Hugh Croise

Hugh Croise was a British actor, film director, and screenwriter.

He co-wrote the 1920 film By Berwin Banks. He portrayed Charles Devenish in the 1916 film Sally Bishop.

In 1922, he was part of a discussion on good filmmaking and his comments were reported in a newspaper. He noted the big budgets used in American filmmaking.

In 1924 he made a series of films for the Old Man in the Corner series adapted from short stories by Baroness Orczy. He made three featurettes with songs.

Filmography

Actor

• A London Flat Mystery (1915) as Inspector
• Driven (1916 film) as Mr. Crichton
• A London Flat Mystery (1916) as Bert Johnson
• Sally Bishop (1916 film) (1916) as Charles Devenish
• The Game of Liberty (1916), Under Suspicion for U.S. release, as Bert Johnson

Director

• Always Tell Your Wife (1923), filming was completed by Alfred Hitchcock
• The Old Man in the Corner (1924), a 12 two-reel series
• The Happy Prisoner (1924)
• Ragan in Ruins (1925)
• The Ball of Fortune (1926)
• Legend of Tichborne Dole (1926)
• The Raw Recruit (1928)
• Nap (1928), adapted from a 1914 play by Ernest Lotinga
• The Barrister (1928)
• Victoria Girls Skipping (1928), "Victoria Theatre Dancers"
• Scrooge (1928)
• Doing His Duty (1930)
• The Burglar and the Girl (1931)

Producer and screenwriter

• Three Men in a Boat adapted from a Jerome K. Jerome story
• Four Men in a Van

See also

• List of Stoll Pictures films (1924)