From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia William Jackson Keighley August 4 1889 Philadelphia Pennsylvania June 24 1984 New York New York was an American stage actor and Hollywood film director After graduating from the Ludlum School of Dramatic Art Keighley began acting at the age of 23 By the 1910s and 1920s he was acting and directing on Broadway With the advent of talking pictures he relocated to Hollywood He eventually signed with Warner Bros where he proved adept at directing in a wide variety of genres He was the initial director of The Adventures of Robin Hood starring Errol Flynn but was replaced by Michael Curtiz During World War II he supervised the US Army Signal Corps motion picture unit He retired in 1953 and moved to Paris with his actress wife Genevieve Tobin Description above from the Wikipedia article William Keighley licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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