Donald Crisp
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Donald Crisp was an English film actor. He was also an early motion picture producer
Film producer
A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

, director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

 and screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

. He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. Since its inception, however, the...

 in 1942 for his performance in How Green Was My Valley
How Green Was My Valley (film)
How Green Was My Valley is a 1941 drama film directed by John Ford. The film, based on the 1939 Richard Llewellyn novel, was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and written by Philip Dunne. The film stars Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp, and Roddy McDowall...

.

Early life

Donald Crisp was born as George William Crisp in Bow, London
Bow, London
Bow is an area of London, England, United Kingdom in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is a built-up, mostly residential district located east of Charing Cross, and is a part of the East End.-Bridges at Bowe:...

, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

, at the family home in Bow
Bow, London
Bow is an area of London, England, United Kingdom in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It is a built-up, mostly residential district located east of Charing Cross, and is a part of the East End.-Bridges at Bowe:...

 (historically known as Stratford-atte-Bow) on July 27, 1882. Some sources say he was born in Aberfeldy, Perthshire
Perthshire
Perthshire, officially the County of Perth , is a registration county in central Scotland. It extends from Strathmore in the east, to the Pass of Drumochter in the north, Rannoch Moor and Ben Lui in the west, and Aberfoyle in the south...

, Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 in 1880, but U.S. Census records indicate the London birthplace and date are correct. He was one of eight children (four boys and four girls) born to James and Elizabeth Crisp. He was educated at the University of Oxford
University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...

 and allegedly at Eton College
Eton College
Eton College, often referred to simply as Eton, is a British independent school for boys aged 13 to 18. It was founded in 1440 by King Henry VI as "The King's College of Our Lady of Eton besides Wyndsor"....

, though the Eton archivist denies this.

Crisp, who always claimed to be of Scottish descent, served as a trooper
Trooper (rank)
Trooper from the French "troupier" is the equivalent rank to private in a regiment with a cavalry tradition in the British Army and many other Commonwealth armies, including those of Australia, Canada, South Africa and New Zealand. Today, most cavalry units operate in the armoured role, equipped...

 in the 10th Hussars in the Boer War
Second Boer War
The Second Boer War was fought from 11 October 1899 until 31 May 1902 between the British Empire and the Afrikaans-speaking Dutch settlers of two independent Boer republics, the South African Republic and the Orange Free State...

. This experience, among other things, allowed him to cross paths with a young Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, was a predominantly Conservative British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century and served as Prime Minister twice...

 just at the start of Churchill's long political career. According to family memories, Crisp's brother-in-law James Needham provided him with the fare to travel to America
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 in 1906.

Early career

While traveling on the ship to America in 1906, Crisp's singing talents during a ship's concert caught the attention of opera impresario
Impresario
An impresario is a person who organizes and often finances concerts, plays or operas; analogous to a film producer in filmmaking, television production and an angel investor in business...

 John C. Fisher, who immediately offered him a job with his company. He spent his first year in New York in Grand Opera and the following year as a stage director. It was while touring with the company in the United States and Cuba
Cuba
The Republic of Cuba is an island nation in the Caribbean. The nation of Cuba consists of the main island of Cuba, the Isla de la Juventud, and several archipelagos. Havana is the largest city in Cuba and the country's capital. Santiago de Cuba is the second largest city...

 that Crisp first became interested in pursuing a career in the theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

. By 1910, Crisp, now using the name Donald (he retained George as a middle name), was working as a stage manager for the renowned entertainer, composer, playwright, and director George M. Cohan
George M. Cohan
George Michael Cohan , known professionally as George M. Cohan, was a major American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer, and producer....

. It was during this time he met and befriended film director D. W. Griffith
D. W. Griffith
David Llewelyn Wark Griffith was a premier pioneering American film director. He is best known as the director of the controversial and groundbreaking 1915 film The Birth of a Nation and the subsequent film Intolerance .Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation made pioneering use of advanced camera...

. When Griffith ventured west, to seek his fortune in Hollywood in 1912, Crisp accompanied him.

From 1908 to 1930, Crisp, in addition to directing dozens of films, also appeared in nearly 100 silent films, though many in bit or small parts. One notable exception was his casting by Griffith as General Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States as well as military commander during the Civil War and post-war Reconstruction periods. Under Grant's command, the Union Army defeated the Confederate military and ended the Confederate States of America...

 in Griffith's landmark film The Birth of a Nation
The Birth of a Nation
The Birth of a Nation is a 1915 American silent film directed by D. W. Griffith and based on the novel and play The Clansman, both by Thomas Dixon, Jr. Griffith also co-wrote the screenplay , and co-produced the film . It was released on February 8, 1915...

in 1915. Another was his role in Griffith's 1919 film Broken Blossoms
Broken Blossoms
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl is a 1919 silent film directed by D.W. Griffith. It was distributed by United Artists and premiered on May 13, 1919...

, as "Battling Burrows", the brutal and abusive father of the film's heroine, Lucy Burrows (played by Lillian Gish
Lillian Gish
Lillian Diana Gish was an American stage, screen and television actress whose film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 to 1987....

).

Director

Crisp worked as an assistant to Griffith for several years and learned much during this time from Griffith, an early master of movie story telling who was influential in advancing a number of early techniques, such as cross cutting in editing his films. This experience fostered a similar passion in Crisp to become a director in his own right. His first directing credit was Little Country Mouse, made in 1914. Many directors (and actors) would find themselves turning out a dozen or more films in a single year at this time. Over the next fifteen years, Crisp directed some 70 films in all, most notably The Navigator (1924) with Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton
Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".Keaton was recognized as the...

 and Don Q, Son of Zorro
Don Q, Son of Zorro
Don Q, Son of Zorro is the 1925 sequel to the 1920 silent film The Mark of Zorro. It was loosely based upon the 1909 novel Don Q.'s Love Story, written by the mother-and-son duo Kate and Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard. The story was reworked in 1925 into a vehicle for the Johnston McCulley character Zorro...

