Maurice Elvey

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1887-11-11 (80 years old)

Deathday

1967-08-28

Place of Birth

Stockton-on-Tees, England, UK

Maurice Elvey

Biography

Maurice Elvey was born in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England, the oldest son of William Clarence Folkard, an inspecting engineer, and Sarah Anna Seward Folkard (formerly Pearce). He never had a formal education, and was working on the streets of London by the age of nine after having run away from home. For a time he worked as a page boy in the Hyde Park Hotel, and a lucky encounter with a wealthy American set him on the road to a career in first the theatre and then in films. It was while in New York when working as a stage producer that he saw his first film, The Flying Dutchman (1923). This made such an impression on him that when he...

Production

1935

The Tunnel

as Director

1935

The Clairvoyant

as Director

1955

1913

1913

1913

Popsy Wopsy

as Director

1913

The Fallen idol

as Director

1914

Beautiful Jim

as Director

1914

1914

1914

1914

Inquisitive Ike

as Director

1914

Black-Eyed Susan

as Director

1923

1918

Adam Bede

as Director

1920

Bleak House

as Director

1920

1946

Beware of Pity

as Producer

1946

Beware of Pity

as Director

1927

Hindle Wakes

as Director

1929

High Treason

as Director

1956

Dry Rot

as Director

1951

1939

Sons of the Sea

as Director

1954

The Gay Dog

as Director

1933

I Lived with You

as Director

1934

1953

1921

1933

1932

The Lodger

as Director

1955

1944

1955

1954

1933

1932

1931

1921

The Devil's Foot

as Director

1931

1943

1918

Nelson

as Director

1936

Spy of Napoleon

as Director

1953

The Great Game

as Director

1951

1934

My Song for You

as Director

1923

The Sign of Four

as Director

1952

My Wife's Lodger

as Director

1924

Curlytop

as Director

1937

1936

1940

Under Your Hat

as Director

1934

Road House

as Director

1935

Heat Wave

as Director

1919

1932

Frail Women

as Director

1940

For Freedom

as Director

1915

1957

Second Fiddle

as Director

1939

Sword of Honour

as Producer

1939

Sword of Honour

as Director

1928

Balaclava

as Director

1932

1927

Hindle Wakes

as Producer

1939

Sons of the Sea

as Screenplay

1954

1927

1915

Love in a Wood

as Director

1933

The Lost Chord

as Director

1940

The Spider

as Director

1934

1924

1922

A Debt of Honour

as Director

1924

1922

1921

1954

1930

1930

1930

1944

Strawberry Roan

as Director

1933

1932

1932

1931

Potiphar's Wife

as Adaptation

1931

Potiphar's Wife

as Director

1922

1923

Sally Bishop

as Director

1927

Human Law

as Director

1942

1938

Who Goes Next?

as Director

1919

The Swindler

as Director

1926

Glamis Castle

as Director

1926

1926

Windsor Castle

as Director

1918

Hindle Wakes

as Director

1920

Darby and Joan

as Producer

1923

Don Quixote

as Director

1927

1927

Quinneys

as Director

1927

The Arcadians

as Producer

1927

A Woman in Pawn

as Producer

1928

1927

The Glad Eye

as Producer

1919

Comradeship

as Director

1927

Roses of Picardy

as Producer

1938

1917

Masks and Faces

as Producer

1928

Palais De Danse

as Director

1914

The Suicide Club

as Director

1919

God's Good Man

as Director

1921

Innocent

as Director

1923

1943

The Gentle Sex

as Co-Director

1927

Roses of Picardy

as Director

1927

The Glad Eye

as Director

1928

1925

Folly of Vanity

as Director

1944

Medal for the General

as Associate Producer

1956

1923

The Royal Oak

as Director

1921

1921

1921

1921

The Yellow Face

as Director

1921

1921

1921

1921

1921

1921

1921

1921

The Empty House

as Director

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Vice Versa

as Director

1937

1928

Palais De Danse

as Producer

1921

1920

1920

1916

1921

1923

Guy Fawkes

as Director

1922

Running Water

as Director

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