J. Gordon Edwards was a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

-born film 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:...

, 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...

, and a writer who began his career as a stage

Stage (theatre)

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 actor

Actor

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 and as a stage director. He made his directorial debut on film in 1914's St. Elmo. Soon went on helming all of the Fox studio's mega-budget spectacles, including all of actress Theda Bara

Theda Bara

Theda Bara , born Theodosia Burr Goodman, was an American silent film actress – one of the most popular of her era, and one of cinema's earliest sex symbols. Her femme fatale roles earned her the nickname "The Vamp" . The term "vamp" soon became a popular slang term for a sexually predatory woman...

's productions between 1916 to 1919. Later, he became the production supervisor at Fox; he still continued to direct until he died in 1925. One of his biggest projects was The Queen of Sheba

The Queen of Sheba (film)

The Queen of Sheba is a silent film produced by Fox studios about the story of the ill-fated romance between Solomon, King of Israel, and the Queen of Sheba. Written and directed by J. Gordon Edwards, it starred Betty Blythe as Sheba and Fritz Leiber as King Solomon...

, a lost silent film which contained a huge chariot race, four years before Ben-Hur

Ben-Hur (1925 film)

Ben-Hur is a 1925 silent film directed by Fred Niblo. It was a blockbuster hit for newly merged Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This was the second film based on the novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace...

. He was the stepgrandfather of director Blake Edwards

Blake Edwards

Blake Edwards was an American film director, screenwriter and producer.Edwards' career began in the 1940s as an actor, but he soon turned to writing radio scripts at Columbia Pictures...

.

Director

• The Adventurer (1920)
• Anna Karenina
  Anna Karenina (1915 film)
  Anna Karenina is a 1915 silent drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Betty Nansen. The film is considered to be lost. It was the first American adaptation of the novel by Leo Tolstoy.-Cast:* Betty Nansen - Anna Karenina...
  
  (1915)
• Blindness of Devotion (1915)
• Camille
  Camille (1917 film)
  Camille is a silent film based on the 1852 novel and play La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils, adapted by Adrian Johnson, directed by J. Gordon Edwards, and starring Theda Bara as Marguerite Gauthier. The film was made by Fox Film Corporation when it and many other early film studios in...
  
  (1917)
• Cleopatra
  Cleopatra (1917 film)
  Cleopatra was directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starred Theda Bara in the title role. Fritz Leiber, Sr. played Julius Caesar and Thurston Hall played Mark Antony....
  
  (1917)
• The Darling of Paris
  The Darling of Paris
  The Darling of Paris is a 1917 silent film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Theda Bara and Glen White. This is a very loose film adaptation of the novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo...
  
  (1917)
• Drag Harlan (1920)
• Madame Du Barry (1917)
• The Forbidden Path
  The Forbidden Path
  The Forbidden Path is a 1918 silent drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Theda Bara. The film is now considered to be lost.-Cast:* Theda Bara - Mary Lynde* Hugh Thompson - Robert Sinclair* Sidney Mason - Felix Benavente...
  
  (1918)
• The Galley Slave
  The Galley Slave
  The Galley Slave is a 1915 silent drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Theda Bara. The film is now considered to be lost.-Cast:* Theda Bara - Francesca Brabaut* Stuart Holmes - Antoine Brabaut* Claire Whitney - Cecil Blaine...
  
  (1915)
• The Green-Eyed Monster (1916)
• Heart and Soul
  Heart and Soul (film)
  Heart and Soul is a 1917 silent drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Theda Bara. It was made by Fox Film Corporation when it and many other early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based in Fort Lee, New Jersey at the beginning of the 20th century...
  
  (1917)
• Heart Strings (1920)
• Her Double Life
  Her Double Life
  Her Double Life is a 1916 silent drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Theda Bara. The film is now considered to be lost.-Cast:* Theda Bara - Mary Doone* Franklyn Hanna - Doctor* Stuart Holmes - Lloyd Stanley* Walter Law - Longshoreman...
  
  (1916)
• Her Greatest Love
  Her Greatest Love
  Her Greatest Love is a 1917 silent drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Theda Bara. The film is now considered to be lost.-Cast:* Theda Bara - Hazel* Marie Curtis - Lady Dolly* Walter Law - Prince Zuoroff* Glen White - Lord Jura...
  
