Entering films in 1914, onetime stage actor Elmer Clifton became a protege of D.W. Griffith. Clifton played major roles and functioned as a production assistant in Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916), then was assigned to direct a number of features produced by Griffith's unit at Triangle Films. Among his better directorial efforts was the Dorothy Gish vehicle Nugget Nell (1919), the seafaring epic Down to the Sea in Ships (1922) and the rousing urban melodrama Let 'Er Go, Gallegher (1926). Most of Clifton's talking pictures were programmers, potboilers, westerns and serials for the lesser-echelon studios. While directing the 1949 Ida Lupino-produced Not Wanted, Elmer Clifton fell ill, obliging Lupino to briefly take over the directorial reigns herself. Elmer Clifton died shortly afterward; the last film to bear his imprimatur was the 1950 western The Silver Bandit (1950).
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Outcast of Black Mesa
Screen Story |
1950 | |||
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Red Rock Outlaw
Director, Screenwriter |
1950 | |||
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The Silver Bandit
Director, Screenwriter |
1950 | |||
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Quick on the Trigger
Screenwriter |
1949 | |||
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The Judge
Director, Screenwriter |
1949 | |||
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The Kid from Gower Gulch
Screenwriter |
1949 | |||
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The Streets of Sin
Director |
1949 | |||
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Rainbow over the Rockies
Screenwriter |
1947 | |||
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West to Glory
Screenwriter |
1947 | |||
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Ambush Trail
Screenwriter |
1946 | |||
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Outlaw of the Plains
Screen Story |
1946 | |||
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Song of the Sierras
Screenwriter |
1946 | |||
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Frontier Fugitives
Screenwriter |
1945 | |||
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Lightning Raiders
Screenwriter |
1945 | |||
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Marked for Murder
Director, Screenwriter |
1945 | |||
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Youth Aflame
Director, Screenwriter |
1945 | |||
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Boss of the Rawhide
Director, Screenwriter |
1944 | |||
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Brand of the Devil
Screenwriter |
1944 | |||
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Captain America [Serial]
Director |
1944 | |||
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Gangsters of the Frontier
Director, Screenwriter |
1944 | |||
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Guns of the Law
Director, Screenwriter |
1944 | |||
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Gunsmoke Mesa
Screenwriter |
1944 | |||
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Outlaw Roundup
Screenwriter |
1944 | |||
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Seven Doors to Death
Director, Screenwriter |
1944 | |||
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Spook Town
Director, Screenwriter |
1944 | |||
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Swing, Cowboy, Swing
Director |
1944 | |||
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Teenage
Screenwriter |
1944 | |||
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The Pinto Bandit
Director, Screenwriter |
1944 | |||
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The Whispering Skull
Director |
1944 | |||
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Three in the Saddle
Screenwriter |
1944 | |||
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Bad Men of Thunder Gap
Screenwriter |
1943 | |||
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Cheyenne Roundup
Screenwriter |
1943 | |||
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Days of Old Cheyenne
Director |
1943 | |||
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Frontier Law
Director, Screenwriter |
1943 | |||
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Old Chisholm Trail
Director, Screenwriter |
1943 | |||
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Raiders of San Joaquin
Screenwriter |
1943 | |||
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The Blocked Trail
Director |
1943 | |||
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The Rangers Take Over
Screenwriter |
1943 | |||
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The Return of the Rangers
Director, Screenwriter |
1943 | |||
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The Sundown Kid
Director |
1943 | |||
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Deep in the Heart of Texas
Director |
1942 | |||
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City of Missing Girls
Director |
1941 | |||
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Dead or Alive
Director |
1941 | |||
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Hard Guy
Director |
1941 | |||
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I'll Sell My Life
Director, Producer, Screenwriter |
1941 | |||
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Swamp Woman
Director |
1941 | |||
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The Trail of the Silver Spurs
Screen Story |
1941 | |||
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Isle of Destiny
Director |
1940 | |||
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West of Pinto Basin
Screen Story |
1940 | |||
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Crashing Thru
Director |
1939 | |||
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California Frontier
Director |
1938 | |||
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Law of the Texan
Director |
1938 | |||
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Paroled from the Big House
Director |
1938 | |||
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Ten Laps to Go
