Joseph Byron Totten was a playwright and an actor in theater [1] and silent films in the United States. He also directed films for Vitagraph.
He was an actor for Essanay. He had a 47 acre farm in Pendleton Hill, Connecticut where he kept horses, cattle, and a kennel. [2]
He wrote No Gold Could Buy Her, No One Pity Her, The Cowboy and the Squaw, The Ranchman's Daughter, The Queen of the Cowboys, and The First Lady in the Land, both copyrighted in 1907. [3] He wrote the play Spook House. [4] He wrote The Forger, "a society problem play", copyrightednin 1908. [5] He wrote and directed Lighthouse by the Sea, cooyrighted in 1915. [6] He also cooyrighted the 3-reel, 3-act, The Boys Will Be Boys in 1915. [7]
He wrote the play The World and a Woman. [8]
He wrote a dramatization of Harold McGrath's novel The Woman Armsan. It was staged in 1915. [9] He wrote and staged Love's Call. He was described as having a "primitive passion for triplicate nomenclature". [10]
He wrote the words to the song "Piquita" with music by Arthur Bergh, copyrighted in 1925. [11]
In 1917 he starred in Some Crooks. [12]
In 1925, Charles Sidney Gilpin starred in his play So That's That. [13] [14]
He was a member of the Authors League of America. [15]
United States copyright registrations, renewals, and other catalog entries since 1978 are published online at the United States Copyright Office website. Entries prior to 1978 are not published in the online catalog. Copyright registrations and renewals after 1890 were formerly published in semi-annual softcover catalogs called The Catalog of Copyright Entries (CCE) or Copyright Catalog, or were published in microfiche.
W. Augustus Barratt was a Scottish-born, later American, songwriter and musician.
James Kyrle MacCurdy, born James Kyrle McCurdy was a theater actor and playwright. He married actress Kate Woods Fiske and lived in Brentwood, New York. In 1907 he wrote Yankee Doodle Detective. He wrote the 1915 play A Little Girl in the Big City that was made into the 1925 silent film A Little Girl in a Big City. He also wrote the 1917 play Broken Hearts of Broadway that was made into the 1923 silent film Broken Hearts of Broadway produced and directed by Irving Cummings and starring Colleen Moore. He also wrote the Old Clothes Man 1918. He also wrote and performed in Pedro, the Italian.
Albert Sidney Angeles was a theatre actor and director of silent films. Born in London, he worked in the USA as a writer and director for Vitagraph, later directing for Universal.
Alfred Hollingsworth was an American actor during the silent film era. He was in dozens of films from 1911 until 1925. He also directed four short films in 1916. Hell's Hinges has been described as a classic and Hollingsworth earned plaudits for his role in it.
Dorothy Rockfort, born Mildred Dorothy Rochfort, was a screenwriter who worked in Hollywood during the silent era. She primarily worked on short Westerns and serials. She was married to fellow screenwriter William Pigott, who later got involved in real estate after leaving the business.
Harold Holland was a British theatre and silent film actor and playwright. He was born in Bloomsbury, London. He played Dr. Rogers in the 1913 film Riches and Rogues, and took the lead role of Dr. Thomas "Tom" Flynn in the 1914 comedy The Lucky Vest. After having worked on Charlie Chaplin films including Shanghaied and The Bank in 1915, he was hired by the Morosco Photoplay Company in 1916 as it expanded.
Benjamin Bowles Hampton (1875–1932) was an American film producer, writer, and director. He led a 1916 plan to conglomerate film companies via acquisition. He was married to actress Claire Adams and was a partner in Zane Grey Pictures. He wrote the History of the American Film Industry from Its Beginnings to 1931. He is credited with producing numerous films.
Henry Christeen Warnack was a film and theater critic in the United States. He released novels and works of poetry. He crafted essays on a range of topics. Besides being a talented speaker, he got involved in the early film industry, scripting stories and Scenarios for various silent films.
Daniel Nathan Rubin was an American playwright. Several of his plays were adapted into films, for which he wrote the screenplays.
William Robert Daly was an actor and director of silent films.
Jere F. Looney was a writer for several American silent films.
Helen Sherman Griffith was an American author. An Iowan, she was the "prolific" author of the Letty Grey series of children's books, published by Penn Publishing Company of Philadelphia. She was the daughter of Hoyt Sherman and Sara Sherman, who was born and raised in Des Moines, Iowa at Hoyt Sherman Place. Helen's bedroom has been restored and is part of the Hoyt Sherman Place house museum.
Joseph Erskine Agnew was a musician, arranger, music store proprietor, and music publisher in Des Moines, Iowa and later Newton, Iowa briefly. He played the mandolin. He became a nationally prominent band music publisher. Sheet music published by his Agnew Music Publishing Company is in the collections of the Library of Congress, the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and the University of Rochester.
Anna Wynne O'Ryan was an American librettist. She collaborated on several plays, including the 1922 musical, Just Because. According to Cait Miller at the Library of Congress, the play "may well have been the first full-length Broadway musical authored entirely by women".
Victor Herbert Smalley was a writer, reporter and promoter who worked at newspapers, songwriting, and playwriting in the United States. In 1907 he wrote "That Lovin' Rag" with music by Bernie Adler. He died at age 32 of appendicitis. Victor Records recorded The Peerless Quartet performing their song "That Fussy Rag" in 1910. Lou Busch recorded the song "Dat Lovin' Rag" he wrote with Adler on the 1950 album Honky-Tonk Piano, re-titled as "That Everlovin' Rag" and rearranged. It was also recorded by Dick Hyman in 1958 his a honky-tonk album as "Knuckles O'Toole". It and "That Fussy Rag" continue to be performed in the 21st century at various ragtime events.
Robert H. McLaughlin (1877-1939) was a novelist, playwright, theater manager, publicist, and screenwriter in the United States.
Life Photo Film Corporation was a film production company in the United States. It made films in 1914 and 1915. The company built a film studio and laboratory in Grantwood, New Jersey. It adapted stage plays and advertised itself as "The House of Broadway Features". Jesse J. Goldburg was general manager. He was also described as secretary of the corporation, whose other officers were Edward M. Roskam, president; Leonard Abrahams, vice-president; Bernard Lowenthal, treasurer.
André Picard was a French playwright. He co-authored the plays Mon Homme and The Man in Evening Clothes which were adapted to film. His French play Kiki was adapted to the stage in the United States by David Belasco and into several films.
Katherine Witchie Riggs was an American dancer, singer, actress, writer, and vaudeville performer.
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