Directing

Christy Cabanne

Born 1888-04-15

Saint Louis, Missouri, USA

Department: Directing

Biography

William Christy Cabanne (April 16, 1888 – October 15, 1950) was an American film director, screenwriter and silent film actor.

Known For

Prominent works featuring Christy Cabanne

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The Birth of a Nation

1915

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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages

1916

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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

1925

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The Mummy's Hand

1940

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The Musketeers of Pig Alley

1912

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The Mystery of the Leaping Fish

1916

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Scared to Death

1947

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The Old Actor

1912

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One Frightened Night

1935

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The World Gone Mad

1933

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Filmography & Credits

Complete career catalog (208 titles)

Title	Character / Role	Type	Year
Silver Trails	Director	Movie	1948
Back Trail	Director	Movie	1948
King of the Bandits	Director	Movie	1947
King of the Bandits	Story	Movie	1947
Robin Hood of Monterey	Director	Movie	1947
Scared to Death	Director	Movie	1947
Sensation Hunters	Director	Movie	1945
The Man Who Walked Alone	Director	Movie	1945
The Man Who Walked Alone	Screenplay	Movie	1945
The Man Who Walked Alone	Associate Producer	Movie	1945
Dixie Jamboree	Director	Movie	1944
Keep 'Em Slugging	Director	Movie	1943
Cinderella Swings It	Director	Movie	1943
Scattergood Survives a Murder	Director	Movie	1942
Timber!	Director	Movie	1942
Drums of the Congo	Director	Movie	1942
Top Sergeant	Director	Movie	1942
Scattergood Rides High	Director	Movie	1942
Scattergood Meets Broadway	Director	Movie	1941
Scattergood Pulls the Strings	Writer	Movie	1941
Scattergood Pulls the Strings	Director	Movie	1941
Scattergood Baines	Director	Movie	1941
The Devil's Pipeline	Director	Movie	1940
The Mummy's Hand	Director	Movie	1940
Black Diamonds	Director	Movie	1940
Hot Steel	Director	Movie	1940
Alias the Deacon	Director	Movie	1940
Danger On Wheels	Director	Movie	1940
The Man from Montreal	Director	Movie	1939
Legion of Lost Flyers	Director	Movie	1939
Tropic Fury	Director	Movie	1939
Mutiny on the Blackhawk	Director	Movie	1939
Smashing the Spy Ring	Director	Movie	1938
This Marriage Business	Director	Movie	1938
Night Spot	Director	Movie	1938
Everybody's Doing It	Director	Movie	1938
The Westland Case	Director	Movie	1937
Annapolis Salute	Story	Movie	1937
Annapolis Salute	Director	Movie	1937
You Can't Beat Love	Director	Movie	1937
The Outcasts of Poker Flat	Director	Movie	1937
Don't Tell the Wife	Director	Movie	1937
Criminal Lawyer	Director	Movie	1937
We Who Are About to Die	Director	Movie	1937
The Last Outlaw	Director	Movie	1936
Another Face	Director	Movie	1935
The Keeper of the Bees	Director	Movie	1935
One Frightened Night	Director	Movie	1935
Storm Over the Andes	Story	Movie	1935
Storm Over the Andes	Director	Movie	1935
Behind the Green Lights	Director	Movie	1935
Rendezvous at Midnight	Director	Movie	1935
A Girl of the Limberlost	Director	Movie	1934
Jane Eyre	Director	Movie	1934
When Strangers Meet	Director	Movie	1934
Money Means Nothing	Director	Movie	1934
Midshipman Jack	Director	Movie	1933
The World Gone Mad	Director	Movie	1933
Daring Daughters	Director	Movie	1933
The Unwritten Law	Director	Movie	1932
Red Haired Alibi	Director	Movie	1932
Hearts of Humanity	Director	Movie	1932
Western Limited	Director	Movie	1932
The Midnight Patrol	Director	Movie	1932
Hotel Continental	Director	Movie	1932
Convicted	Director	Movie	1931
Graft	Director	Movie	1931
The Sky Raiders	Director	Movie	1931
Carne de Cabaret	Director	Movie	1931
The Dawn Trail	Director	Movie	1930
Conspiracy	Director	Movie	1930
Restless Youth	Director	Movie	1928
Annapolis	Director	Movie	1928
Driftwood	Director	Movie	1928
Nameless Men	Director	Movie	1928
Altars of Desire	Director	Movie	1927
Monte Carlo	Director	Movie	1926
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ	Second Unit Director	Movie	1925
The Masked Bride	Director	Movie	1925
The Midshipman	Director	Movie	1925
Is Love Everything?	Director	Movie	1924
Is Love Everything?	Story	Movie	1924
The Sixth Commandment	Director	Movie	1924
The Sixth Commandment	Producer	Movie	1924
The Spitfire	Director	Movie	1924
Youth for Sale	Director	Movie	1924
The Average Woman	Director	Movie	1924
Till We Meet Again	Director	Movie	1922
Till We Meet Again	Writer	Movie	1922
Beyond the Rainbow	Writer	Movie	1922
