H. Bruce Humberstone
# H. Bruce Humberstone

H. Bruce "Lucky" Humberstone (November 18, 1901 – October 11, 1984) was an American film director. He was previously a movie actor (as a child), a script clerk, and an assistant director, working with directors such as King Vidor, Edmund Goulding, and Allan Dwan.

## Early years

Humberstone was born in Buffalo, New York, and attended Miami Military Academy in Miami, Florida.

## Film

One of 28 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 the seminal film noir I Wake Up Screaming (1941) and his work on some of the Charlie Chan films. In the 1950s, Humberstone worked mostly on TV. He retired in 1966.

## Recognition

Humberstone has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

## Death

Humberstone died of pneumonia in Woodland Hills, California, on October 11, 1984, aged 82, and was buried at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, California.

## Partial filmography as director

* Street Scene (1931)
* The Crooked Circle (1932)
* If I Had a Million (1932) ("The Forger" segment)
* Goodbye Love (1933)
* King of the Jungle (1933)
* Merry Wives of Reno (1934)
* The Dragon Murder Case (1934)
* Three Live Ghosts (1935)
* Ladies Love Danger (1935)
* Charlie Chan at the Race Track (1936)
* Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936)
* Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937)
* Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938)
* Rascals (1938)
* Checkers (1938)
* Pardon Our Nerve (1939)
* Pack Up Your Troubles (1939)
* The Quarterback (1940)
* Lucky Cisco Kid (1940)
* I Wake Up Screaming (1941)
* Sun Valley Serenade (1941)
* Tall, Dark and Handsome (1941)
* Iceland (1942)
* To the Shores of Tripoli (1942)
* Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943)
* Pin Up Girl (1944)
* Wonder Man (1945)
* Three Little Girls in Blue (1946)
* The Homestretch (1947)
* Fury at Furnace Creek (1948)
* South Sea Sinner (1950)
* Happy Go Lovely (1952) British
* She's Working Her Way Through College (1953)
* The Desert Song (1953)
* Ten Wanted Men (1955)
* The Purple Mask (1955)
* Tarzan and the Lost Safari (1957)
* Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958)
* Tarzan and the Trappers (1958)
* Madison Avenue (1961)
