenade is H. Bruce Humberstone's highest rated movie, with a score of 75% based on 12 reviews.

The lowest rated film from H. Bruce Humberstone is Tarzan and the Trappers, with a score of 38% based on 1 reviews.

Director Biography

H. Bruce 'Lucky' Humberstone (b. November 18, 1901, Buffalo, New York - d. October 11, 1984, Los Angeles, California) was a movie actor (as a child), a script clerk, an assistant director, working with directors such as King Vidor, Edmund Goulding and Allan Dwan and, ultimately, a director.

One of twenty-eight founders of the Directors Guild of America, Humberstone worked on several silent movie films for 20th Century Fox. Humberstone did not specialize; he worked on comedies, dramas, and melodramas. Humberstone is best known today for his work on some of the Charlie Chan films. In the 1950s, Humberstone worked mostly on TV.

He retired in 1962, and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He died in 1984, aged 82.

H. Bruce Humberstone has directed films starring Bess Flowers, John Payne, Marc Lawrence and Richard Lane.

H. Bruce Humberstone has collaborated with these film directors: Ernst Lubitsch, William A. Seiter, Norman Taurog and Norman Z. McLeod.