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Elizabeth Burbridge

Elizabeth Burbridge

1895 - 1987

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The actress and screenwriter Elizabeth Burbridge joined the film business in 1913 where she soon became a popular movie star in the next years. 

To her first movies belong "Too Many Maids" (13), "Turning the Table" (13), "His Father" (13), "The Mystery of Buffalo Gap" (14), "The Colonel of the Nuts" (14), "The Heart of a Crook" (14), "The Gangster and the Girl" (14), "Shorty and Sherlock Holmes" (14) and "The Face on the Ceiling" (14) as well as a whole movie serial about the figure Slim - impersonated by Walter Rodgers - among them "Slim and the Boys at Breezy Ranch" (13), "Slim's Last Trick" (14), "Slim's Strategy" (14), "Slim and the Indinans" (14) and "Slim Joins the Army" (14).

In the next years followed again numerous movies in which she was convincing as an actress. To these movies belong "A Midas of the Desert" (15), "Tricked" (15), "The Spark from the Embers" (15), "Rumpelstiltskin" (15), "The Promoter" (15), "Blind Justice" (15), "The House of Revelation" (16), "Golden Lies" (16), "The Spider's Web" (16) and "Charity" (16).

Afterwards she retired from the film business as an actress and concentrated to her second career as a screenwriter.
In contrast to her own appearance with the innocent look and the delicately chiseled features she became established as a screen writer for western movies. She wrote more than 120 movies in the next years, among them only few for other genres.

To these productions belong the silent movies "The Brand of Hate" (17), "Tears and Smiles" (17), "Rough Ridin'" (24), "Fast and Fearless" (24), "Full Speed" (25), "The Galloping Jinx" (25), "The Fighting Cheat" (26), "Easy Going" (26), "Rawhide" (26), "The Bonanza Buckaroo" (26), "Pals in Peril" (27), "The Phantom Buster" (27) and "The Cowboy Cavalier" (28).

Her busiest time as a screen writer followed in the sound film era of the 30s and she was also responsible for many western movies with Gene Autry.
To her works of those years belong "In Old Cheyenne" (31), "Chinatown After Dark" (31), "The Lone Trail" (32), "Phantom Thunderbolt" (33), "Girl Trouble" (33), "Arizona Nights" (34), "Tracy Rides" (35), "Reckless Roads" (35), "Wild Horse Rodeo" (37), "Under Western Stars" (38), "Pals of the Saddle" (38), "Red River Range" (38), "New Frontier" (39) and "South of the Border" (39).

With the end of the western boom at the end of the 40s her activity as a screen writer diminished as well. In the 40s she wrote the scripts for productions like "Rancho Grande" (40), "Under Texas Skies" (40), "Riders of the Badlands" (41), "Robin Hood of the Range" (43), "The Cisco Kid Returns" (45), "Oregon Trail" (45), "Alias Billy the Kid" (46), "The Man from Rainbow Valley" (46), "The Return of Wildfire" (48) and "The Daring Caballero" (49).

She only wrote few scripts in the 50s, among them for the Gene Autry Show and an episode for the serial "The Range Rider: The Bandit Stallion" (52).
 

Other movies with Elizabeth Burbridge (Actress): 
Slim Proposes, But... (13) Slim and the Outlaws (13) Slim Turns the Tables (13) Slim Slam 'Em Slammed (14) Slim and the Money Pots (14) Slim and the Dynamiters (14) Slim Becomes an Editor (14) Slim to the Rescue (14) Slim Becomes a Cook (14) Pretzel Captures the Smugglers (14) Colonel Custard's Last Stand (14) Black Hands and Dirty Money (14) The Girl Bandit (14) Why Kentucky Went Dry (14) Strange Evidence (14) Pretzel's Baby (14) That Cuckooville Horse Race (14) A Neighborly Quarrel (14) A Common Mistake (14) Vengeance Is Mine (14) The Fires of Ambition (14) The Latent Spark (14) The Curse of Humanity (14) Shorty and the Fortune Teller (14) The Robbery at Pine River (14) One of the Discard (14) The Word of His People (14) In the Clutches of the Gangsters (14) A Romance of Old Holland (14) Mother Hulda (15) A Lucky Blowout (15) The Bride of Guadaloupe (15) The Winged Messenger (15) The Disillusionment of Jane (15) Her Alibi (15) Shorty's Troubled Sleep (15) The Lighthouse Keeper's Son (15) Shorty's Ranch (15) Matrimony (15) The Connecting Link (15) Reckoning Day (15) The Winged Idol (15) The Tongues of Men (16) The White Alley (16) The House of Surprise (16) A Man's Work (16) The Danger Line (16) The Double Cros (16) The Schemers (16)

Writer:
Captain Kiddo (17) Milady o' the Beanstalk (18) Battling Buddy (24) Walloping Wallace (24) Hard-Hittin' Hamilton (24) Rip Roarin' Roberts (24) Reckless Courage (25) Double Action Daniels (25) Quicker 'n Lightnin' (25) Saddle Cyclone (25) The Roaring Rider (26) Trumpin' Trouble (26) Tangled Herds (26) Vanishing Hoofs (26) The Twin Triggers (26) Double Daring (26) Twisted Triggers (26) Ace of Action (26) Bad Man's Bluff (26) Tearin' Into Trouble (27) Code of the Cow Country (27) White Pebbles (27) The Interferin' Gent (27) The Soda Water Cowboy (27) The Ballyhoo Buster (28) Flyin' Buckaroo (28) The Sign of the Wolf (31) Law of the Rio Grande (31) Is There Justice? (31) Anoybody's Blonde (31) Neck and Neck (31) Mounted Fury (31) Sin's Py Day (32) Hell-Fire Austin (32) Between Fighting Men (32) The Secrets of Wu Sin (32) The Racing Strain (32) The Lone Avenger (33) Dance Hall Hostess (33) Secrets of Hollywood (33) The Boss Cowboy (34) Potluck Pards (34) Rawhide Mail (34) Rainbow Riders (34) Ridin' Gents (34) Redhead (34) Calling All Cars (35) Rescue Squad (35) Honeymoon Limited (35) Get That Man (35) Melody Trail (35) False Pretenses (35) The Singing Vagabond (35) The Crime Patrol (36) Paradise Express (37) Come on, Cowboys (37) Springtime in the Rockies (37) The Purple Vigilantes (38) Outlaws of Sonora (38) Riders of the Black Hills (38) Gold Mine in the Sky (38) Heroes of the Hills (38) Man from Music Mountain (38) Prairie Moon (38) Santa Fe Stampede (38) The Night Riders (39) Three Texas Steers (39) Wyoming Outlaw (39) Colorado Sunset (39)  The Kansas Terrors (39) Rovin' Tumbleweeds (39) Gaucho Serenade (40) Ride Tenderfoot Ride (40) Melody Ranch (40) Thunder Over the Prairie (41) Stardust on the Sage (42) Santa Fe Scouts (43) Frontier Fury (43) Oklahoma Raiders (44) West of the Rio Grande (44) Song of the Range (44) Utah (45) The Cisco Kid in Old New Mexico (45) The Cherokee Flash (45) Moon Over Montana (46) Home on the Range (46) Out California Way (46) Where the North Begins (47) Trail of the Mounties (47) Serie "Cisco Kid" (50-51) Serie "The Gene Autry Show: The Posse" (50) Serie "The Gene Autry Show: The Raiders" (51) Serie "The Gene Autry Show: Melody Mesa" (52)


 
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