Known for Directing
Hugh Boswell was a Canadian-born assistant director, screen actor, and production manager.
Born
October 30, 1888
Died
January 14, 1964 (age 75)
Birthplace
Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
Filmography
20 films


An American in Paris
1951 · 1h 53m · US
Jerry Mulligan is an exuberant American expatriate in Paris trying to make a reputation as a painter. His friend Adam is a struggling concert pianist who's a long time associate of a famous French singer, Henri Baurel. A lonely society woman, Milo Roberts, takes Jerry under her wing and supports him, but is interested in more than his art.


Maisie Gets Her Man
1942 · 1h 25m · US
Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton in prison, how will Sothern prove their innocence?


Honky Tonk
1941 · 1h 45m · US
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.


The Wild Man of Borneo
1941 · 1h 18m · US
A medicine show man tries to con people into believing he's a legitimate stage actor.


I Take This Woman
1940 · 1h 38m · US
On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic in the slums.


It's a Wonderful World
1939 · 1h 26m · US
Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by the police, tried, convicted and sentenced to jail: Guy for a year with Willie to be executed. On the way to jail, Guy comes across a clue and escapes from the police.


Stand Up and Fight
1939 · 1h 37m · US
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.


Public Hero Number 1
1935 · 1h 29m · US
G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.


Red Dust
1932 · 1h 23m · US
Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to evade the police. When his new surveyor arrives along with his refined wife Dennis is quickly infatuated by her.


Susan Lenox
1931 · 1h 16m · US
A young woman runs away from an abusive home and pre-arranged marriage only to be frustrated in her attempts to find happiness with a handsome engineer.


Beverly of Graustark
1926 · 1h 10m · US
Beverly Calhoun impersonates the Prince of Graustark to claim his birthright while he recovers from a skiing injury. In the meantime, she falls for her bodyguard Dantan.