- Born
- Died
- Nicknames
- Bill
- Wm. Berke
- Height5′ 9½″ (1.77 m)
- American director of 1940s and '50s second features, mainly westerns (often starring Charles Starrett) and crime and jungle dramas for Republic, Columbia and Pine-Thomas Productions. A graduate of Los Angeles Polytechnic High School, Berke worked his way up the ladder from office boy to assistant camera operator to cameraman and, finally, to director/producer. He spent his final years working in episodic television.- IMDb Mini Biography By: IMDb
- Father of Lester Wm. Berke.
- Was desperate to direct only B movies, which he shot in 12 days. So he asked a friend of his, an RKO executive, to give him a big-budget movie. However, after he obtained what he asked for, he continued to shoot the movies in only 12 days.
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