Wallace C. Clifton (1871-1931) was a screenwriter in the United States. [1] [2] His wife Emma Bell Clifton was also a screenwriter.
Wallace C. Clifton (1871-1931) was a screenwriter in the United States. [1] [2] His wife Emma Bell Clifton was also a screenwriter.
Wilfred Van Norman Lucas was a Canadian American stage actor who found success in film as an actor, director, and screenwriter.
Bess Meredyth was a screenwriter and silent film actress. The wife of film director Michael Curtiz, Meredyth wrote The Affairs of Cellini (1934) and adapted The Unsuspected (1947). She was one of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Jules Furthman was an American magazine and newspaper writer before working as a screenwriter. Pauline Kael once wrote that Furthman "has written about half of the most entertaining movies to come out of Hollywood ."
Harold MacGrath was a bestselling and prolific American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. He sometimes completed more than one novel per year for the mass market, covering romance, spies, mystery, and adventure.
Marion Fairfax was an American screenwriter, playwright, actress, and producer.
Gerald C. Duffy was a screenwriter of the silent film era, as well as a journalist, and short story writer and copyeditor. He is best known for his many contributions to Redbook magazine, which he edited, as well as being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Title Writing in the 1st Academy Awards for the film The Private Life of Helen of Troy. His prolific fiction career brought him to the attention of First National Pictures who hired him on as a writer.
Seena Owen was an American silent film actress and screenwriter.
Irving Cummings was an American movie actor and director.
William Farnum was an American actor. He was a star of American silent cinema, and he became one of the highest-paid actors during this time.
Beatrice Van was an American silent film actress. She was also a screenwriter for both silent and sound films.
John Emerson was an American stage actor, playwright, producer, and director of silent films. Emerson was married to Anita Loos from June 15, 1919, until his death, and prior to that the couple had worked together as a writing team for motion pictures. They would continue to be credited jointly, even as Loos pursued independent projects.
William Christy Cabanne was an American film director, screenwriter, and silent film actor.
Joseph Franklin Poland was an American screenwriter. He wrote for more than 130 films between 1913 and 1954. He was born in Waterbury, Connecticut and died in Los Angeles, California.
James Colin Campbell was a film director, actor and screenwriter. He directed more than 170 American films between 1911 and 1924; and wrote scripts for 60 films between 1911 and 1922. He was born in Scotland, and died in Hollywood, California.
Frederick Vroom was a Canadian actor of the silent film era. Vroom appeared in more than 70 films between 1912 and 1939, mostly in supporting roles and bit parts. He played featured roles in Buster Keaton's films The Navigator (1924) and The General (1926). He was born in Clementsport, Nova Scotia, Canada and died in Hollywood, California from a heart attack.
Charles Gardner Sullivan was an American screenwriter and film producer. He was a prolific writer with more than 350 films among his credits. In 1924, the magazine Story World selected him on a list of the ten individuals who had contributed the most to the advancement of the motion picture industry from its inception forward. Four of Sullivan's films, The Italian (1915), Civilization (1916), Hell's Hinges (1916), and All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), have been listed in the National Film Registry.
Allen Holubar was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter of the silent film era. He appeared in 38 films between 1913 and 1917. He also directed 33 films between 1916 and 1923.
Gouverneur Morris IV (1876–1953) was an American author of pulp novels and short stories during the early 20th century.
Lois Zellner was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood's silent era. She also went by the name Lois Leeson later in her career.
Emma Bell Clifton (1874–1922) was a screenwriter during the silent film era in the United States. She wrote for various studios, including Vitagraph and Universal Studios.