(1925) with Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. was an American actor, screenwriter, director and producer. He was best known for his swashbuckling roles in silent films such as The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark of Zorro....

.

When asked later by an interviewer why he eventually gave up directing and returned full time to acting, Crisp commented that directing had become extremely wearisome because he was so often called upon, if not forced, to do favors for studio chiefs by agreeing to employ their relatives in his films. His final directorial effort was the 1930 film The Runaway Bride
The Runaway Bride (film)
The Runaway Bride is a 1930 comedy film starring Mary Astor and Lloyd Hughes. It was directed by Donald Crisp .-Cast:*Mary Astor as Mary Gray / Sally Fairchild*Lloyd Hughes as George Edward Blaine*Paul Hurst as Sergeant Daly...

starring Mary Astor
Mary Astor
Mary Astor was an American actress. Most remembered for her role as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon with Humphrey Bogart, Astor began her long motion picture career as a teenager in the silent movies of the early 1920s.She eventually made a successful transition to talkies, but almost...

.

Military career

While pursuing a dual career in acting and directing, Crisp managed to serve in the war effort against Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 and her allies during the First World War (1914–1918). Between working for Griffith, other producers, and his many acting roles, Crisp managed to return to England where he served in the army intelligence section. During the Second World War (1939–1945), Crisp again answered the call to duty at a time when his acting career was at its peak. This time, he served in U.S. Army Reserve, where he rose to the rank of colonel
Colonel
Colonel , abbreviated Col or COL, is a military rank of a senior commissioned officer. It or a corresponding rank exists in most armies and in many air forces; the naval equivalent rank is generally "Captain". It is also used in some police forces and other paramilitary rank structures...

.

Return to acting

With the advent of sound in films, Crisp abandoned directing and devoted himself entirely to acting after 1930. He became a much sought after character actor
Character actor
A character actor is one who predominantly plays unusual or eccentric characters. The Oxford English Dictionary defines a character actor as "an actor who specializes in character parts", defining character part in turn as "an acting role displaying pronounced or unusual characteristics or...

. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, he appeared in a wide range of roles alongside some of the era's biggest stars, including Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Houghton Hepburn was an American actress of film, stage, and television. In a career that spanned 62 years as a leading lady, she was best known for playing strong-willed, sophisticated women in both dramas and comedies...

 in The Little Minister
The Little Minister
The Little Minister is a 1934 American drama film directed by Richard Wallace. The screenplay by Jane Murfin, Sarah Y. Mason, and Victor Heerman is based on the 1891 novel and subsequent 1897 play of the same title by J. M. Barrie. It was the fifth feature film adaptation of the works, following...

(1934), Charles Laughton
Charles Laughton
Charles Laughton was an English-American stage and film actor, screenwriter, producer and director.-Early life and career:...

 and Clark Gable
Clark Gable
William Clark Gable , known as Clark Gable, was an American film actor most famous for his role as Rhett Butler in the 1939 Civil War epic film Gone with the Wind, in which he starred with Vivien Leigh...

 in Mutiny on the Bounty
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film)
Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1935 film starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable, and directed by Frank Lloyd based on the Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall novel Mutiny on the Bounty.The film was one of the biggest hits of its time...

(1935), Bette Davis
Bette Davis
Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis was an American actress of film, television and theater. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional...

 and Henry Fonda
Henry Fonda
Henry Jaynes Fonda was an American film and stage actor.Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor. He also appeared in 1938 in plays performed in White Plains, New York, with Joan Tompkins...

 in That Certain Woman
That Certain Woman
That Certain Woman is a 1937 American drama film written and directed by Edmund Goulding. It is a remake of Goulding's 1929 film The Tresspasser, Gloria Swanson's first sound film.-Synopsis:...

(1937), Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM was an English actor, director, and producer. He was one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century. He married three times, to fellow actors Jill Esmond, Vivien Leigh, and Joan Plowright...

 in Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights (1939 film)
Wuthering Heights is a 1939 American black-and-white film directed by William Wyler and produced by Samuel Goldwyn. It is based on the novel, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. The film depicts only sixteen of the novel's thirty-four chapters, eliminating the second generation of characters. The...

(1939), Errol Flynn
Errol Flynn
Errol Leslie Flynn was an Australian-born actor. He was known for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films, being a legend and his flamboyant lifestyle.-Early life:...

 in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex is a 1939 historical romantic drama film. It is based on the relationship between Queen Elizabeth I, portrayed by Bette Davis, and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, played by Errol Flynn...

(1939) and The Sea Hawk
The Sea Hawk (1940 film)
The Sea Hawk is a 1940 American Warner Bros. feature film starring Errol Flynn as an English privateer who defends his nation's interests on the eve of the Spanish Armada. The film was the tenth collaboration between Flynn and director Michael Curtiz. The film's screenplay by Howard Koch and Seton I...

(1940), and Gregory Peck
Gregory Peck
Eldred Gregory Peck was an American actor.One of 20th Century Fox's most popular film stars from the 1940s to the 1960s, Peck continued to play important roles well into the 1980s. His notable performances include that of Atticus Finch in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird, for which he won an...

 in The Valley of Decision
The Valley of Decision
The Valley of Decision is a film set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA in the late 19th century. It tells the story of a young Irish house maid who falls in love with the son of her employer, a local steel mill owner...

(1945).

