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)
- The Amateur Gentleman ... (Director)
- Ranson's Folly ... (Director)
1925
- Salome of the Tenements ... (Director)
- Not So Long Ago ... (Director)
- The Best People ... (Director)
- The Charmer ... (Director)
1924
- The Humming Bird ... (Director)
- Monsieur Beaucaire ... (Director)
- The Only Woman ... (Director)
1923
- Little Old New York ... (Director)
- The Green Goddess ... (Director)
1922
- Timothy's Quest ... (Director)
1921
- God's Country and the Law ... (Director)
- Pardon My French ... (Director)
- The Right Way ... (Director)
1919
- Marriage for Convenience ... (Director)
1916
- Diplomacy ... (Director)
- The Smugglers ... (Director)
- The Daughter of MacGregor ... (Director)
- My Lady Incog. ... (Director)
- Poor Little Peppina ... (Director)
- The Innocent Lie ... (Director)
1915
- Madame Butterfly ... (Director)
- The Railroad Raiders of '62 as Captain Andrews (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Bold Emmett, Ireland's Martyr as Con Daly
- The Seven Sisters ... (Director)
- The Moth and the Flame ... (Director)
- All for Old Ireland
- The Ghost of Twisted Oaks ... (Director)
1914
- For Ireland's Sake as Father Flanagan
- The Eye of the Government as The Detective
- Come Back to Erin ... (Director)
1913
- Uncle Tom's Cabin ... (Director)
- Lady Peggy’s Escape as Father O’Donnell
- The Wives of Jamestown ... (Director)
1912
- The Darling of the CSA ... (Director)
- From the Manger to the Cross as Blind Man (uncredited)
- Dust of the Desert ... (Director)
- A Prisoner of the Harem ... (Director)
- The Mayor from Ireland
- The Poacher's Pardon ... (Director)
- Far from Erin's Isle ... (Director)
- Tragedy of the Desert ... (Director)
- Winning a Widow ... (Director)
- An Arabian Tragedy ... (Director)
- Ireland, the Oppressed as Father Falvey
- Conway, The Kerry Dancer ... (Director)
- His Mother ... (Director)
- The Little Gluers as Capt. Sidney Keirnan
- Captured by Bedouins ... (Director)
- Vagabonds as Tom
- You Remember Ellen ... (Director)
- The Shaughraun as Conn - the Shaughraun
- The O'Neill
1911
- The Fiddler’s Requiem as Notary
- Railroad Raiders of '62 as Capt. Andrews
- When the Dead Return ... (Director)
- The Fishermaid of Ballydavid as A Fisherman / Kathleen's Fiance
- The Colleen Bawn as Danny Mann
- By a Woman's Wit ... (Director)
- Her Chum’s Brother ... (Director)
- The Special Messenger ... (Director)
- The Little Soldier of ’64 ... (Director)
- Rory O'More ... (Director)
- For Love of an Enemy ... (Director)
- The Irish Honeymoon as Larry Malone
- A Sawmill Hero ... (Director)
1910
- The Lad from Old Ireland as Terry O'Connor
- The Navajo's Bride ... (Director)
- The Evil Artist or a Girl Wronged ... (Director)
- The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg ... (Director)
- The Little Spreewald Maiden as Hans - Frieda's Peasant Sweetheart
- The Romance of a Trained Nurse ... (Director)
- The Step-mother ... (Director)
- Her Indian Mother ... (Director)
- The Further Adventures of the Girl Spy ... (Director)
- When Lovers Part ... (Director)
- The Conspiracy of Pontiac ... (Director)
1909
- 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