Oral history interview with Albert Edward Sutherland, 1959

Biographical Note

Director, actor

Scope and Contents

Early career in Hollywood filmmaking; Tommy Meehan; Mack Sennett and the Keystone Film Company; Charlie Chaplin; Harold Lloyd; careers of many Hollywood celebrities; Buster Keaton; Laurel & Hardy; movie director, stunt man, propman; Ralph Spence; impressions of other comedy writers and directors; John Ford, Frank Capra; movies as escapism; Bebe Daniels; W. C. Fields; testifying against the Neeley bill before Senate Investigation Committee; Westerns; unions; Douglas Fairbanks, Sr; INTERNATIONAL HOUSE. Audio is comprised of narrator's excerpts from the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's radio program series "Memoirs of the Movies"

Subjects

• Actors--Interviews.
• Franklin, Joan, interviewer.
• Franklin, Robert, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Motion picture acting.
• Motion picture producers and directors--Interviews.
• Motion pictures--Production and direction.
• Motion pictures.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Sutherland, A. Edward (Albert Edward), 1897-1973--Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1980