Leads the ratings - For His Pal's Sake movie
Movie Premier in 1911.
Color Info: Black and White
Countries: USA
Genres: Short, Drama
Languages: English
Sound Mix: Silent
Tech Info: MET:300 m, OFM:35 mm, PCS:Spherical, PFM:35 mm, RAT:1.33 : 1
Release Dates: USA:19 December 1911
In movie have been taken:
Sydney Ayres (actor)
Death Notes: Oakland, California, USA (multiple sclerosis)
Handsome, shadows wavy-haired central man who appear resting on the New York display place, starred inside unconsidered speechless films (1-3 reelers) through manner of in good health as directed and write scenario. Worked in favour of assorted studios as well as Edison, American, Powers, Rex, Big U (Universal), Laemmle, Nestor and Selig. Still serviceable until the year of his exit, he passed away at the age of 37 from paralysis associated near multiple sclerosis which mannered his spinal cable. He moved out his wife Ann and their two year outmoded daughter also as his parents and two sisters.
Birth Notes: New York City, New York, USA
Birth Name: Ayres, Daniel Sydney
Death Date: 9 September 1916
Birth Date: 28 August 1879
Edward H. Philbrook (actor)
Herbert Rawlinson (actor)
Articles: "Classic Images" (USA), April 1995, Iss. 238, pg. 42, "Additional Film Credits for Herbert Rawlinson", "Classic Images" (USA), January 1995, Iss. 235, pg. 38-39, by: George Katchmer, "Herbert Rawlinson", "Classic Images" (USA), June 1986, Iss. 132, pg. 54, 63, by: R.E. Braff, "Herbert Rawlinson Filmography; Additions", "Classic Images" (USA), March 1985, Iss. 117, pg. C10-C11, by: R.E. Braff and William C. Wilson, "An Index to the Films of Herbert Rawlinson [Part III]", "Classic Images" (USA), February 1985, Iss. 116, pg. 52-53, by: R.E. Braff and William C. Wilson, "An Index to the Films of Herbert Rawlinson [Part II]", "Classic Images" (USA), January 1985, Iss. 115, pg. C7, 63, by: R.E. Braff and William C. Wilson, "An Index to the Films of Herbert Rawlinson [Part I)", "Classic Images" (USA), May 1984, Iss. 107, pg. 38-40, by: George Katchmer, "Herbert Rawlinson; The Man with the Smile", "New York Times" (USA), 14 July 1953, pg. 27:1, "H. Rawlinson dies; Film, Stage Actor; Character Player Scored in Movies After Having Lead Roles in Broadway Plays", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 26 January 1924, pg. 282, "Irving Cummings Busy", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 28 April 1917, pg. 619, "Herbert Rawlinson", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 30 May 1914, pg. 1266, "Herbert Rawlinson"
Announcer for CBS Radio's "Hollywood Star Playhouse" (1950-1951)., Narrator for CBS Radio's "Hollywood Star Playhouse" (1950-1951)., He reportedly died the morning after completing his scenes for 'Edward D. Wood Jr.' (qv)'s 'Jail Bait (1954)'.
Death Notes: Los Angeles, California, USA (lung cancer)
Leading man in Hollywood silents. In sound films thereafter, he was a character player until the year he died.
Height: 6'
Birth Notes: Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
Other Works: Appeared using materials of Frank Galloway inside the gambol: Accent next to Youth, documented by 'Samson Raphaelson' (qv). The Masquers' Straw Hat Company perform at the El Patio Theater, Hollywood, California: Opening Night: July 13, 1949. 'Otto Kruger' (qv) as Steven Gaye, 'Jeanne Cagney' (qv) as Linda Brown, Ellanora Reeves - aka 'Ellanora Needles' (qv) as Genevieve Lang. Cast also built-in: 'Rhys Williams (I)' (qv) as Flogdell, 'Kim Spalding' (qv) as Dickie Reynolds, and 'Maude Wallace' (qv) as Miss Darling.
Spouse: 'Loraine Abigail Long' (1 January 1924 - 1927), 'Roberta Arnold' (c. 1917 - c. 1923) (divorced), 'Josephine Norman' (qv) (? - ?)
Death Date: 12 July 1953
Birth Date: 15 November 1885
Frank Richardson (actor)
Articles: "Moving Picture Stories" (USA), 28 March 1913, pg. 31, "Motion Picture World" (USA), 13 July 1912, pg. 158, "Daddy Richardson, of Selig Players, Recovers"
Death Notes: Murrieta Springs, California, USA
Birth Notes: New York City, New York, USA
Death Date: 14 February 1913
Birth Date: 1892
Bessie Eyton (actress)
Death Notes: Thousand Oaks, California, USA
Birth Notes: Santa Barbara, California, USA
Other Works: Appeared on Broadway in the following production:, Civilian Clothes (1919). Comedy. Written by 'Thompson Buchanan' (qv). Morosco Theatre: 12 Sept 1919- Jan 1920 (closing date unknown/150 performances). As "Belle Henderson." Cast included: 'Glenn Anders' (qv), 'Thurston Hall' (qv), 'Olive Tell' (qv).
