Harry Solter
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Henry Lewis "Harry" Solter (1874 - March 2, 1920) was a pioneer silent film actor, screenwriter, and director.
Harry Solter began his career as an actor in 1908 with Biograph Studios. That same year he met actress Florence Lawrence while making the film Romeo and Juliet for Vitagraph Studios and married on August 30th. In 1909 Solter began working for Carl Laemmle 's Independent Moving Pictures Co. of America (IMP) as an actor but also as a director. Over the next nine years, he directed 148 silent films.
In 1912 Harry Solter and his wife Florence Lawrence established the Victor Studios in Fort Lee, New Jersey. In 1913 they sold out to Carl Laemmle whose amalgamation of several studios created the colossal Universal Film Manufacturing Co.. Solter continued to direct for the new entity until 1918 when health problems emerged. He died in 1920 at the age of forty-six and was interred in the Baltimore Cemetery in Baltimore, Maryland.
