From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia George Brackett Seitz January 3 1888 July 8 1944 was an American playwright screenwriter film actor and director He was known for his screenplays for action serials such as The Perils of Pauline 1914 and The Exploits of Elaine 1914 He was the director of more than one hundred films the writer of more than thirty screenplays and an actor in seven films He worked at Columbia Pictures and at MetroGoldwynMayer where he directed eleven films in the Andy Hardy series of the 1930s and 1940s