Birth Name: Harrison, Bessie
Spouse: 'Charles F. Eyton' (? - 1915) (divorced), 'Clark B. Coffey' (qv) (29 September 1916 - 29 June 1923) (divorced)
Death Date: 22 January 1965
Birth Date: 5 July 1890
Jane Keckley (actress)
Death Notes: South Pasadena, California, USA
Height: 5' 6"
Birth Notes: Charleston, South Carolina, USA
Child: 'Leonide Watson' (qv).
Death Date: 14 August 1963
Birth Date: 10 September 1876
Iva Shepard (actress)
Articles: "Variety" (USA), 8 February 1918, pg. 9, "Marriages [to Clement]", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 6 May 1916, pg. 947, "Iva Shepard in Gaumont Stock", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 16 August 1913, pg. 727, "Engagement Note a Joke", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 19 July 1913, pg. 306, "This Week's Crop of Accidents (engaged to Singleton)", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 19 July 1913, pg. 332, "Universal Actors Engaged to Wed", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 4 March 1911, pg. 466, by: Richard V. Spencer, "Los Angeles [rejoined Selig Co., 1911]"
Death Notes: Arcadia, California, USA
Birth Notes: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Spouse: 'Joseph Singleton' (qv) (1913 - ?), 'Lyle Clement' (qv) (2 February 1918 - ?)
Death Date: 26 January 1973
Birth Date: 23 April 1886
William Nicholas Selig (producer)
Articles: "Chicago Tribune" (USA), 19 March 1995, pg. 9, 22, by: Connie Lauerman, "Hollywood East; At the dawn of the movie age, Chicago had its place in the sun [Selig and Essanay companies]", "Variety" (USA), 21 July 1948, "William N. Selig", "New York Times" (USA), 17 July 1948, pg. 15:3, "William N. Selig, Pioneer in Films; Early Producer and Developer of Industry Dies--Fought with Edison on Patents", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 22 September 1923, pg. 343, "Selig Continues Production", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 11 February 1922, pg. 631, "'Jungle Goddess,' Laast Selig Serial; Export-Import Selling Territories", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 22 May 1920, pg. 1079, "William N. Selig to Make Six Features Starring Franklyn Farnum; Cannon Will Distribute", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 31 August 1918, pg. 1285, "Selig Tells How 'Hoosier Romance' Came to Be Filmed", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 1 June 1918, pg. 1275, "Selig to Release Through Capital", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 12 May 1917, pg. 948-49, "Twenty-One Years in the Business", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 5 May 1917, pg. 799, "William N. Selig Reminded of the Twenty-First Birthday of the Selig Polyscope Company", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 6 January 1917, pg. 93, "Selig Predicts a Good Year", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 11 November 1916, pg. 864, "Diamond Trade Mark Is Selig's", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 9 September 1916, pg. 1707, "'Nothing to Rumors,' Says Selig", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 19 August 1916, pg. 1257, "Selig Returns from Coast; Talks of New Pictures", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 22 July 1916, pg. 642, "Selig Pinned Faith to Short Subjects", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 10 June 1916, pg. 1857, by: G.P. von Harleman, "A Visit to the Selig Zoo", "New York Dramatic Mirror" (USA), 30 October 1915, pg. 27:2, by: Quip, "[Red Seal trademark registered with U.S. Patent office]", "New York Dramatic Mirror" (USA), 29 September 1915, pg. 24:1, "Selig and Mutual in Suit [title dispute]", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 17 July 1915, pg. 464, "Our Apologies to Col. William N. Selig", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 10 July 1915, pg. 227-30, by: George Blaisdell, "Great Selig Enterprise", "New York Dramatic Mirror" (USA), 26 May 1915, pg. 22:4, "'Don't Overlook the One, Two and Three-Reelers,' Is William N. Selig's Advice", "New York Dramatic Mirror" (USA), 21 April 1915, pg. 24:2, "'Big Four' [A.E. Smith, Selig, Ira Lowry, George K. Spoor] Surprises Film Men; Vitagraph-Lubin-Selig-Essanay Combination Means Radical Departure by Motion Picture Pioneers--Exchange Managers Appointed and Preparations Under Way for Flying Start", "New York Dramatic Mirror" (USA), 31 March 1915, pg. 22:3, "A Motion Picture Pioneer", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 30 January 1915, pg. 650, "A Master Stroke by Wm. N. Selig", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 19 September 1914, pg. 1649, by: James S. McQuade, "Wm. N. Selig Near Scene of War", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 11 July 1914, pg. 181-82, "Present Day Trend in Film Lengths", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 6 June 1914, pg. 1416, by: James S. McQuade, "Chicago Letter", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 15 November 1913, pg. 743, "William N. Selig Goes West", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 8 November 1913, pg. 590, "Selig Buys Two Giraffes", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 16 August 1913, pg. 728, "New Blood in Selig Studio", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 22 March 1913, pg. 1199, "A Roster of Selig Players", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 14 December 1912, pg. 1067, "Startling and Pleasant Surprise for Wm. N. Selig", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 20 July 1912, pg. 245, "A Kangaroo for Pictures", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 11 November 1911, pg. 455, "The Los Angeles Tragedy [Selig and Francis Boggs both shot; Boggs didn't survive]", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 9 September 1911, pg. 701-02, "Selig Entertains", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 21 August 1909, pg. 247-48, "Selig's--The Great Moving Picture Plant of the West", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 12 June 1909, pg. 792, "A Notable Film Producer", "Motion Picture World" (USA), 8 May 1909, pg. 586, "Notes of the Trade"
In 1911 Selig and controller 'Francis Boggs' (qv) be attack using a spiritually unhinged paw - a Japanese gardener who individual be fired by Boggs - who shot both man. Selig be harshly losses and Boggs was kill.
