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
- The Amateur Gentleman ... (Director)
- The White Black Sheep ... (Director)
- Ranson's Folly ... (Director)
1925
- The Best People ... (Director)
- Salome of the Tenements ... (Director)
- Not So Long Ago ... (Director)
- The Charmer ... (Director)
1924
- The Humming Bird ... (Director)
- The Only Woman ... (Director)
- Monsieur Beaucaire ... (Director)
1923
- Little Old New York ... (Director)
- The Green Goddess ... (Director)
1922
- Timothy's Quest ... (Director)
1921
- Pardon My French ... (Director)
- God's Country and the Law ... (Director)
- The Right Way ... (Director)
1919
- Marriage for Convenience ... (Director)
1916
- The Smugglers ... (Director)
- My Lady Incog. ... (Director)
- Poor Little Peppina ... (Director)
- Diplomacy ... (Director)
- The Innocent Lie ... (Director)
- The Daughter of MacGregor ... (Director)
1915
- The Railroad Raiders of '62 as Captain Andrews (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Seven Sisters ... (Director)
- The Ghost of Twisted Oaks ... (Director)
- The Moth and the Flame ... (Director)
- Madame Butterfly ... (Director)
- All for Old Ireland
- Bold Emmett, Ireland's Martyr as Con Daly
1914
- Come Back to Erin ... (Director)
- For Ireland's Sake as Father Flanagan
- The Eye of the Government as The Detective
1913
- Uncle Tom's Cabin ... (Director)
- The Wives of Jamestown ... (Director)
- Lady Peggy’s Escape as Father O’Donnell
1912
- From the Manger to the Cross as Blind Man (uncredited)
- An Arabian Tragedy ... (Director)
- The Shaughraun as Conn - the Shaughraun
- Ireland, the Oppressed as Father Falvey
- The Mayor from Ireland
- The Darling of the CSA ... (Director)
- Tragedy of the Desert ... (Director)
- Captured by Bedouins ... (Director)
- His Mother ... (Director)
- A Prisoner of the Harem ... (Director)
- Vagabonds as Tom
- Far from Erin's Isle ... (Director)
- The Little Gluers as Capt. Sidney Keirnan
- The Poacher's Pardon ... (Director)
- Winning a Widow ... (Director)
- The O'Neill
- Dust of the Desert ... (Director)
- Conway, The Kerry Dancer ... (Director)
- You Remember Ellen ... (Director)
1911
- The Fiddler’s Requiem as Notary
- A Sawmill Hero ... (Director)
- Rory O'More ... (Director)
- The Colleen Bawn as Danny Mann
- Railroad Raiders of '62 as Capt. Andrews
- For Love of an Enemy ... (Director)
- The Irish Honeymoon as Larry Malone
- When the Dead Return ... (Director)
- By a Woman's Wit ... (Director)
- The Little Soldier of ’64 ... (Director)
- The Fishermaid of Ballydavid as A Fisherman / Kathleen's Fiance
- Her Chum’s Brother ... (Director)
- The Special Messenger ... (Director)
1910
- The Lad from Old Ireland as Terry O'Connor
- When Lovers Part ... (Director)
- The Evil Artist or a Girl Wronged ... (Director)
- The Romance of a Trained Nurse ... (Director)
- Her Indian Mother ... (Writer)
- The Stepmother ... (Director)
- The Little Spreewald Maiden as Hans - Frieda's Peasant Sweetheart
- The Further Adventures of the Girl Spy ... (Director)
- The Conspiracy of Pontiac ... (Director)
- The Navajo's Bride ... (Director)
- The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg ... (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