Stanner E.V. Taylor | |
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Born | St. Louis, Missouri, USA | September 28, 1877
Died | November 23, 1948 | (aged 71)
Years active | 1908–1929 |
Spouse | Marion Leonard |
Stanner E.V. Taylor (September 28, 1877 – November 23, 1948) was an American screenwriter and film director of the silent era. He wrote for more than 100 films between 1908 and 1929.
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Biography
He was born on September 28, 1877, in St. Louis, Missouri, and died on November 23, 1948, in Los Angeles, California.[1] He was married to Biograph Company actress Marion Leonard.[2] The worked together in Where the Breakers Roar (1908).[3]
Career
He wrote Native Americans and western films like Comata, the Sioux (1909),[4] The Kentuckian (1908),[5] A Mohawk's Way (1910),[6] The Mohican's Daughter (1910),[6] The Squaw's Love (1911),[7] and The Yaqui Cur (1913).[8]
He met D. W. Griffith when he first arrived at Biograph Company, when newspaperman Lee Doc Dougherty headed the story department and hired Griffith as chief scenarist.[9] He worked under the direction of Griffith in The Mended Lute (1909),[10] The Impalement (1910),[11] The Purgation (1910),[12] A Flash of Light (1910),[13] The Great Love (1918), The Greatest Thing in Life (1918), The Girl Who Stayed at Home (1919), Scarlet Days (1919), The Greatest Question (1919) and The Idol Dancer (1920).[14] They worked together in the screenplay for The Hun Within (1918).[15]
He worked with Mack Sennett in Over the Hills to the Poor House (1908),[16] In the Season of Buds (1910), A Midnight Cupid (1910) and An Arcadian Maid (1910).[17]
He directed an unknown film called The Terror, released on July 13, 1922.[18]
Selected filmography
- The Adventures of Dollie (1908)
- The Greaser's Gauntlet (1908)
- Where the Breakers Roar (1908)
- The Pirate's Gold (1908)
- The Kentuckian (1908)
- One Touch of Nature (1909)
- In Old California (1910)
- A Romance of the Western Hills (1910)
- Ramona (1910)
- In the Border States (1910)
- What the Daisy Said (1910)
- A Flash of Light (1910)
- A Mohawk's Way (1910)
- The Last Drop of Water (1911)
- Through Darkened Vales (1911)
- Under Burning Skies (1912)
- The Goddess of Sagebrush Gulch (1912)
- In the Aisles of the Wild (1912)
- The Tenderfoot's Money (1913)
- Two Men of the Desert (1913)
- The Yaqui Cur (1913)
- The Rise of Susan (1916)
- Passers By (1916)
- Public Be Damned (1917)
- The Great Love (1918)
- The Greatest Thing in Life (1918)
- The Greatest Question (1919)
- The Mohican's Daughter (1922)
- Roulette (1924)
- The Miracle of Life (1926)
- Dog Law (1928)
- The Red Sword (1929)
References
- ^ Vazzana, Eugene Michael (2001). Silent Film Necrology. McFarland Publishing. p. 310. ISBN 9780786410590.
- ^ Mayer, David (2009). Stagestruck Filmmaker: D. W. Griffith and the American Theatre. University of Iowa Press. p. 129. ISBN 9781587298400.
- ^ Brown, Kelly R. (September 18, 2014). Florence Lawrence, the Biograph Girl: America's First Movie Star. McFarland Publishing. p. 161. ISBN 9781476613178.
- ^ Hilger 2015, p. 137.
- ^ Hilger 2015, p. 203.
- ^ a b Hilger 2015, p. 231.
- ^ Hilger 2015, p. 298.
- ^ Hilger 2015, p. 342.
- ^ Stokes, Melvyn (January 15, 2008). D.W. Griffith's the Birth of a Nation: A History of the Most Controversial Motion Picture of All Time. Oxford University Press. p. 86. ISBN 9780199887514.
- ^ Prats, A. J.; Jose, Amando (2002). Invisible Natives: Myth and Identity in the American Western. Cornell University Press. p. 293. ISBN 9780801487545.
- ^ Graham 1985, p. 81.
- ^ Graham 1985, p. 84.
- ^ Graham 1985, p. 85.
- ^ Lang, Robert; Griffith, David Wark (1994). Griffith, Dennison W. (ed.). The Birth of a Nation: D.W. Griffith, Director. Rutgers University Press. p. 303. ISBN 9780813520278.
- ^ Usai, Paolo Cherchi; Bowser, Eileen (2007). The Griffith project: Selected writings of D. W. Griffith. Indexes and corrections to volumes 1-10. British Film Institute. p. 266. ISBN 9781844572328.
- ^ Walker 2013, p. 251.
- ^ Walker 2013, p. 257.
- ^ Library of Congress (1923). Catalogue of Copyright Entries: Pamphlets, leaflets, contributions to newspapers or periodicals, etc.; lectures, sermons, addresses for oral delivery; dramatic compositions; maps; motion pictures. Part 1, group 2. Vol. 19. U.S. Government Printing Office.
Bibliography
- Graham, Cooper C. (1985). D.W. Griffith and the Biograph Company. Scarecrow Press. p. 333. ISBN 9780810818064.
- Hilger, Michael (October 16, 2015). Native Americans in the Movies: Portrayals from Silent Films to the Present. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 464. ISBN 9781442240025.
- Walker, Brent E. (April 25, 2013). Mack Sennett's Fun Factory: A History and Filmography of His Studio and His Keystone and Mack Sennett Comedies, with Biographies of Players and Personnel. McFarland Publishing. p. 671. ISBN 9780786477111.