  (1917)
• His Greatest Sacrifice (1921)
• If I Were King (1920)
• It Is the Law (1924)
• The Joyous Troublemaker (1920)
• The Last of the Duanes (1919)
• Life's Shop Window (1914)
• The Light (1919)
• The Lone Star Ranger (1919)
• Nero (1922)
• The Net (1923)
• The Orphan (1920)
• The Queen of Sheba
  The Queen of Sheba (film)
  The Queen of Sheba is a silent film produced by Fox studios about the story of the ill-fated romance between Solomon, King of Israel, and the Queen of Sheba. Written and directed by J. Gordon Edwards, it starred Betty Blythe as Sheba and Fritz Leiber as King Solomon...
  
  (1921)
• Romeo and Juliet
  Romeo and Juliet (1916 film)
  Romeo and Juliet is a 1916 silent drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Theda Bara. The film shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey, where Fox many early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based there at the beginning of the 20th century...
  
  (1916)
• The Rose of Blood
  The Rose of Blood
  The Rose of Blood is a 1917 silent drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Theda Bara. The film is now considered to be lost.-Cast:* Theda Bara - Lisza Tapenka* Genevieve Blinn - Governess* Charles Clary - Prince Arbassoff...
  
  (1917)
• St. Elmo (1914)
• Salome
  Salomé (1918 film)
  Salomé is a silent film produced by William Fox and starring actress Theda Bara. The film is now considered to be lost.Henri Langlois, a French film preservationist, said he had the opportunity to buy this film but dismissed it as Fox, Theda Bara, and American spectacle...
  
  (1918)
• The Scuttlers (1920)
• The She Devil
  The She Devil
  The She Devil is a 1918 silent drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Theda Bara. The film is now considered to be lost. This was the last film in which Alan Roscoe starred with Theda Bara, they appeared in six films together starting with Camille.-Cast:* Theda Bara - Lolette* Alan...
  
  (1918)
• The Shepherd King (1923)
• Should a Mother Tell (1915)
• The Silent Command
  The Silent Command
  The Silent Command is a 1923 drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards, and featuring Béla Lugosi as a foreign saboteur.The Silent Command is a story of the United States Navy, revolving around experiences of a naval captain, warships, merchantmen, sea storms, a spectacular wreck, and an enemy...
  
  (1923)
• The Siren's Song (1919)
• The Song of Hate (1915)
• The Soul of Buddha
  The Soul of Buddha
  The Soul of Buddha is a 1918 silent drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Theda Bara. The film is now considered to be lost.-Cast:* Theda Bara - Priestess* Victor Kennard - Ysora* Florence Martin - Romaine's wife* Tony Merlo - M...
  
  (1918)
• The Spider and the Fly (1916)
• Tangled Lives (1917)
• The Tiger Woman
  The Tiger Woman (1917 film)
  The Tiger Woman is a 1917 silent drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and George Bellamy and starring Theda Bara. The film is now considered to be lost.-Cast:* Theda Bara - Princess Petrovitch* Edward Roseman - Prince Petrovitch...
  
  (1917)
• Under the Yoke
  Under the Yoke (film)
  Under the Yoke is a 1918 silent drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Theda Bara. The film is now considered to be lost.-Cast:* Theda Bara - Maria Valverda* G. Raymond Nye - Diablo Ramirez...
  
  (1918)
• Under Two Flags
  Under Two Flags (1916 film)
  Under Two Flags is a 1916 silent drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Theda Bara. The film is now considered to be lost.-Cast:* Theda Bara - Cigarette* Herbert Heyes - Bertie Cecil...
  
  (1916)
• The Unfaithful Wife (1915)
• The Vixen
  The Vixen
  The Vixen is a 1916 silent drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Theda Bara. The film is now considered to be lost.-Cast:* Theda Bara - Elsie Drummond* Herbert Heyes - Knowles Murray* Mary Martin - Helen Drummond...
  
  (1916)
• When a Woman Sins
  When a Woman Sins
  When a Woman Sins is a 1918 silent drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Theda Bara. The film is now considered to be lost.-Cast:* Theda Bara as Lilian Marchard / Poppea* Josef Swickard as Mortimer West...
  
  (1918)
• When Men Desire (1919)
• A Wife's Sacrifice (1916)
• Wings of the Morning (1919)
• Wolves of the Night (1919)
• A Woman There Was (1919)
• A Woman's Resurrection (1915)

Writer

• The Queen of Sheba
  The Queen of Sheba (film)
  The Queen of Sheba is a silent film produced by Fox studios about the story of the ill-fated romance between Solomon, King of Israel, and the Queen of Sheba. Written and directed by J. Gordon Edwards, it starred Betty Blythe as Sheba and Fritz Leiber as King Solomon...
  
  (1921)
• A Wife's Sacrifice (1916)
• Blindness of Devotion (1915)

External links

• J. Gordon Edwards, Broadway credit; IBDb.com