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JAMES WHALE

James Whale was an English born homosexual Hollywood film director. He was born in 1893 at Dudley and died in 1957, committing suicide by drowning. He is best known for the horror films he directed for the Universal studios during the 1930's. A prisoner of War during the Great War, it was while a prisoner that he learned how to put on plays and after the war he worked on the London stage before moving to work on Broadway and then landing a contract with Paramount as a dialogue director, after which he moved to Universal.
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