A versatile supporting actor, Crisp could be equally good in either lovable or sinister roles. During the same period he was playing loving father figures or charming old codgers in classic films like National Velvet
National Velvet (film)
National Velvet is a 1944 drama film, in Technicolor, based on the novel by Enid Bagnold, published in 1935. It stars Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp and a young Elizabeth Taylor....

and Lassie Come Home
Lassie Come Home
Lassie Come Home is a 1943 MGM film starring Roddy McDowall and canine actor, Pal, in a story about the profound bond between Yorkshire boy Joe Carraclough and his rough collie, Lassie. The film was directed by Fred M. Wilcox from a screenplay by Hugo Butler based upon the 1940 novel Lassie...

, he also turned in a well received performance as Commander Beach, the tormented presumptive grandfather in Lewis Allen
Lewis Allen (director)
Lewis Allen was an English film and television director. Allen worked mainly in the United States, directing 18 feature films between 1944 and 1959...

's The Uninvited
The Uninvited (1944 film)
The Uninvited is a 1944 American supernatural mystery/romance film directed by Lewis Allen. It is based on the Dorothy Macardle novel Uneasy Freehold.Charles Lang was nominated for a 1945 Academy Award for Best Black and White Cinematography.-Plot:...

(1944). Undoubtedly, however, Crisp's most memorable role was as the taciturn but loving father in How Green Was My Valley
How Green Was My Valley (film)
How Green Was My Valley is a 1941 drama film directed by John Ford. The film, based on the 1939 Richard Llewellyn novel, was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and written by Philip Dunne. The film stars Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp, and Roddy McDowall...

(1941) directed by John Ford
John Ford
John Ford was an American film director. He was famous for both his westerns such as Stagecoach, The Searchers, and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and adaptations of such classic 20th-century American novels as The Grapes of Wrath...

. The film received ten Oscar
Academy Awards
An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...

 nominations, winning five, including Best Picture with Crisp winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor
Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Awards of Merit presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry. Since its inception, however, the...

 in 1941.

Hollywood power broker

While known to audiences as a talented actor and director, few outside the movie community realized, then or now, that Crisp was one of the most influential people in Hollywood, wielding more power than most directors, producers and studio executives.

Crisp was an active and important liaison between the film industry and outside business interests. His extensive business, military, and entertainment experience, including being a production and studio executive lent themselves well to this task. He became a highly valued adviser whose clear-headed forward thinking proved invaluable to the Bank of America
Bank of America
Bank of America Corporation, an American multinational banking and financial services corporation, is the second largest bank holding company in the United States by assets, and the fourth largest bank in the U.S. by market capitalization. The bank is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina...

, which was one of the leading sources of working capital
Working capital
Working capital is a financial metric which represents operating liquidity available to a business, organization or other entity, including governmental entity. Along with fixed assets such as plant and equipment, working capital is considered a part of operating capital. Net working capital is...

 for the movie industry for many years (an industry whose life blood was loans). Crisp served on the bank's advisory board for several decades, including a stint as its chairman. In this role, he had the ear of its board of directors, and many of the movies eventually financed by the bank during the 1930s and 1940s got their most important approval from Crisp.

Later years and legacy

Crisp eventually became one of the more wealthy members of the film industry. His "banker's sobriety", extensive contacts, and clarity of thought allowed him to make good investments, particularly in the real estate market. He continued to appear in films throughout the 1950s and into the early 1960s. During more than half a century as an actor in both the early silent and later the sound era, he appeared in as many as 400 two-reel and feature-length productions. His final screen role was as Grandpa Spencer alongside Henry Fonda
Henry Fonda
Henry Jaynes Fonda was an American film and stage actor.Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor. He also appeared in 1938 in plays performed in White Plains, New York, with Joan Tompkins...

 and Maureen O'Hara
Maureen O'Hara
Maureen O'Hara is an Irish film actress and singer. The famously red-headed O'Hara has been noted for playing fiercely passionate heroines with a highly sensible attitude. She often worked with director John Ford and longtime friend John Wayne...

 in the 1963 film Spencer's Mountain
Spencer's Mountain
Spencer's Mountain is a 1963 family film written, directed, and produced by Delmer Daves from a novel by Earl Hamner, Jr. The novel and film became the basis for the popular television series The Waltons, which followed in 1972...

. This film, adapted from the novel by Earl Hamner Jr.
Earl Hamner Jr.
Earl Henry Hamner, Jr. is an American television writer and producer , best known for his work in the 1970s and 1980s on the long-running CBS series The Waltons and Falcon Crest...

, was the basis for the 1970s television series The Waltons
The Waltons
The Waltons is an American television series created by Earl Hamner, Jr., based on his book Spencer's Mountain, and a 1963 film of the same name. The show centered on a family growing up in a rural Virginia community during the Great Depression and World War II. The series pilot was a television...

, and its theme of a proud but struggling rural family was reminiscent of "How Green Was My Valley".

Crisp was in his eighties by the time he quit acting entirely, continuing to work long after financially necessary simply because he enjoyed it. He was married twice. He was divorced from his first wife in 1919. He later married film screenwriter Jane Murfin, whom he divorced in 1944. Crisp died in 1974, a few months short of his 92nd birthday, due to complications from a series of strokes.

Crisp can rightly be called a motion picture pioneer. In addition to being one of the premier character actors of his era, he left behind an extensive list of contributions to the film industry he worked to promote for more than fifty years. He was buried in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery
Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale
Forest Lawn Memorial Park is a privately owned cemetery in Glendale, California. It is the original location of Forest Lawn, a chain of cemeteries in Southern California. The land was formerly part of Providencia Ranch.-History:...

.

