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 White Black Sheep ... (Director)
- Ranson's Folly ... (Director)
- The Amateur Gentleman ... (Director)
1925
- The Best People ... (Director)
- Salome of the Tenements ... (Director)
- The Charmer ... (Director)
- Not So Long Ago ... (Director)
1924
- The Humming Bird ... (Director)
- The Only Woman ... (Director)
- Monsieur Beaucaire ... (Director)
1923
- The Green Goddess ... (Director)
- Little Old New York ... (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
- Poor Little Peppina ... (Director)
- The Smugglers ... (Director)
- My Lady Incog. ... (Director)
- The Daughter of MacGregor ... (Director)
- The Innocent Lie ... (Director)
- Diplomacy ... (Director)
1915
- Madame Butterfly ... (Director)
- Bold Emmett, Ireland's Martyr as Con Daly
- The Moth and the Flame ... (Director)
- The Seven Sisters ... (Director)
- The Ghost of Twisted Oaks ... (Director)
- All for Old Ireland
- The Railroad Raiders of '62 as Captain Andrews (archive footage) (uncredited)
1914
- For Ireland's Sake as Father Flanagan
- The Eye of the Government as The Detective
- Come Back to Erin ... (Director)
1913
- Lady Peggy’s Escape as Father O’Donnell
- Uncle Tom's Cabin ... (Director)
- The Wives of Jamestown ... (Director)
1912
- The Darling of the CSA ... (Director)
- From the Manger to the Cross as Blind Man (uncredited)
- An Arabian Tragedy ... (Director)
- Dust of the Desert ... (Director)
- A Prisoner of the Harem ... (Director)
- Winning a Widow ... (Director)
- You Remember Ellen ... (Director)
- Conway, The Kerry Dancer ... (Director)
- The Little Gluers as Capt. Sidney Keirnan
- Tragedy of the Desert ... (Director)
- The Shaughraun as Conn - the Shaughraun
- The Mayor from Ireland
- Captured by Bedouins ... (Director)
- Far from Erin's Isle ... (Director)
- Vagabonds as Tom
- The O'Neill
- The Poacher's Pardon ... (Director)
- His Mother ... (Director)
- Ireland, the Oppressed as Father Falvey
1911
- The Irish Honeymoon as Larry Malone
- The Special Messenger ... (Director)
- By a Woman's Wit ... (Director)
- The Fiddler’s Requiem as Notary
- Her Chum’s Brother ... (Director)
- The Fishermaid of Ballydavid as A Fisherman / Kathleen's Fiance
- The Colleen Bawn as Danny Mann
- When the Dead Return ... (Director)
- For Love of an Enemy ... (Director)
- Railroad Raiders of '62 as Capt. Andrews
- The Little Soldier of ’64 ... (Director)
- A Sawmill Hero ... (Director)
- Rory O'More ... (Director)
1910
- The Evil Artist or a Girl Wronged ... (Director)
- Her Indian Mother ... (Writer)
- The Stepmother ... (Director)
- The Navajo's Bride ... (Director)
- The Further Adventures of the Girl Spy ... (Director)
- The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg ... (Director)
- The Romance of a Trained Nurse ... (Director)
- The Lad from Old Ireland as Terry O'Connor
- The Little Spreewald Maiden as Hans - Frieda's Peasant Sweetheart
- The Conspiracy of Pontiac ... (Director)
- When Lovers Part ... (Director)
1909
- The Governor's Daughter ... (Director)
- A Slave to Drink ... (Director)
- The Girl Spy: An Incident of the Civil War ... (Director)
1908
- Scarlet Letter ... (Director)
- Evangeline ... (Director)
- Way Down East ... (Director)
1907
- Ben Hur ... (Director)
1905
- 2 A.M. in the Subway as Drunk Man