E. J. Babille

{{short description|American film director (1883–1970)}}

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| name = E. J. Babille

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| birth_name = Edward Julius Babille

| birth_date = {{birth date|1883|5|3}}

| birth_place = Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

| death_date = {{death date and age|1970|2|18|1883|5|3}}

| death_place = Los Angeles, California, United States

| occupation = Assistant director

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| yearsactive = 1921-37

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E.J. Babille (May 3, 1883 – February 18, 1970) was born Edward Julius Babille in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was an American assistant director in the silent and early sound film eras.

In the first twelve years of his career he would work almost exclusively with three directors: E. Mason Hopper, Edward H. Griffith, and Paul Stein, who directed seventeen of the twenty-one films on which Babille was the assistant director. He left the film industry in 1939, and died on February 18, 1970.