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A. Edward Sutherland aka Eddie Sutherland (January 5, 1895 – December 31, 1973) was a film director and actor. Born Albert Edward Sutherland in London, he was from a theatrical family. His father, Al Sutherland, was a theatre manager and producer and his mother, Julie Ring, was a vaudeville performer. He was a nephew of both Blanche Ring and Thomas Meighan, who was married to Frances Ring, another of his mother's sisters.〔Barry Paris, 1990, ''Louise Brooks'', Anchor Books, p. 147〕 Sutherland acted in 37 known films early in his career, beginning as a Keystone Cop in ''Tillie's Punctured Romance'' (1914), which starred Charles Chaplin, Mabel Normand, and Marie Dressler. ==Career== Sutherland was directed by Charles Chaplin in ''A Woman of Paris'' (1923), two years before Sutherland began his directing career with the help of Chaplin. He is best known as a director; he directed more than 50 movies between 1925 and 1956. His breakout film was ''Behind the Front'' (1926), which made stars of the two leads and established Sutherland as a comedic director.〔Paris, p. 148〕 Frequently billed as "Eddie Sutherland," he is often noted for having an especially hard time working with Stan Laurel, whom he disliked ("I'd rather eat lunch with a tarantula than work with Laurel again"). He became close friends with the more famously acerbic W.C. Fields, with whom he established a lifelong friendship. Sutherland's last directing assignment was working on the ''Mack & Myer for Hire'' TV comedies with Joey Faye and Mickey Deans for Sandy Howard TV Productions and Trans-Lux Television in 1965. (Info can be found at www.tvparty.com.) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A. Edward Sutherland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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