Spottiswoode Aitken
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Frank Spottiswoode Aitken (16 April 1868 – 26 February 1933) was a Scottish
- American
actor
of the silent
era.
Aitken was one of the first actors to settle in Los Angeles when the film industry was still at its strongest in New York. He ploughed most of his earnings into property buying up orange groves around what would become Hollywood.
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...
- American
United States
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actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
of the silent
Silent film
A silent film is a film with no synchronized recorded sound, especially with no spoken dialogue. In silent films for entertainment the dialogue is transmitted through muted gestures, pantomime and title cards...
era.
Aitken was one of the first actors to settle in Los Angeles when the film industry was still at its strongest in New York. He ploughed most of his earnings into property buying up orange groves around what would become Hollywood.
Filmography
- The Battle (19111911 in filmThe year 1911 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*March 23: D.W Griffith shows the first major close-up shot on film with the successful release of The Lonedale Operator proving his ever growing mastery of how to utilise film....
) - The Angel of ContentionThe Angel of ContentionThe Angel of Contention is a 1914 short drama film directed by John B. O'Brien and starring Lillian Gish....
(19141914 in filmThe year 1914 in film involved some significant events, including the debut of Cecil B. DeMille as a director.-Events:*The 3,300-seat Mark Strand Theatre opens in New York City....
) - The Girl in the ShackThe Girl in the ShackThe Girl in the Shack is a 1914 American silent short film directed by Edward Morrissey and written by Anita Loos. The film starred Earle Foxe, Spottiswoode Aitken, and Mae Marsh....
(1914) - Home, Sweet Home (1914)
- The Green-Eyed DevilThe Green-Eyed DevilThe Green-Eyed Devil is a 1914 American short silent film directed by James Kirkwood. The film starred Earle Foxe, Spottiswoode Aitken and William Garwood in the lead roles...
(1914) - The Avenging ConscienceThe Avenging ConscienceThe Avenging Conscience: or "Thou Shalt Not Kill" is a drama film directed by D. W. Griffith.The film is based on the Edgar Allan Poe short stories "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "Annabel Lee".-Plot:...
(1914) - Captain MacklinCaptain MacklinCaptain Macklin is a 1915 short drama film directed by John B. O'Brien.-Cast:* Jack Conway - Capt. Royal Macklin* Lillian Gish - Beatrice* Spottiswoode Aitken - Gen. Laquerre* William Lowery - Heinz * Dark Cloud - Gen. Garcia...
(19151915 in filmThe year 1915 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* February 8 : D.W Griffith's The Birth of a Nation premieres at Clune's Auditorium Los Angeles and breaks box office and film length records, running at a total length of 3 hrs 10 minutes.* June 18 : The Motion Picture Directors...
) - The Birth of a NationThe Birth of a NationThe 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) - IntoleranceIntolerance (film)Intolerance is a 1916 American silent film directed by D. W. Griffith and is considered one of the great masterpieces of the Silent Era. The three-and-a-half hour epic intercuts four parallel storylines each separated by several centuries: A contemporary melodrama of crime and redemption; a...
(19161916 in filmThe year 1916 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* October 17 - release of A Daughter of the Gods, the first US production with a million dollar budget, with the first nude scene by a major star....
) - An Innocent MagdaleneAn Innocent MagdaleneAn Innocent Magdalene is a 1916 silent drama film directed by Allan Dwan.-Cast:* Lillian Gish - Dorothy Raleigh* Spottiswoode Aitken - Col. Raleigh* Sam De Grasse - Forbes Stewart* Mary Alden - The Woman* Seymour Hastings - The Preacher...
(1916) - Pathways of LifePathways of LifePathways of Life is a 1916 short drama film directed by Christy Cabanne.-Cast:* Spottiswoode Aitken - Daddy Wisdom* Lillian Gish* Olga Grey* W. E. Lawrence* Alfred Paget...
(1916) - Bonnie Bonnie LassieBonnie Bonnie LassieBonnie Bonnie Lassie is a 1919 comedy film directed by Tod Browning.-Cast:* Mary MacLaren - Alisa Graeme* Spottiswoode Aitken - Jeremiah Wishart* David Butler - David* Arthur Edmund Carewe - Archibald Loveday...
(19191919 in filmThe year 1919 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*February 5 - Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists...
) - Souls TriumphantSouls TriumphantSouls Triumphant is a 1917 drama film directed by John B. O'Brien.-Cast:* Lillian Gish - Lillian Vale* Wilfred Lucas - Robert Powers* Spottiswoode Aitken - Josiah Vale* Louise Hamilton - Hattie Lee* Kate Bruce* Jennie Lee...
(19171917 in filmThe year 1917 in film involved some significant events.-Events:*Foundation of Universum Film AG , as a propaganda film company, in Berlin.*Technicolor System 1, a two-color process, is introduced...
) - The AmericanoThe AmericanoThe Americano is a 1916 film directed by John Emerson and starring Douglas Fairbanks. This was Fairbanks' last film for Triangle Film Corporation.-Cast:*Douglas Fairbanks as Blaze Derringer*Alma Rubens as Juana deCastalar...
(1917) - How Could You Jean?How Could You Jean?How Could You, Jean? was a silent comedy-drama film, starring Mary Pickford, directed by William Desmond Taylor, and based on a novel by Eleanor Hoyt Brainerd...
(1918) - The Wicked DarlingThe Wicked DarlingThe Wicked Darling is a 1919 silent drama film directed by Tod Browning. The film was considered to be a lost film, until a copy was found in Europe in the 1990s. The copy now resides in the Nederlands Filmmuseum.-Cast:* Priscilla Dean - Mary Stevens...
(1919) - EvangelineEvangeline (1919 film)Evangeline is a 1919 silent film produced and distributed by the Fox Film Corporation and directed by Raoul Walsh. The star of the film was Walsh's wife at the time Miriam Cooper in the oft filmed story based on a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Filmed prior in 1908, 1911 and 1914...
(1919) - Nomads of the NorthNomads of the NorthNomads of the North is a 1920 American film. A Canadian Mountie allows an innocent fugitive to escape with the woman he loves.-Cast:*Betty Blythe - Nanette Roland*Lon Chaney - Raoul Challoner*Lewis Stone - Corporal O'Connor...
(1920) - Around the World in Eighteen DaysAround the World in Eighteen DaysAround the World in Eighteen Days is a 1923 film serial directed by B. Reeves Eason and Robert F. Hill. The film is now considered to be a lost film.-Cast:* William Desmond - Phineas Fogg III* Laura La Plante - Madge Harlow...
(19231923 in film-Events:*April 15 - Lee De Forest demonstrates the Phonofilm sound-on-film system at the Rivoli Theater in New York with a series of short musical films featuring vaudeville performers.-Top grossing films :-Films released in 1923:U.S.A...
) - Merry-Go-RoundMerry-Go-Round (1923 film)Merry-Go-Round is a feature film by Erich von Stroheim and his replacement, Rupert Julian, starring Norman Kerry and Mary Philbin,and released by Universal Pictures.-Cast:*Norman Kerry - Count Franz Maxmilian Von Hohenegg...
(1923) - TriumphTriumph (1924 film)Triumph is a 1924 silent drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille.-Cast:* Leatrice Joy - Ann Land* Rod La Rocque - King Garnet* Victor Varconi - William Silver* Charles Ogle - James Martin* Theodore Kosloff - Varinoff* Robert Edeson - Smauel Overton...
(19241924 in film-Events:* Entertainment entrepreneur Marcus Loew gained control of Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation and Louis B. Mayer Pictures to create Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
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