As actor

  • The Two Paths
    The Two Paths
    The Two Paths is a 1911 short silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Dorothy Bernard and featuring Blanche Sweet. A print of the film survives in the film archive of the Museum of Modern Art.-Cast:* Dorothy Bernard - Florence...

    (1911) (short)
  • Heart Beats of Long Ago
    Heart Beats of Long Ago
    Heart Beats of Long Ago is a 1911 short silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, starring George Nichols and featuring Blanche Sweet.-Cast:* George Nichols - The Father* Wilfred Lucas - The Lover* Donald Crisp - Courtier* Blanche Sweet...

    (1911) (short)
  • What Shall We Do with Our Old?
    What Shall We Do with Our Old?
    What Shall We Do with Our Old? is a 1911 drama film directed by D.W. Griffith.-Cast:* W. Chrystie Miller - The Old Carpenter* Claire McDowell - The Old Carpenter's Wife* Adolph Lestina - The Doctor* George Nichols - The Judge...

    (1911) (short)
  • The Lily of the Tenements
    The Lily of the Tenements
    The Lily of the Tenements is a 1911 American short silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Clara T. Bracy and featuring Blanche Sweet.-Cast:* Dorothy West as The Tenement Girl* Clara T. Bracy as The Tenement Girl's Mother...

    - (1911) (short)
  • A Decree of Destiny
    A Decree of Destiny
    A Decree of Destiny is a 1911 short silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Mary Pickford and featuring Blanche Sweet.-Cast:* Joseph Graybill - Kenneth Marsden* Marion Sunshine - Edith* Mary Pickford - Mary* Clara T...

    - (1911) (short)
  • The White Rose of the Wilds
    The White Rose of the Wilds
    The White Rose of the Wilds is a 1911 short silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Blanche Sweet. -Cast:* Blanche Sweet - White Rose* Robert Harron - White Rose's Brother* W. Chrystie Miller - White Rose's Father...

    - (1911) (short)
  • Her Awakening
    Her Awakening
    Her Awakening is a 1911 short predating feature-length films starring comedienne Mabel Normand and directed by D. W. Griffith. Normand portrays a vivaciously effervescent young woman ashamed to introduce her poorly dressed mother to her elegant suitor...

    (1911) (short)
  • The Primal Call
    The Primal Call
    The Primal Call is a 1911 short silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Wilfred Lucas and featuring Blanche Sweet.-Cast:* Wilfred Lucas - The Fisherman* Claire McDowell - The Woman* Grace Henderson - The Woman's Mother...

    (1911) (short)
  • Out from the Shadow
    Out from the Shadow
    Out from the Shadow is a 1911 short silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Blanche Sweet.-Cast:* Blanche Sweet - Mrs. Vane* Edwin August - Mr. Vane* Jeanie Macpherson - The Young Widow* Donald Crisp - At Dance* John T...

    (1911) (short)
  • The Making of a Man
    The Making of a Man
    The Making of a Man is a 1911 short silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Blanche Sweet.-Cast:* Dell Henderson - Leading Man* Blanche Sweet - Young Woman* Edwin August - Young Woman's Family...

    (1911) (short)
  • The Long Road
    The Long Road (film)
    The Long Road is a 1911 short silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Blanche Sweet.-Cast:* Blanche Sweet - Edith* Grace Henderson - Edith's Mother* Charles West - Ned* Claire McDowell - Ned's Wife* Edna Foster - Ned's Son...

    (1911) (short)
  • The Battle (1911) (short)
  • The Miser's Heart
    The Miser's Heart
    The Miser's Heart is a 1911 short silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Blanche Sweet. The film was shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey where early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based at the beginning of the 20th century. A print of the film...

    (1911) (short)
  • The Eternal Mother
    The Eternal Mother
    The Eternal Mother is a 1912 short silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Blanche Sweet. The film was shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey when Biograph Studios and other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based there at the beginning of the 20th...

    (1912) (short)
  • The Inner Circle
    The Inner Circle (1912 film)
    The Inner Circle is a 1912 short silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Mary Pickford and Blanche Sweet. A print of the film survives in the film archive of the Library of Congress.-Cast:* Adolph Lestina - The Widower...

    (1912) (short)
  • Pirate Gold
    Pirate Gold (1913 film)
    Pirate Gold is a 1913 film starring Blanche Sweet and featuring Harry Carey.-Cast:* Blanche Sweet - The Daughter* Charles Hill Mailes - The Father* J. Jiquel Lanoe - The Successful Suitor* Hector Sarno - The Miscreant Sailor...

    (1913) (short)
  • Near to Earth
    Near to Earth
    -Cast:* Lionel Barrymore - Gato* Robert Harron - Gato's Brother* Gertrude Bambrick - Gato's Sweetheart* Mae Marsh - One of Gato's Sweetheart's Friends* Kathleen Butler - One of Gato's Sweetheart's Friends* Walter Miller - The Stranger* Dorothy Bernard...

    (1913) (short)
  • The Sheriff's Baby
    The Sheriff's Baby
    The Sheriff's Baby is a 1913 silent Western film directed by D. W. Griffith.-Cast:* Alfred Paget - The Sheriff* Henry B. Walthall - First Bandit* Harry Carey - Second Bandit* Lionel Barrymore - Third Bandit...

    (1913) (short)
  • Olaf-An Atom
    Olaf-An Atom
    Olaf-An Atom is a 1913 film directed by Anthony O'Sullivan and featuring Harry Carey.-Cast:* Harry Carey - Olaf, an Atom* Kate Bruce - Olaf's Mother* Charles Hill Mailes - A Parent* Claire McDowell - A Parent* Donald Crisp - The Beggar...

