Vintage 8 x 10 in. US single-weight glossy copy photograph (not a vintage original photo printed at the time it was taken) depicting motion picture director A. EDWARD SUTHERLAND (AKA Eddie Sutherland). He is depicted in a candid shot taken on a set during the production of film as he sits in his director's chair while the script girl takes notes. It is in very fine condition. British-born A. Edward ("Eddie") Sutherland started in vaudeville and acted in films from 1914 at the Mack Sennett Studios (he was one of the original Keystone Kops). He became a director in 1925, first with Paramount (1925-31), then at United Artists (1931-32), again with Paramount (1933, 1935-37), then Universal (1940-41), and RKO (1942). He hit his stride in the 1930s and 1940s with a string of well-received comedies starring Laurel Hardy and W.C. Fields, but his Abie's Irish Rose (1946), an adaptation of the often-filmed stage play, which he also produced, was such a critical and financial disaster that he could not find work as a director in Hollywood again. In the 1950s, he went to Britain and ended his career directing episodic television.