- female, deceased (1938)
- May Irwin born June 27, 1862 in Whitby, Ontario, Canada – died October 22, 1938 in New York City, United States, was an actress, singer and major st...
- male, deceased (1943)
- Robert W. Paul (1869-1943) was a British electrician and scientific instrument maker and early pioneer of British film. He was born in Highbury,...
- male, deceased (1900)
- The Reverend Hannibal Goodwin (1822-1900), an Episcopal priest at the House of Prayer in Newark, New Jersey patented a method for making...
- male, deceased (1939)
- Herman Casler — American inventor (Sandwich, Illinois, March 12, 1867 — Canastota, New York, July 20, 1939), was co-founder of the partnership call...
- male, deceased (1944)
- Georg William "Billy" Bitzer (April 21 1872-April 29 1944) was a pioneering cinematographer notable for his close association with D. W. Griffith,...
- male, deceased (1948)
- William Nicholas Selig (March 14, 1864, Chicago, Illinois - July 15, 1948, Los Angeles) is noted as a pioneer of the American motion picture...
- male
- Raoul Grimoin-Sanson was an inventor in the field of early cinema. He was born in Elbeuf, as Raoul Sanson; he added the surname Grimoin later. He...
- male, deceased (1935)
- Eugene Augustin Lauste (born 1857 in Montmartre, France; died June 27, 1935 in Montclair, New Jersey) "The Father of Sound on Film", was an...
- male, deceased (1953)
- George K. Spoor was an early film pioneer who, with Broncho Billy Anderson, founded the historic Essanay Studios in Chicago in 1907. Spoor and...
- male, deceased (1945)
- Yoshiro Okabe was the only Japanese assistant of Thomas Edison. He worked at Menlo Park from 1904 to 1914. After going back Japan, Okabe made the...
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