    (1913) (short)
  • The Mothering Heart
    The Mothering Heart
    The Mothering Heart is a 1913 short drama film directed by D. W. Griffith. A print of the film survives in the film archive of the Museum of Modern Art.-Plot:...

    (1913) (short) (unconfirmed)
  • Two Men of the Desert
    Two Men of the Desert
    -Cast:* Blanche Sweet - The Authoress* Henry B. Walthall - First Partner* Walter Miller - Second Partner* Alfred Paget - An Indian* Jennie Lee - Old Indian Woman* Harry Carey* Donald Crisp* Charles Hill Mailes* Mae Marsh* Marshall Neilan...

    (1913) (short)
  • Black and White
    Black and White (1913 film)
    Black and White is a 1913 American comedy film featuring Harry Carey.-Cast:* Harry Carey* Donald Crisp* Grace Henderson* Dave Morris as The Tramp* Clarence Barr as The Gardener...

    (1913) (short)
  • The Battle of the Sexes
    The Battle of the Sexes (1914 film)
    The Battle of the Sexes is a 1914 drama film directed by D. W. Griffith for the Majestic Motion Picture Company. The full 50-minute feature is now considered a lost film, as no complete prints of the film are known to exist. However, a two-minute fragment, once belonging to Reliance-Majestic head...

    (1914)
  • Home, Sweet Home (1914)
  • The Escape
    The Escape (1914 film)
    The Escape is a 1914 silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Donald Crisp. It is now considered to be a lost film.-Cast:* Donald Crisp as 'Bull' McGee* Edna Foster as Crippled girl* Earle Foxe* Robert Harron as Larry Joyce...

    (1914)
  • The Folly of Anne
    The Folly of Anne
    The Folly of Anne is a 1914 short drama film directed by John B. O'Brien.-Cast:* Elmer Clifton* Donald Crisp* Lillian Gish* W. E. Lawrence -...

    (1914) (short)
  • The Sisters
    The Sisters (1914 film)
    The Sisters is a 1914 short drama film directed by Christy Cabanne.-Cast:* Lillian Gish - May* Dorothy Gish - Carol * Elmer Clifton - Frank * W. E. Lawrence - George * Donald Crisp...

    (1914) (short)
  • The Birth of a Nation
    The Birth of a Nation
    The Birth of a Nation is a 1915 American silent film directed by D. W. Griffith and based on the novel and play The Clansman, both by Thomas Dixon, Jr. Griffith also co-wrote the screenplay , and co-produced the film . It was released on February 8, 1915...

    (1915)
  • Joan the Woman
    Joan the Woman
    Joan the Woman is a 1916 silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Geraldine Farrar as Joan of Arc.It was the first film to use the Handschiegl Color Process for certain scenes...

    (1917)
  • Broken Blossoms
    Broken Blossoms
    Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl is a 1919 silent film directed by D.W. Griffith. It was distributed by United Artists and premiered on May 13, 1919...

    (1919)
  • The Bonnie Brier Bush
    The Bonnie Brier Bush
    The Bonnie Brier Bush is a 1921 drama film directed by Donald Crisp. Alfred Hitchcock is credited as a title designer. The film is now lost.-Cast:* Donald Crisp - Lachlan Campbell* Mary Glynne - Flora Campbell* Alec Fraser - Lord Malcolm Hay...

    (1921) (also directed)
  • The Black Pirate
    The Black Pirate
    The Black Pirate is a 1926 silent adventure film shot entirely in two-strip Technicolor about an adventurer and a "company" of pirates. It stars Douglas Fairbanks, Donald Crisp, Sam De Grasse, and Billie Dove.-Plot:...

    (1926)
  • The Viking
    The Viking (1928 film)
    The Viking was the first feature-length Technicolor film that featured a soundtrack, and the first film made in Technicolor's Process 3.-Production background:...

    (1928)
  • The Pagan
    The Pagan (1929 film)
    The Pagan is a 1929 silent/part talking film romance filmed in Tahiti and produced and distributed by Metro Goldwyn Mayer. The director of the picture was W. S. Van Dyke, and the cinematographer was Clyde De Vinna, both who had previously visited Tahiti in 1928 to film White Shadows in the South...

    (1929)
  • Trent's Last Case
    Trent's Last Case (1929 film)
    Trent's Last Case is an American detective film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Raymond Griffith, Marceline Day, Raymond Hatton, and Donald Crisp, and released by Fox Film Corporation...

    (1929)
  • Svengali
    Svengali (1931 film)
    Svengali is a drama/horror film starring John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, and Bramwell Fletcher, directed by Archie Mayo, written by J. Grubb Alexander, and released by Warner Brothers. It is based on the gothic horror novel Trilby by George du Maurier. The film was originally released on May 22, 1931...

    (1931)
  • Red Dust
    Red Dust
    Red Dust is an American 1932 romantic drama film directed by Victor Fleming. The picture is the second of six movies Clark Gable and Jean Harlow made together and was produced during the Pre-Code era of Hollywood...

    (1932)
  • The Little Minister
    The Little Minister
    The Little Minister is a 1934 American drama film directed by Richard Wallace. The screenplay by Jane Murfin, Sarah Y. Mason, and Victor Heerman is based on the 1891 novel and subsequent 1897 play of the same title by J. M. Barrie. It was the fifth feature film adaptation of the works, following...

    (1934)
  • What Every Woman Knows
    What Every Woman Knows (film)
    What Every Woman Knows is a American comedy film directed by Gregory La Cava and starring Helen Hayes, Brian Aherne, and Madge Evans. The film was produced and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and is based on the play What Every Woman Knows by J. M. Barrie. It was filmed by Paramount back in...

