Owen Moore was an Irish-born American actor, appearing in more than 279 movies spanning from 1908 to 1937.
Arthur Vaughan Johnson was a pioneer actor and director of the early American silent film era, and uncle of Olympic wrestler and film actor Nat Pendleton.
Kenneth Casey was an American composer, publisher, author, and child movie star in early silents.
Joseph Graybill was an American silent film actor. He appeared in several films directed by D.W. Griffith.
George Delbert "Dell" Henderson was a Canadian-American actor, director, and writer. He began his long and prolific film career in the early days of silent film.
Linda Arvidson was an American stage and film actress. She became one of America's early motion picture stars while working at Biograph Studios in New York, where none of the company's actors, until 1913, were credited on screen. Along with Florence Lawrence, Marion Leonard, and other female performers there, she was often referred to by theatergoers and in trade publications as simply one of the "Biograph girls". Arvidson began working in the new, rapidly expanding film industry after meeting her future husband D. W. Griffith, who impressed her as an innovative screen director. Their marriage was kept secret for reasons of professional discretion.
Kate Bruce Bryant was an American actress of the silent era, famed for her screen portrayals of mothers. She appeared in more than 280 films between 1908 and 1931.
William J. Butler was an Irish silent film actor. He appeared in more than 260 films between 1908 and 1917.
Herbert Prior was an English silent film actor. He appeared in more than 260 films between 1908 and 1934. He was born in Oxford, Oxfordshire, and died in Los Angeles, California.
William Chrystie Miller was an American silent film actor. He appeared in 139 films between 1908 and 1914. Miller frequently appeared in films directed by D.W. Griffith and was known to film audiences as the "Grand Old Man of the Photodrama".
Charles Hill Mailes was a Canadian actor of the silent era.
NoraDorothy Bernard was an American actress of the silent era. She appeared in nearly 90 films between 1908 and 1956.
Huntley Wright was an English stage and film actor, comedian, dancer and singer, best known for creating roles in many important Edwardian musical comedies.
Frank E. Woods was an American screenwriter of the silent era. He wrote for 90 films from 1908 to 1925. He first became a writer with the Biograph Company. Woods was also a pioneering film reviewer. As a writer, his contributions to film criticism are discussed in the 2009 documentary, For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism. Woods worked for the Kinemacolor Company of America, directing at their Hollywood studios and writing the script for the unreleased The Clansman (1911). He was also known for his screenplay collaborations with D. W. Griffith, including the co-scripting of The Birth of a Nation. He later publicly expressed regret for his involvement with the film. He is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, CA.
George Nichols, sometimes credited in films as George O. Nicholls, was an American actor and film director. He is perhaps best remembered for his work at Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios.
Frank Hayes was an American film actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1913 and 1924. An actor with a unique hatchet face appearance he appeared mostly in comedies. His facial appearance naturally lent to comedic effect in silent films — in particular when he would leave out his dentures — but he also showed up in sentimental farces such as A Hoosier Romance (1918), an early film starring Colleen Moore. In his last appearance, even though brief in the theatrical cut, he played "Old Grannis" in the tragedy Greed.
Charles West was an American film actor of the silent film era. He appeared in more than 300 films between 1908 and 1937. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and died in Los Angeles, California.
William Franklin Haddock, aka William F. "Silent Bill" Haddock, was an early film director of the silent era. From 1909 to 1919 Haddock directed twenty-four feature and short movies.
Mack Sennett was a Canadian-born American film director, producer and actor. This is an incomplete list of films with Sennett acting, producing and directing. Most of his films still survive. According to the Internet Movie Database, he wrote for 95, directed 311, acted in 360 and produced 1,115 films between 1908 and 1956.
The Champion Film Company was an independent production company founded in 1909 by Mark M. Dintenfass. The studio was one of the film companies that merged to form Universal Pictures.
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