E. J. Babille Explained

E. J. Babille
Birth Name:Edward Julius Babille
Birth Date:3 May 1883
Birth Place:Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Death Place:Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupation:Assistant director
Yearsactive:1921-37

E.J. Babille (May 3, 1883 – February 18, 1970) was born Edward Julius Babille in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was an American assistant director in the silent and early sound film eras.

In the first twelve years of his career he would work almost exclusively with three directors: E. Mason Hopper, Edward H. Griffith, and Paul Stein, who directed seventeen of the twenty-one films on which Babille was the assistant director. He left the film industry in 1939, and died on February 18, 1970.

Filmography

(Per AFI database — all positions were as assistant director, unless otherwise noted)[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: E. J. Babille . American Film Institute . January 2, 2015.