Director |
1938 | |||
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The Secret of Treasure Island
Director |
1938 | |||
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The Stranger from Arizona
Director |
1938 | |||
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Wolves at Sea
Director |
1938 | |||
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Wolves of the Sea
Director, Screenwriter |
1938 | |||
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Crime Afloat
Director |
1937 | |||
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Crusade Against Rackets
Director |
1937 | |||
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Death in the Sky
Director |
1937 | |||
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Roaring Speedboats
Director |
1937 | |||
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Slaves in Bondage
Director |
1937 | |||
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Vice Racket
Director |
1937 | |||
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Custer's Last Stand
Director |
1936 | |||
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Death in the Air
Director |
1936 | |||
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Gambling with Souls
Director |
1936 | |||
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Wildcat Trooper
Director |
1936 | |||
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Assassin of Youth
Director |
1935 | |||
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Captured in Chinatown
Director, Screenwriter |
1935 | |||
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Cyclone in the Saddle
Director, Screenwriter |
1935 | |||
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Fighting Caballero
Director, Screenwriter |
1935 | |||
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Pals of the Range
Director, Screenwriter |
1935 | |||
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Rip Roaring Riley
Director |
1935 | |||
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Rough Riding Ranger
Director, Screenwriter |
1935 | |||
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Skull and Crown
Director |
1935 | |||
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Dark Endeavour
Director |
1933 | |||
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Maid to Order
Director |
1932 | |||
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Devil's Apple Tree
Director |
1929 | |||
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Beautiful But Dumb
Director |
1928 | |||
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Let 'Er Go, Gallegher
Director |
1928 | |||
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Tropical Nights
Director |
1928 | |||
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Virgin Lips
Director |
1928 | |||
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Wreck of the Hesperus
Director |
1927 | |||
| 1924 | ||||
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Daughters of the Night
Director |
1924 | |||
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The Warrens of Virginia
Director |
1924 | |||
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Six Cylinder Love
Director |
1923 | |||
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Down to the Sea in Ships
Director, Producer |
1922 | |||
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I'll Get Him Yet
Director |
1919 | |||
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Nugget Nell
Director |
1919 | |||
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Out of Luck
Director |
1919 | |||
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The Fall of Babylon
Actor |
1919 | |||
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Turning the Tables
Director |
1919 | |||
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Battling Jane
Director |
1918 | |||
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Brace Up
Director |
1918 | |||
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Flash of Fate
Director |
1918 | |||
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Guilt of Silence
Director |
1918 | |||
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Hope Chest
Director |
1918 | |||
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Kiss or Kill
Director |
1918 | |||
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Smashing Through
Director |
1918 | |||
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The Eagle
Director |
1918 | |||
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Winner Takes All
Director |
1918 | |||
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Flirting with Death
Director |
1917 | |||
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Her Official Fathers
Director |
1917 | |||
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High Sign
Director |
1917 | |||
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High Speed
Director |
1917 | |||
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Man Trap
Director |
1917 | |||
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Nina, the Flower Girl
Actor |
1917 | |||
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The Flame of Youth
Director |
1917 | |||
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The Midnight Man
Director |
1917 | |||
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Acquitted
Actor |
1916 | |||
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Intolerance
Actor |
1916 | |||
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The Little School Ma'am
Actor |
1916 | |||
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The Old Folks at Home
Actor |
1916 | |||
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Lost House
Actor |
1915 | |||
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The Birth of a Nation
Actor |
1915 | |||
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The Lily and the Rose
Actor |
1915 | |||
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His Return
Actor |
1914 | |||
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John Barleycorn
Actor |
1914 | |||
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The Sisters
Actor |
1914 |


