Joe De Grasse
Joseph Louis De Grasse (May 4, 1873 – May 25, 1940) was a Canadian film director. Born in Bathurst, New Brunswick, he was the elder brother of actor Sam De Grasse.
Biography
Joe De Grasse began his career as a journalist, but soon became enamored of the theater and took work as a stage actor. In 1910, he acted in his first motion picture and although he would appear as an actor in 13 films, and write 2 screenplays, his real interest was in directing.
While working in Hollywood for Universal Pictures, Joe De Grasse met and married one of the few female directors working at the time, Ida May Park (1879–1954). In 1915, he became a founding member of the Motion Picture Directors Association, a forerunner to today's Directors Guild of America.
During his career he directed a total of 86 films.
Joseph De Grasse died in Eagle Rock, California.
Selected filmography as director
- Her Bounty (1914)
- The Pipes o' Pan (1914)
- Virtue Is Its Own Reward (1914)
- Her Life's Story (1914)
- Lights and Shadows (1914)
- The Lion, the Lamb, the Man (1914)
- A Night of Thrills (1914)
- Her Escape (1914)
- The Sin of Olga Brandt (1915)
- The Star of the Sea (1915)
- The Measure of a Man (1915)
- The Threads of Fate (1915)
- When the Gods Played a Badger Game (1915)
- Such Is Life (1915)
- Where the Forest Ends (1915)
- Outside the Gates (1915)
- All for Peggy (1915)
- The Desert Breed (1915)
- Maid of the Mist (1915)
- The Grind (1915)
- The Girl of the Night (1915)
- An Idyll of the Hills (1915)
- The Stronger Mind (1915)
- Steady Company (1915)
- Bound on the Wheel (1915)
- Mountain Justice (1915)
- The Pine's Revenge (1915)
- The Fascination of the Fleur de Lis (1915)
- Alas and Alack (1915)
- A Mother's Atonement (1915)
- Lon of Lone Mountain (1915)
- The Millionaire Paupers (1915)
- Under a Shadow (1915)
- Father and the Boys (1915)
- Stronger Than Death (1915)
- Dolly's Scoop (1916)
- The Grip of Jealousy (1916)
- Tangled Hearts (1916)
- The Gilded Spider (1916)
- Bobbie of the Ballet (1916)
- The Grasp of Greed (1916)
- The Mark of Cain (1916)
- If My Country Should Call (1916)
- The Place Beyond the Winds (1916)
- The Price of Silence (1916)
- The Piper's Price (1917)
- Hell Morgan's Girl (1917)
- The Mask of Love (1917)
- The Girl in the Checkered Coat (1917)
- A Doll's House (1917)
- Pay Me! (1917)
- Triumph (1917)
- The Empty Gun (1917)
- Anything Once (1917)
- The Scarlet Car (1917)
- A Broadway Scandal (1918)
- Bonnie May (1920)
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