Fred Paul Explained

Fred Paul (1880–1967) was a Swiss-born British actor and film director.^[1] Paul was born in Lausanne in 1880 but moved to Britain at a young age. He was a prolific actor and director in the 1910s and 1920s, but his career dramatically declined with the arrival of sound films.^[2]

Selected filmography

Director

• The Dop Doctor (1915)
• Infelice (1915)
• The Second Mrs Tanqueray (1916)
• The Vicar of Wakefield (1916)
• Lady Windermere's Fan (1916)
• Her Greatest Performance (1916)
• The Lyons Mail (1916)
• The Duchess of Seven Dials (1920)
• The House on the Marsh (1920)
• Lady Tetley's Decree (1920)
• The Little Welsh Girl (1920)
• The English Rose (1920)
• Uncle Dick's Darling (1920)
• A Woman Misunderstood (1921)
• If Four Walls Told (1922)
• The Recoil (1924)
• The Last Witness (1925)
• Safety First (1926)
• Thou Fool (1926)
• The Luck of the Navy (1927)
• The Broken Melody (1929)
• In a Lotus Garden (1931)
• Romany Love (1931)

Actor

• East Lynne (1913)
• Sixty Years a Queen (1913)
• Lights of London (1914)
• The Dop Doctor (1915)
• Infelice (1915)
• The Rogues of London (1915)
• A Cinema Girl's Romance (1915)
• John Halifax, Gentleman (1915)
• If Four Walls Told (1922)
• The Right to Strike (1923)
• The Last Witness (1925)

Producer

• Dombey and Son (1917)

References

1. Web site: BFI | Film & TV Database | PAUL, Fred . 2011-05-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121023081736/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/5168 . 2012-10-23 . dead .
2. Web site: BFI Screenonline: Paul, Fred (1880-1967) Biography.