J. Gordon Edwards

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J. Gordon Edwards
Born June 24, 1867
Montréal, Canada
Died December 31, 1925
New York, New York, United States
Occupation Film director
Film producer
Screenwriter
Years active 1914 - 1924

J. Gordon Edwards (June 24, 1867–December 31, 1925) was a Canadian-born film director, producer, and a writer who began his career as a stage actor and as a stage director. He made his directorial debut on film in 1914's St. Elmo. Soon went on helming all of the Fox studio's mega-budget spectacles, including all of actress Theda Bara's productions between 1916 to 1919. Later, he became the production supervisor at Fox; he still continued to direct until he died in 1925.

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[edit] Filmography

[edit] Producer
  • A Daughter of the Gods (1916)

[edit] Director
  • The Adventurer (1920)
  • Anna Karenina (1915)
  • Blindness of Devotion (1915)
  • Camille (1917)
  • Cleopatra (1917)
  • The Darling of Paris (1917)
  • Drag Harlan (1920)
  • Du Barry (1917)
  • The Forbidden Path (1918)
  • The Galley Slave (1915)
  • The Green-Eyed Monster (1916)
  • Heart and Soul (1917)
  • Heart Strings (1920)
  • Her Double Life (1916)
  • Her Greatest Love (1917)
  • His Greatest Sacrifice (1921)
  • If I Were King (1920)
  • It Is the Law (1924)
  • The Joyous Troublemaker (1920)
  • The Last of the Duanes (1919)
  • Life's Shop Window (1914)
  • The Light (1919)
  • The Lone Star Ranger (1919)
  • Nero (1922)
  • The Net (1923)
  • The Orphan (1920)
  • The Queen of Sheba (1921)
  • Romeo and Juliet (1916)
  • The Rose of Blood (1917)
  • St. Elmo (1914)
  • Salome (1918)
  • The Scuttlers (1920)
  • The She Devil (1918)
  • The Shepherd King (1923)
  • Should a Mother Tell (1915)
  • The Silent Command (1923)
  • The Siren's Song (1919)
  • The Song of Hate (1915)
  • The Soul of Buddha (1918)
  • The Spider and the Fly (1916)
  • Tangled Lives (1917)
  • The Tiger Woman (1917)
  • Under the Yoke (1918)
  • Under Two Flags (1916)
  • The Unfaithful Wife (1915)
  • The Vixen (1916)
  • When a Woman Sins (1918)
  • When Men Desire (1919)
  • A Wife's Sacrifice (1916)
  • Wings of the Morning (1919)
  • Wolves of the Night (1919)
  • A Woman There Was (1919)
  • A Woman's Resurrection (1915)

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NAME Edwards, J. Gordon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Film director, Film producer, Screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Montréal, Canada
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 1925
PLACE OF DEATH New York, New York, United States