Harold French (23 April 1897 in London – 19 October 1997) was an English film director, screenwriter and actor.As an actor, most of his roles occurred between 1912 and 1936, not gaining as much attention as later he would as a director.He worked as a screenwriter on three of the four films produced by Marcel Hellman's and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.'s production company Criterion Film Productions in the late 1930s, before switching to film direction in 1937, often with Marcel Hellman as producer.