    (1934)
  • Oil for the Lamps of China
    Oil for the Lamps of China (film)
    Oil for the Lamps of China is a 1935 drama film starring Pat O'Brien and Josephine Hutchinson. It is based on the novel of the same name by Alice Tisdale Hobart. A man blindly puts his faith in his employer.-Plot:...

    (1935)
  • Mutiny on the Bounty
    Mutiny on the Bounty (1935 film)
    Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1935 film starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable, and directed by Frank Lloyd based on the Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall novel Mutiny on the Bounty.The film was one of the biggest hits of its time...

    (1935)
  • Mary of Scotland
    Mary of Scotland (film)
    Mary of Scotland is a 1936 RKO film starring Katharine Hepburn as the 16th century ruler, Mary, Queen of Scots. Directed by John Ford, it is an adaptation of the 1933 Maxwell Anderson play by Dudley Nichols. The play starred Helen Hayes as Mary...

    (1936)
  • The White Angel
    The White Angel (1936 film)
    The White Angel is a 1936 American historical drama film directed by William Dieterle and starring Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, Donald Woods and Nigel Bruce...

    (1936)
  • The Charge of the Light Brigade
    The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936 film)
    The Charge of the Light Brigade is a 1936 historical film made by Warner Bros. It was directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Samuel Bischoff, with Hal B. Wallis as executive producer, from a screenplay by Michael Jacoby and Rowland Leigh, from a story by Michael Jacoby based on the poem The...

    (1936)
  • A Woman Rebels
    A Woman Rebels
    A Woman Rebels is a 1936 RKO film adapted from the novel Portrait of a Rebel by Netta Syrett and starring Katharine Hepburn as Pamela Thistlewaite, who rebels against the social mores of Victorian England...

    (1936)
  • Parnell
    Parnell (film)
    Parnell is a 1937 MGM film starring Clark Gable as Charles Stewart Parnell, the famous Irish politician. It is considered Gable's worst film, and is classified in The Fifty Worst Films of All Time.-Production:...

    (1937)
  • The Life of Emile Zola
    The Life of Emile Zola
    The Life of Emile Zola is a 1937 American biographical film about French author Émile Zola. Set in the mid through late 19th century, it depicts his friendship with noted painter Paul Cézanne, and his rise to fame through his prolific writing, with particular focus on his involvement in the Dreyfus...

    (1937)
  • Confession
    Confession (film)
    Confession is a 1937 drama film starring Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, Basil Rathbone and Jane Bryan. It was directed by Joe May and is a remake of the German film Mazurka starring Pola Negri....

    (1937)
  • That Certain Woman
    That Certain Woman
    That Certain Woman is a 1937 American drama film written and directed by Edmund Goulding. It is a remake of Goulding's 1929 film The Tresspasser, Gloria Swanson's first sound film.-Synopsis:...

    (1937)
  • Jezebel (1938)
  • The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
    The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
    The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse is a 1938 American crime film starring Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor and Humphrey Bogart. It was directed by Anatole Litvak for Warner Bros. and written by John Wexley and John Huston, based on the first play written by short-story writer Barré Lyndon, which ran for...

    (1938)
  • The Sisters
    The Sisters (1938 film)
    The Sisters is a 1938 American drama film produced and directed by Anatole Litvak. The screenplay by Milton Krims is based on the 1937 novel of the same title by Myron Brinig.-Plot:...

    (1938)
  • The Dawn Patrol
    The Dawn Patrol (1938 film)
    The Dawn Patrol is a 1938 American war film, a remake of the pre-Code 1930 film of the same name. Both were based on the short story "The Flight Commander" by John Monk Saunders, an American writer said to have been haunted by his inability to get into combat as a flyer with the U.S...

    (1938)
  • The Oklahoma Kid
    The Oklahoma Kid
    The Oklahoma Kid is a 1939 western film starring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart. The movie was directed for Warner Bros. by Lloyd Bacon. Cagney plays an adventurous gunslinger in a broad-brimmed cowboy hat while Bogart portrays his black-clad and viciously villainous nemesis...

    (1939)
  • Wuthering Heights
    Wuthering Heights (1939 film)
    Wuthering Heights is a 1939 American black-and-white film directed by William Wyler and produced by Samuel Goldwyn. It is based on the novel, Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. The film depicts only sixteen of the novel's thirty-four chapters, eliminating the second generation of characters. The...

    (1939)
  • Juarez
    Juarez (1939 film)
    Juarez is a 1939 American historical drama film directed by William Dieterle. The screenplay by Aeneas MacKenzie, John Huston, and Wolfgang Reinhardt is based on the novel The Phantom Crown by Bertita Harding and the play Juarez and Maximilian by Franz Werfel.-Plot:The film focuses on the conflict...

    (1939)
  • Sons of Liberty
    Sons of Liberty (film)
    Sons of Liberty is a 1939 short drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, which tells the story of Haym Solomon. It won an Academy Award in 1940 for Best Short Subject .-Cast:* Claude Rains - Haym Salomon* Gale Sondergaard - Rachel Salomon...

    (1939) (short)
  • Daughters Courageous
    Daughters Courageous
    Daughters Courageous is a 1939 drama film starring the three Lane Sisters , with the fourth sister being played by Gale Page. The movie also stars John Garfield and Claude Rains...

    (1939)
  • The Old Maid (1939)
  • The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
    The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
    The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex is a 1939 historical romantic drama film. It is based on the relationship between Queen Elizabeth I, portrayed by Bette Davis, and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, played by Errol Flynn...

    (1939)
  • Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940)
  • Brother Orchid
    Brother Orchid
    Brother Orchid is a 1940 crime/comedy film directed by Lloyd Bacon. It stars Edward G. Robinson, Ann Sothern and Humphrey Bogart, with featured performances by Donald Crisp, Ralph Bellamy and Allen Jenkins...

