William F. Claxton
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1914-10-22 (82 years old)
Deathday
1996-02-11
Place of Birth
Los Angeles County, California, USA
Also known As
Bill Claxton
William Claxton
William F. Claxton
Biography
William Francis Claxton (October 22, 1914 – February 11, 1996) was an American film and television producer, editor and director. He made a number of films for Robert L. Lippert. He also directed and produced episodes of Bonanza,[1] the NBC-TV series Little House on the Prairie, and also directed episodes of the NBC-TV series Father Murphy, The Rifleman, The Twilight Zone, Fame, and The High Chaparral. Claxton got his start in Hollywood as a film editor in the 1940s, where he was employed an editor for Edward Small Productions, as he would move into directing of second feature films by 1950s and 1960s, and also delve into television directin...
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1947
as Editor
1972
as Director
1947
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as Director
1956
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1957
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1985
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1954
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1965
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1948
as Editor
1957
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1960
as Director
1976
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1941
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1946
as Editor
1949
as Director
1947
as Editor
1957
as Producer
1957
as Director
1988
as Director
1947
as Supervising Editor
1946
as Editor
1946
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1956
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1940
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1941
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1951
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1949
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1948
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1948
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1958
as Director
1960
as Director
1953
as Director
1947
as Supervising Editor
1954
as Director
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