1. Delmer "Del" Lord was a Canadian film director and actor best known as a director of Three Stooges films.
12 Facts About Del Lord
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Delmer Lord was born in the small town of Grimsby, Ontario, Canada.
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Interested in the theatre, he traveled to New York City, then when fellow Canadian Mack Sennett offered him a job at his new Keystone Studios, Lord went on to work in Hollywood, California.
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Del Lord was responsible for a number of very successful comedies for Keystone and directed two feature films for Universal Pictures.
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Del Lord was the ideal man to direct, and he worked on these comedies exclusively for a year.
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From 1935 to 1945, Del Lord directed some of Columbia's fastest and funniest two-reelers and is credited with developing the unique comic style of the Three Stooges.
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Del Lord made one feature film there, What Price Vengeance.
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In 1945 Monogram Pictures announced that Del Lord would produce and direct its feature-length musical Swing Parade of 1946, which would feature the Three Stooges.
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Del Lord withdrew from the project, and Monogram assigned him to a Bowery Boys comedy, In Fast Company.
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In 1952 Del Lord directed Buster Keaton in an industrial featurette, A Paradise for Buster.
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Del Lord can be seen in an episode of TV's This Is Your Life, honoring Lord's old boss Mack Sennett.
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Del Lord died on March 23,1970, in Calabasas, California, and is interred in the Olivewood Memorial Park, in Riverside, California.