    (1940)
  • The Sea Hawk
    The Sea Hawk (1940 film)
    The Sea Hawk is a 1940 American Warner Bros. feature film starring Errol Flynn as an English privateer who defends his nation's interests on the eve of the Spanish Armada. The film was the tenth collaboration between Flynn and director Michael Curtiz. The film's screenplay by Howard Koch and Seton I...

    (1940)
  • City for Conquest
    City for Conquest
    City for Conquest is a 1940 American drama film directed by Anatole Litvak, starring James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, and Arthur Kennedy. It is based on the novel of the same name by Aben Kandel.-Plot:...

    (1940)
  • Knute Rockne, All American
    Knute Rockne, All American
    Knute Rockne, All American is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of Knute Rockne, Notre Dame football coach. It stars Pat O'Brien, Ronald Reagan, Gale Page, Donald Crisp, Albert Bassermann, Owen Davis, Jr., Nick Lukats, Kane Richmond, William Marshall and William Byrne. It also...

    (1940)
  • Shining Victory
    Shining Victory
    Shining Victory is a 1941 film based on the play, Jupiter Laughs, by A. J. Cronin. It stars James Stephenson, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Donald Crisp, and Barbara O'Neil, and it was the first film directed by Irving Rapper. Bette Davis makes a brief cameo appearance as a nurse in the film.-Plot...

    (1941)
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941 film)
    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a 1941 horror film starring Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner. Rather than being a new film version of the novel, it is a direct remake of the 1931 film of the same name, which differs greatly from the novel. The movie was based on Robert Louis Stevenson's...

    (1941)
  • How Green Was My Valley
    How Green Was My Valley (film)
    How Green Was My Valley is a 1941 drama film directed by John Ford. The film, based on the 1939 Richard Llewellyn novel, was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck and written by Philip Dunne. The film stars Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee, Donald Crisp, and Roddy McDowall...

    (1941)
  • The Gay Sisters
    The Gay Sisters
    The Gay Sisters is a 1942 American drama film directed by Irving Rapper, and starring Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Donald Crisp, Gig Young and Nancy Coleman. The Warner Bros. motion picture was based on a novel by Stephen Longstreet....

    (1942)
  • Lassie Come Home
    Lassie Come Home
    Lassie Come Home is a 1943 MGM film starring Roddy McDowall and canine actor, Pal, in a story about the profound bond between Yorkshire boy Joe Carraclough and his rough collie, Lassie. The film was directed by Fred M. Wilcox from a screenplay by Hugo Butler based upon the 1940 novel Lassie...

    (1943)
  • The Uninvited
    The Uninvited (1944 film)
    The Uninvited is a 1944 American supernatural mystery/romance film directed by Lewis Allen. It is based on the Dorothy Macardle novel Uneasy Freehold.Charles Lang was nominated for a 1945 Academy Award for Best Black and White Cinematography.-Plot:...

    (1944)
  • The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944)
  • National Velvet
    National Velvet (film)
    National Velvet is a 1944 drama film, in Technicolor, based on the novel by Enid Bagnold, published in 1935. It stars Mickey Rooney, Donald Crisp and a young Elizabeth Taylor....

    (1944)
  • Son of Lassie
    Son of Lassie
    Son of Lassie is a 1945 feature film produced by MGM based on characters created by Eric Knight, and starring Peter Lawford, Donald Crisp, June Lockhart and Lassie...

    (1945)
  • The Valley of Decision
    The Valley of Decision
    The Valley of Decision is a film set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA in the late 19th century. It tells the story of a young Irish house maid who falls in love with the son of her employer, a local steel mill owner...

    (1945)
  • Ramrod
    Ramrod (film)
    Ramrod is a 1947 Western film directed by André De Toth.This cowboy drama from Hungarian director De Toth was the first of several films based on the stories of Western author Luke Short. De Toth's first Western is often compared to films noir movies released around the same time...

    (1947)
  • Hills of Home
    Hills of Home (film)
    Hills of Home is a 1948 Technicolor drama film, the fourth in a series of MGM Lassie films. It starred Edmund Gwenn, Donald Crisp, and Tom Drake.-Plot:...

    (1948)
  • Whispering Smith
    Whispering Smith
    Whispering Smith is a 1948 western film starring Alan Ladd as a railroad detective assigned to stop a gang of train robbers.It is based on a novel by Frank H. Spearman and a previous 1926 film adaptation starring H.B...

    (1948)
  • Challenge to Lassie
    Challenge to Lassie
    Challenge to Lassie is an American drama directed by Richard Thorpe and released October 31, 1949 by MGM Studios. It was the fifth feature film starring the original Lassie, a collie named Pal and the fourth, and final, Lassie film that Donald Crisp would star in.The movie is based on Eleanor...

    (1949)
  • Bright Leaf
    Bright Leaf
    Bright Leaf is a 1950 film drama based on a 1949 novel by Foster Fitzsimmons. It stars Gary Cooper, Patricia Neal and Lauren Bacall, directed by Michael Curtiz....

    (1950)
  • Home Town Story
    Home Town Story
    Home Town Story is a 1951 American drama film directed by Arthur Pierson and starring Jeffrey Lynn, Donald Crisp, and Alan Hale, Jr.. The film features Marilyn Monroe in a small, early role...

    (1951)
  • Prince Valiant
    Prince Valiant (1954 film)
    Prince Valiant is a 1954 adventure film in Technicolor and Cinemascope, based on the comic strip of the same name by Hal Foster. A young man seeks to join the Knights of the Round Table in order to restore his father to his own kingship, and uncovers a plot against King Arthur.-Plot summary:The...

