William P. S. Earle

William Pitt Striker Earle
Earle in 1921
Born	(1882-12-28)December 28, 1882 New York City, U.S.
Died	November 30, 1972(1972-11-30) (aged 89) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Burial place	Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale
Occupation	Film director
Years active	1915–1926
Spouse(s)	Valerie Damon De Blois (m. 1905;div. 1915) Blanche Earle (m. 1952; her death) Evangeline Russell (m. 1966; her death)
Parent	Ferdinand P. Earle (father)

William Pitt Striker Earle (December 28, 1882 – November 30, 1972) was an American director of the silent film era. He attended Columbia University and worked for a time as a photographer before breaking into the movie business by sneaking onto the lot of Vitagraph Company of America to observe how directors worked. After a few days of this, Earle approached the studio president and was given his first movie to direct, For the Honor of the Crew, a short about a crew race at Columbia University.^[1] He subsequently directed a number of features and shorts for Vitagraph. Later he worked with producer David O. Selznick. Earle founded his own, short-lived production company called Amex Production Corporation with J. S. Joffe, and shot the final two films of his career in Mexico.^[2]

Personal life

Earle was born in New York City. He was the son of Ferdinand P. Earle, a hotelier and military officer.^[3]

He married Valerie Damon De Blois in 1905. They divorced in 1915.^[4] He next married English actress Blanche Taylor, who later went by the name "Bonnie Earle", and was with him until her death in 1952.^[5] Earle's last wife was former actress Evangeline Russell Blackton, the widow of Vitagraph executive J. Stuart Blackton. She died in 1966.^[6]

Feature filmography

• The Law Decides co-directed with Marguerite Bertsch (1916)
• The Scarlet Runner co-directed with Wally Van (1916)
• Whom the Gods Destroy co-directed with J. Stuart Blackton, Herbert Brenon (1916)
• The Courage of Silence (1917)
• Womanhood, the Glory of the Nation co-directed with J. Stuart Blackton (1917)
• Within the Law (1917)
• Mary Jane's Pa co-directed with Charles Brabin (1917)
• I Will Repay (1917)
• Who Goes There? (1917)
• His Own People (1917)
• The Wooing of Princess Pat (1918)
• Little Miss No-Account (1918)
• The Little Runaway (1918)
• Heredity (1918)
• T'Other Dear Charmer (1918)
• The Love Hunger (1919)
• The Better Wife (1919)
• The Lone Wolf's Daughter (1919)
• The Broken Melody (1919)
• The Woman Game (1920)
• Whispers (1920)
• The Dangerous Paradise (1920)
• The Road of Ambition (1920)
• Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby (1921)
• Gilded Lies (1921)
• The Last Door (1921)
• The Way of a Maid (1921)
• Love's Masquerade (1922)
• Destiny's Isle (1922)
• The Dancer of the Nile (1923)
• Tras las bambalinas del bataclan (1925)
• Milagros de la Guadalupana (1926)

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to William P. S. Earle.

• William P. S. Earle at IMDb

This page was last edited on 4 December 2021, at 13:01