J. Stuart Blackton
Born: 1875-01-05 in Sheffield, Yorkshire [now South Yorkshire], England, UK
Died: 1941-08-13
Known For: Directing
Biography
James Stuart Blackton was a pioneer Anglo-American filmmaker and can be credited with the first feature-length American production. He founded Vitagraph Studios in 1897 and was among the first filmmakers to use stop-motion and drawn animation.
Filmography
1933
- The Film Parade ... (Director)
1927
- The American ... (Director)
1926
- The Passionate Quest ... (Director)
- The Gilded Highway ... (Director)
- Bride of the Storm ... (Director)
- Hell-Bent for Heaven ... (Director)
1925
- The Happy Warrior ... (Director)
- Tides of Passion ... (Director)
- The Redeeming Sin ... (Director)
1924
- The Beloved Brute ... (Director)
- The Clean Heart ... (Director)
- Between Friends ... (Director)
1923
- The Virgin Queen ... (Director)
- On the Banks of the Wabash ... (Director)
1922
- The Glorious Adventure ... (Editor)
- A Gipsy Cavalier ... (Director)
1920
- The Forbidden Valley ... (Director)
- Passers-By ... (Director)
- The House of the Tolling Bell ... (Director)
1919
- A House Divided ... (Director)
- The Moonshine Trail ... (Director)
- The Common Cause ... (Director)
1918
- Life's Greatest Problem ... (Director)
1917
- The Judgment House ... (Director)
- Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation ... (Story)
- Transgression ... (Story)
- The Message of the Mouse ... (Director)
- The Fighting Trail ... (Story)
- The Fairy Godfather ... (Director)
- The Collie Market ... (Director)
- A Spring Idyll ... (Director)
- The Diary of a Puppy ... (Director)
1915
- The Heights of Hazard ... (Presenter)
- The Battle Cry of Peace ... (Director)
- Playing Dead ... (Supervising Producer)
- Kidnapped in New York ... (Director)
1914
- The Honeymooners ... (Writer)
1913
- The Spirit of Christmas ... (Supervisor of Production Resources)
1912
- As You Like It ... (Director)
- A Vitagraph Romance as J. Stuart Blackton
- Her Grandchild ... (Producer)
- The Life and Death of King Richard III ... (Producer)
- Cardinal Wolsey ... (Director)
1911
- Little Nemo ... (Director)
- The Death of King Edward III ... (Director)
- The Battle Hymn of the Republic ... (Director)
- Lady Godiva ... (Director)
1910
- Jeffries-Johnson World's Championship Boxing Contest ... (Supervising Producer)
- Richelieu; or: The Conspiracy ... (Director)
- Francesca di Rimini ... (Director)
- Uncle Tom's Cabin ... (Director)
1909
- Oliver Twist ... (Director)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream ... (Director)
- Saul and David ... (Director)
- King Lear ... (Director)
- Napoleon, the Man of Destiny ... (Director)
- The Life of Moses ... (Director)
- The Bride of Lammermoor ... (Director)
- Benedict Arnold ... (Director)
- Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy ... (Director)
- The Judgment of Solomon ... (Director)
- The Galley Slave ... (Director)
- The Way of the Cross, The Story of Ancient Rome ... (Director)
- Jephtah's Daughter: A Biblical Tragedy ... (Director)
- The Magic Fountain Pen ... (Director)
- Napoleon and the Empress Josephine ... (Director)
- The Life of George Washington ... (Director)
1908
- Antony and Cleopatra, a Love Story of the Noblest Roman and the Most Beautiful Egyptian ... (Production Manager)
- Julius Caesar, an Historical Tragedy ... (Director)
- Salome; or, The Dance of the Seven Veils ... (Director)
- The Viking's Daughter: The Story of the Ancient Norsemen ... (Director)
- The Dancer and the King, a Romantic Story of Spain ... (Director)
- Francesca di Rimini; or, The Two Brothers ... (Director)
- Lady Jane’s Flight, a 17th Century Romance ... (Director)
- The Merchant of Venice ... (Director)
- East Lynne; or, Red Astray ... (Director)
- Romeo and Juliet, A Romantic Story of the Ancient Feud Between the Italian Houses of Montague and Capulet ... (Director)
- The Thieving Hand ... (Director)
- Richard III, a Shakespearian Tragedy ... (Director)
- The Story of Treasure Island ... (Producer)
1907
- The Haunted Hotel ... (Director)
- The Shaughraun, an Irish Romance ... (Director)
- Lightning Sketches as Cartoonist
- Liquid Electricity; or The Inventor's Galvanic Fluid ... (Director)
- Work Made Easy ... (Director)
1906
- The Automobile Thieves
- Humorous Phases of Funny Faces as Cartoonist
- The 100 to One Shot; or, A Run of Luck ... (Director)
- And the Villain Still Pursued Her; or, the Author's Dream ... (Director)
1905
- Adventures of Sherlock Holmes ... (Director)
- A Gentleman of France ... (Director)
1903
- Happy Hooligan Interferes as Happy Hooligan
- Hooligan in Jail as Happy Hooligan
1902
- The Twentieth Century Tramp; or, Happy Hooligan and His Airship as Happy Hooligan
1901
- Jeffries Skipping the Rope ... (Director)
- Children Bathing ... (Director)
- Panoramic View of Boston Subway from an Electric Car ... (Director)
- Mysterious Cafe, or Mr. and Mrs. Spoopendyke Have Troubles with a Waiter ... (Director)
- Jeffries Throwing the Medicine Ball ... (Director)
- Leaping Dogs at Gentry's Circus ... (Director)
1900
- The Enchanted Drawing as Chalk-Talk Artist
- Hooligan Assists the Magician as Happy Hooligan
- Maude's Naughty Little Brother ... (Director)
- The Congress of Nations ... (Director)
- The Clown and the Alchemist ... (Director)
- Happy Hooligan as Happy Hooligan
1899
- 'Columbia' Winning the Cup ... (Director)
- A Visit to the Spiritualist ... (Director)
- Astor Battery on Parade ... (Director)
- Firemen Rescuing Men and Women ... (Director)
- Raising Old Glory Over Morro Castle ... (Director)
- "Shamrock" and "Erin" Sailing ... (Director)
1898
- Vanishing Lady ... (Director)
- The Burglar on the Roof as Burglar
- Humpty Dumpty Circus ... (Director)
- The Cavalier's Dream ... (Director)
- Little Mischief ... (Director)
- Battle of Santiago Bay ... (Director)