Beyond the Rainbow	Director	Movie	1922
At the Stage Door	Director	Movie	1921
At the Stage Door	Writer	Movie	1921
Live and Let Live	Director	Movie	1921
Live and Let Live	Writer	Movie	1921
What's a Wife Worth?	Director	Movie	1921
What's a Wife Worth?	Writer	Movie	1921
The Stealers	Screenplay	Movie	1920
The Stealers	Story	Movie	1920
The Stealers	Director	Movie	1920
Life's Twist	Director	Movie	1920
The Notorious Mrs. Sands	Director	Movie	1920
Burnt Wings	Writer	Movie	1920
Burnt Wings	Director	Movie	1920
The Triflers	Director	Movie	1920
The Mayor of Filbert	Director	Movie	1919
The Pest	Director	Movie	1919
A Regular Fellow	Director	Movie	1919
Fighting Through	Director	Movie	1919
Fighting Through	Story	Movie	1919
Fighting Through	Producer	Movie	1919
Fighting Through	Presenter	Movie	1919
Cyclone Higgins, D.D.	Director	Movie	1918
Cyclone Higgins, D.D.	Screenplay	Movie	1918
Cyclone Higgins, D.D.	Story	Movie	1918
National Red Cross Pageant	Director	Movie	1917
Draft 258	Writer	Movie	1917
Draft 258	Director	Movie	1917
Miss Robinson Crusoe	Director	Movie	1917
Miss Robinson Crusoe	Writer	Movie	1917
The Slacker	Director	Movie	1917
The Slacker	Scenario Writer	Movie	1917
One of Many	Writer	Movie	1917
One of Many	Director	Movie	1917
The Great Secret	Writer	Movie	1917
The Great Secret	Director	Movie	1917
The Great Secret	Producer	Movie	1917
Diane of the Follies	Director	Movie	1916
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages	Second Assistant Director	Movie	1916
The Mystery of the Leaping Fish	Director	Movie	1916
Reggie Mixes In	Director	Movie	1916
Sold for Marriage	Director	Movie	1916
The Flying Torpedo	Director	Movie	1916
Daphne and the Pirate	Director	Movie	1916
Flirting with Fate	Director	Movie	1916
Pathways of Life	Director	Movie	1916
Double Trouble	Director	Movie	1915
Double Trouble	Scenario Writer	Movie	1915
Martyrs of the Alamo	Director	Movie	1915
Martyrs of the Alamo	Writer	Movie	1915
The Lamb	Director	Movie	1915
The Lamb	Screenplay	Movie	1915
The Failure	Writer	Movie	1915
The Failure	Director	Movie	1915
Enoch Arden	Director	Movie	1915
The Lost House	Director	Movie	1915
The Birth of a Nation	Assistant Director	Movie	1915
The Craven	Director	Movie	1915
The Three Brothers	Director	Movie	1915
His Lesson	Participant in Mob Scene (uncredited)	Movie	1915
The Better Way	Director	Movie	1914
The Better Way	Writer	Movie	1914
The Sisters	Writer	Movie	1914
The Sisters	Director	Movie	1914
The Saving Grace	Director	Movie	1914
The Odalisque	Director	Movie	1914
Her Awakening	Director	Movie	1914
Granny	Director	Movie	1914
A Lesson in Mechanics	Director	Movie	1914
Moonshine Molly	Director	Movie	1914
Down by the Sounding Sea	Director	Movie	1914
The City Beautiful	Director	Movie	1914
The Suffragette's Battle in Nuttyville	Director	Movie	1914
Arms and the Gringo	Director	Movie	1914
The Rebellion of Kitty Belle	Director	Movie	1914
The Life of General Villa	Director	Movie	1914
The Quicksands	Scenario Writer	Movie	1914
The Quicksands	Director	Movie	1914
The Hunchback	Director	Movie	1914
The Conscience of Hassan Bey	Director	Movie	1913
The Blue or the Gray	Writer	Movie	1913
The Blue or the Gray	Director	Movie	1913
By Man's Law	Director	Movie	1913
So Runs the Way	Writer	Movie	1913
So Runs the Way	Director	Movie	1913
The Adopted Brother	Director	Movie	1913
The Adopted Brother	Writer	Movie	1913
An Indian's Loyalty	Director	Movie	1913
During the Round-Up	Writer	Movie	1913
During the Round-Up	Director	Movie	1913
A Timely Interception	Writer	Movie	1913
The Sorrowful Shore	The Widowed Father's Son	Movie	1913
The Sorrowful Shore	Writer	Movie	1913
His Mother's Son	Writer	Movie	1913
The House of Darkness	Attack Victim	Movie	1913
The Wanderer	The Brother	Movie	1913
A Misunderstood Boy	Writer	Movie	1913
Near To Earth	A Businessman	Movie	1913
A Chance Deception	Writer	Movie	1913
An Adventure in the Autumn Woods	Writer	Movie	1913
The God Within	On Street (as W. Christy Cabanne)	Movie	1912
A Cry for Help	Witness to Accident	Movie	1912
Heredity	Indian	Movie	1912
The Musketeers of Pig Alley	At Dance (uncredited)	Movie	1912
So Near, Yet So Far	In Club / On Street	Movie	1912
Two Daughters of Eve	The Driver	Movie	1912
A Pueblo Legend	Puablo	Movie	1912
The Tragedy of a Dress Suit	At Party	Movie	1912
Lena and the Geese	Self / Appearance	Movie	1912
A Temporary Truce	An Indian (uncredited)	Movie	1912
A Beast at Bay	Self / Appearance	Movie	1912
A Lodging for the Night	First Mexican Couple - the Man (as W. Christy Cabanne)	Movie	1912
The Old Actor	at audition	Movie	1912
The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch	A Villain (uncredited)	Movie	1912
A String of Pearls	At Millionaire's Banquet	Movie	1912
Under Burning Skies	Emily's Beau	Movie	1912
For His Son	One of the Son's Friends / At Soda Fountain	Movie	1912
The Battle	A Union soldier (uncredited)	Movie	1911