Death Notes: Los Angeles, California, USA
Born into a full-size Bohemian-Polish distinctive flesh and blood contained by Chicago against March 14, 1864, William N. Selig be one of the true pioneer of the motion watercolour industry. Though not widely remember today, his Selig Polyscope Co. was at fault all for varied highlight suffering in unstructured present. Among these be construction of the starting irredeemable studio in Los Angeles in 1908-1909, amount produced of the first cliff-hanger serial (_The Adventures of Kathlyn (1913)_ (qv)) and the first picture altered copy of _The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910)_ (qv). After valid in deposit of an upholsterer, afterwards a vaudeville juggler in Chicago, Selig traveled to northern California in 1890 to rupture a fruit smallholding in a petite town call Chicago Park. The shunt was fairly necessitate next to capacity systematic hitches he was have at the event. By 1893 William enjoy recovered generous to set in educate an African-American minstrel camaraderie permanent as "Selig and Johnson's Colored Minstrels." Performing in the San Francisco province, the principal celebrity branch of this troupe was 'Bert Williams (I)' (qv), who would become the chief African-American humorist of the vaudeville aeon. Upon seeing an Edison Kinetescope at the Dallas Fair in 1894, Selig arranged to slosh over back address to Chicago where on earth he agree to olden its sell-by date in the air working on his celebrated camera-projection group. In 1896 he found one of the world's first motion picture studios. From unbelievably proportioned beginnings, his Selig Polyscope Co. swiftly develop to be one of the highest players during the pioneer era. With the dollop of a machinist name Andrew Schustek, Selig designed one of the earliest camera-projectors. Based largely on the Lumiere Cinematographe, his invention would chop its mark with his fledgling studio. The first decade of Selig Polyscope's operation was flecked by allowed turmoil, in the red largely to the pains of 'Thomas A. Edison' (qv)'s lawyer. Finally, in 1909, Selig and several other studio head formed an uneasy alliance with Edison. The subsequent Motion Picture Patents Company and its diffusion arm General Films would dominate the film industry until 1915. That year the sovereign company win a major achievement when the Supreme Court ruled the M.P.P.C. an illegal monopoly. "Colonel" Selig's ambitions were not strongly confined to cinema. Around 1911 he began acquire estate for what would become the largest out-of-the-way zoo in the world. The Selig Zoo at Eastlake (now Lincoln) Park, in Los Angeles was a mumble unsullied building of his shiny peak dogged. Over the years, William had accumulate a sizable messy collection of animals for his jungle cinema. The 32-acre zoo allowed him to showcase his menagerie while going away freedom for studios after of the estate. Many familiar animals reside at the zoo, plus the ingenious Leo the MGM lion. Once the zoo/studio was in operation, Selig no longer needed the first L.A. studio that device 'Francis Boggs' (qv) had open for him in Edendale (now Echo Park). An budding firm named 'William Fox (I)' (qv) decided to lease that encampment for his soon-to-be-famous company. Another giant of the industry benefit from Selig's pilot land in Los Angeles. 'Louis B. Mayer' (qv) moved into the studios at the zoo once Selig retire from major production in circle 1920. The Colonel had no desire for food to contend anti these younger, more aggressive movie mogul. There were other factor which lead William to set off the industry he help found. With the unchain of _The Spoilers (1914)_ (qv) in 1914, Selig enjoy his greatest glory. At this tine Selig Polyscope appear to have a vibrant anticipated, but things quickly changed. During this time the industry was evolving from produce the succinct films Selig specialized in to the existing feature-length production. While William belief brand longer films resembling "The Spoilers," he feel shorts were the mode of the future. The birth of World War I also place out Selig Polyscope, given its common European operation. Finally, the dissolution of the Patents Company made the industry more aggressive, dooming the pioneer studios. Selig moved into independent production after closing his studios, working once in a blue moon until the 1930s. He be down as the producer on 'D.W. Griffith' (qv)'s concluding film _The Struggle (1931)_ (qv). The Colonel's glory days were past, but, and he faded into obscurity. The charge of operating a large zoo and the Great Depression had reduced Selig's fate to nought. He become a literary agent in his following years, selling off the legend rights purchase years back for his films. In 1947 Selig and several other film pioneers were award privileged Oscars. He die the subsequent year on July 15, with his doting wife of many years, Mary, at his loin.
Frank Montgomery (director)
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