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George Paul Breakston (January 22, 1920 – May 21, 1973) was a French-American actor, producer and film director,〔http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/8262〕 active in Hollywood from his days as a child actor in Andy Hardy films in the 1930s, to a period as an independent producer/director in the 1950s. ==Biography== Breakston first entered the entertainment world by working in radio as a child actor from 1930. Hs came to the notice of Hollywood and appeared in a variety of films.〔''Obituary'' ''Variety'' 30 May 1973〕 He made his stage debut in ''A Midsummernight's Dream'' and made his motion picture debut in ''It Happened One Night'' (1934). During World War II he was commissioned in the US Army Signal Corps through Officers Candidate School〔http://www.armysignalocs.com/ww2/42_09.html〕 then served in the Pacific Theatre of Operations as a photographer. When the war ended Breakston remained in Japan. He reentered the civilian film world by co-writing, producing, directing and starring in ''Urubu: The Vulture People'' filmed in location in the Mato Grosso, Brazil. He followed it up with the documentary ''African Stampede'' filmed in the Belgian Congo and Kenya where he would later make his home. Returning to Japan, Breakston co-produced and wrote ''Tokyo File 212'' a 1951 American film credited as Hollywood's first feature film totally filmed in Japan.〔p. 103 Edwards, Paul M. '' A Guide to Films on the Korean War'' Greenwood Publishing Group, 1997〕 He followed it up by filming and directing ''Oriental Evil'' (1951) and ''Geisha Girl'' (1952) in Japan. Breakston moved to Kenya filming several safari adventure feature films ''The Scarlet Spear'', ''Golden Ivory'', ''Escape in the Sun'', and ''The Woman and the Hunter''. Many of these featured John Bentley who starred in a television series produced by Breakston and filmed in Kenya, ''African Patrol''. Breakston also filmed another series in Kenya ''Adventures of a Jungle Boy'' (1957) and planned a third ''Trader Horn''.〔''Billboard'' 3 Feb 1958〕 Breakston joined the horror bandwagon by making ''The Manster'' back in Japan then made several films in Yugoslavia. He died in Paris in 1973. 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「George Breakston」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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