The year 1914 in film involved some significant events, including the debut of Cecil B. DeMille as a director.
William Churchill deMille, also spelled de Mille or De Mille, was an American screenwriter and film director from the silent film era through the early 1930s. He was also a noted playwright prior to moving into film. Once he was established in film he specialized in adapting Broadway plays into silent films.
Harold A. Lockwood was an American silent film actor, director, and producer. He was one of the most popular matinee idols of the early film period during the 1910s.
Charles Stanton Ogle was an American stage and silent-film actor. He was the first actor to portray Frankenstein's monster in a motion picture in 1910 and played Long John Silver in Treasure Island in 1920.
Frank Keenan was an American stage and film actor and stage director and manager during the silent-film era. He was among the first stage actors to star in Hollywood, and he pursued work in film features for a number of years.
Hobart Van Zandt Bosworth was an American film actor, director, writer, and producer. Bosworth began his career in theater, eventually transitioning to the emerging film industry. Despite a battle with tuberculosis, he found success in silent films, establishing himself as a lead actor and pioneering the industry in California. Bosworth started his own production company, Hobart Bosworth Productions, in 1913, focusing on Jack London melodramas. After the company closed, Bosworth continued to act in supporting roles, surviving the transition to sound films. He is known as the "Dean of Hollywood" for his role in shaping the California film industry. In 1960, Bosworth was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the film industry.
Ethel Clayton was an American actress of the silent film era.
Gertrude Claire was an actress of the American stage and Hollywood silent motion pictures.
Lowell Sherman was an American actor and film director. In an unusual practice for the time, he served as both actor and director on several films in the early 1930s. He later turned exclusively to directing. Having scored huge successes directing the films She Done Him Wrong and Morning Glory, he was at the height of his career when he died after a brief illness.
Edwin August Phillip von der Butz was an American actor, director, and screenwriter of the silent era.
Ralph Percy Lewis was an American actor of the silent film era.
Joseph Kaufman was an American silent film actor and director prominent during the World War I years. He was born in Washington, D.C., and died in New York City.
Frank Losee was an American stage and screen actor. A veteran of the Broadway stage he began in silent films in 1915. Often he played the father of Mary Pickford, Pauline Frederick and Marguerite Clark.
Hal Reid was an American playwright and stage and screen actor. Reid also directed over a dozen films.
Hamilton Revelle was a British-born stage and later silent screen actor.
Winifred Kingston was a British-born American silent film actress.
Robert Conness was an American stage and film actor. Born in 1867 or 1868 he began in the theatre in 1894 and performed in vaudeville and on Broadway. He began in silent film in 1910 and made his last film appearance in 1918. He was married to actress Helen Strickland.
Darwin S. Karr (1875-1945) was an American stage and silent film actor. He appeared in over 140 films up to 1922. He began appearing in films by the Vitagraph company. He was married to Florence Bindley.
Jere Austin (1876–1927) was an American silent film actor from Minnesota. He was born John Van Akin Austin and he began in films in 1914 and made his last appearance in Cecil B. DeMille's King of Kings (1927). Austin had entered films with the Kalem Company.
Page Peters (1889-1916) was an American silent film actor who appeared with Marguerite Clark, Blanche Sweet, Constance Collier, Anna Held and others in his short career. He may or may not have been a brother of House Peters as several sources reference them as brothers. A popular actor his career was cut short when he died at Hermosa Beach California in a drowning accident. Several of his films are preserved in archives. He is interred at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
