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)
- The White Black Sheep ... (Director)
1925
- Salome of the Tenements ... (Director)
- The Best People ... (Director)
- The Charmer ... (Director)
- Not So Long Ago ... (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
- Pardon My French ... (Director)
- God's Country and the Law ... (Director)
- The Right Way ... (Director)
1919
- Marriage for Convenience ... (Director)
1916
- The Smugglers ... (Director)
- The Daughter of MacGregor ... (Director)
- Poor Little Peppina ... (Director)
- My Lady Incog. ... (Director)
- Diplomacy ... (Director)
- The Innocent Lie ... (Director)
1915
- Bold Emmett, Ireland's Martyr as Con Daly
- Madame Butterfly ... (Director)
- The Seven Sisters ... (Director)
- The Moth and the Flame ... (Director)
- The Ghost of Twisted Oaks ... (Director)
- The Railroad Raiders of '62 as Captain Andrews (archive footage) (uncredited)
- All for Old Ireland
1914
- Come Back to Erin ... (Director)
- The Eye of the Government as The Detective
- For Ireland's Sake as Father Flanagan
1913
- Uncle Tom's Cabin ... (Director)
- Lady Peggy’s Escape as Father O’Donnell
- The Wives of Jamestown ... (Director)
1912
- Dust of the Desert ... (Director)
- Winning a Widow ... (Director)
- An Arabian Tragedy ... (Director)
- The Darling of the CSA ... (Director)
- From the Manger to the Cross as Blind Man (uncredited)
- A Prisoner of the Harem ... (Director)
- Tragedy of the Desert ... (Director)
- Vagabonds as Tom
- The Mayor from Ireland
- You Remember Ellen ... (Director)
- Ireland, the Oppressed as Father Falvey
- The Poacher's Pardon ... (Director)
- The Little Gluers as Capt. Sidney Keirnan
- The Shaughraun as Conn - the Shaughraun
- Conway, The Kerry Dancer ... (Director)
- Far from Erin's Isle ... (Director)
- Captured by Bedouins ... (Director)
- The O'Neill
- His Mother ... (Director)
1911
- The Fiddler’s Requiem as Notary
- The Special Messenger ... (Director)
- By a Woman's Wit ... (Director)
- The Irish Honeymoon as Larry Malone
- The Colleen Bawn as Danny Mann
- Railroad Raiders of '62 as Capt. Andrews
- For Love of an Enemy ... (Director)
- When the Dead Return ... (Director)
- Rory O'More ... (Director)
- A Sawmill Hero ... (Director)
- The Little Soldier of ’64 ... (Director)
- Her Chum’s Brother ... (Director)
- The Fishermaid of Ballydavid as A Fisherman / Kathleen's Fiance
1910
- Her Indian Mother ... (Writer)
- The Navajo's Bride ... (Director)
- The Lad from Old Ireland as Terry O'Connor
- The Little Spreewald Maiden as Hans - Frieda's Peasant Sweetheart
- The Evil Artist or a Girl Wronged ... (Director)
- When Lovers Part ... (Director)
- The Further Adventures of the Girl Spy ... (Director)
- The Romance of a Trained Nurse ... (Director)
- The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg ... (Director)
- The Conspiracy of Pontiac ... (Director)
- The Stepmother ... (Director)
1909
- The Girl Spy: An Incident of the Civil War ... (Director)
- A Slave to Drink ... (Director)
1908
- Evangeline ... (Director)
- Scarlet Letter ... (Director)
- Way Down East ... (Director)
1907
- Ben Hur ... (Director)
1905
- 2 A.M. in the Subway as Drunk Man