    (1954)
  • The Long Gray Line
    The Long Gray Line
    The Long Gray Line is a 1955 American drama film directed by John Ford based on the life of Marty Maher. Tyrone Power stars as the scrappy Irish immigrant whose 50-year career at West Point took him from dishwasher to non-commissioned officer and athletic instructor.Maureen O'Hara, one of Ford's...

    (1955)
  • The Man from Laramie
    The Man from Laramie
    The Man from Laramie is an American Technicolor Western film directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart in the fifth and final of their Western collaborations, and their seventh collaboration overall. It was adapted from a story of the same title by Thomas T...

    (1955)
  • Anatole of the Bayous (1956) (episode of ABC television series, Crossroads)
  • The Last Hurrah
    The Last Hurrah (1958 film)
    The Last Hurrah is a 1958 film adaptation of the novel The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor. It was directed by John Ford and starred Spencer Tracy as a veteran mayor preparing for yet another election campaign...

    (1958)
  • Saddle The Wind
    Saddle the Wind
    Saddle the Wind is a Western film directed Robert Parrish and written by Rod Serling.-Plot:Retired gunslinger and former Confederate soldier Steve Sinclair is living as a rancher in a small western community. He collaborates with the main landowner Dennis Deneen , from whom he rents the ranch, to...

    (1958)
  • A Dog of Flanders
    A Dog of Flanders
    A Dog of Flanders is an 1872 novel by English author Marie Louise de la Ramée published with her pseudonym "Ouida". It is about a Flemish boy named Nello and his dog Patrasche....

    (1960)
  • Pollyanna
    Pollyanna (1960 film)
    Pollyanna is a Walt Disney Productions feature film starring child actress Hayley Mills, Jane Wyman, Karl Malden and Richard Egan in a story about a cheerful orphan changing the outlook of a small town. Based upon the novel Pollyanna by Eleanor Porter, the film was written and directed by David...

    (1960)
  • Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog
    Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog
    Greyfriars Bobby is a 1961 Walt Disney Productions feature film starring Donald Crisp and Laurence Naismith in a story about two Scottish men who compete for the affection of a Skye Terrier named Bobby...

    (1961)
  • Spencer's Mountain
    Spencer's Mountain
    Spencer's Mountain is a 1963 family film written, directed, and produced by Delmer Daves from a novel by Earl Hamner, Jr. The novel and film became the basis for the popular television series The Waltons, which followed in 1972...

    (1963)


As director

  • Her Father's Silent Partner
    Her Father's Silent Partner
    Her Father's Silent Partner is a 1914 drama film featuring Harry Carey.-Cast:* Harry Carey* Claire McDowell* Dorothy Gish* Lionel Barrymore...

    (1914) (short)
  • Ramona
    Ramona (1916 film)
    Ramona is a 1916 drama film directed by Donald Crisp, based on Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 novel Ramona. The film is considered to be lost....

    (1916)
  • Believe Me, Xantippe
    Believe Me, Xantippe
    Believe Me, Xantippe was a 1918 silent film comedy film produced by Jesse Lasky for release through Paramount Pictures. It was directed by actor/director Donald Crisp and starred Wallace Reid and Ann Little. The film is based on a 1913 William A. Brady produced play by John Frederick Ballard,...

    (1918)
  • Appearances
    Appearances (film)
    Appearances is a 1921 short drama film directed by Donald Crisp. Alfred Hitchcock is credited as a title designer. The film is now lost.-Cast:* David Powell - Herbert Seaton* Mary Glynne - Kitty Mitchell* Langhorn Burton - Sir William Rutherford...

    (1921) (lost short film)
  • The Princess of New York
    The Princess of New York
    The Princess of New York is a 1921 crime film directed by Donald Crisp. Alfred Hitchcock is credited as a title designer. The film is now lost.-Cast:* David Powell - Geoffrey Kingsward* Mary Glynne - Helen Stanton* Saba Raleigh - Mrs...

    (1921)
  • The Bonnie Brier Bush (1921) (also acted)
  • Tell Your Children
    Tell Your Children
    Tell Your Children is a 1922 drama film directed by Donald Crisp. Alfred Hitchcock is credited as a title designer. It was the first film in which later Carry On actor Charles Hawtrey was to appear — he was aged eight at the time...

    (1922)
  • The Navigator
    The Navigator (1924 film)
    The Navigator is a 1924 comedy directed by and starring Buster Keaton. The film was written by Clyde Bruckman and co-directed by Donald Crisp.-Plot:...

    (1924)
  • Ponjola
    Ponjola
    Ponjola is a 1923 silent film melodrama based on a novel by Cynthia Stockley, distributed by First National Pictures and directed by either Donald Crisp or James Young or both. A print survives in the possession of a private collector. This film stars Anna Q. Nilsson in a role in which she...

    (1924)(*co-directed with James Young)
  • Don Q, Son of Zorro
    Don Q, Son of Zorro
    Don Q, Son of Zorro is the 1925 sequel to the 1920 silent film The Mark of Zorro. It was loosely based upon the 1909 novel Don Q.'s Love Story, written by the mother-and-son duo Kate and Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard. The story was reworked in 1925 into a vehicle for the Johnston McCulley character Zorro...

    (1925)(* and actor)
  • The Runaway Bride
    The Runaway Bride (film)
    The Runaway Bride is a 1930 comedy film starring Mary Astor and Lloyd Hughes. It was directed by Donald Crisp .-Cast:*Mary Astor as Mary Gray / Sally Fairchild*Lloyd Hughes as George Edward Blaine*Paul Hurst as Sergeant Daly...

    (1930)

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