Mary Ellen Bute
American film director and animator (1906–1983)
0.23body-of-work score · ranked #2028 of 2640 directors · 1 film in our library
A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.
- Born
- November 21, 1906 · Houston
- Died
- October 17, 1983 · New York City
- Nationality
- United States
- Directing career
- 2 directorial credits, 1941–1966 · first: Tarantella (1941) · last: Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake (1966)
- Work
- animator, film director, filmmaker, screenwriter
Films in our library, ranked
Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.
- 10.231 citation
Complete filmography
All 2 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.
- 1941Tarantella
- 1966Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake