Sidney Olcott
Born: 1873-09-20 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Died: 1949-12-16
Known For: Directing
Biography
John Sidney Olcott was a Canadian-born film producer, director, actor and screenwriter. After making a number of very successful films for the Kalem studio, including "Ben Hur" (1907) with its dramatic chariot race scene, Olcott became the company's president and was rewarded with one share of its stock.
Filmography
1927
- The Claw ... (Director)
1926
- Ranson's Folly ... (Director)
- The Amateur Gentleman ... (Director)
1925
- The Charmer ... (Director)
- Salome of the Tenements ... (Director)
- Not So Long Ago ... (Director)
- The Best People ... (Director)
1924
- The Only Woman ... (Director)
- Monsieur Beaucaire ... (Director)
- The Humming Bird ... (Director)
1923
- Little Old New York ... (Director)
- The Green Goddess ... (Director)
1922
- Timothy's Quest ... (Director)
1921
- The Right Way ... (Director)
- God's Country and the Law ... (Director)
- Pardon My French ... (Director)
1919
- Marriage for Convenience ... (Director)
1916
- Poor Little Peppina ... (Director)
- My Lady Incog. ... (Director)
- The Smugglers ... (Director)
- Diplomacy ... (Director)
- The Innocent Lie ... (Director)
1915
- The Seven Sisters ... (Director)
- The Railroad Raiders of '62 as Captain Andrews (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Moth and the Flame ... (Director)
- Madame Butterfly ... (Director)
- All for Old Ireland
- The Ghost of Twisted Oaks ... (Director)
- Bold Emmett, Ireland's Martyr as Con Daly
1914
- For Ireland's Sake as Father Flanagan
- Come Back to Erin ... (Director)
- The Eye of the Government as The Detective
1913
- Lady Peggy’s Escape as Father O’Donnell
- Uncle Tom's Cabin ... (Director)
- The Wives of Jamestown ... (Director)
1912
- The Shaughraun as Conn - the Shaughraun
- The Mayor from Ireland
- The Poacher's Pardon ... (Director)
- Tragedy of the Desert ... (Director)
- The Little Gluers as Capt. Sidney Keirnan
- Captured by Bedouins ... (Director)
- Far from Erin's Isle ... (Director)
- The O'Neill
- From the Manger to the Cross as Blind Man (uncredited)
- Ireland, the Oppressed as Father Falvey
- Winning a Widow ... (Director)
- The Darling of the CSA ... (Director)
- An Arabian Tragedy ... (Director)
- Dust of the Desert ... (Director)
- A Prisoner of the Harem ... (Director)
- Vagabonds as Tom
- You Remember Ellen ... (Director)
- His Mother ... (Director)
- Conway, The Kerry Dancer ... (Director)
1911
- Railroad Raiders of '62 as Capt. Andrews
- The Fiddler’s Requiem as Notary
- When the Dead Return ... (Director)
- A Sawmill Hero ... (Director)
- The Little Soldier of ’64 ... (Director)
- For Love of an Enemy ... (Director)
- Rory O'More ... (Director)
- By a Woman's Wit ... (Director)
- Her Chum’s Brother ... (Director)
- The Special Messenger ... (Director)
- The Colleen Bawn as Danny Mann
- The Irish Honeymoon as Larry Malone
- The Fishermaid of Ballydavid as A Fisherman / Kathleen's Fiance
1910
- When Lovers Part ... (Director)
- The Lad from Old Ireland as Terry O'Connor
- Her Indian Mother ... (Writer)
- The Conspiracy of Pontiac ... (Director)
- The Navajo's Bride ... (Director)
- The Romance of a Trained Nurse ... (Director)
- The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg ... (Director)
- The Little Spreewald Maiden as Hans - Frieda's Peasant Sweetheart
- The Evil Artist or a Girl Wronged ... (Director)
- The Further Adventures of the Girl Spy ... (Director)
- The Stepmother ... (Director)
1909
- A Slave to Drink ... (Director)
- The Girl Spy: An Incident of the Civil War ... (Director)
- The Governor's Daughter ... (Director)
1908
- The Scarlet Letter ... (Director)
- Evangeline ... (Director)
- Way Down East ... (Director)
1907
- Ben Hur ... (Director)
1905
- 2 A.M. in the Subway as Drunk Man