William F. Haddock
actor, assistant_director, director
- Birth name:
- William Frederick Haddock
- Born:
- 1877-11-27, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA
- Died:
- 1969-06-30, New York City, New York, USA
- Professions:
- actor, assistant_director, director
Biography
Born the day before Thanksgiving 1877 in the salt-stung port city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, William F. Haddock grew up where masts outnumbered streetlights. Before the world knew his name, he was already shuttling between coasts, trading stage boards for celluloid and stepping in front of the camera before deciding he preferred calling the shots from behind it. Between 1914 and 1919 he steered three features that still flicker in archives: the financial-triangle melodrama *The Banker’s Daughter*, the war-era morality tale *I Accuse*, and the whodunit *The Carter Case*. Off-set he claimed Rosa Viola Koch as his leading lady, a marriage that endured long after the klieg lights cooled. Ninety-one summers later, on the last day of June 1969, he took his final bow in Manhattan, the city that had long since replaced small-town New Hampshire as home.
