Mini-Biography:
J. Gordon Edwards was born on June 24, 1867 in Montreal, Canada. He was an American Director, Autor, Productor, known for The Light (1919), Under Two Flags (1916), Her double life (1916), J. Gordon Edwards's first movie on record is from 1914. J. Gordon Edwards died on Dezember 31, 1925 in New York, New York, USA. His last motion picture on file dates from 1925.
Biografia (en Alemán): Regisseur des amerikanischen Stummfilms. Begann als Shauspieler, dann Regisseur und Produzent am Suburban Garden Theatre in St. Louis, später an der Academy of Music in New York. William Fox engagierte in als Regisseur 1914 fĂĽr seine Gesellschaft Fox Film Corporation. In der Folge inszenierte Edwards mehr als 20 Filme mit dem Vamp-Star Theda Bara - die meisten dieser Filme gelten als verschollen. Die letzten Filme drehte Edwards fĂĽr Fox in Rom, so auch das historische Drama "Nero".
Sein Enkel ist der Regisseur Blake Edwards.
Theda Bara nannte ihn "the nicest director I ever worked with."
J. Gordon Edwards Filmografia
1925: [11.25] The Shepherd King (Director: AKA J. Gordon Edwards), con Samuel Balestra, Nerio Bernardi, Ferrucio Biancini,
1924: [] It Is the Law (Director),
1923: [12.02] The Net (Director), con Raymond Bloomer, Alan Roscoe, ,
1923: [08.19] El mudo mandato (The Silent Command) (Director), con Edmund Lowe, Alma Tell, Martha Mansfield,
1922: [09.22] Nero (Director), con Jacques Grétillat, Sandro Salvini, Guido Trento,
1921: [] His Greatest Sacrifice (Director),
1921: [04.10] The Queen of Sheba (Director), con Betty Blythe, Fritz Leiber, Claire de Lorez,
1920: [] Heart Strings (Director), con William Farnum, Gladys Coburn, Betty Hilburn,
1920: [] The Orphan (Director),
1920: [] The Joyous Troublemaker (Director),
1920: [] If I Were King (Director),
1920: [] Drag Harlan (Director),
1920: [] The Scuttlers (Director),
1920: [02.00] The Adventurer (Director), con William Farnum, , Paul Cazeneuve,
1919: [11.24] Wings of the Morning (Director), con Genevieve Blinn,
1919: [09.14] The Last of the Duanes (Director), con Genevieve Blinn,
1919: [] When men desire (Director), con Theda Bara,
1919: [] The Lone Star Ranger (Director),
1919: [] Wolves of the Night (Director),
1919: [06.01] A Woman there was (Director), con Theda Bara, William B. Davidson, Robert Elliott,
1919: [05.04] The Siren's Song (Director), con Theda Bara, Al Fremont, Ruth Handforth,
1919: [01.12] The Light (Director), con Theda Bara, Eugene Ormonde, Robert Walker,
1918: [11.10] The She-Devil (Director), con Theda Bara, Alan Roscoe, ,
1918: [09.20] When a woman sins (Director), con Theda Bara, Josef Swickard, Alan Roscoe,
1918: [] Salome (Director), con Theda Bara, G. Raymond Nye, Alan Roscoe,
1918: [06.09] Under the Yoke (Director), con Theda Bara, G. Raymond Nye, Alan Roscoe,
1918: [04.21] The Soul of Buddha (Director), con Theda Bara, Victor Kennard, Florence Martin,
1918: [02.03] The Forbidden Path (Director), con Theda Bara, Hugh Thompson, Sidney Mason,
1917: [12.30] Du Barry (Director), con Theda Bara, Charles Clary, Fred Church,
1917: [11.04] The Rose of Blood (Director), con Theda Bara, Genevieve Blinn, Charles Clary,
1917: [10.14] Cleopatra (Director), con Theda Bara, Thurston Hall, Fritz Leiber,
1917: [09.30] Camille (Director), con Theda Bara, Alan Roscoe, Walter Law,
1917: [05.21] Heart and Soul (Director), con Theda Bara, Claire Whitney, Walter Law,
1917: [04.02] Her greatest love (Director), con Theda Bara, , Walter Law,
1917: [04.02] Tangled Lives (Director), con , Robert B. Mantell, Stuart Holmes,
1917: [02.18] The Tiger Woman (Director), Dirección George Bellamy, con Theda Bara, Edward Roseman, Louis Dean,
1917: [01.22] The Darling of Paris (Director), con Theda Bara, Glen White, Walter Law,
1916: [12.03] The Vixen (Director), con Theda Bara, Herbert Heyes, Mary Martin,
1916: [10.22] Romeo and Juliet (Director), con Theda Bara, Harry Hilliard, Glen White,
1916: [10.17] A Daughter of the Gods (Productor: Supervisor Szenen in Jamaica), Dirección Herbert Brenon, con Annette Kellerman, William E. Shay, Hal de Forest,
1916: [] Her double life (Director), con Theda Bara, Franklyn Hanna, Stuart Holmes,
1916: [07.31] Under Two Flags (Director), con Theda Bara, Herbert Heyes, Stuart Holmes,
1916: [05.28] The Spider and the Fly (Director), con , Robert B. Mantell, Stuart Holmes,
1916: [03.26] A Wife's Sacrifice (Director), con Robert B. Mantell, Genevieve Blinn, Claire Whitney,
1916: [01.02] The Green-Eyed Monster (Director), con Robert B. Mantell, , Stuart Holmes,
1915: [12.05] The Unfaithful Wife (Director), con Robert B. Mantell, , Runa Hodges,
1915: [11.28] The Galley Slave (Productor), con Theda Bara, Stuart Holmes, Jane Lee,
1915: [11.07] The Blindness of Devotion (Director), con Robert B. Mantell, , Stuart Holmes,
1915: [09.00] The Song of Hate (Director), con Betty Nansen, Arthur Hoops, ,
1915: [07.00] Should a Mother tell? (Director), con Betty Nansen, Stuart Holmes, Arthur Hoops,
1915: [05.01] A Woman's Resurrection (Director), con Mathilde Brundage, Edgar L. Davenport, Stuart Holmes,
1915: [04.01] Anna Karenina (Director), con Betty Nansen, Edward José, Richard Thornton,
1915: [03.00] The Celebrated Scandal (Director), Dirección James Durkin, con Betty Nansen, Edward JosĂ©, Walter Hitchcock,
1914: [10.20] Life's Shop Window (Director), con Stuart Holmes, Claire Whitney, Walter Hitchcock,
1914: [05.15] St. Elmo (Director), con , Mollie McConnell, Madeline Pardee,