D. W. Griffith

D. W. Griffith

male, deceased (1948)
1915 film, David Llewelyn Wark "D.W." Griffith, Western film director, death by cerebral hemorrhage, From Louisville, Kentucky, Freemason…Silentfilmdirector, Western movie director, film director
David Llewelyn Wark "D.W." Griffith (January 22, 1875 - July 23, 1948) was an American film director. He is best known as the director of the...
Archer Macmackin

Archer Macmackin

male, deceased (1961)
Des Moines, The Altar of Ambition, director, When Empty Hearts Are Filled, film director, from Iowa…Silentfilmdirector, Silent film, film producer
Archer MacMackin (7 February 1888, Lake City, Iowa - 8 February 1961, Des Moines Iowa) was an early American silent film director and screenwriter....
Sergei Eisenstein

Sergei Eisenstein

male, deceased (1948)
the battleship potemkin, battleship potemkin, Silentfilmdirector, director, Silent film, soviet…film director, Russian and Soviet film director, Film theorist, film editing, Film theory
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein was a revolutionary Soviet film director and film theorist noted in particular for his silent films "Strike",...
Francis Boggs

Francis Boggs

male, deceased (1911)
Oakland, Hood River Valley, Southwestern United States, American Southwest, Edmond Dantès, yosemite national park…Silentfilmdirector, film director, Silent film
Francis W. Boggs (1870-October 27, 1911) was a stage actor and important pioneer silent film director and one of the first to work in Hollywood....

Harry Davenport

male, deceased (1949)
Harold George Bryant Davenport, actor, Irish-American, film director, stage actor, Silent film actor…Silentfilmdirector, film actor
Harold George Bryant Davenport (January 19, 1866 in New York City, New York – August 9, 1949 in Los Angeles, California) was an American film and st...
Robert J. Flaherty

Robert J. Flaherty

male, deceased (1951)
Roman Catholic, nanook of the north, Irish-American, film director, Filmmaker, American…Documentary film, Silentfilmdirector
Robert Joseph Flaherty (16 February 1884, Iron Mountain, Michigan - 23 July 1951, Dummerston, Vermont) was a filmmaker who directed and produced...
Birt Acres

Birt Acres

male, deceased (1918)
Kineopticon, Filmographies, Silentfilmdirector, Queen's Hall, Royal Photographic Society, Richmond…film history, Silent film, film producer, film director
Birt Acres (July 23, 1854-1918), born in Richmond, Virginia, USA of English parents was a photographer and film pioneer. He was the inventor of the...

Lucius J. Henderson

male, deceased (1947)
from Adams County, Illinois, Silent film, director, film director, actor, American…Silentfilmdirector
Lucius J. Henderson (1861, Aldo, Illinois - 18 February 1947, New York City) was an American silent film director of the early silent period...
Yevgeni Bauer

Yevgeni Bauer

male, deceased (1917)
Evgeni Bauer, crimea, Los Angeles Times, Yevgeny Bauer, Evgenii Bauer, Ievgueni Bauer…Silentfilmdirector, Russian and Soviet film director
Yevgeni Bauer (or Yevgeny Bauer or Evgeni Bauer or Evgenii Bauer or Ievgueni Bauer) (1865 - June 2, 1917, Crimea) was a Russian film director. He...
Robert Wiene

Robert Wiene

male, deceased (1938)
hitler, One Night in Venice, Wroclaw, conrad, silesia, breslau…horror film, film director, Silentfilmdirector
Robert Wiene was an important film director of the German silent cinema. Robert Wiene was born in Breslau, (then in German Silesia, today: Wroclaw,...