
Directing
Community Rating
4.7
TMDB estimate
Born
March 31, 1889
Died
April 8, 1974 (age 85)
Born in
San Francisco, California, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Harry L. Fraser (31 March 1889 - 8 April 1974) was an American film director. He directed over 80 films between 1925 and 1951, including the 1934 John Wayne film Randy Rides Alone and the Frank Buck cliffhanger serial Jungle Menace (1937). He had a small acting role in the John Wayne film 'Neath the Arizona Skies. He also wrote screenplays, including Chick Carter, Detective (1946). In his autobiography, Fraser described filming the scene in Jungle Menace during which a boa constrictor attacks the heroine Dorothy (Charlotte Henry). The villain has tied Dorothy hand and foot and she thrashes about wildly, terrified when she suddenly sees the huge snake: "The snake was in no hurry. Slowly he slithered across the girl's body, while she screamed and struggled. He turned, looking for a spot to slip under her to make his first wrap. I motioned to the reptile crew to get ready, and a split-second later gave them the signal to move in. But now, the maddened snake fought them and did its best to coil around one of the men. Before that happened, however, I had cut, and we had a good cliff-hanger with our terror-stricken heroine to close the episode." Description above from the Wikipedia article Harry L. Fraser, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

The Cyclops
as Assistant Director
1957

Chained for Life
as Director
1952

Abilene Trail
as Screenplay
1951

Short Grass
as Assistant Director
1950

Stallion Canyon
as Director
1949

Stampede
as Assistant Director
1949

Tex Granger: Midnight Rider of the Plains
as Screenplay
1948
The People's Choice
as Director
1946

Son of the Guardsman
as Screenplay
1946

Chick Carter, Detective
as Screenplay
1946

Jungle Terror
as Director
1946

Thunder Town
as Director
1946

Ambush Trail
as Screenplay, Director
1946

Six Gun Man
as Writer, Director
1946

Navajo Kid
as Director, Screenplay
1945

Flaming Bullets
as Director, Screenplay
1945

Frontier Fugitives
as Director
1945

Three in the Saddle
as Director
1945

The White Gorilla
as Director, Writer, Producer
1945

Enemy of the Law
as Director, Screenplay
1945